Rolf Schwendter

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Rolf Schwendter (reading) and Gerhard Jaschke , Vienna 2013

Rolf Schwendter (born August 13, 1939 in Vienna as Rudolf Scheßwendter ; † July 21, 2013 in Kassel ) was an Austrian writer and social scientist .

Life

Rolf Schwendter came from a bilingual family and grew up in Vienna with Hungarian and German as mother tongues. There he studied law , political science and philosophy and received his doctorate in each of these three subjects: in 1962 as a Dr. jur. , 1965 Dr. rer. pol., 1968 to Dr. phil. - hence his nickname "Comrade Comrade Comrade" in circles of 1968 ; before the name change and during his studies, the always conspicuously inappropriately dressed was known only as "the Schess".

Rolf Schwendter, Vienna 2007

Schwendter was from 1959 to 67 coordinator of an "informal group on science and art", 1968-70 employee of the magazine "song" , 1968-71 freelance songwriter and appeared in 1967 and 1968 at the Waldeck Festival and in 1968 at the Essen International Song days on. In 1970 he published the songs for the children's drum . In doing so, he relied on “anti-aesthetics that should evade familiar listening habits in order to achieve the necessary attention”.

In 1971 the first edition of his theory of subculture appeared . From 1971 to 1974 he was an assistant at the Institute for Political Science at Heidelberg University . From 1975 until his retirement in 2003 he was professor for deviance research at the University of Kassel .

Rolf Schwendter, Vienna 2011

Schwendter was a central figure in various movements such as health shops, German anti- psychiatry and the Mannheim group "Critical Psychiatry", the theory working group for alternative economics in the working group on social policy working groups (AG SPAK). He built up the “Sociopolitical Society”, supervised the annual Mainz festival “Open Ohr” and occasionally sang at conferences in Protestant academies. And right up to the end he organized readings on September 1st in Vienna on Anti-War Day. On August 13, 2013, his 74th birthday, the Erste Wiener Lesetheater organized a reading and an appreciation of his work in memoriam at the Weinhaus Sittl in Vienna.

He was a co-founder of the First Vienna Reading Theater and Second Impromptu Theater and the Association for the Promotion of Alternative Culture e. V. in Kassel, the Kasselänern mostly as "open living room" known. From 1992 to 2002 he was a board member of the "IG Freie Theaterarbeit" in Vienna and from 2001 to 2005 President of the International Erich Fried Society .

In 1980 the songs were published by Rotbuch Verlag for free use under the title I am still unsatisfied, which was deliberately Germanized from the well-known I can't get no satisfaction . The volume of poetry Drizzling Fifties was published by Deuticke Verlag in 1996 .

Rolf Schwendter lived in Vienna and Kassel and was a member of the board and since June 2006 President of the Graz Authors' Assembly .

In 2008 Schwendter received the “ Marburg Beacon for Social Citizenship ” from the Humanist Union .

He was buried in an honorary grave at the Baumgartner Friedhof .

Works (selection)

  • Theory of subculture . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne / Berlin 1971, ISBN 978-3-462-00807-4 ; New edition with an afterword 7 years later , Syndikat, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 978-3-8108-0071-8 .
  • Draft of a 'Gruppe 2000' , Munich / Heidelberg / Vienna, self-published by Hausgemeinschaft Wiesbaden, January – April 1974.
  • To the history of the future. Future research and socialism Volume 1 , Syndikat Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1978/1982
  • On the contemporary history of the future. Volume 2. On the history of the future: Future research and socialism , Syndikat Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1984
  • Basic principles for [alternative economy] Several volumes: Die Mühlen der Berge , Die Mühlen derben AG SPAK Verlag Steinheim 1986
  • Pictures of society in the 20th century , Rotbuch Verlag
  • Psalter , poems 1970–1980, Fama Vienna 1991
  • I'm still unsatisfied: Songs for Free Use , Rotbuch 227 1980
  • Katertotenlieder , with illustrations by Mascha Grüne, Freeboard Vienna 1987
  • Schwendter's cookbook orig. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1988, 212 S, ISBN 3-610-04719-4
  • The Impossibility of Telephoning , Essays, Freeboard, Vienna 1990
  • Haiku , with illustrations by Mascha Grüne, Kriftel am Taunus: EygenArt Verlag 1990
  • 1994: utopia. Reflections on a timeless term. (Non-fiction book, 119 pages) Edition ID-Archiv 1994, ISBN 3-894080345 . Packpapierverlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-931504243 .
  • Achieving more together, Contributions to the Development of Democracy from Below , Ed. AG SPAK, Steinheim 1995
  • Eating poor - dining rich: Modern social history of central European gastronomy , Promedia, Vienna 1995, 248 pages, ISBN 3-900478-89-9
  • Day after day. A culture and moral history of everyday life , Hamburg 1996
  • Introduction to social therapy Dgvt-Verl., Tübingen 2000. 303 pp. ISBN 3-87159-021-5
  • Reading theater . Ed. die Donau down, Vienna 2002, 155 pages, ISBN 3-901233-20-2
  • Subcultural Vienna. The informal group (1959–1971) Promedia, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85371-215-0
  • Forgotten Viennese cuisine: cooking against the spirit of the times . Promedia, Vienna 2004, 206 pages, ISBN 3-85371-226-6
  • Blues on the way to madness: Gedichte 1963/64 , Klagenfurt Wieser Verlag 2004, ISBN 978-3-85129-487-3
  • Rosa Luxemburg in the botanical garden and other songs for free use , Grüner Zweig 183 song book, also as a transmitter CD Grüne Kraft
  • The Hungarian Poor People's Kitchen , Klagenfurt Wieser Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-85129-774-4
  • First publications of poems in trumpet , 4 (2010) - 6/7 (2012), Theo Köppen , Peer Schröder and Katja Töpfer (eds.). Edition Michael Kellner , ISBN 978-3-933444-26-4

literature

  • Christine E. Winter-Heider (Ed.): Festschrift for Rolf Schwendter. Fragments of an encounter - elements of a response . Kassel 2005.

Web links

Commons : Rolf Schwendter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gerald Jatzek : “A great unorthodox man has left us” , Wiener Zeitung , July 22, 2013
  2. ↑ Philipp Schmidt-Rhaesa University of Osnabrück : Development of songwriting , chap. 1 “From the end of the war to Waldeck Castle ”. Quoted in Detlev Mahnert : " Essener Songtage 1968 - Waldeck Castle"
  3. ↑ Informal group is a synonym for Rolf Schwendter's circle of friends, which initially consisted of classmates from his high school graduation class, but soon became a much larger, loose clique of almost the same age. Due to Schwendter's talent for networking, the group grew from an initially good dozen members to around 3,000 sympathizers at the time of its dissolution in 1971. Since Schwendter only emerged as the central person over time and later went to Germany, 1959 to 67 may be roughly correct. It was not until 1967 that Schwendter formulated 19 points that were to be understood as “guidelines”, but expressly not as statutes of an association. In the same year he moved to Munich. See: Andreas Felber, Die Wiener Free-Jazz-Avantgarde, p. 223ff.
  4. ↑ a b News . Erich Fried Society . 2008. Retrieved June 28, 2008.
  5. ^ Association [board] . Graz authors' meeting . June 23, 2008. Retrieved June 28, 2008.
  6. ↑ Rudolf Scheßwendter in the search for the deceased at friedhoefewien.at
  7. ↑ Festschrift for the 65th birthday as an electronic resource of the Univ. kassel
personal data
SURNAME Schwendter, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheßwendter, Rudolf (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and deviance researcher
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 2013
Place of death kassel