Hubert Fabian Kulterer

Hubert Fabian Kulterer (born December 19, 1938 in Klagenfurt ; † April 24, 2009 in Vienna ) was an original in the Austrian art and literature business, a poet and action artist . He was a member of the Austrian PENClub and from the time of its founding a member of the Graz authors' meeting .

Life

Kulterer, born in Klagenfurt, but based in Aich ob Bleiburg ( Slovene Dob pri Pliberku ) in the mixed-language Carinthian Jauntal (Slovene: Podjuna ), attended secondary school in Bleiburg from 1952 onwards at the five-year teacher training institute in Klagenfurt, where he graduated in 1957 and a "certificate of maturity for teaching at elementary schools" acquired, which also meant admission to university studies. He then enrolled at the University of Vienna for German philology and also enrolled in lectures on art history , theater studies , archeology and classical philology . However, he enthusiastically immersed himself in the artistic and literary avant-garde scene in Austria's capital, and the guests at Café Hawelka - especially the poets of the Viennese group and the painters of Fantastic Realism - were soon much more familiar to him than the students in the university library. With its first mimeographed and irregularly published magazine openings he offered a series later now famous authors such as HC Artmann , Albert Paris Gütersloh or Konrad Bayer a platform and used it for a number of own literary and graphic products in different styles, where he is at that Zeit particularly fascinated by Schwitters , Dada and others. showed. Occasionally one of his texts was also included in similar publications by artist colleagues such as in 1961 in Hans Lebs Bogen and a decade later three times in the podium .

A decisive experience in those early, exciting times was the Dracula film with Christopher Lee , which led to an interruption of his studies. With his dissertation on the house and farm names of his native Jauntal with Eberhard Kranzmayer , which he completed in 1965, he later achieved a remarkable scientific achievement in an area to which he actually had no special relationship according to his nature and interests and that in his later life should also no longer play a role. In 1967 Kulterer received his doctorate, and through the mediation of his Carinthian doctoral supervisor Kranzmayer , three years followed in a scientific environment: 1967/68 he was "Visiting Lecturer and Poet in Residence" at the University at Buffalo within the State University of New York (SUNY), the following year Assistant Professor at the private, historically Afro-American Howard University in Washington, DC and then in 1969/70 visiting professor at the University of Montreal in Canada.

This was followed by many years of artistic life without a regular income, but also - with two exceptions - without substantial artistic production. Gerhard Ruiss quotes in his obituary for the cultist HC Artmann: You could also be a poet without ever having written a line of your own. In 1962 a small publisher in a southern Carinthian village published Sisyphos Climbing the Babylonian Tower or the approximate simultaneity in thinking , about 50 pages long and completely ignored. In 1975, Sisyphus was reprinted in 1000 copies in Berlin and Erlangen, and the following year, Gerhard Lampersberg gave his text Numbers a choreographic setting as a fifteen-minute ballet . At Lampersberg in Maria Saal he met Thomas Bernhard in the Tonhof before the two became enemies and was immortalized by him as at least with his name as “ The Cultist ”.

In order, as he seriously stated, to be able to fill himself up more often in this way, he made himself a guest of all kinds of vernissages and buffet events and initiated and organized a considerable number himself. In the years after his university days in North America, he organized and directed symposia on contemporary literature in Germany and Austria from 1970 to 1973 within the framework of the congresses of the NEMLA, the Northeast American Language Association, and was then responsible for cultural affairs for the Austrian Students' Union for some time . He appeared in many places as an organizer, made himself useful in the excavations at Magdalensberg and at the Wiener Festwochen in 1986 and 1988. He starred in two films, and opened exhibitions and documentaries in Toronto and Ottawa, Klagenfurt and Berlin. The broadcaster Free Berlin and a Canadian broadcaster gave him space for viewing art, the University of Klagenfurt invited him to courses in 1978 in which he covered music, painting and literature in the German-speaking area of ​​the 20th century with the subjects of Oskar Kokoschka , Alfred Kubin and Egon Schiele , Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando , Kurt Schwitters and Arnold Schönberg tensed, but he also worked as a guest teacher in a Berlin painting and dance class for children. His last lasting work as a performing activist was his role as a pilot in the art subject Flight to the Elves in Vienna 2007.

