Hans Haider (journalist)

Hans Haider (born March 10, 1946 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian cultural journalist and author .

Life

Hans Haider studied theater studies and art history in Vienna. From 1972 he was secretary in the Austrian Society for Literature. 1974 - 2008 Haider was cultural editor for the daily newspaper Die Presse , theater and literary critic. He founded the Supplement Literaricum there . Between 1987 and 1989 he was department head of the supplement Spectrum , from 1992 to 2008 department head for culture. From 2004 to 2006 he was on leave and coordinated the Austrian anniversary year 2005 in the Federal Chancellery to commemorate the re-establishment of the Republic in 1945, the State Treaty in 1955 and EU accession in 1995. He was also a member of the Council for German Spelling from 2005 to 2008 Haider theater critic in the Wiener Zeitung .

honors and awards

• 1991 Austrian State Prize for Literary Criticism for his commitment to the work of the South Tyrolean poet Norbert Conrad Kaser, who died early
• 2002 professional title professor

Works

As an author

• Writing peace. First aid on the latest spelling . Ed. Steinbauer, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-902494-16-0 .
• Elisabeth Gehrer . Report on a political life . Ed. Steinbauer, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-902494-32-0 .
• The snappy pencil: Erich Gold - Goltz - Peters. Caricatures in Berlin , Vienna, New York. Bachmann Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-96234-025-4 .

As editor

• Norbert C. Kaser : Jammed. Poems, stories and reports, city engravings, poetic minutes, polemics, agitation . Edition Galerie Bloch, Innsbruck 1979
• Norbert C. Kaser : Cold in me. A life novel in letters. Hannibal, Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-85445-003-6 .
• To my child. Letters from fathers . Lower Austrian Press House, St. Pölten 1984;
  Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag Munich 1986, ISBN 3-423-10681-6 (dtv-Taschenbuch 10681).
• Barbara Frischmuth : Aquarius. Readings from lakes, deserts and living rooms . With an afterword by Hans Haider. Residence, Salzburg 1991, ISBN 3-7017-0721-9 .
• The Kaser reading book. A selection from poetry, prose and letters by Norbert C. Kaser . Haymon, Innsbruck 1993, ISBN 3-85218-133-X .
• Serge Sabarsky : Me, Serge Sabarsky . Holzhausen, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-900518-69-6 .

Web links

• Entry on Hans Haider (journalist) in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Literature by and about Hans Haider in the catalog of the German National Library
• Complete bibliography