Richard Reichensperger

Richard Reichensperger (born January 30, 1961 in Salzburg ; † April 22, 2004 in Vienna ) was an Austrian journalist and literary critic .

Life

Richard Reichensperger studied law and then German in Vienna , Salzburg and Bonn . The subject of his dissertation was Robert Musil .

Reichensperger has been writing about literature, theater and philosophy for the Austrian daily Der Standard since 1989 . He was also an employee of the Academy of Sciences and a Junior Fellow of the International Research Center for Cultural Studies / IFK in Vienna.

Richard Reichensperger died on April 22, 2004 in Vienna as a result of a fall.

After his death (rire): literary criticism, cultural criticism, a collection of literary and cultural criticism articles and conversations by the journalist was edited.

Ilse Aichinger wrote in the article series shadow over Reichenspergerplatz:

“He could read for days and nights, at his table or lying on the wooden floor, always so absorbed and silent, as if he were already gone. He read every word and he read very quickly. Once he followed Julien Green without speaking to him. When asked recently while reading this, why he could not postpone it and thereby rush and exert less, he remarked that you never know by whom, how quickly and for how long you would be interrupted. "

Works

• Editor: Ilse Aichinger: Werke , Frankfurt am Main 1991
• Anticipation Vienna: Literary Warnings , Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-100-62914-0

literature

• Claus Philipp and Christiane Zintzen (eds.): Richard Reichensperger. (Rire). Literary criticism, cultural criticism , Edition Transfer bei Springer, Vienna-New York 2005, ISBN 3-211-22260-X

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Reichensperger in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ilse Aichinger: For Richard Reichensperger . DerStandard , April 24, 2004, accessed November 11, 2016.