As an artist, Kulterer did not leave much that lasts. His whole life was a total work of art. Kulterer also died as an action artist: he was found in his bathtub. He used to sleep in it because his bed had to serve as a storage space for his books. He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery.

Publications

• Sisyphus climbs the Babylonian tower or the approximate simultaneity in thinking . Aich ob Bleiburg 1962 as well as in collection Format Bd. 16, Rainer Verlag, Berlin 1975 [LCCN]: 76464041
• Ed .: openings. A literary magazine ; later: magazine for literature and fine arts . Self-published, Vienna 1961–1971, No. 1–24 (no longer published) with own contributions
• Poems in Hans Leb ed .: The arch. Documents of New Poetry. No. 1 (“A handful of crow's salt”), 3 and 4 (“Eulenroter Sand”), self-published by Hans Leb, Villach 1961 ; and
  * podium. European literary magazine , founded by Wilhelm Szabo a. a., Vienna from 1971 , No. 7/10, 7/30, 8/34 ("Untitled", "Untitled", "Ein Gedicht"; PDF file; 1.06 MB)

Video documents

• EEN KWART EEUW Hubert Fabian Culterer met BERLIN (BERLIN)
• In the gateway to the third millennium Hubert Fabian Kulterer and his python of inter-continental & inter-planetary cultural research
• Hubert Fabian Kulterer with Berlin Berlin
• The shredded fur of Bear Prussians
• Our infinite python of inter-continental culture research
• Openings

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Own résumé (English), paranorm.de.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Due to an erroneous report from the Literaturhaus (which has since been corrected), the obituaries stated 1939 or an incorrect age  
2. ^ Obituary by Gerhard Ruiss, IG Authors Authors
3. ↑ openings. A literary magazine ; later subtitle: magazine for literature and fine arts . Edited by Hubert Fabian Kulterer. Vienna 1961–1971, No. 1–24
4. ^ Hans Leb ed .: The bow. Documents of New Poetry. No. 1 and 3, self-published, Villach 1961 ;
5. ↑ Podium. Journal of Literature, ed. by Wilhelm Szabo u. a., Vienna from 1971 ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Hubert Fabian Kulterer: "The house and farm names of the Jauntal".  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Dissertation to obtain the doctoral degree at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna. Submitted by Hubert-Fabian Kulterer. Vienna 1965  
7. ↑ Kulterer's self-written résumé in English,  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF facsimile  
8. ↑ Gerhard Ruiss: On the death of Hubert Fabian Kulterer
9. ↑ Sisyphus climbs the Babylonian Tower - or The approximate simultaneity in thinking , Rainer Verlag, Aich bei Bleiburg 1962
10. ↑ Sisyphus climbs the Babylonian tower or the approximate simultaneity in thinking , Rainer-Verlag, Berlin and Klaus Renner Verlag, Erlangen 1975
11. ^ Gerhard Lampersberg: Numbers . Ballet after Hubert Fabian Kulterer. Manuscript, Maria Saal 1976. Instrumentation: female (2), male (2), bass drum (1), gong (1), piano (1), harpsichord (1)
12. ↑ NEMLA
13. ^ Coffeehouse guest in the film Before Sunrise , 1999 and exhibition visitor in Ulrich Seidl's film Pictures at an Exhibition , 1995
14. ↑ Kulterer at openings on YouTube. Kulterer opened
15. ↑ Atelier Hermann Theis, Berlin Schöneberg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
16. ↑ Max Perry: Kulterer's Flight to the Elves . Vienna 2007 ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
17. ^ Obituary by Gerhard Ruiss, IG Authors
18. ^ Paranorm audiovision (Bonn 2005)

Web links

• Hubert Fabian Kulterer in the literature archive of the Austrian National Library
• Kulterer's self-written curriculum vitae in English, PDF facsimile
• Obituary by Gerhard Ruiss, IG Authors Authors