Karl Wiesinger

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Karl Wiesinger (born March 13, 1923 in Linz ; † February 10, 1991 ibid) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Karl Wiesinger grew up as the son of a seamstress and a tram conductor in Linz and learned the profession of dentist . In 1934 he interfered in firefights “against the will” of his “Catholic mom” (Wiesinger said) in fighting in the context of the Austrian Civil War and was seriously wounded. Wiesinger was only able to be politically active again in 1940 and became a member of the illegal KPÖ .

After his recovery, Wiesinger was immediately drafted into the Wehrmacht and initially fought on the German Eastern Front in Finland. A court martial for sabotage resulted in an acquittal; then he was used as a flak helper in Austria. He was arrested again for participating in communist resistance and contracted tuberculosis while in prison . At the end of the war, Wiesinger was almost deaf. He was released from British captivity in July 1945 and went to Linz to work as a dentist. In 1960 he was disabled because of advanced tuberculosis.

After the Second World War Wiesinger worked as a writer , dentist and politician .

Activities in the literature business

Wiesinger was a working-class writer who repeatedly played virtuously with his image as a naive communist wooden head; Although he was a member of the KPÖ and wrote tight party papers, he also produced strongly drawn novels and launched some almost actionist public literary jokes.

So he succeeded in 1971 the coup, a German publisher who did not want to move him for years to dupe by him under a false name (as literature inexperienced farmer Max Maetz) a peasant novel offering in which it was in fact an avant-garde text , which is highly complex and is always worked in the darkest dialect , so that even native Austrian readers have problems fully understanding the novel, which is reminiscent of Grimmelshausen in the juiciness of the description .

The publishing house went crazy for Wiesinger; Wiesinger was invited to the Frankfurt Book Fair as "Max Maetz" , where he allegedly appeared completely drunk and demanded the planting of vines in the exhibition hall.

The then ÖGB boss Franz Olah had the extradition of Wiesinger's 1974 novel "Der rosarote Straßenenterror" about the crackdown on the general strike of 1950 published by a small West Berlin publisher .

In addition to many political texts, Wiesinger wrote the novel Der Wolf , a perspective thriller about a murder in the Third Reich .

Wiesinger, the playwright

Wiesinger has also been writing dramatic texts since the early 1950s, using a mixture of action theater , agitprop and popular play . However, his pieces did not get beyond a certain regional awareness.

Works

Novels and short stories:

  • Animals don't hurt me , Linz 1966.
  • Thirty-eight . Vienna 1967, new edition Vienna: Promedia Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-85371-335-8 .
  • Weilling, country and people. Bauer novel (under the pseudonym Max Maetz). Frankfurt am Main 1972.
  • The pink street terror . Berlin 1974, new edition Vienna: Promedia Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-85371-336-5 .
  • Martial law . Berlin 1976, new edition Vienna: Promedia Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-85371-334-1 .
  • The wolf . Vienna 1980.

Dramas:

  • X occurs ten = 0 . Linz 1959.
  • Grass for buffalo . Linz 1961.

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personal data
SURNAME Wiesinger, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1991
Place of death Linz