Otto Kreiner (writer)

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Otto Kreiner (born September 13, 1931 in Vienna ; † September 29, 1993 there ) was an Austrian writer.

Live and act

Kreiner was a collaborator in the 1966 by Rudolf Henz , Gerhard Fritsch , and Paul Kruntorad founded the journal Literature and Criticism .

About his collection of short stories Miss, shall I lie in your lap? ruled Walter Hinck in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : "Again and again surprised Kreiner the reader with striking combinations: the poet Hardo daphne consisting of Arno Holz '" could be sprung tinsmiths, "says his poetic fame with an uppercut; Scotland Yard's Captain Brown identifies a long-sought hunchbacked criminal as Rumpelstiltskin; In the villa, the manorial servant reports six million unemployed who want to warm up; and after a statesman pushes the button, the earth's axis is a little bent. Some texts read, not only where they become macabre, like prosaic side pieces to the chansons of the Viennese compatriot Georg Kreisler . " Karl Heinz Kramberg judged the same book in Die Zeit :" HC Artmann's dream figurines and hussar stories provide the fund, as it were, from the Kreiner borrowed the technical equipment for his fragile, mostly pointless newspaper tales and legends. "

Kreiner dealt intensively with the life and work of Karl May , to which he dedicated a trilogy. Kreiner only saw the appearance of the first volume, Der Schatten (1989). The two subsequent volumes Der Ruhm (1994) and Abendsonne (1996) were edited by the German scholar Dieter Sudhoff after the author's death . Ralf Schönbach judged in the hearing: “Kreiner's trick of letting May freely express his 'real' views gives the book its own charm and sets it apart from its purely apologetic and glorifying predecessors in a special way. Thus it stimulates in a very provocative way to relativize May's real view of things. "

Because he couldn't make a living from his work as a writer, Kreiner worked in various professions, including tailor, gardener and civil servant.

Works

  • Words, words, words . Vienna: European publishing house 1971
  • Miss, shall I lie in your lap? Salzburg: Residenz Verlag 1976, ISBN 3-7017-0148-2
  • The trivial adventure: Tom Shark, Rolf Torring and their consequences. (Trash) staple series between business and politics . Munich and Vienna: Verlag Jugend und Volk 1980, ISBN 3-7141-7327-7
  • The shadow. Fantasies about the folk writer Karl May . Salzburg and Vienna: Residenz Verlag 1989. ISBN 3701705674
  • The fame. Novel about the folk writer Karl May . Edited by Dieter Sudhoff, Paderborn: Wim-Snayder-Verlag 1994, ISBN 3930302012
  • Evening sun. Novel about Karl May . ed. by Dieter Sudhoff, published by Wim Snayder Verlag, Paderborn 1996, ISBN 3930302489

literature

  • Hubert Havlicek: Otto Kreiner - a memory. In: May-nungen. Karl May Club Austria . Number 2 (2016), pp. 13–15
  • Dieter Sudhoff (Ed.): Otto Kreiner. In: The blue snake . Bamberg, Radebeul: Karl-May-Verlag 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data from: Austrian National Library: Estate Directory, Otto Kreiner
  2. ↑ See Hubert Havlicek: Otto Kreiner - a memory. In: May-nungen . Karl May Club Austria. Number 2 (2016), pp. 13–15
  3. ↑ Walter Hinck : Review of “Miss, shall I lie in your lap?” In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 26, 1976, p. 20
  4. ^ Karl Heinz Kramberg : Criticism in Brief. In: Die Zeit of June 18, 1976
  5. ↑ Ralf Schönbach: Karl May - So was his life ?! In: die listen magazine for literature, art and criticism . 178: 81-103 (1995).
personal data
SURNAME Kreiner, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH 29th September 1993
Place of death Vienna