Gerold Foidl

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Gerold Foidl (born April 28, 1938 in Lienz , † March 29, 1982 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian author .

life and work

Gerold Foidl spent his childhood in Lienz. The Cossack massacre in the Peggetz near Lienz in 1945 served as an awakening experience for his later fictional representation of the world . After high school and commercial school in Lienz, he worked in customs offices in many places in Austria. After a trip to Mexico in 1979, he devoted himself to writing in Salzburg and in 1980 co-founded the Salzburg authors' group . After various stays in lung hospitals, he died in the Grafenhof special hospital and was buried in Kötschach-Mauthen . The writer Dorothea Macheiner looks after his estate .

In the novel Der Richtsaal , dryly referred to as the process , Gid Flora makes sense of the world in psychiatry. On the day of the reckoning, he returns to the small town and storms his parents' house, which he sees as a house of traitors. In the so-called courtroom, where insidious family decisions have been made for decades, he confronts the relatives as to why they had put him in the brain-feeding facility . “You have to find out what they mean by normal. Then you are outside. ”The pistol he brought underlines his appearance, but fails when attempting suicide, the head is badly damaged, and Gid is returned to the psychiatric ward, where the patients fearfully address each other with numbers. The hero's psyche is repeatedly fueled by three images. Once there is the Cossack massacre near Lienz, where the rounded up Cossacks are handed over to the Soviets by the English and shot as if in a silent film. On the other hand, it is the ceiling in the prison room, which reflects signs of execution. And finally, a wall of files in the office comes to the fore, which leads the servants sitting there into madness. "It was a meager pasture that I grazed in my childhood," the hero sums up his disaster.

Publications

  • The courtroom . An occurrence. Walter, Olten 1978. ISBN 3-530-22845-1 .
  • Apparent closeness . (= edition suhrkamp; NF, 237). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1985. ISBN 3-518-11237-6 .
  • Withstand . Texts from the estate and scattered prose. Edited by Dorothea Macheiner. Dandelion. Innsbruck 1999. ISBN 3-7066-2193-2 .
  • Collected Works . The courtroom. Apparent closeness. Withstand. With a foreword by Karl-Markus Gauß . Edited and with an afterword by Dorothea Macheiner. Haymon, Innsbruck 2018. ISBN 978-3-7099-3417-3 .

literature

  • Johann Holzner / Sandra Unterweger (eds.): Shadow fights . Literature in East Tyrol. Innsbruck 2006. ISBN 3-7065-4199-8 . Therein: pp. 211-226. Sandra Unterweger: ... to get me a different identity . Document or Fiction ?. The legend of Gerold Foidl.
  • Dorothea Macheiner: About Gerold Foidl. In: literature and criticism. Otto Müller, Salzburg 2012. Issues 463–464. Pp. 99-109.
  • Clemens Ottawa: Austria's forgotten writers. A search for clues. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 2013. ISBN 978-3-218-00882-2 . Therein: Gerold Foidl, pp. 55–58.
  • Helmuth Schönauer : Diary of a librarian . Volume I, 1982-1998. Sisyphus-Verlag, Klagenfurt 2015. ISBN 978-3-901960-79-6 . The courtroom p. 786;
  • Barbara Siller: The Room: A Richtsaal - The memories inscribed in the places and landscapes in Gerold Foidl's novel 'Der Richtsaal' . In: Markus Ender, Ingrid Fürhapter, Iris Kathan, Ulrich Leitner, Barbara Siller: Landschaftslektüren. Readings of the area from Tyrol to the Po valley. transcript-verlag, Bielefeld 2017, pp. 422–435. ISBN 978-3-8376-3553-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Foidl, Gerold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Lienz
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1982
Place of death Salzburg