Rosemarie Philomena Sebek

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Rosemarie Philomena Sebek, 2013

Rosemarie Philomena Sebek (born December 22, 1939 in Vienna ), pseudonym Philomena , is an Austrian author of novels, poems and journalistic texts as well as a painter.

Life

After graduating from high school , she studied at the University of World Trade and then worked as an advertising assistant and copywriter . In 1964 she married the painter and free jazz musician Claus Mayrhofer Barabbas . There are three daughters from this marriage. From 1971 she was the business editor at Jupiter Verlag. The first exhibitions of her pictures took place in Vienna and at Potzneusiedl Castle in Burgenland .

From 1977 to 1984 she lived as an organic farmer and milk sheep farmer in the municipality of Hofamt Priel . During this time, she co-founded the literary association "The Ram hook" and had exhibitions in Persenbeug , Ybbs , Amstetten and the Minor Castle by Jörg Mauthe .

In 1985 Rosemarie Philomena Sebek returned to Vienna and in the following years worked as an editor, from 1995 as deputy editor-in-chief of the technical journal of the Austrian Association for Electrical Engineering "e & i - electrical engineering and information technology". Since her retirement in 2000 she has devoted herself more to writing.

Claus Mayrhofer Barabbas died in Australia in January 2009 . Rosemarie Philomena Sebek took on the task of working through the artistic work of the father of her children. In connection with this, she also pursued the search for “Big Bang”, the almost 200 m² monumental painting by the artist that was considered lost. It was finally found in the second basement of the Vienna Künstlerhaus with the help of Berthold Ecker, head of the visual arts department of the City of Vienna , and exhibited in the Künstlerhaus in spring 2013. For the exhibition of “Big Bang”, the cultural department of the City of Vienna published a catalog with texts by Rosemarie Philomena Sebek.

At the same time as working through the artistic work of Claus Mayrhofer Barabbas, Rosemarie Sebek wrote the autobiographical novel “He called me Wardi”, which, like “The Islamic Tachists of the Red Apple. Vienna 1963–1964 ”was published by Edition Mokka, a publisher in Vienna. Wardi is the Arabic word for rose. The autobiographical novel includes a. Reports of numerous encounters with well-known personalities from the Austrian art scene in the 1960s and 1970s. Furthermore, the author tells of a woman's life with all its ups and downs. At the same time, the book is a contemporary document whose arch spans from 1939 to 2012.

As a result, Rosemarie Philomena Sebek published further books and numerous essays.

Exhibitions

  • 1973 Oil paintings (under the name Philomena Mayrhofer), parallel exhibition to Richard Pechoc (graphics and oil paintings) and Toni Michlmayr (photos), Potzneusiedl Castle, Burgenland
  • 1973 portrait - today (under the name Philomena Mayrhofer), main building of the Zentralsparkasse , Vienna
  • 1977 Oil paintings (under the name of M. Hofer), together with a Hagenbund exhibition from April 2nd to May 12th 1977 in Potzneusiedl Castle, Burgenland
  • 1983 Oil painting, solo exhibition (under the name Rosemarie Sebek), Raiffeisenbank Ybbs, Lower Austria
  • 1984 Oil paintings, solo exhibition (under the name Rosemarie Sebek), exhibition on the occasion of the opening of the new Raiffeisenkasse in Persenbeug , Lower Austria
  • 1984 Oil painting (under the name Rosemarie Sebek), Edla Castle , Amstetten, Lower Austria
  • 1985 Art in the Waldviertel (under the name Rosemarie Sebek), Mollenburg, Weiten, Lower Austria

Award

  • Duc de Richelieu Art Prize 2016 for dramatic literature.

Books

  • Philomena: Raphael. The way to freedom. SSE Solaris Spiritual Edition. Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-901975-30-6 .
  • Philomena: Akacor. A story of this and the other on this side. Novel. SSE Solaris Spiritual Edition. Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-901975-27-1 .
  • Philomena: The Driudenbrevier. SSE Solaris Spiritual Edition. Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-901975-36-3 .
  • Philomena: Be like a breath of wind. SSE Solaris Spiritual Edition. Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-901975-43-1 .
  • Rosemarie Philomena Sebek: Barabbas. A picturesque big bang. Edited for the cultural department of the City of Vienna. Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition "The Big Bang" in the Künstlerhaus. Vienna 2013.
  • Rosemarie Philomena Sebek: He called me Wardi. Autobiographical novel. Edition Mokka, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-902693-48-8 .
  • Rosemarie Philomena Sebek: The Islamic Tachists from the red apple. Vienna 1963–1964. Edition Mokka, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-902693-48-8 .
  • Rosemarie Philomena Sebek: Litti and the time. A city-country picture book for children and adults. Pilum-Verlag, Strasshof an der Nordbahn 2018, ISBN 978-3-902960-83-2 .

