Tibor Zenker

Tibor Zenker (born March 7, 1976 in Vienna ) is an Austrian author , political scientist and son of the writer and director Helmut Zenker . At the 4th party congress of the Austrian Labor Party , he was elected chairman.

Theater work

In 2008 and 2009 the cabaret folk piece " Kottan determined : Rabengasse 3a" was created with the collaboration of Jan Zenker , based on the ORF television film "Hartlgasse 16a" (1976, screenplay: Helmut Zenker, director: Peter Patzak ). The premiere took place on April 15, 2009 in the Rabenhof Theater in Vienna . Under the direction of director Thomas Gratzer played u. a. Reinhard Nowak (as Kottan), Rudi Roubinek , Doris Schretzmayer , Dany Sigel and Roman Gregory . The majority of the reviews were positive, and the play was also a great success with the public: between April 2009 and March 2010, 44 performances were given, which were attended by around 13,000 people. A recording of “Rabengasse 3a” was released on DVD in November 2009, and on January 1, 2010, Puls 4 was broadcast for the first time on TV. On February 20, 2012, the piece was performed outside of Austria for the first time, namely at Trinity College (Dublin) . On the basis of the play, a radio play by "Rabengasse 3a" was subsequently created , in which the stage cast was supplemented by Christoph Grissemann as narrator.

In the course of 2010 the play “Kassbach” was developed (again with the assistance of Jan Zenker). Helmut Zenker's novel “Kassbach or The General Interest in Guinea Pig” (1974) served as a template. It was no coincidence that the play addressed the problems of neofascism and racism on the occasion of the Vienna state election campaign at the time. The premiere was, again at the Rabenhof Theater, on September 8th, 2010. Anatole Sternberg had taken over the direction. a. Hans Piesbergen (as Kassbach) and Gerald Votava . The opinions of the critics differed, the audience obviously couldn't do too much with the production, which is rather untypical for the Rabenhof Theater: From September to December 2010 there were 15 performances.

On November 17, 2016, Zenker's latest piece, “Kottan Determined - The Puppet Musical”, premiered as another Rabenhof production. Christian Dolezal took on the leading role of Major Kottan, directed by Thomas Gratzer . All other roles were performed by doll artists Nikolaus Habjan and Manuela Linshalm using snap-mouth dolls . When choosing music, u. a. made use of Austropop classics, especially by Kottan's Kapelle and Johann K. , the musical direction was with Kyrre Kvam. The production was realized as a co-production with the United Theaters of Bozen and the St. Pölten “Theater im Hof” and is therefore to be performed in January 2017 and December 2016 in the South Tyrolean and Lower Austrian provincial capitals.

Theoretical and journalistic work

Zenker, a columnist for the KPÖ- related weekly newspaper “ Volksstimme ” from 1998–2001 , has been present for years with journalistic articles, political essays and scientific contributions in various print and online media in the German-speaking area and is also a regular speaker. These texts, which z. Some of them have also been translated into other languages ​​(including English, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Turkish and Persian), are all written from a socialist and communist , ideological point of view from a Marxist point of view. This also corresponds to Zenker's political activities: At a young age he was active in the Socialist Youth (SJÖ) close to the SPÖ and, alongside Andreas Babler, one of the heads of the Stamokap movement in the SJÖ, since October 2013 he has been deputy chairman of the then newly founded party of Work of Austria (PdA), in which he is considered an authoritative ideologist. Zenker has also published several non-fiction books, especially on the subject of imperialism and fascism , and has contributed to various anthologies. In the course of dealing with the current right-wing extremism, Zenker was able to prove to the National People's Party in April 2009 that it had copied most of its party program verbatim from a training program of the National Socialist SS , which contributed to a conviction under the National Socialist Prohibition Act in March 2012 .

Others

Since February 2012, the Wiener Bezirksblatt has published a weekly “Kottan Determined” comic strip , for which Zenker provides ideas and texts and Reinhard Trinkler provides the images. In the run-up to the exhibition “All right, Commissioner? Knatterton, Kottan, Emil and other detectives ”, which took place from April to November 2014 at the Krems Caricature Museum , Zenker's non-fiction book on the literary, cinematic and graphic history of the Kottan figure was published with the title“ Inspector is there ”.

Zenker has a son and a daughter. He currently lives with his partner, their daughter and their son from a previous relationship in Lower Austria.

Works

Plays

• Kottan determined: Rabengasse 3a . Rabenhof Theater, Vienna 2009.
• Kassbach . Rabenhof Theater, Vienna 2010.
• Kottan investigates - the puppet musical . Rabenhof Theater, Vienna, stage in the courtyard, Sankt Pölten, City Theater Bozen 2016.

