Josef Pointner

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Josef Pointner (born August 2, 1920 in Vienna ; † June 11, 2018 in Vienna) was an engineer, non-fiction writer, literary writer and reciter . He also used the pseudonym OK Bahaus .

Life

Josef Pointner grew up in Vienna as the son of a police officer. After completing his technical studies, he went to the Junkers aircraft company as a designer . During his time as a soldier in World War II , he was transferred to the Kiel armaments company Walterwerke , where he built rocket torpedoes. After the end of the war he was deported to the Soviet Union , where he worked as a designer and structural engineer for large rockets in the Gröttrup collective. He became seriously ill and therefore had to change his job after his release in 1952 and his return to Vienna. He became a journalist and freelance writer and got a job with the AUVA social insurance company . Here in 1957 he reactivated the scientific magazine "Safe Work" and founded the new magazine "Betriebssicherheit", later "Sicherheitsmagazin", which are still published today.

During his stay in the Soviet Union, he wrote cheerful short texts “so as not to go crazy ...”. He had his greatest successes with it in the 1980s at ORF Vienna and SWR in Stuttgart. He recited from his own works at literary events and reached tens of thousands of listeners on the radio. His publications have included accident, security and disaster, as well as missiles and space travel. The astronautics was for years his main area, he published hundreds of articles on technology, aerospace, photography and occasionally short stories in newspapers and journals. As part of a “world exploration” he undertook 67 trips to four continents and recorded these trips in illustrated essays . He collected books, excerpts, photos and sound carriers. In 1990 he was made an honorary professor.

Works and publications

Space travel

From 1966 to 1990, Josef Pointner published numerous articles and books dealing with astronautics.

  • The 1x1 of space travel - the function, setbacks and successes of space travel , 1966.
  • The moon landing - mankind's greatest adventure 1969, 403 pages, as co-author.
  • The Space Dilemma - Progress and Threat from Space , 1980, 183 pages.
  • With the space glider into the 21st century - all about space gliders and manned space travel , 1990.

Accident, disaster, security, prevention

  • Accident Prevention and Safety - Breakthrough and Fulfillment of a Human Demand , 1989.
  • In the shadowy realm of danger - How natural forces and catastrophes increasingly threaten us , 1995.
  • What happened to whom and how - Interesting people and turbulent events , 1999, 2005 expanded.

Humorous lyric

  • Mr. Solomon in a woolen jersey , 1980.
  • The Phogelvlug , 1985.
  • Poetry from animal to human , 1987.
  • The Flea and the Horse , 1988.
  • With skin and hair , 1989.
  • The whole point , 2000.
  • Alar of nose and mons pubis , 2007.
  • Girls ... ladies and other men's problems . Verlag F. Berger , Horn 2011, ISBN 978-3-85028-524-7 .
  • Der jumping colon , Verl. Berger, Horn 2013. ISBN 9783850285933

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice Josef Pointner. Retrieved September 28, 2018 .
  2. ^ Josef Pointner. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2016/2017. Volume II: PZ. Verlag Walter de Gruyter , 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045397-3 , p. 761.
personal data
SURNAME Pointner, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bahaus., OK (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 2018
Place of death Vienna