Liesl Ujvary

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Liesl Ujvary (born October 10, 1939 in Bratislava , Slovakia ) is an Austrian writer and artist.

Life

Liesl Ujvary came to Austria in 1945 and spent her childhood in Lower Austria and Tyrol.

She studied Slavic Studies , ancient Hebrew literature and art history in Vienna and Zurich . Ujvary received her doctorate in Zurich in 1968 with her dissertation on the novel "Julio Jurenito" by Ilja Ehrenburgs . Liesl Ujvary taught Russian language and literature in 1969/70 at Sophia University , a Jesuit university in Tokyo. This was followed by a one-year stay at the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow as an advanced training course for Russian teachers. She has lived in Vienna since 1971.

Liesl Ujvary is one of the most important representatives of experimental language-critical literature in Austria. In 1975 she published the volume “Freiheit ist Freiheit”, which made unofficial Soviet poetry (by Vsevolod Nekrasov and Eduard Limonow, among others ) accessible in German for the first time . In 1977 she published several experimental poetic texts under the title "Safe & Good". In the volume of poems "rosen, zuzüge", published in 1983, Ujvary takes up clichés of everyday language and shows the futile attempts to escape the world of language and speech manipulation.

In 1984 Liesl Ujvary published her first novel "Schöne Stunden". This was followed by other prose texts. Ujvary presented multi-media works in which words, images and sounds were combined.

In the work “Wildcards. Lecture on Literature ”, published in 1998, presented Ujvary's thesis that writers act as mediators between the virtual art worlds of language. In 2002 the work “Controlled Games. 7 artifacts ”, in this she dissolves any narrative coherence.

Liesl Ujvary's work is particularly characterized by her own photographic work. Ujvary also portrayed her writing environment. The “Hard & soft” series includes photographs by Heimrad Bäcker , Franz Josef Czernin , Elfriede Gerstl , Bobo Hell , Ernst Jandl , Elfriede Jelinek , Gerhard Kofler , Friederike Mayröcker and many others.

Liesl Ujvary also designed some works for ORF-Kunstradio. These electronic arrangements of sounds include “Das Schubert Ding” (1997), “body music 3: sprachen der gene” (1996), “Sex + Tod + Klangeffekte” (1995). In 2003 the CD “Controlled Games. 7 artifacts ”and 2008“ trautonium now ”.

One of Liesl Ujvary's last works at the moment is “Weich Welten” from 2004. This work serves as a companion volume to the exhibition of the same name in what was then the Vienna City and State Library. In 2006 Ujvary published the prose volume "Alphaversionen". In 2011 the book “Das Wort Ich” was published and in 2012 the DVD “11 Videos”.

Awards

Works

  • Freedom is freedom , unofficial Soviet poetry. Arche Verlag, Zurich 1975 (Ed.)
  • Safe & Good , experimental poetic texts. Rhombus Verlag, Vienna 1977.
  • Photo novel Bisamberg , Museum of Modern Art, Vienna 1980 (catalog).
  • roses, admissions , poems. edition neue texte, Linz 1983.
  • Nice hours , Roman. Ullstein, Berlin 1984.
  • Animals in the text , novel. Edition Falter / Deuticke, Vienna 1991.
  • Hot stories , short prose. The happy living room - Edition, Vienna 1993.
  • Hopeful monsters , 10 stories, 160 p., Edition Falter / Deuticke, Vienna 1993.
  • Funny paranoia , novel, 200 pages, Ritter Klagenfurt / Vienna 1995.
  • CD Sex & Death & Sound Effects , Kunstradio at Extraplatte , Vienna 1995.
  • NeuroZone 47 graphics & texts, edition ch, Vienna 1996.
  • CD Language of Genes , Kunstradio at Extraplatte, Vienna 1997.
  • The pure brain , prose with self-portraits, 100 pages, Ritter Verlag Klagenfurt / Vienna 1997
  • CD softworlds , Kunstradio at Extraplatte, Vienna 1999
  • heavy tools for berlin , audio piece, 52 min. deutschlandradio berlin, February 1, 2002, co-production ORF
  • CD heavy loops version , Kunstradio at Extraplatte, Vienna 2002
  • Controlled games - 7 artifacts , prose, 120 p., Sonderzahl Verlag, Vienna 2002
  • CD 7 artefakte , special number, Vienna 2003
  • soft worlds Photos, texts and music by Liesl Ujvary, book for the exhibition in the Vienna City and State Library, ed. by Andreas Brandtner (with contributions by Thomas Ballhausen, Andreas Brandtner, Martin Breindl, Alexandra Millner, Christiane Zintzen), Vienna 2004
  • Alpha versions , special number publishing house, Vienna 2006
  • CD Trautonium Jetztzeit , Sonderzahl Verlag, Vienna 2008
  • Das Wort Ich , Klever Verlag , Vienna 2011
  • DVD Liesl Ujvary 11 Videos , Klever Verlag, Vienna 2012
  • Lectures. Projects.
  • Photo exhibitions, computer image processing. Art radio productions, music.
  • Numerous publications in magazines and anthologies. Radio plays (Rias, NDR, SDR, ORF).

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personal data
SURNAME Ujvary, Liesl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and Viennese postmodern artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava , Slovakia