Heinz Rudolf Unger

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Heinz Rudolf Unger (born August 7, 1938 in Vienna ; † February 12, 2018 there ) was an Austrian writer. He has written novels, poetry, plays, scripts, radio plays, songs and libretti as well as books for children and young people and has worked with cabaret groups.

Life

Unger completed his training as a typesetter in 1953 . His subsequent travel by hitchhiking along the Mediterranean coast formed the basis for the 1992 published novel for young people Däumling traveling upwind . In 1959 he was publisher manufacturer , where he, among others, by the living in England Joseph Kalmer, a friend Erich Fried , a top London literary agency came into contact. Unger later worked as a copywriter before finally settling for a life as a freelance writer in 1968 . He processed a year-long stay in the USA in his first volume of poetry, In the City of the Barbarians (1971). Since the 1980s, Heinz R. Unger stayed regularly in Greece as well as in Vienna . The relationship with this country was reflected in his first novel Carnival of the Gods , published in 1999 .

In August 1971 a new Viennese open-air theater was opened with the premiere of his play Trausenit tut totentanzen in the first courtyard of the House of the Teutonic Knight Order .

In the mid-1970s he wrote most of the texts for the two-and-a-half-hour historical-political oratorio Proletenpassion by the political rock group Butterflies , a musical and cabaret revue of the revolutionary movements of the modern age from the 16th to the 20th, premiered in 1976 at the Wiener Festwochen ( Arena 76 ) Century.

One of Unger's best-known pieces is Zwölfeläuten, which premiered on February 3, 1985 at the Volkstheater in Vienna (director: Hermann Schmid ) and celebrated an extremely successful remake (with Sochor, Rudle, Steinböck, Kratzl and Dvorak) in 1998 at Felix Dvorak's Berndorfer Sommerspiele. The story was filmed for television in 2000/2001 under the direction of Harald Sicherheitsitz under the title of the same name and first broadcast on October 21, 2001.

In autumn 2017 he wrote the libretto Die Troerinnen for the siren opera theater .

Heinz Rudolf Unger died of lung cancer on February 12, 2018 .

Works

  • The freedom of the bird in the cage to sing. Political poetry and critical songs . Mandelbaum, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-85476-562-2 .
  • Mae-Fly. A hot story. Illustrations by Thilo Krapp . Dachs, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85191-394-9 .
  • Lion run. Novel . Haymon-Verlag, Innsbruck (inter alia) 2004, ISBN 3-85218-459-2 . 
  • Twelve chimes. Narration . Haymon-Verlag, Innsbruck 2001, ISBN 3-85218-360-X .
  • The song of the water fleas , drawn by Birgitta Heiskel , Dachs Verlag 2000, ISBN 3-85191-207-1
  • Carnival of the Gods. A Greek novel . Haymon-Verlag, Innsbruck 1999, ISBN 3-85218-287-5 . 
  • Thumble travels windward. Adventure of an apprentice in the 50s . 1st edition. Dachs-Verlag, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-900763-87-9 . 
  • My rocking horse, large format, has wings , children's book in rhymes, drawn by Winfried Opgenoorth . Dachs-Verlag, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3900763682 . - Music cassette for the book: Music Erich Meixner, Butterflies, Adrea Tinhof, Maria Bill, Lena Rothstein. Extra plate EX 131 MC, 1991.
  • The proletarian passion. Documentation of a legend . Europa-Verlag, Vienna ( a.o. ) 1989, ISBN 3-203-51059-6 . - Also as an album with 3 LPs and a text book.
  • The republic of oblivion. Three pieces . Contains: Down through , Zwölfeläuten , Hochinaus . Europa-Verlag, Vienna (among others) 1987, ISBN 3-203-50991-1 .
  • Aim high. Piece in three acts. Third version . Sessler, Vienna (among others) 1986.
  • Down through. Eight pictures from the beginning of peace . Sessler, Vienna (among others) 1979.
  • In the city of barbarians . New Perspectives series . Jugend und Volk, Vienna (among others) 1971, ISBN 3-7141-6668-8 and ISBN 3-8113-6668-8 .
  • The Trojans. Libretto for the siren opera theater . Not installed, available at https://www.sirene.at/unger

Awards

literature

  • Inge Karger: Political music and naive music therapy. An investigation into the experience of political concerts in the 80s using the example of performances of the scenic oratorio Proletenpassion by the political rock group Butterflies . Library and information system of the University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg 2000, ISBN 3-8142-0757-2 . 

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author Heinz R. Unger died . APA article on DiePresse.com , February 13, 2018, accessed February 13, 2018.
  2. ↑ Heinz R. Unger ( Memento from December 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: Austrian National Library , collections, literature archive, holdings, holdings detailed information.
  3. ↑ h. H. H. (ie Hans Heinz Hahnl ): Augustin, everything is gone! In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna August 27, 1971, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ↑ Beginning of the arena with “Proletenpassion” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna May 16, 1976, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ↑ Harald Sterk : Agit-Prop with jukebox garnish . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna May 18, 1976, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  6. ↑ Heinz Sichrovsky : Useful counter-counter-enlightenment . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 5, 1985, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized). Work documentation ( Memento from January 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: Austrian National Library , collections, literature archive, holdings, documentation.
  7. ↑ Zwölfeläuten (2001) (TV) . In: IMDb , accessed February 22, 2012
  8. ^ Helmuth Schönauer : Review . In: Tyrolean contemporary literature .
    Work documentation ( Memento from January 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: Austrian National Library , collections, literature archive, holdings, documentation.
  9. ^ Helmuth Schönauer: Review . In: Tyrolean contemporary literature .
    Work documentation ( Memento from January 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: Austrian National Library , collections, literature archive, holdings, documentation.
  10. ↑ Work documentation ( Memento from January 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: Austrian National Library , collections, literature archive, holdings, documentation.
  11. ↑ Work documentation ( Memento from January 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: Austrian National Library , collections, literature archive, holdings, documentation.
  12. ↑ Award for Hans Hurch and Heinz R. Unger . In: wien.gv.at , March 10, 2004, accessed on February 22, 2012
  13. ↑ Table of contents (PDF) .

Remarks

  1. ↑ World premiere: April 26, 1987, Wiener Volkstheater - see: Hans Heinz Hahnl: In den Versatzteile der Zeit . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 28, 1987, p. 29 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ↑ World premiere: April 9, 1980, Wiener Schauspielhaus - see: Harald Sterk: Bilderbogen von einer Kellerpartie . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 11, 1980, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Unger, Heinz Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 2018
Place of death Vienna