Joe Berger

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Joe Berger (born October 22, 1939 in Kaltenleutzüge ; † May 30, 1991 in Vienna ; actually Alfred Berger ) was an Austrian poet , playwright , storyteller , journalist , actor and actionist .

Life

Joe Berger, the first of the Federal College and Research Institute for Chemical Industry in Vienna 17 graduated (completed with A-levels in 1958), but only briefly exercised his profession as a chemist, came around 1960 by friends to directing work with Konrad Bayer and HC Artmann and came by in contact with Viennese actionism . From 1964 he co-founded various action groups, including the first vienna working group: motion , with which he performed in Germany, Italy and Switzerland (other members of the group included Wolfgang Bauer , Gunter Falk , Reinhard Priessnitz , Otto Kobalek and Toni Dusek). From 1970 increased literary activity, publications in the Austrian literary magazines wespennest and protocols as well as independent publications. In 1972 Berger played the role of Tschik in Georg Danzer's music video Der Tschik .

Joe Berger was a member of the Graz authors' meeting .

meaning

Joe Berger was regarded as a Viennese “scene writer”: “bizarre, irony and criticism of the time characterize Berger's purposeful fiction.” In the epilogue to Berger's fairy tales for consumer children, fellow writer Wolfgang Bauer said : “Joe Berger is the most important non-writing literary man I know. if one defines literature not merely as a manual writing, printing way of thinking or even as a vain pseudo-artistic craft that has grown out of fear of the inability to philosophize, this term still includes some people whose symbolic central figure is joe berger. It would be easy to portray him as a highly torn, far too diverse (such as 'sad prankster' or similar stupid clichés ...) anti-artist, it seems more essential to me to create a kind of grown unity in which Berger's exciting inner field of reference is stretched. "

Joe Berger died on May 30, 1991. Lung cancer was given as the cause of death . After Joe Berger's work had been neglected by science for a long time, a first interdisciplinary symposium on the artist took place on October 22, 2009 in the Vienna City Hall in the Vienna Library . The contributions appeared together with other documents on Berger 2010 in an anthology.

Filmography (selection)

script

As an actor

Publications (selection)

Joe Berger's estate in the amount of 5 archive boxes is in the Vienna Library in the City Hall and contains poems, early plays, scripts, a novel, fairy tales, journalistic work, individual documents on the "first vienna working group: motion" and the "working group Bauernschnapsen" .

A Joe Berger reading book was published (with the same title) in 1994, edited by Georg Biron in the "Edition S" Vienna, ISBN 3-7046-0523-9 .

  • Fairy tales for consumer children. Verlag Jugend und Volk Vienna / Munich 1977, ISBN 3-8113-6699-8 .
  • Ironic notes. Organized prose (formerly poetry). “Vive la bagatelle” . Illustrated by Sara Berger. Weilburg, Baden near Vienna 1980.
  • A plea for alcohol. Schreier & Braune, Vienna around 1985.
  • Fairy tales for the fed up and mad. Fama, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-900979-04-9 .
  • Dangerous trauma. Vienna City and State Library, Vienna 1994. (= magazine of the Vienna City and State Library . 5.)
  • Thomas Antonic , Julia Danielczyk (Ed.): Hirnhäusl. Prose texts from the estate and scattered published material. Ritter, Klagenfurt / Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85415-443-3 .
  • Thomas Antonic, Julia Danielczyk (Ed.): Of bestsellers and huge breasts. The fairytales. (Gathers all texts from fairy tales for consumer children. And fairy tales for the satiated and mad. As well as previously unpublished texts.) Ritter, Klagenfurt / Graz 2012, ISBN 978-3-85415-480-8 .
Sound carrier

literature

  • Thomas Antonic, Julia Danielczyk (Ed.): “Think!” Interdisciplinary studies on the work of Joe Berger. Ritter, Klagenfurt / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85415-457-0 .
  • Thomas Antonic: THINK! or Some of Joe Berger's texts, artistic activities, and thoughts. An epilogue. In: Joe Berger: Hirnhäusl. Prose texts from the estate and scattered published material. Edited by Thomas Antonic u. Julia Danielczyk. Ritter, Klagenfurt / Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85415-443-3 , pp. 281-301.
  • Wolfgang Bauer : forever and ever. epilogue. In: Joe Berger: fairy tales for consumer children. Verlag Jugend und Volk, Vienna / Munich 1977, pp. 94–95.
  • Radio feature: Rumpelstiltskin no longer lives here. The life of the dead poet, actor and actionist Joe Berger. By Hannes Doblhofer and Karo Wolm. (From the series Tonspuren. ORF 1992, 44:20 minutes)
  • UNCLE HO NO LONGER WALKS TO THE LOST, TOO . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 1969 ( online - about Berger and Otto Kobalek 's appearance at the festival at Burg Waldeck (Hunsrück) in 1969).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World famous in Austria - 50 years of Austropop: Part 2.
  2. ↑ Anonymous: biographical information about Joe Berger. In: JB: fairy tales for consumer children. Verlag Jugend und Volk, Vienna / Munich 1977, p. 92.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Bauer: to all eternity. (Afterword) In: JB: Märchen für Konsumkinder. Verlag Jugend und Volk, Vienna / Munich 1977, p. 94.
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berger, Alfred (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Give cold people
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1991
Place of death Vienna