Heinz Sichrovsky

Heinz Sichrovsky (2018)

Heinz Sichrovsky (born December 19, 1954 in Vienna ) is an Austrian cultural journalist and presenter.

Life

Heinz Sichrovsky was born in Vienna as the son of a doctor and a mathematics professor. He attended the humanistic grammar school Wasagasse . He studied literature with a musicological connection at the University of Vienna and worked as a study assistant at the Institute for German Studies. While working on his dissertation The Texts for the Songs of Franz Schubert , he found the song Lebenstraum set to music by Schubert with the text by Gabriele von Baumberg . He broke off his studies.

Heinz Sichrovsky became a theater critic for the Arbeiter-Zeitung . In 1985 he switched to the monthly magazine Basta , where he conducted the last interview with Helmut Qualtinger and, together with Conny Bischofberger , one of the last interviews with Thomas Bernhard . In 1987 he became a theater critic for the Kronenzeitung and wrote positive reviews of Thomas Bernhard's Heldenplatz and Elfriede Jelinek's rest stop , which the paper had previously scandalized like a campaign. Sichrovsky has been the founding editor and head of culture for the weekly magazine News since 1992 . From 1998, under his leadership, the news culture department became a kind of platform for Peter Handke , who refused to accept most of the media because of the criticism of his position in the war in Yugoslavia. From 2001 onwards, Sichrovsky organized numerous public artist talks and a series of music and literary events.

Heinz Sichrovsky has moderated the television book magazine erLesen since 2010 , initially on the TW1 channel , now on the public cultural channel ORF III .

Since the end of 2016, Sichrovsky has been working increasingly as a theater critic in addition to his duties at News, for the news program Kultur heute on ORF III and for the Kronenzeitung, for which he reports directly from the premieres. He also writes the satirical-critical column Incorrect for every Sunday edition of the Kronenzeitung .

Heinz Sichrovsky is married to the cultural journalist Dagmar Kaindl, they have two daughters.

Fonts (selection)

• with Edi Finger sen. : I wear foolish. Jugend & Volk, Vienna 1988.
• Insights. Encounters and portraits. Jugend & Volk, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-224-17645-8 .
• Mozart, Mowgli, Sherlock Holmes. Masonic Music and Poetry. Löcker, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-85409-656-6 .
• (Ed.): When I was a king and a bricklayer. Masonic poetry from four centuries. Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2016, ISBN 978-3706555838 .
• Considerations of an incorrect one. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-8000-7704-5 .
• A fratricidal battle for Troy. The world of the Greek gods in the ritual of the Freemasons. Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2018, ISBN 978-3-7065-5926-3 .

Web links

• Heinz Sichrovsky in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• ORF III : erLesen - book magazine - with Heinz Sichrovsky
• Heinz Sichrovsky orf.at