Essays

  • Barabbas (Claus Mayrhofer). Also called Harun Ghulam Barabbas in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. In: Contemporary Art II. Ed. Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus / Suha 2015, ISBN 978-3-9503505-4-8 , pp. 40–43.
  • Moments of a special kind. Encounters with Professor Heinz Zemanek. In: In Memoriam Heiz Zemanek 1920–2014. Austrian Computer Society, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-903035-00-3 , pp. 105-112.
  • A musical horror cabinet. The back room of the Galerie zum Roten Apfel 1959–1965. In: Pilum Literaricum. Literature from Austria. Anthology 9/2016. Pilum-Verlag, Strasshof an der Nordbahn 2016, ISBN 978-3-902960-45-0 , pp. 112–121.
  • Handy, I-Phone and Bubblegum. A self-talk as well as a dialogue with readers. In: Pilum Literaricum. Literature from Austria. Anthology 10/2017. Pilum-Verlag, Strasshof an der Nordbahn 2017, ISBN 978-3-902960-52-8 , pp. 39–43.
  • The attic saints in Muhrengasse. Childhood in Favoriten 1946–1951. In: Pilum Literaricum. Literature from Austria. Anthology 11/2017. Pilum-Verlag, Strasshof an der Nordbahn 2017, ISBN 978-3-902960-56-6 , pp. 4-13.
  • In search of lost poetry. In: Pilum Literaricum. Literature from Austria. Anthology 13/2017. Pilum-Verlag, Strasshof an der Nordbahn 2917, ISBN 978-3-902960-71-9 , pp. 95-105.
  • A thoroughly male mother tongue. In: Pilum Literaricum. Literature from Austria. Anthology 15/2018. Pilum-Verlag, Strasshof an der Nordbahn 2018, ISBN 978-3-902960-79-5 , pp. 103-110.
  • Sleep well. In: Pilum Literaricum. Literature from Austria. Anthology 16/2018. Pilum-Verlag, Strasshof an der Nordbahn 2018, ISBN 978-3-902960-81-8 , pp. 71-74.
  • What actually happened in Friedensreich Hundertwasser's house? In: Pilum Literaricum. Literature from Austria. Anthology 17/2018. Pilum-Verlag, Strasshof an der Nordbahn 2018, ISBN 978-3-902960-85-6 , pp. 59-69.
  • The pants revolution. In: Pilum Literaricum. Literature from Austria. Anthology 19/2019. Pilum-Verlag, Strasshof an der Nordbahn 2019, ISBN 978-3-902960-95-5 , pp. 7-14.
  • Nightmare - or visionary show. In: Pilum Literaricum. Literature from Austria. Anthology 21/2019. Pilum-Verlag, Strasshof an der Nordbahn 2019, ISBN 978-3-99090-007-9 , pp. 87-92.
  • Who am I? In: Pilum Literaricum. Literature from Austria. Anthology 22/2020. Pilum-Verlag, Strasshof an der Nordbahn 2020. ISBN 978-3-99090-009-3 , pp. 41-43.
  • Useless - lament of an old woman. In: Pilum Literaricum. Literature from Austria. Anthologie 23/2020, Pilum-Verlag, Strasshof an der Nordbahn 2020. ISBN 978-3-99090-012-3 , pp. 40-44.
  • When it stinks to heaven. Experience report from 2010. In: Who cares? Stories about worrying, caring for and looking after. The Hospiz Verlag, Esslingen 2020. ISBN 978-3946527-33-6 . Pp. 106-113.

drama

  • So speaks Penelope. An imagined reality theater. Two versions: closed drama. One woman monologue. Edition Mokka, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-902693-74-7 .

Web links

literature

  • Andreas Felber: Claus Barabbas. In: Andreas Felber: The Viennese free jazz avant-garde. Revolution in the back room. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-205-77256-3 , p. 90.
  • Heinz Zemanek: A special kind of new year. In: e & i electrical engineering and information technology. Published by the Austrian Association for Electrical Engineering. Springer publishing house. Volume 116, 1999, pp. 714-717.
  • Berthold Ecker: On Tiptoes? In: Gunda Achleitner and others: Claus Mayrhofer Barabbas. Alternative worlds of a cross-border commuter The Transcultural World of an Out-There Artist. Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition at MUSA / Vienna. Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-99043-556-4 , p. 9.
  • Zentralsparkasse (Hrsg.): Painting and graphic portrait - today. Catalog for the exhibition in the cash desk of the main building of the Zentralsparkasse from May 14th to June 8th 1973.
personal data
SURNAME Sebek, Rosemarie Philomena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philomena (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author and painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna