Helmut Seethaler

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Helmut Seethaler, Vienna 2010.

Helmut Leopold Seethaler (born March 13, 1953 in Vienna ) is an Austrian writer who sees himself as a slip poet .

Life

After dropping out of philosophy studies , Seethaler started working in 1973 as a “Zettelpoet”. In accordance with the idea that art should be present in public space, he stuck his poems in the form of pieces of paper as what he called “picking poems” on lampposts, park trees and construction fences, but also on walls and columns of subway stations. To do this, for example, he wrapped trees with one-sided adhesive tape, with the adhesive side facing out, in order to attach his poem notes to them. In terms of content and form, these “pick poems” stand somewhere between thought poetry and aphorism . Helmut Seethaler lives and works in Vienna. He is married and has three daughters.

Around 3,300 lawsuits and court hearings that assessed Seethaler's work as damage to property (despite the fact that the slip of paper was easy to remove) were the result. A ruling by the Supreme Court from 1998, on the other hand, regards his notes as art and therefore worthy of protection.

Seethaler's actions from around 2009, namely the unwelcome lettering of sidewalks, pillars and construction fences, on the other hand, constitute serious damage to property. He appealed against a judgment of February 18, 2010, for two months due to the (washable and removed by himself) writing on 13 pavement slabs of the Vienna MQ , for which property damage of € 3,900.00 was asserted with correspondingly high court costs immediately afterwards, undisturbed by the police officers present, provoked by a sidewalk sign in front of the courthouse. With a judgment of March 16, 2010, this appeal was dismissed and he was sentenced to an additional fine of € 180 (90 daily rates of € 2, or 45 days substitute imprisonment) for two other similar actions on the same day . The courier wrote in the March 17th edition: “ [...] He was a“ poet, not a perpetrator ”. In vain: “The offense was fulfilled”, it said “.

According to the free daily newspaper Heute , writers like Elfriede Jelinek , Peter Turrini , Robert Menasse and others are now responsible for awarding Seethaler a literary prize. In 2017 Seethaler was awarded the Prize of the Independent Scene of Vienna.

  • Examples

  • Early work, 1973 or 1974

  • Pick poem slip, 1974–2010.

  • Told…

  • "Picking texts", Vienna, Schwedenplatz, 2007.

  • Serious property damage, 2009.

Quotes

“My publisher talked for a long time about the possibilities (s) of a publisher and my personal book. 'I don't need that, I don't depend on the book market.' I was stubborn as a little child who sees his toys in danger. But I can keep my toys, I can continue to put stickers on the world. The notes that are in the book also remain alive as notes. They are only frozen, thawed again by reading and removing them. The book can be removed after reading. It's just a pack. "

- Helmut Seethaler : The picking book

"[...] He had" described a construction site barrier using a felt pen ", it says on the cargo - Seethaler's handwritten note: " Yes eh. " He had " smeared " the floor at the entrance to the CAT terminal - Seethaler: " Yes eh. " He also "smeared billboards and a tin box". But then Seethaler notes: “Was i net.”
The floor at the CAT terminal “was desolate,” emphasizes the poet. “My words do not cause any risk of falling. That some mentally slipped is part of it. " [...]"

- Roman David-Freihsl : The "Re-Formung-Denierer", in Der Standard .

Awards

  • 2017: Prize of the Independent Scene of Vienna

Works

About Seethaler
  • Pick Wien an (trailer for a film documentary by David Paede and Barbara Sas; sound: Sigi Maron ; 2009, broadcast on OKTO )
  • Seethaler: Zetteldichter, A 2012, 62 ', documentary by Andrea Figl; Information: http://www.zetteldichter.at/ (last accessed on September 10, 2013).

See also

Literature, audio

  • Herbert Justnik, Stephanie Stübler: Helmut Seethaler - the appropriation of public space. The “rebellious” slip of paper from Vienna . In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde , Volume LXII / 111, Vienna 2008, ZDB -ID 2777287-1 , pp. 277–282. - Online (PDF; 7.4 MB) .
  • Peter Zimmermann, -: Slip picker blues. A moral image from the literary minor league. Radio broadcast, 1997/04/20 . Series title: Tonspuren - audio images for literature . (Sound carrier). 1 DAT cassette, 45 min, sp, mono. ORF Ö1, s. l. 1997, OBV .

Web links

Commons : Helmut Seethaler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Helmut Seethaler  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the police interrogation protocol of November 23, 2009.
  2. ↑ Information by Seethalers, 2010. The “Wiener Zeitung” cites in 2010: 1109 advertisements and 19 administrative fines.
  3. ↑ Alexander Glück: A poet on the clothesline. Helmut Seethaler and the literary form of the slip poem. In: Wiener Zeitung. August 21, 1998. Retrieved November 19, 2013 .
  4. ↑ The Poet and the Judge ( derStandard.at , February 19, 2010)
  5. ↑ Courier of March 17, 2010, p. 20.
  6. ↑ Free daily newspaper WienHeute, short note from March 23, 2010, p. 12.
  7. ↑ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Prize of the independent scene in Vienna 2017 to slip writer Helmut Seethaler . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on October 2, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Handwritten note on a facsimile distributed by Seethaler: Der Standard, January 31, 2009
  9. ^ The picking book on Helmut Seethaler's website
  10. ↑ Handwritten note on a facsimile distributed by Seethaler: Der Standard, January 31, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Seethaler, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seethaler, Helmut Leopold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna