Constantine Kaiser

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Konstantin Kaiser (born July 2, 1947 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian writer and literary scholar.

Life

The twin brother of the painter Leander Kaiser was born as the son of the social democratic Innsbruck councilor Maria Kaiser and the Tyrolean state party secretary of the SPÖ Ferdinand Kaiser. The politically and culturally stimulating but also outsider family situation in the conservative Tyrol stimulated the brothers' intellectual and artistic resistance.

Konstantin Kaiser, who had become literary at an early age (at the beginning, however, still used his middle name as Friedrich Kaiser), ran a gallery in Innsbruck from 1966 to 1968 and initially tried to study law in accordance with the wishes of his parents. Ultimately, however, he followed his brother to Vienna, where both joined the circle around Robert Schindel (Vienna Commune) and the left-wing student movement MLS , and in 1969 co-founded the literary and political magazine Hundsblume .

In 1977 he founded the interdisciplinary working group on anti-fascist literature . From this working group, the Association for the Promotion and Research of Antifascist Literature emerged in 1983 . In this context, Kaiser also encountered the work of the poet Theodor Kramer , which would subsequently become of great importance to him. Konstantin Kaiser worked temporarily as a construction worker, tour guide and librarian, and completed his studies in philosophy, art history and political science in 1980 with a dissertation on historicity and modern subjectivity. From Heinrich Heine's worldview .

From 1982 to 1986 he worked as a freelancer for the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance , where in 1983 he initiated the exhibition Theodor Kramer 1897-1958: Poets in Exile . He has been working as a freelance writer since 1983. He has made special contributions to the care and research of Austrian exile literature, and is a co-founder of the Theodor Kramer Society (1984) and its magazine Mit der Ziehharmonika (later Zwischenwelt ). Together with his partner Siglinde Bolbecher , Kaiser published the lexicon of Austrian exile literature in 2000 . In 2002 he founded the Austrian Society for Exile Research with Erika Weinzierl and Wolfgang Neugebauer , which he chaired until 2008.

Awards

Works

  • Through the hinterland. Poems. With an afterword by Erich Hackl. Innsbruck 1993. 108 pp.
  • Literature and Culture of Exile in Great Britain. Edited with Siglinde Bolbecher, Donal McLaughlin, J. M. Ritchie. Theodor Kramer Society, Vienna 1995, ISBN 978-3-901602-10-8 .
  • Go on the streets. Prose. With an afterword by Robert Schindel. Innsbruck 1996. 135S.
  • Lexicon of Austrian exile literature . Together with Siglinde Bolbecher and with the collaboration of Evelyn Adunka, Nina Jacket, Ulrike Oedl. Deuticke, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-216-30548-1 .
  • The invisible child. Essays and reviews. Vienna 2001. 201 pp.
  • Powerlessness and indignation. Writings 1982-2006 . Edited by Primus-Heinz Kucher, Karl Müller and Peter Roessler. Klagenfurt: Drava Verlag, 2008. (“Zwischenwelt Jahrbuch der Theodor-Kramer-Gesellschaft”, Vol. 11.) ISBN 978-3-85435-539-7 .
  • For and against in this time. The editorials for Zwischenwelt magazine (1993–2012) . Together with Siglinde Bolbecher. Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft and DRAVA Verlag, Vienna and Klagenfurt / Celovec 2014, ISBN 978-3-85435-753-7 .
  • Childhood cycle. Poems with a photo essay. Innsbruck 2017. 100 pages, ISBN 978-3-9502736-4-9

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personal data
SURNAME Emperor, Constantine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck