Ulrich Weinzierl

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Ulrich Weinzierl (born March 7, 1954 in Vienna ) is an Austrian Germanist and journalist who worked for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for a long time . He is considered a specialist in the life and work of Alfred Polgar .

Life

Weinzierl is the younger of two sons of the physicist Peter Weinzierl (1923–1996) and the historian Erika Weinzierl (1925–2014), b. Fisherman. His brother was the historian Michael Weinzierl (1950–2002).

He studied German and art history in Vienna. In 1977 he was at the University of Vienna with a dissertation on Alfred Polgar PhD . After working as a book editor and literary critic of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung he became in 1984 the cultural correspondent in Austria and in 1987 the feature pages -Redakteur. In 2000 he switched to the daily newspaper Die Welt .

Weinzierl mainly dealt with Austrian literature from 1900 onwards. One focus was on the period from 1918 to 1945. In addition to his books on Alfred Polgar (including collaboration with Marcel Reich-Ranicki ), he also wrote biographical works on the writers Carl Seelig , Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Arthur Schnitzler and Stefan Zweig . He was repeatedly a juror for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize . In 2002 he became a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

In addition, from 1979 he appeared as an author at the Documentation Archives of the Austrian Resistance , where he dealt in particular with exile literature .

Fonts

  • Alfred Polgar. Dissertation, Vienna 1977.
  • He was a witness, Alfred Polgar. A life between journalism and literature. Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-85392-018-7 .
  • Carl Seelig, writer. Vienna / Munich 1982, ISBN 3-85409-040-9 .
  • as editor: Experimental station for the end of the world. Narrated history of Austria 1918-1938. Vienna / Munich 1983 ( ISBN 3-224-11417-7 )
  • as editor: February 1934. Writers tell. Vienna 1984 (3rd edition, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-224-11435-5 ).
  • as editor: Austrians in exile. France: 1938-1945. Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-215-05717-4 .
  • Alfred Polgar. A biography, Vienna / Munich 1985 (3rd edition, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85409-423-X ).
  • as editor and editor: Austrians in exile. Belgium 1938-1945. Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-215-06259-3 .
  • as editor: Austria's case. Writers report on the “Anschluss”. 2nd edition, Vienna / Munich 1988, ISBN 3-224-11429-0 .
  • as editor: Smile at his undertaker: Austria. Austrian reader from 1900 to today. Munich / Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-492-11040-1 .
  • as editor: Stefan Zweig, Triumph und Tragik. Articles, diary notes, letters. Frankfurt am Main 1992 (2nd edition, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-596-10961-2 ).
  • Arthur Schnitzler. Love, dream, die. Frankfurt am Main 1994 (5th edition, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-596-13448-X ).
  • Hofmannsthal. Sketches for his picture. Vienna 2005 (3rd edition under the title Hofmannsthal , Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-17379-2 or ISBN 3-596-17379-5 ).
  • as editor: Alfred Polgar: Marlene. Image of a famous contemporary. Paul Zsolnay Verlag (2nd edition, Vienna 2015, ISBN 3-552-05721-8 or ISBN 978-3-552-05721-0 ).
  • Stefan Zweig's burning secret. Zsolnay, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-552-05742-5 .
  • as editor: Hermynia Zur Mühlen: Werke , Paul-Zsolnay-Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-552-05926-9 .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weinzierl, Erika . In: Ilse Korotin (Hrsg.): BiografıA: Lexicon of Austrian women . Volume 3: P-Z . Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 3495 f.
personal data
SURNAME Weinzierl, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cultural journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna