Paul Kruntorad

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Paul Kruntorad ( June 16, 1935 in České Budějovice , Czechoslovakia - July 30, 2006 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer , dramaturge , exhibition organizer , editor and cultural critic .

Live and act

Kruntorad was considered an "old school intellectual" and took on a variety of functions in Austrian and Czech cultural life in the course of his life. He came to Vienna in 1951, became press officer of the Alpbach University Weeks in 1959 , acted - together with Humbert Fink - from 1961 to 1964 as editor of the booklets for literature and criticism and then worked for the Residenz Verlag . Together with Gerhard Fritsch and Rudolf Henz , he founded the cultural journal Literature and Criticism in 1966 . From 1968 to 1972 he was editor of the magazine Neues FORVM together with Günther Nenning , whose cultural section he had a major influence. For the cross-Verlag he translated at this time Milan Machovecs book Jesus for atheists from Czech into German. In 1974 he founded - together with Ernst Hilger - the first Austrian art newspaper, the Galerienspiegel .

In the 1970s and 1980s Kruntorad taught at the Academy of Fine Arts . He curated the exhibition AEIOU (about the Habsburg motto of the same name ) for Austria Tabak in Stein an der Donau and became an advisor to the Czech National Museum after the fall of the Iron Curtain . In 2005 he designed the anniversary exhibition Physiognomy of the Second Republic for the Austrian Gallery in Belvedere Palace .

As Secretary General of the Institute for the Promotion of the Arts in Austria , Kruntorad enabled the first performance of a play by Peter Handke in Vienna: The ward wants to be a guardian . At the beginning of the 1980s he worked as chief dramaturge at the Schauspiel Bonn . He has also written radio plays and two short films , one - Race , 1961 - together with Alexander Kluge . In the 1990s he organized in Regensburg the week of Czech theater .

Kruntorad joined the PEN in 1970 and in 1972 went on a lecture tour of new Austrian literature in the USA. He worked in Kindler's literary dictionary and was a sought-after cultural critic both at home and abroad. He published in the FAZ , the Süddeutsche Zeitung , in profil , Format , Kurier and Standard .

The breadth of his interests is shown on the one hand by the novel S. - A Model and on the other hand by the symposium Jour Fixe der Vernunft on the Vienna Circle that he conceived in 1989 - but also by his journalistic work on the boulevard : from 1996 to 2000, Kruntorad headed the cultural page in Daily Everything .

Kruntorad was buried at the Döblinger Friedhof in Vienna.

Awards

Books

  • (as ed.): Jour fixe der Vernunft. The Vienna Circle and the Consequences , Vienna: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky 1991, ISBN 3-209-01221-0 .
  • (as ed.): Czechoslovakia. Stories from history , Frankfurt / Main: Luchterhand 1991, ISBN 3-630-61958-4 .
  • Fantastic realism and actionism. On the reception history of Austrian post-war art , Munich: Series Querschüsse 1990, ISBN 3-87405-204-4 .
  • Kafka, the castle and the shoe factory. Czech treasures , Vienna: Picus 2004, ISBN 3-85452-782-9 .
  • S. - A model , Roman, Frankfurt / Main: Insel 1968.

Individual evidence

  1. Obituary in ORF  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed January 31, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / oe1.orf.at  

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