Gerhard Oberschlick

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Gerhard Oberschlick (born August 30, 1942 in Irschen ) is an Austrian journalist , was editor of FORVM from 1985 to 1995 and manages Günther Anders' estate .

Life

After the humanistic grammar school in Klagenfurt, he studied German, theater studies and philosophy at the University of Vienna . 1966/67 he edited the journal of the Austrian Students' Union en face and was until 1969 accountant of three university institutes and Secretary of Erich Heintel . In 1969 he fell out with this, u. a. because of his endorsement of the death penalty and the Vietnam War , quit the university and joined the publishing house and editorial staff of the magazine NEWES FORVM , where he organized the popular initiative initiated by Wilfried Daim and Günther Nenning to dissolve the Austrian army . This aroused the greatest excitement and outrage in conservative circles and is considered an important figurehead, if not catching up with the 68 movement in Austria. The referendum was registered at the beginning of 1970 and the required 30,000 signatures for its implementation were also collected. Admittedly, there was never any submission, on the one hand because Bruno Kreisky with his slogan Six months is enough! won the National Council election on March 4, 1970 and shortened military service (not to 6, but to 8 months); on the other hand, because Günther Nenning (as “authorized recipient”) and the other initiators feared an embarrassing minority finding. The referendum efforts were the reason for Friedrich Torberg to publicly break with the magazine he co-founded: "The 'New FORVM' is the magazine against which the old one was founded."

Between 1971 and 1975 Oberschlick organized - with and for Friedrich Gulda , Marietta Torberg, Bruno Kreisky - a music forum in Ossiach and symposia in Vienna on the future of science and research in Austria and energy research , organized a happening in the Metro-Kino and worked as a dramaturge .

In 1975 he returned to NEUES FORVM as publishing director , was its editor in 1982/83 and from autumn 1986 owner, publisher and publisher of FORVM, which he had to stop at the end of 1995. In the years it was edited, the magazine was shaped by social criticism , anti-fascism and the commitment to human rights in intellectual discourse. His legal disputes with politicians of the right-wing populist FPÖ because of their racist and NS-nostalgic statements led to convictions of the Republic of Austria for violating freedom of expression by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and subsequently - through the procedural re-introduction of the "renewal of the criminal procedure" - to bind the Austrian Supreme Court to decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, which gave Austria the function of a substitute constitutional court in the field of the European Convention on Human Rights .

Oberschlick has looked after Günther Anders ' estate since 1992, and in 1995 he acted - together with Freda Meissner-Blau - as chairman of the First Austrian Human Rights Tribunal 50 Years of the Second Republic - 50 Years of Suppression of Lesbians and Gays in the Republican Club - New Austria in Vienna. Since 2000 he has been editing an Internet edition of FORVM , where all contributions from the 42 years (1954–1995) are gradually incorporated and new ones appear in free succession.

Fonts

  • (Ed. Together with Marietta Torberg): The future of science and technology in Austria . Europa Verlag, Vienna 1973.
  • (Ed.): FORVM, International Journal for Cultural Freedom, Political Equality and Solidarity Work, Issues 387–394 to 499-504 (September 30, 1986 to December 6, 1995). Vienna, ISSN  0028-3622 .
    • (Ed.): FORVM 1987-1995. In: Reprint FORVM 1954-1995. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-8000-3963-X .
  • (Ed.): Günther Anders, homeless sculpture. About Rodin . Beck, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-406-37450-6 .
  • (Ed.): Günther Anders, About Heidegger . With an afterword by Dieter Thomä and two translations by Werner Reimann. Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-48259-7 .
  • (Ed.): Günther Anders, The cherry battle. Dialogues with Hannah Arendt. With an essay by Christian Dries: Günther Anders and Hannah Arendt - a relationship sketch. Beck, Munich 2011. ISBN 978-3-406-63278-5 .
  • (Ed.): Günther Anders, Die Molussische Katakombe. Novel. Second, expanded edition. With apocrypha and documents from the estate as well as a new afterword by the editor. CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-60024-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Souveräner Oberschlick , St. Pöltner Nachrichten, May 19, 1970
  2. ↑ Pinch parties , St. Pöltner Zeitung, May 19, 1970
  3. ↑ Andreas Maislinger , Anti-Bundesheer-Volksbegehren: Popular initiative or playground of scattered old 68ers? In: Anton Pelinka, Populism in Austria. Vienna 1987.
  4. ↑ Kleine Zeitung , May 18, 1970
  5. ↑ ECHR: Case of Oberschlick v. Austria (I), Application no. 11662/85 , May 23, 1991, echr.coe.int
  6. ↑ ECHR: Case of Oberschlick v. Austria (II), Application no. 20834/92 , July 1, 1997, echr.coe.int
  7. ↑ Criminal Law Amendment Act 1995, government bill , explanations on page 149 ff.
  8. ↑ §§ 363a-c StPO
  9. ↑ Gerhard Oberschlick, Not sufficiently controversial. Why nothing from Günther Anders' estate appears in the tumult . In: sans phrase . Journal for Ideology Criticism , Issue 6, Spring 2015, pp. 233–241. online in the internet edition of FORVM. Not controversial enough
  10. ^ Gerhard Oberschlick: Appeal of the 'International Human Rights Tribunal' against discrimination against homosexuals and transsexuals in the media . In: Database on legal information relevant to the audiovisual sector in Europe IRIS Merlin. The Audiovisual Law Information Wizard 1995-7: 12/36 [1]
  11. ↑ Since 2018 on the page of Context XXI [2]
personal data
SURNAME Oberschlick, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oberschlick, Gerhard Fritz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian publicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Irschen