Hugo Schanovsky

Hugo Schanovsky (born November 29, 1927 in Steyr , Upper Austria ; † November 5, 2014 ) was an Austrian author and politician and mayor of Linz from 1984 to 1988 .

Live and act

Origin and education

Hugo Schanovsky, son of a worker in the Steyr works , lived in the first years of his life with his parents and brother Karl in the Alter Wehrgraben in Steyr, a district in which at that time mainly poor people lived. After he lost his mother at the age of four, the family moved to Linz . He visited in Linz, the school where he - after an interruption in 1943 by war service and captivity - 1946 graduated .

Professional background

A year later, Schanovsky began his professional career at the Workers' Pension Insurance Institute, where he rose to a managerial position. From 1967 he was represented for the SPÖ in the municipal council, from 1969 he was a member of the city senate. He was also City Councilor for Culture from 1969 to 1979 and Deputy Mayor from 1979 to 1984. During his time as mayor, he was also district chairman of the SPÖ Linz.

Schanovsky campaigned to fight the negative image of Linz as a polluted industrial city , with the slogan "Linz must become the cleanest industrial city in Austria" he successfully entered the 1985 election campaign. The environmental protection measures introduced by Schanovsky in combination with the expansion of cultural offers were actually able to reduce the environmental impact and significantly reduce the bad image of the Upper Austrian provincial capital.

On January 21, 1988 Schanovsky handed over his office to Franz Dobusch , who in turn resigned from his position as Mayor of Linz on October 16, 2013. Since 1988 Schanovsky devoted himself to his work as a writer . He died on November 5, 2014, a few weeks before his 87th birthday.

family

He had been married since 1950 and lived in the Merkursiedlung on Pöstlingberg in Linz . His two children have a doctorate in German.

Writing

He published 69 books and he bequeathed manuscripts for 50 more to the city for the “Schanovsky Collection” in the Tower of Knowledge . One of the most recently published books was the 500-page autobiography Heart Blood Instead of Ink - A Literary Life . The biography initially had 1,500 pages and was severely shortened. At the end of 2008, the SP Pensioners Association published the volume of prose poetry Death, where is your sting ...? published by Gutenberg-Verlag. Even after two heart attacks, Schanovsky continued to write.

Honors

• Medal of Honor in gold of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft in Austria (1985)
• Honorary Senator of the University of Linz
• Gold Medal of Merit of the State of Vienna

Publications (excerpt)

• Just one earth. Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-224-16659-2 .
• Laughter is strictly allowed. Landesverlag, Linz 1985, ISBN 3852144337 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hugo Schanovsky in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} city-magazin.at ( Memento from November 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 14, 2012.
2. ↑ Former Linz mayor Schanovsky has died. In: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten of November 6, 2014, accessed on November 6, 2014.
3. ↑ Kronen Zeitung of November 29, 2007.
4. ↑ Author Hugo Schanovsky: 180 books and still not enough in: OÖN from January 29, 2009, accessed on March 31, 2010.

predecessor	Office	successor
Franz Hillinger	Mayor of Linz 1984–1988	Franz Dobusch