Kurt Krickler

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Kurt Krickler (born April 7, 1959 in Vienna ) is an Austrian journalist , translator and LGBT activist.

Live and act

Kurt Krickler studied interpreting, graduated in 1984. Since 1987 he has been a sworn court interpreter for Danish.

activism

In 1979 he was a co-founder of the Homosexual Initiative Vienna (HOSI Vienna), the 1st lesbian and gay association in Austria. From 1991 to mid-2018 he edited the Lambda-Nachrichten .

In 1985 he was a co-founder and worked for the Austrian AIDS organization until 1991.

Krickler was on the board of trustees of the Mauthausen Committee Austria, founded in 1997 .

Krickler has been working with the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) since 1981. He was a board member of the European Pride Organizers Organization (EPOA).

In 1995 he was involved in uncovering the abuse affair surrounding the Archbishop of Vienna, Hans Hermann Groër .

He received criticism for exposing politicians who he described as "homophobic". The parliamentary authorities therefore imposed a ban on Krickler, which, however, was suspended for an appointment with Heinz Fischer .

At one of the first meetings of HOSI Vienna in 1979, he met his future partner Reinhardt Brandstätter . From 1993 to 1996 he lived with the activist Peter Scheucher (1957–1996).

Publications

  • (Ed. with, among others, K. Krickler): Pink love under the Red Star - On the situation of lesbians and gays in Eastern Europe . 1984.
  • (Ed. with, among others, K. Krickler): Homosexuality in Austria . 1989.
  • (Ed. with, among others, K. Krickler): AIDS. A lexical manual . Verlag der Apfel, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-85450-056-4 .
  • Editor-in-chief of Lambda-Nachrichten until 2018.

Krickler is the author of numerous book chapters and articles on the topics of homosexuality and AIDS in the Lambda News, but also in various mainstream media.

Awards

  • 2006 - Civil Courage Prize of the Berlin Christopher Street Day

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Krickler, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian LGBT activist, co-founder of HOSI Vienna, and co-founder of the Austrian Aids Aid
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna