Leopold Wagenhofer

Leopold Wagenhofer (born June 26, 1940 in Edling, Eberndorf municipality ) is an Austrian local poet .

biography

Leopold Wagenhofer spent his youth in Carinthia . In 1958 he moved to Styria . The apartment in Graz , Hans Sachs-Gasse 8 in the death room of the composer of the Styrian national anthem Hoch vom Dachstein , Ludwig Carl Seydler , gave the impetus to deal intensively with local history.

He worked as a journalist and advertising manager for the newspapers Grazer Montag , Grazer Saturday and Das kleine Frauenblatt and created slogans such as "After Sunday, the Grazer Monday" or "For the woman who likes reading, the small women's paper". After these newspapers had to cease to appear, Wagenhofer made his way as a tourist guide and disk jockey .

In 1963 he made the acquaintance of the writer HC Artmann , who became aware of his literary talent and encouraged him to be creative. In the same year the ORF Styria became aware of him and acquired the rights of use to his Styrian homeland poems. Legal entanglements meant that Wagenhofer even had to briefly get to know the regional court prison in Klagenfurt . This experience shaped him very much. After meeting the Carinthian local poet Josef Hopfgartner in Spittal an der Drau , in addition to cultivating Styrian local history, he also turned to poems in Carinthian dialect. The passing of a license examination as a real estate agent in Salzburg on May 15, 1973 gave him economic independence in addition to his literary work.

Leopold Wagenhofer's poetry includes both dialect poems in Styrian and Carinthian influences as well as poetry in the written language. Since 2000 he has been involved in the Dichterstein community Zammelsberg . The bond with the Carinthian homeland has been reflected in close cooperation with the Waidmannsdorfer Dichterschule with Rector Peter Lethi in Klagenfurt since 2005 .

Wagenhofer has been married to the astrologer Renate Lubi since 1966 and has two children.

Honors

Waidmannsdorfer Dichterstein

Wagenhofer has a teaching position there. On his 75th birthday, a memorial plaque was unveiled on Waidmannsdorfer Dichterstein on the southern bypass of Klagenfurt. There is also a loyal flag, lasting the poet's dispute, of admirers in the South African branch, while closer to the Waidmannsdorf school of poets .

• Ebenthal Literature Prize 1987 - Recognition, Ebenthal in Carinthia
• Honorary membership of the Waidmannsdorfer Dichterschule, Klagenfurt

Publications (selection)

• How do I become a local poet: in “Kärntner Gschichten” Klagenfurt: Kärntner Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft 1985
• Poems in "From God's flower garden", Dichterstein Gemeinschaft Zammelsberg 2001
• Poems in "Water", 5th anthology of the Dichterstein Gemeinschaft Zammelsberg 2004

literature

• Peter Schaufler: Poets' dispute . Poet's group Leopold Wagenhofer versus Waidmannsdorfer poet school , in DSZ. 04/151 April 2010