Heimrad baker
Heimrad Bäcker (born May 9, 1925 in Vienna ; † May 8, 2003 in Linz ) was an Austrian editor and writer .
Life
Heimrad Bäcker joined the NSDAP at the age of 18 and after the end of the World War had to work in the Mauthausen concentration camp, which had a major impact on his later artistic work. He lived as a freelance writer and editor of the magazine neue texte in Linz and is considered the most important representative of concrete poetry. In the years 1968 to 1985 he collected and processed written evidence of the “National Socialist killing machine ”: “It is enough to quote the language of the perpetrators and the victims. It is enough to stick to the language that is kept in the documents. Coincidence of document and horror, statistics and horror. "(Heimrad Bäcker)
From Heimrad Bäcker are u. a. Postscript 1 and Postscript 2 appeared, transcript of the collected certificates.
From 1987 to 1989, Bäcker was President of the Graz Authors' Assembly .
With his wife Margret Bäcker, he donated a literary prize, the Heimrad-Bäcker Prize, from the proceeds of the sale of his literary estate to the literary archive of the Austrian National Library .
Awards
radio play
- Are we really going to death? Director: HA Schuldt - Production: SFB / ÖRF, 39'41 min.
- Epitaph . Adaptation / direction: Ronald Steckel , contributors: Martin Engler , Arne Fuhrmann , Max Hopp , Kathleen Morgeneyer , Linda Olsansky , Maria Simon , Christoph Tomanek , 79 min., WDR 2004.
literature
- Robert Cohen : Auschwitz language. To Heimrad Baker's 'Nachschrift'. Peter Weiss yearbook . Vol. 8/1999, pp. 141-153.
- Thomas Eder , Martin Hochleitner (Ed.): Heimrad Bäcker . Graz, Vienna: Droschl 2003.
- Thomas Eder, Klaus Kastberger (ed.): Heimrad baker . The ramp portrait. Linz: Trauner 2001.
Web links
- Literature by and about Heimrad Bäcker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Heimrad Bäcker in the literature archive of the Austrian National Library
- Baker's website of the Droschl literature publisher
- obituary
- Article on Heimrad Bäcker in the Critical Lexicon for Contemporary German Literature (KLG)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Photo / Politics / Austria, publication accompanying the exhibition of the same name in 2018/19 in Mumok ( https://www.mumok.at/de/events/photopoliticsaustria ), entry for the year 1971
- ^ Entry on Epitaph in the ARD audio play database. Accessed November 2, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baker, Heimrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer and editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 2003 |
| Place of death | Linz |