Klaus Demus

Klaus Demus (born May 30, 1927 in Vienna ) is an Austrian art historian and poet .

Life

Paul Celan named Demus his only friend in 1951, to whom he also dedicated his poem "The Jugs", as well as him and his wife Nani Demus the poem "The Vintners". Demus, who was also friends with Ingeborg Bachmann , writes pantheistic nature poetry. His work follows the line of tradition from Pindar and Friedrich Hölderlin to Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Rudolf Borchardt . His work marks a clear opposition to the pessimism and nihilism of language in modern poetry. In 1958 Klaus Demus received the sponsorship award from the Kulturkreis der Wirtschaft in the Federation of German Industries . 

Until 1987 Demus worked as curator at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna .

His brother was the pianist Jörg Demus .

Works

• The heavy country. 1958.
• Tomorrow night. 1969.
• In the new silence. 1974.
• The morning glow. 1979, ISBN 3-7885-0220-7 .
• Shadow from the forest. 1983, ISBN 3-7885-0262-2 .
• In the evening of this hour. 1987, ISBN 3-7885-0302-5 .
• Exit. 1990, ISBN 3-7885-0331-9 .
• The millennia. 1994, ISBN 3-7885-0500-1 .
• Land wind. 1996, ISBN 3-85409-269-5 .
• The tremendous sparkle of Hen Kai Pan. Poetic-pantheistic fragments and moments. 1998, ISBN 3-85409-293-8 .
• In posterity. Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85409-307-1 .
• Sidereal time. Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85409-345-4 .
• Similar whispers. 2002, ISBN 3-85409-370-5 .
• Universal song. 2005, ISBN 3-85409-415-9 .
• The times of the year. 2008, ISBN 978-3-85409-491-3 .
• Cosmos. Poems. Löcker, Vienna 2012.
• Final chorale. Poems. Löcker, Vienna 2014.
• Postlude. Poems. Löcker, Vienna 2017.

literature

• Joachim Seng (Ed.): Paul Celan - Klaus Demus and Nani Demus: Correspondence. Additionally: Selection from the correspondence between Gisèle Celan-Lestrange and Klaus & Nani Demus . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-42122-2 (with picture part).
• Peter Goßens: Klaus Demus . In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Hg): Killy Literature Lexicon. Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2nd completely revised edition. Volume 2: Boa-Den. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2008, p. 591f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Source: Killy Literaturlexikon, Vol. 2, p. 592, Berlin 2008, de Gruyter
2. ↑ kulturkreis.eu: 1953-1989 sponsorship awards, honorary gifts  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed April 1, 2015)  

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Demus in the catalog of the German National Library