Horst Karasek

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Horst Karasek (born October 7, 1939 in Vienna ; † November 25, 1995 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German writer , publicist and narrator .

life and work

Karasek was a younger brother of Hellmuth Karasek . During the war the family first moved to Stollberg / Erzgeb. , 1944 to Bernburg (Saale) and finally to Laichingen . Karasek began to study and write in Würzburg . He founded the literary magazine “Die Sonne” with Karl Heinz Roth . He studied German, psychology and sociology at the universities of Würzburg, Munich and Frankfurt am Main. He settled in Frankfurt am Main .

In 1972 he published Wohnhaft im Westend , in which he and Helga M. Novak described the transformation of the bourgeois Frankfurt district of Westend by demolishing and displacing tenants from a residential area to an office landscape. The authors report "[...] in their published" documents "in a sober language that abstains from comment (the facts conveyed speak clearly enough) of this shift."

Horst Karasek was considered a supporter of anarchist groups and an expert on historical popular uprisings, whereby he was primarily interested in the history of the failed utopias. Karasek saw them as the precursors of the 1968 movement . He investigated the movement of German anarchists in Chicago at the end of the 19th century in Haymarket (1975) as well as the Münster Anabaptist Commune (1977) or the failed uprising of the Frankfurt gingerbread baker Fettmilch (Der Fedtmilch-Aufstand, 1979). In 1980 Karasek became the chronicler of the Runway West opponents who had built a hut village with a "clerk" on the planned construction site at the Rhein-Main airport . In 1981 this chronicle of the resistance was published under the title “The village in the Flörsheim forest”.

As early as the late 1970s, Karasek was diagnosed with renal insufficiency , the burden and disability of which he made the focus of his literary work from 1985 onwards. In blood wash. Chronicle of a restricted life , he describes in detail how he has come to terms with the disease, life in the rhythm of regular peritoneal dialysis and the (futile) hope for a kidney transplant .

He spent the last months of his life writing and wandering through the Chablis vineyards on a moped in a former rectory in Sainte-Vertu , Yonne department , which his sister, who lives in France, had converted into a holiday home. He described his experiences of this time in the book Rasend das Herz, published posthumously in 1998 . Chronicle of a life coming to an end .

Works

  • with Helga M. Novak: Resident in Westend: documents, reports, conversation (= Luchterhand print, Luchterhand typescript , volume 10). Luchterhand, Neuwied / Berlin 1970, DNB 457717106 .
  • The Fedtmilch uprising or how the Frankfurters heated up their council in 1612/14 (= Wagenbach's pocket library , volume 58). Wagenbach, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-8031-2058-6 .
  • The Quarter: How the regicide Damiens was tried in Paris in 1757; portrayed by Sanson, executioner, Bouton, guard, Lebreton, court clerk, Voltaire, historian, Casanova, bon vivant (= Wagenbach's pocket library , volume 230). Wagenbach, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-8031-2230-9 .
  • The Anabaptist Commune (= Wagenbach's Pocket Library, Volume 16), Wagenbach, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-8031-2016-0
  • The arsonist, apprenticeship and traveling years of the journeyman bricklayer Marinus van der Lubbe , who went out in 1933 to set fire to the Reichstag (= Wagenbach's pocket library, volume 73). Wagenbach, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-8031-2073-X

literature

  • Petra Ernst: New manual of contemporary German-language literature since 1945 , Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1993 ISBN 978-3-423-03296-4 , p. 612
  • Wilhelm Kühlmann, Achim Aurnhammer: Killy Literature Lexicon: Authors and Works of the German-Speaking Cultural Area , Volume 6, Walter de Gruyter, 2009 ISBN 978-3-11-021394-2 , pp. 294/295
  • Hartmut Schulze: A sick disruptor . In: Der Spiegel from December 6, 1985

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anita Baus: Location determination as a process: an investigation into the prose of Marie Luise Kaschnitz , Bouvier Verlag H. Grundmann, 1974, ISBN 978-3-416-00885-3 , p. 34 (Kaschnitz also lived in Frankfurt's Westend)
  2. ^ Horst Karasek: The village in the Flörsheim forest. A chronicle against the runway west . Luchterhand Verlag, Darmstadt and Neuwied 1981, ISBN 3-472-61368-8
personal data
SURNAME Karasek, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1995
Place of death Frankfurt am Main