Helmut Eisendle

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Helmut Eisendle (born January 12, 1939 in Graz , † September 20, 2003 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer and psychologist .

Life

Helmut Eisendle's grave

Helmut Eisendle was the son of a senior official. After primary and secondary school , he completed an apprenticeship as a telephone mechanic from 1954 to 1958 . He then worked in this profession and pulled simultaneously on a night school , the Matura after. From 1965 to 1970 he studied psychology , philosophy and biology at the University of Graz , in addition he worked as a workshop teacher at the higher technical institute in Graz. In 1970 he received his doctorate in philosophy with a major in psychology .

Eisendle initially worked as a psychologist in a free group practice for educational counseling and behavior modification in Graz, then as a representative for the pharmaceutical company Hoffmann LaRoche . He worked for the literary magazine " Manuskripte " and from 1972 freelance writer . As such he lived in Barcelona and Berlin , from 1977 in Munich , from 1979 in Friuli and Trieste , from 1981 in southern Styria , then in Vienna, Amsterdam , Berlin and finally in Vienna from 1993. There he died of esophageal cancer in 2003 . His honorary grave is located in Vienna in the urn grove of the Simmering fire hall (Department 1, Ring 3, Group 8, Grave No. 79).

Helmut Eisendle was, on the one hand, a representative of the language-skeptical and language-critical currents in modern Austrian literature ; In addition, in his prose works , essays and radio plays , he devoted a lot of space to his specialist field, psychology and its criticism. Formally, his novels and stories were often interspersed with theoretical discussions and were more of an essayistic character.

Helmut Eisendle was a member of the Graz authors' meeting . He was buried in the cemetery of the Simmering fire hall in Vienna. His grave is one of the honorary dedicated or honorary custody grave sites of the City of Vienna.

Awards and honors

Works

  • Psychology of aesthetic judgments , Graz 1970 (together with Erich Raab)
  • Walder or The stylized development of a neurosis , Munich 1972
  • Handbook for the Ordinary Life or A Test Instrument to Check Adaptation to Average Ideal Behavior , Munich 1973
  • Salon talk or The Chronicle of Spiritual Miracles shimmers pale and ambiguous , Frankfurt am Main 1974
  • The Umstimmers , Munich 1974
  • A Violation Study , play (world premiere in Graz 1974, German premiere in Tübingen 1975)
  • Fröhlich's vertebrate brain or contributions to the physiological literature , Breitenbrunn 1975
  • The maze of Versailles or guided tour through Aesop's labyrinth of psyche , Berlin and others 1975 (together with Johann Ulrich Krauss)
  • A poet's life , Gümse 1976 (together with Uwe Bremer )
  • Beyond Reason or Conversations about the Human Mind , Salzburg 1976
  • Billiards or The Sacrifice at the Green Table , Frankfurt am Main 1977
  • Exil or The Brown Salon , Salzburg 1977
  • Daimon & Veranda or a girl's conversations before death. Virgin suffering. The ray of the eyes meets the world , Erlangen 1978
  • The Night Land of Doctor Lipsky , Salzburg et al. 1979
  • Neurosenkavalier, Opera Dipsa (opera libretto for Walter Haupt ), Munich, 1979
  • Mayerling, the drama of the House of Habsburg. On the trivial elegy by Mayerlinck , Berlin 1980
  • The ban is the engine of pleasure , Salzburg et al. 1980
  • Me about myself & no one else , Graz 1981
  • The fool on the hill , Salzburg et al. 1981
  • The silent monster , Graz 1981
  • The gift from Anna O. , Frankfurt am Main 1983
  • Skinfaxi in the woods , Berlin 1983
  • From Charlottenburger Ufer to Monumentenstrasse , Berlin 1983
  • The woman at the border , Salzburg et al. 1984
  • The South Styrian Wine Route , Graz 1984 (together with Helmut Tezak )
  • Calls. The lookalike. The persecution , Vienna et al. 1985
  • The crooks of intellectuals , Frankfurt am Main 1986
  • The most beautiful landscape is the brain , with 12 offset lithographs by Uli Kasten. Edition Mariannenpresse , Berlin 1987. ISBN 3-922510-38-8 .
  • Oh Hannah , Vienna et al. 1988
  • Incidental thoughts about something , Vienna et al. 1989
  • Mona Lisa , Gifkendorf 1989 (together with Arno Waldschmidt)
  • The magic square , Berlin 1990
  • Block or Die Melancholie , Zurich 1991
  • Gunman , Frankfurt am Main 1992
  • The penultimate version of the Wunderwelt , Zurich 1993
  • Entzauberungen , Vienna 1994
  • The egoist , Innsbruck 1996
  • Evening sports. Twice , Innsbruck 1998
  • Jungle of Love , Vienna 1998
  • Run dude, the world is after you , Vienna et al. 2000
  • Good and bad are prejudices of the gods , Salzburg et al. 2002
  • A piece of blue sky , Salzburg et al. 2003

Editing

  • Manuscripts for Alfred Kolleritsch , Graz 1981
  • Trieste - the city between three worlds , Munich et al. 1994
  • Read Austria , Vienna 1995
  • Fremd , Vienna et al. 1997
  • Is my brain artificial? , Vienna 2003

Translations

literature

  • The places of Helmut Eisendle , Vienna 2003

documentary

  • Der Abendlaender - An odyssey through the language of the years / With Helmut Eisendle , 2001, Director & Production: Peter Zach

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.friedhoefewien.at - Graves dedicated to honor in the fire hall Simmering cemetery (PDF 2016), accessed on March 7, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Eisendle, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian psychologist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 2003
Place of death Vienna