Non-fiction

• Stamokap Today - From Present Capitalism to Socialist Future . The screenplay publisher, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-902471-10-7 .
• What is fascism The screenplay publisher, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-902471-50-6 .
• The imperialism of the EU . The screenplay publisher, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-902471-51-4 .
• Austria 1938 - Background, Prehistory and Consequences of the “Anschluss” . The screenplay publisher, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-902471-81-9 .
• The imperialism of the EU 2 . The screenplay publisher, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902676-51-1 .
• Fascism / Antifascism . The screenplay publisher, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-902676-62-7 .
• with Otto Bruckner and David Lang: About the revolutionary party of the working class . The screenplay publisher, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-902676-71-9 .
• March 1938 - facts, background, consequences . Verlag KZV / VdA, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-9503543-0-0 .
• February 1934 - 80 years of February fighting in Austria . Verlag KZV / VdA, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-9503543-1-7 .
• with Jan Zenker: Inspector is available . Verlag Carl Ueberreuter , Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-8000-7584-3 .
• The imperialism of the EU 3 . The screenplay publisher, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-99042-871-9 .

Book contributions

• Monopoly capital, market and power. In: Elke Renner, Erich Ribolits , Johannes Zuber (eds.): Wa (h) re education - preparation for profit. Studienverlag , Innsbruck 2004, ISBN 3-7065-1988-7 .
• The globalization of misery and the misery of globalization theory. In: Erich Ribolits, Michael Sertl, Johannes Zuber (eds.): Losers in abundance - education system and inequality. Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2006, ISBN 3-7065-4313-3 .
• The communist movement in Austria. In: Frank Flegel (Ed.): Defeat analysis. Offen-siv Verlag, Hannover 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-021905-4 .
• Normality and contradiction of the fascist petty bourgeoisie. In: Karin Moser, Andreas Ungerböck (ed.): Peter Patzak - filmmaker, author, painter. Filmarchiv Austria Verlag , Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-902531-74-2 .
• October Revolution: What's left? . In: Verlagsgenossenschaft Vorwärts (Ed.): 100 Years of the October Revolution 1917-2017 . Forward, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-033-06736-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerhard Ruiss , Ulrike Stecher (ed.): Stückebörsekatalog 2014 - Austrian Dramatics of the Present . Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-900419-45-5 , p. 158.
2. ↑ After the premiere: "Kottan determined" in the Rabenhof Theater ( memento of the original from May 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: kominform.at, April 22, 2009. Retrieved May 19, 2014. 
3. ↑ Kottan in the theater ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: kottan-ermittelt.at. Retrieved May 19, 2014. 
4. ^ Department of Germanic Studies: German Play 2011/2012 . Trinity College Dublin website. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
5. ↑ "Everyone knows a Kassbach" . In: Wiener Zeitung . September 7, 2010. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
6. ↑ Gerhard Ruiss / Ulrike Stecher (eds.): Play Exchange Catalog 2014 - Austrian Dramatics of the Present . Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-900419-45-5 , p. 158.
7. ↑ After the premiere: “Kassbach” in the Rabenhof Theater ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: kominform.at, September 13, 2010. Accessed on May 19, 2014. 
8. ^ Kassbach - The play . In: kassbach.info. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
9. ↑ KOTTAN DETERMINED - Rabenhof Theater Vienna. (No longer available online.) In: www.rabenhoftheater.com. Archived from the original on June 23, 2016 ; accessed on June 23, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Kottan determined. (No longer available online.) In: www.theater-bozen.it. Archived from the original on June 23, 2016 ; accessed on June 23, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Kottan investigates - stage in the courtyard. In: www.buehneimhof.at. Retrieved June 23, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Contributors of Crime Night 2011 ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Website of the Vienna Crime Night. Retrieved May 19, 2014. 
13. ^ The Austrian Labor Party founded . In: labournetaustria.at, October 14, 2013. Accessed on May 19, 2014.
14. ^ SS quotes in the party platform . In: Die Presse , April 17, 2009. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
15. ↑ NVP leader convicted . Website of the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance . Retrieved May 19, 2014.
16. ↑ The "Kottan" Comcistrips . In: reinhard-trinkler.de. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
17. ↑ All right, Commissioner? ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the Krems Caricature Museum . Retrieved May 19, 2014. 
18. ↑ “Inspector is there”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the Ueberreuter Verlag . Retrieved May 19, 2014.