Hermann Schürrer

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Hermann Schürrer (also: Hermann Schürer ; born December 14, 1928 in Wolfsegg am Hausruck , Upper Austria ; † November 29, 1986 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer , especially poet .

Life

Born in a mining village as the son of a steiger , Schürrer came to Vienna in 1951, where he studied law, history, English, psychology and German. During his studies, he was a member of the Olympia Vienna fraternity from 1952 to 1954 . After relegation from university, he worked as an employee of a graphic artist, performed henchman services and frequented coffee houses. In July 1970 he presented his project Europe is a rotten egg. I put my head in front of it in a Greek restaurant (“Hellas”) in Vienna.

Honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Schürrer was punished several times for "insulting official honor and resisting state authority". When charged with “vagabondage”, the court called in a cultural critic, who stated that “Hermann Schürer could be considered one of Austria's most remarkable talents”, whereupon Schürrer was acquitted. He had spent a total of two years in prison and two years in a psychiatric institution before moving to West Berlin for two years .

In 1975, together with Gerhard Jaschke, he founded the avant-garde literary magazine Freibord and was a member of the Graz authors' assembly .

After his death he was buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 40, number 131). His estate is in the Vienna Library .

Prices

Works (selection)

  • The smaller part of a larger reckoning - poetry and prose . Ed .: Reinhard Priessnitz and John Sailer. Journal , Volume 1, No. 1, Vienna 1970.
  • Europe: The dead have nothing to smile about. Series Hanser 59. Carl Hanser Verlag , Munich 1971, ISBN 3-446-11399-1 .
  • Criminal games in the sandpit of the do-gooders. - Viennese blood to complement European mythomania. - A storybook for precocious adults. Freeboard, Vienna 1977.
  • The last Yankee doodle before the fall of the United States - ape for liquidation. Freeboard sr 7, Vienna 1981.
  • Clear reeds to weave - The ABC from AZet. Lyric texts 1954–1984. Ed .: Lui Dimanche. Medusa Verlag, Vienna / Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-85446-113-5 .

literature

  • Hermann Schürrer on his 50th birthday. In: Freeboard  3, H. 13/14. (With contributions by Gerhard Jaschke , Joe Berger , Gerald Bisinger , Günter Brus , Elfriede Czurda , Elfriede Gerstl , Robert Menasse , Reinhard Priessnitz , Franz West , Franz Schuh and others.)
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 629-631.
  • Robert Menasse : The type of the “outsider” in the literature business (using the example of Hermann Schürrer). Study on the peculiar relationship between the semi-official literature business and literary “underground” in Austria during the Second Republic . Dissertation to obtain the doctoral degree at the humanities faculty of the University of Vienna, Vienna 1980.
  • Christian Millecker: Studies on Hermann Schürrer . Diploma thesis for obtaining the master’s degree from the humanities faculty of the University of Vienna, Vienna 1992.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schürrer's mother Katharina describes her own origins in the volume Häuslerkindheit - Autobiographische Erzählungen, edited by Therese Weber . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1984, ISBN 3-205-06152-7 , pp. 39-46.
  2. ↑ Manfred Jasser: The poet tramp, the judge and grace. In: Neue Kronen Zeitung , January 23, 1982, p. 33.
  3. ↑ Cosmic Hole. In: Der Spiegel. August 30, 1971, Retrieved March 26, 2016 (Book Review).
  4. ↑ Year according to books.google.de , not given in the book.
  5. ↑ Performed in 2005 by the First Vienna Reading Theater.
personal data
SURNAME Schürrer, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schürer, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfsegg
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1986
Place of death Vienna