Herbert Hufnagl
Herbert Hufnagl (born February 13, 1945 in Judenburg ; † October 14, 2005 in Vienna ) was an Austrian journalist , primarily a columnist .
life and work
Growing up in Judenburg and Vienna, where he graduated from the commercial academy with the Matura , Hufnagl joined the local editorial team of the Austrian daily Kurier in 1968 . From 1977 he wrote satirical and time-critical texts in the column Watschenmann (originally the title of a radio program on the station "Rot-Weiß-Rot" ).
1980–1988 he headed the newspaper's culture department. Hufnagl paid for his resolute commitment to the author Thomas Bernhard , who was hostile to many politicians and opinion leaders at the time, and his work by losing his leadership role. As compensation, so to speak, he was given the daily comment section headers , from which he made the best in a double sense, which is why it established his high reputation among friends of satire.
Hufnagl attached particular importance to the fact that the title head pieces does not mean what is commonly called dachtel , wading or slap in Austria , but rather pieces from the head, intellectual achievements. From 1988 to September 2005 his column headers was printed almost every day, and in total it appeared more than five thousand times.
Hufnagl dealt with bizarre and astonishing occurrences of everyday life and above all of the Austrian civil service, which in all cases can be traced back to real occurrences and can therefore be described as real satire. According to an interview with the radio station Ö1 , he wanted to make readers smile and shake their heads. His favorite word was “Stempelgebrechen”, Austrian official German for the lack of a stamp on an application or an entry. Many of his made-up words and abbreviations, such as "Aushecker", "Hättiwari" (= if I would, would be me), "ULP" (Our Dear Post) or " UHBP " (Our Mr. Federal President) are now part of everyday Austrian language.
A selection of his head pieces were summarized in four books and on an audio CD and performed by Hufnagl himself on stages (e.g. 2000/2001 under the title Land der Koffer ).
Herbert Hufnagl died on October 14, 2005 from organ failure as a result of a long-standing cancer. He was buried in the Dornbach cemetery .
Books and book contributions
- Literature by and about Herbert Hufnagl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Headjoints. His best columns (1991) ISBN 978-3800033836
- Foreword to Karl Weidinger's Postreport Posts tücke (1993).
- Headjoints. From the Land of the Dwarfs (1994)
- Foreword to Dieter Zehentmayr's Drawn for Life. Caricatures 1991–1996 (1997)
- Garden Gnomes - Somewhere Out there in the Green (1999)
- Headjoints. Real satires from Austria (2002)
- Headjoints. 1988-2005 (2006). With a foreword (obituary) by Alfred Dorfer
Audio CD
- Herbert Hufnagl: Headjoints . Live recording from the Niedermair cabaret (2000)
Web links
- Declaration of love to "my" newspaper Autobiographical contribution by Herbert Hufnagl
- Headshake balance. The nonsense in the small biographical
- "Kurier" columnist Herbert Hufnagl dies Another obituary of the ( ORF )
- With gentle malice. Memories of "head pieces" author Herbert Hufnagl. Obituary ( Wiener Zeitung )
- Posts problematic . Hufnagl's preface to Karl Weidinger's "Postreport" (1993)
- The hour when we didn't know about each other Obituary by Karl Weidinger
- Radio portrait of Herbert Hufnagl in the Ö1 series chroniclers, reporters, scouts from 2002.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herbert Hufnagl . Archived from the original on November 14, 2012. Retrieved on February 7, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hufnagl, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian journalist and columnist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Judenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 2005 |
| Place of death | Vienna |