Helmut Swoboda (writer)

Helmut Swoboda (born April 6, 1924 in Vienna , † June 13, 2003 ibid) was an Austrian journalist and writer .

Life

Swoboda studied German and newspaper studies after high school. He obtained his doctorate in 1948. phil. and in 1969 Dr. rer. pole. He then worked as a journalist in Vienna and Geneva. From 1965 he lived as a freelance writer in his hometown Vienna. In 1973 he was awarded the Austrian State Prize for journalistic achievements in the interests of science and research . Swoboda was a member of the Austrian PEN Club Association .

Helmut Swoboda died on June 13, 2003 at the age of 79 and was buried on July 7, 2003 at the Südwestfriedhof (group 64, row 24, number 9).

Awards

Burial place of Helmut Swoboda

1973: Austrian State Prize for Science Journalism
1973: Theodor Körner Prize
1976: Cardinal Innitzer Prize
1983: Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria

Works

Publications

Chess curiosities. Classen, Zurich 1965.
The artificial man. Heimeran, Munich 1967.
Reaching for happiness. Chance, probability, certainty. Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, Munich 1968.
(Ed.): Poets travel to the moon. Utopian travelogues from two millennia. Fischer library, Frankfurt am Main, 1969.
(Ed.) Welcome to Mars. Reports of life on other planets. Loewes Verlag, Bayreuth 1970.
(Ed.) The Paris Commune 1871. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1972.
Does the future have a future? About growth in a finite world. Fromm, Osnabrück 1972.
Utopia. History of longing for a better world. Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1972.
Together with Gerhart Bruckmann : ways out into the future. What comes after the consumer society? Molden, Vienna Munich Zurich, 1974.
The predictable person. Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1974.
The quality of life. From prosperity to wellbeing. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1974.
Knaur's book of modern statistics. Droemer-Knaur, Munich Zurich 1974.
Make the right decision. A guide to optimal action. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1974.
The fight against the future. A report on the resistance to change. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1978.
Prophets and predictions. Clairvoyants and visionaries from Delphi to the Club of Rome . Knaur, Munich, Zurich 1982.
(Ed.): The dream of the best state. Texts from utopias from Plato to Homer. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 3rd ed. 1987.

Radio plays

People equal to gods (January 29, 1984, according to HG Wells )
Brave New World (June 21, 1984, after Aldous Huxley )
The castaways of the Jonathan (1984, after Jules Verne )
The war with the newts (November 11, 1984, according to Karel Čapek )
On two planets (December 30, 1984, according to Kurd Laßwitz )
We (March 31, 1985, according to Yevgeny Zamyatin )
The tunnel (May 27, 1985, after Bernhard Kellermann )

Web links

As Helmut S. Helmar: Radio series: The future of yesterday. Utopias and science fiction from four centuries - in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library

Individual evidence

↑ Short biographies in the books Poets Travel to the Moon and The Quality of Life .
↑ friedhoefewien.at - Search for the dead . Retrieved April 15, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Swoboda, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 6, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	June 13, 2003
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Short biographies in the books Poets Travel to the Moon and The Quality of Life .

[2] friedhoefewien.at - Search for the dead . Retrieved April 15, 2015.