Karl Königseder

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Karl Königseder (2007)

Karl Königseder (* 1943 in Perg , Upper Austria ; disappeared on August 13, 2009 in Unterach am Attersee ) was an Austrian writer and psychiatrist .

Life

Born into a family of doctors, Karl Königseder made his debut in 1968 with a volume of poetry ( In Loose Contact ) and published texts in Austrian literary magazines. Fini , a play (1973) was accepted by the Vienna Burgtheater , but ultimately not performed. Königseder completed a medical degree in Vienna , worked in Switzerland from 1974 and trained there as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst . In 1989 he married a Swiss literary scholar and psychoanalyst. From 1982 he published psychoanalytic literary interpretations , for example on the topics of melancholy as a fetish and hysteria and Viennese modernism . Königseder dealt primarily with authors of the Black Romantic period such as ETA Hoffmann , Charles Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe , but also with Robert Musil , Alfred Kubin , Joe Orton , Tennessee Williams , Antonin Artaud and F. Scott Fitzgerald . His essay on Aby Warburg's mental illness and stay in the Bellevue Sanatorium received the most attention .

Works

Fonts

  • In loose contact. Poems. Austrian Publishing House, Vienna 1968.
  • The body image of psychoanalysis or pleasure as consolation. In: Swiss Review for Medicine . Vol. 75 (1986), No. 35, pp. 1-4, PMID 3764250 .
  • Repeated portraits. In: Fee Schlapper: Comparison. Portraits over time. Edition Stemmle, Schaffhausen 1988, ISBN 3-7231-0371-5 , pp. 7-14.
  • Eros and melancholy in science, literature and music. In: Hartmann Hinterhuber et al .: Love and Depression. 100 years University Clinic for Psychiatry Innsbruck: 25th annual meeting of the DGPA in Innsbruck 1991. Verlag Integrative Psychiatrie, Innsbruck 1992, pp. 53–58.
  • Aby Warburg in Bellevue. In: Robert Galitz, Brita Reimers (ed.): Aby M. Warburg: "Ecstatic nymph ... mourning river god". Portrait of a scholar (= series of publications of the Hamburg Cultural Foundation. Volume 2). Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1995, pp. 74-103.
  • The threatened man. Masculinity and destructiveness. In: Sylvia von Arx et al. (Ed.). Coordinates of masculinity: attempts at orientation. Edition Diskord, Tübingen, ISBN 3-89295-728-2 , pp. 119-139.

Staged readings

  • From the pleasure principle to the death drive. Texts by and around Sigmund Freud. Theater am Neumarkt , Zurich, January 19, 1986.
  • The repressed psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis and literature. Germany, Austria, Switzerland 1933–1945. Film panel of the City of Zurich, May 21, 1989; City Theater Konstanz, March 18, 1990.

Settings

  • Balduin Sulzer : Four songs based on texts by Karl Königseder (Op. 22), composed in 1972, premiered in 1985 in Linz.

Web links

Commons : Karl Königseder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In: Wiener Zeitung . August 12, 1988.
  2. ^ In: Wiener Zeitung . November 10, 1989.
  3. ^ Aby Warburg in Bellevue. In: Robert Galitz, Brita Reimers (ed.): Aby M. Warburg: "Ecstatic nymph ... mourning river god". Portrait of a scholar (= series of publications of the Hamburg Cultural Foundation. Volume 2). Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1995, pp. 74-103.
  4. ↑ Database entry , Music Information Center Austria , accessed on November 17, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Königseder, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Perg , Upper Austria
DATE OF DEATH after August 13, 2009