Paul Blaha

Paul Blaha (born April 17, 1925 in Maribor ; † September 30, 2002 in Vienna ) was a German-speaking author and publicist .

Life

Blaha published theater reviews , for example for the later Express and Die Furche . At the courier , for whom he worked from 1961, he later became head of the culture department. From September 1, 1979 to (contractually) August 31, 1987 he worked as the director of the Volkstheater in Vienna , the renovation of which he also carried out structurally and whose classic focus on folk plays was commissioned works as well as entertainer evenings and theater spectacles (e.g. Merlin and Ghetto ) advanced. In 1981 Blaha set up the VT-Studio as an additional venue in the basement stage that had become vacant in the Wiener Konzerthaus ( when the Ensemble Theater moved out ) .

His book publications also include works of fiction such as

• Beautiful free world. Roman , Langen Müller, Munich / Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-7844-2319-1 .
• The bereaved. Roman , Haymon, Innsbruck 1994, ISBN 3-85218-159-3 .
• Research. Roman , Haymon, Innsbruck 1996, ISBN 3-85218-221-2 .
• (with Adolf Frohner ) The niche. Novelle , Edition Splitter, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-901190-23-6 .

Blaha was the founder of the artist forum platform culture in 1998, which among others the actors Rudolf Buczolich and Erika Pluhar as well as the writer Robert Schindel joined.

Paul Blaha, who was married to the actress Maria Urban , had lived in Sigleß ( Burgenland ) on the property of a former hammer mill since the 1960s .

Blaha had been a member of the Equality Lodge since 1963 and a founding member of the Zur Eintracht Lodge in 1968 , an affiliate member of the Zur Truth Lodge from 1974 and a founding member of the Phoenix Lodge in 1991 .

Prizes, awards, honors

• 1978 Dr.-Karl-Renner-Publizistikpreis
• Theodor Körner Prize for Literature
• Professional title professor
• 1998 Culture Prize of the Province of Burgenland
• 2001 City of Vienna Prize for Public Education

literature

• Girid Schlögl: The theater critic Paul Blaha as director of the Vienna Volkstheater 1979 / 80–1987 . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1995, OBV .

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Blaha in the catalog of the German National Library
• Österreich-Journal: Personnel of the week from October 1st to 7th, 2002
• Paul Blaha sound recording from the archives of the Austrian Media Library : Interview with Paul Blaha 1969

Individual evidence

1. ↑ H (ans) H (sing) H (ahnl) : Paul Blaha now officially Volkstheaterdirektor: Volkstheater der intelligibility . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 15, 1979, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ Christoph Hirschmann: Still no successor certain: Paul Blaha resigns! In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna May 9, 1987, p. 29 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ↑ Paul Blaha, Georg Robor (Red.): The new people theater. Festschrift, published on the occasion of the renovation in 1980/81 . Jugend und Volk, Vienna (among others) 1981, ISBN 3-224-16006-3 .
4. ↑ Paul Blaha 60 . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 17, 1985, p. 19 , bottom center ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
5. ↑ Eva Baumgartner (Red.), Eva Ludwig-Glück (Red.): Brut history (…) brut in the Konzerthaus ( memento of the original from July 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: brut-wien.at , accessed on November 24, 2014. 
6. ↑ Blaha is director . In: BF , No. 44/1979 (XLIX. Year), p. 44, top right.
7. ↑ Professor Paul Blaha is dead . In: BF , No. 41/2002 (LXXII. Year), p. 109.
8. ^ Günter K. Kodek: The chain of hearts remains closed. Members of the Austrian Masonic lodges 1945 to 1985. Löcker, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-85409-706-8 , p. 24 f .