Iris Fink

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Iris Fink (born April 5, 1966 in Voitsberg ) is an Austrian author , cabaret historian and director of the Austrian Cabaret Archive .

Life

Iris Fink grew up in Rosental an der Kainach and after graduating from the Voitsberg commercial academy, studied business administration at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz , then folklore / cultural anthropology . She wrote her diploma thesis and dissertation on various aspects of Austrian cabaret. During her school and study days, Fink was also active in the literary field, mainly writing plays, for which she also received a drama scholarship. The play “Anna” was shown both as a radio play on ORF radio and in the stage version in a staging in the Theater im Keller , Graz, 1990. From 1994 to 1998 she was the managing director and artistic director of the Hin & Wider cabaret in the Graz Theatercafé . Fink is a co-founder of the Austrian Cabaret Archive and has been its director since 2000. Her other activities include: curator and organizer of exhibitions and events at home and abroad, lectures, contributions (including for the cultural broadcaster Ö1 ) as well as publications and essays. She has lectureships at the University of Vienna at the Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies.

Her main areas of work and research are: cabaret , cabaret and satire in German-speaking countries.

Publications

As an author

  • From Trávníček to Hinterholz 8 . Cabaret in Austria from 1945 from A to encore. Verlag Styria, Graz 2000. ISBN 978-3-222-12773-1 .
  • The strange bird from Graz. The “Grazer Kleinkunstwettbewerb” in anecdotes and facts. 1987-2003. Austrian Cabaret Archive, Graz 2004.
  • Iris Fink, Hans Veigl : The singer's curse. On November 16, 1901, Felix Salten opened the “Young Viennese Theater to Dear Augustin”. Austrian Cabaret Archive, Graz-Vienna 2001; 3. verb. Ed., 2008.
  • Iris Fink, Hans Veigl: suppressed years. Entertainment culture in the shadow of crises. Exhibition documentation. Austrian Cabaret Archive, Straden 2008.
  • Iris Fink, Hans Veigl: Bronner, Merz, Qualtinger & Co. A nameless successful ensemble in the 50s. Austrian Cabaret Archive, Straden 2010.
  • Hans Veigl, Iris Fink: Gallows humor. Small art in the great war. A contribution to the kk entertainment culture 1914 to 1918. Austrian Cabaret Archive, Graz 2014. ISBN 978-3-9501427-4-7 .
  • Iris Fink, Hans Veigl: "... and there is a time for laughter". Cabaret between reconstruction and the economic miracle. Cabaret in Austria 1945-1970. Austrian Cabaret Archive, Graz 2016. ISBN 978-3-9501427-7-8 .
  • Iris Fink, Roland Knie: “Überlandpartie!” Cabaret on summer vacation. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2018. ISBN 978-3-205-20671-2

As editor

  • Iris Fink, Charly Mohr u. Hannes Töbich: "... as if it were a piece of culture ..." Festschrift. 10 years of the cabaret back and forth in the theater café. Graz 1993.
  • (Red.) "Impaled". Cabaret reflections 1945-2000. politicum 88. Josef Krainer Haus writings. Graz, November 2000.
  • Iris Fink, Hans Veigl: Lukas Resetarits . "It is the following, please ..." With a foreword by Franz Schuh . Vienna 2007. ISBN 978-3-218-00778-8 .
  • Hans Veigl, Iris Fink: Banished, burned, forgotten and misunderstood. Short biographies on the persecution and expulsion of Austrian cabaret and small stage artists 1933-1945. Austrian Cabaret Archive, Graz 2012. ISBN 978-3-9501427-1-6 .

Further publications

  • From "hedgehog" to "bullfinch". Article about the history of Graz cabaret. In: Reading Circle. Supplement to the Wiener Zeitung . No. 56, March 1992.
  • From "hedgehog" to "cabaret bird". Cabaret in Styria from 1945 to the present. In: "Aufg'spitzt". Cabaret reflections 1945-2000. politicum 88. Josef Krainer Haus writings. Graz 2000.
  • “Vienna, Vienna only you alone…” - The Viennese song in Austrian cabaret as a place to find one's identity. In: Joanne McNally / Peter Sprengel (ed.): Hundred Years of Cabaret. For staging social identity between protest and propaganda. Königshausen & Neumann , Würzburg 2003.
  • Quasi in the Kastl. The cabaret artist Helmut Qualtinger on stage and on television. In: Günter Krenn (ed.): Helmut Qualtinger, The work for film and television. Filmarchiv Austria , Vienna 2003.
  • The “nameless” ensemble: Qualtinger and the cabaret of the fifties. In: Arnold Klaffenböck, Wolfgang Kos, Ulrich N. Schulenburg, Alexandra Hönigmann (eds.): Quasi a genius. Helmut Qualtinger (1928-1986). Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Wien Museum. Deuticke Verlag , Vienna 2003.
  • “Dishwasher & Co.” cabaret in and from Graz. In: Joseph F. Desput (ed.): From the federal state to the European region. Styria from 1945 until today (= History of Styria, Vol. 10). Self-published by the Historical Commission for Styria , Graz 2004.
  • “Made in Styria” - cabaret in and from Graz. An inventory. In: Friedrich Bouvier and Nikolaus Reisinger : Stadtgeschichte aktuell (= Historisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Graz, Vol. 42). Graz 2012.
  • Austrian cabaret archive. The history of development - an outline. In: Friedrich Bouvier and Nikolaus Reisinger: Stadtgeschichte aktuell (= Historisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Graz, Vol. 42). Graz 2012.

Web links

Commons : Iris Fink  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theater im Keller, archive of all productions, season 1989/1990 , on the website of tik-graz.at , accessed on February 20, 2017
  2. ↑ Veronika Schmidt: Austrian Cabaret Archive looking for a hostel In: Die Presse , June 6, 2010
  3. ↑ Contra - cabaret and cabaret, But the Nowak does not let me go to waste , on the website of oe1.orf.at , accessed on February 20, 2017
  4. ↑ Contra - cabaret and cabaret, the moon struck just half past seven , on the website of oe1.orf.at , accessed on February 20, 2017
  5. ↑ Contra - cabaret and cabaret, Chose does not work without women ... , on the website of oe1.orf.at , accessed on March 6, 2018
  6. ↑ Contra - cabaret and cabaret, "It was never my dream to make a career in cabaret" - on the 100th birthday of Cissy Kraner , on the website of oe1.orf.at , accessed on March 6, 2018
  7. ↑ Mathias Ziegler: How the laugh came back ( Memento of the original from February 8, 2017 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. In: Wiener Zeitung of January 18, 2017, accessed on February 20, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wienerzeitung.at
  8. ↑ Summer stages: The almost forgotten cabaret , on the website wien.orf.at , accessed on July 9, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Fink, Iris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author
DATE OF BIRTH April 5th 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Voitsberg