Rudi Krausmann

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Gangan Verlag book presentation at the Goethe-Institut (Sydney 1991)

Rudi Krausmann (born July 23, 1933 in Mauerkirchen , Salzburg ; † March 15, 2019 in Sydney ) was an Australian playwright and poet of Austrian descent.

Life

Rudi Krausmann studied business administration in Vienna for a few semesters and worked as a journalist for the Salzburger Nachrichten . In 1958 he emigrated to Australia , where he taught German, wrote as a freelancer and did programs for the radio stations 2EA-FM and 2SER-FM in Sydney. In 1975 he founded the magazine Aspect: Art and Literature , which he continued as editor until 1989 and which also produced the German Language Program on SBS Radio .

From 1969 onwards, numerous books were published by small publishers such as Wild & Woolley and Hale & Iremonger (Sydney). From 1989 to 1994 he was a translator (with Gerald Ganglbauer and others) and editor (with Michael Wilding and Gisela Triesch ) in the Australian branch Gangaroo of Gangan publishing . He then worked again with visual artists such as Gary Shead and Andrew Sibley , creating signed and limited editions of bibliophile prints. Krausmann lived in Sydney and traveled frequently to Europe.

bibliography

Books

  • From Another Shore . Prose by Rudi Krausmann. Drawings by Brett Whiteley . (Wild & Woolley, 1975)
  • The Water Lily and Other Poems . Poems by Rudi Krausmann. (Makar Press, 1977)
  • Recent German Poetry . Edited by Rudi Krausmann. (Aspect Publications, 1977)
  • Paradox: Man and Beast: Stones . Poems by Rudi Krausmann. Illustrated by Lorraine Krausmann. (Aspect Publications, 1981)
  • Life is nothing new . Poems by Rudi Krausmann. (1982)
  • Flowers of Emptiness . Poems by Rudi Krausmann. (Hale & Iremonger, 1982)
  • Literature . Edited by Rudi Krausmann. Photographs by Michal Kluvanek, Vivienne Mehes & Effy Alexakis. (1987)
  • Air mail from Down Under: Contemporary literature from Australia . Short stories. Eds. Rudi Krausmann and Michael Wilding . (Gangan Verlag, 1990)
  • Poems: Rudi Krausmann. Drawings: Gary Shead . (Gangan Verlag / Wild & Woolley, 1991)
  • Made in Australia: the poetry of the fifth continent. Australian Poetry Today: Australian contemporary poetry . Bilingual. Eds. Rudi Krausmann and Gisela Triesch. (Gangan Verlag, 1994)
  • The Journey and Other Poems . Poems by Rudi Krausmann. Drawings by Gary Shead. (Gangan Verlag, 1999)
  • Maps . Poems in German and English by Rudi Krausmann. Illustrated by Andrew Sibley. (2002)
  • News . Poems in German and English by Rudi Krausmann. Illustrated by Gary Shead. (2006)

Dramas

  • Everyman: a sentence situation . (1978)
  • The leader . (Radio play for ABC Radio National , 1980)
  • Three plays . (Hale & Iremonger, 1989)
  • Whiskey on Snow . (Radio play for ABC Radio National, 1999)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary australianpoetry.org, accessed May 5, 2019
  2. ↑ AustLit Agent: Krausmann, Rudi in: The Australian Literature Resource.
  3. ^ Walter Tonetto: Exiled in Language: The Poetry of Margaret Diesendorf, Walter Billeter, Rudi Krausmann, and Manfred Jurgensen . Academica Press, Lewiston NY 2001, ISBN 978-1930901247 .
  4. ↑ Interview with Rudi Krausmann in Gleebooks, Glebe, New South Wales.

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personal data
SURNAME Krausmann, Rudi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krausmann, Rudolf Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian writer of Austrian descent
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Wall churches , Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH 15th March 2019
Place of death Sydney