Walter Famler

Walter Famler (* 1958 in Bad Hall ) is an Austrian journalist , editor , public adviser , publicist , publisher , author and translator. He lives in Vienna .

Life

Walter Famler is Secretary General of the Alte Schmiede Art Association in Vienna. He has also been a member of the editorial team since 1983 and since 1997 publisher of the literary magazine Wespennest, which is also published in Vienna . In the early 1990s, Walter Famler added a book publisher to the magazine publishing company . In the edition of worms since the series were Edition Literature , edition essay and edition movie published.

In addition, Walter Famler became known as a passionate Juri Gagarin fan. He is the "commander of the KOCMOC / Gagarin group", which he founded in 1997 after a stay in Moscow. In this context, he has published two books dealing with the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and Famler's enthusiasm for the first man in space . In an interview published in the Börsenblatt , he made the following comments:

“Famler: I am interested in the Gagarin character in terms of the history of ideas. [...] The first person in space was a Soviet Russian, Yuri Gagarin! […] In 1997 […] I came across the “Kosmos Pavilion” and happened to witness how the large space exhibition, actually a Gagarin propaganda exhibition, was dismantled and prepared for removal. An experience that replaces entire libraries for me about the decline and fall of great empires. [...] A spontaneous Dada decision: I wanted to save the head of Yuri Gagarin! We failed because of the project. But I also founded the Kocmoc / Gagarin group on site - with the aim of conjuring the smile of Yuri Gagarin on the faces of women worldwide. [...] "

- Nils Kahlefeld : Börsenblatt , December 17, 2009

Walter Famler is the initiator and advisor of the exhibition “Space. The art and a dream ”, which opened on April 1, 2011 in the Kunsthalle Wien .

Walter Famler has been a member of the Public Council of Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) since May 2018 .

Works

as an author

• Under the sign of the red star . Culture machines , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940274-35-9 .
• Vostok 1 lands on Red Square and flies on to Star City. in the footsteps of Yuri Gagarin . Sonderzahl Verlag , Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85449-288-7 .

as editor

• The Beatles. The comic . Edited, translated and with an afterword by Walter Famler. Bahoe Books , Vienna 2020.
• Yugoslavija revisted . Wespennest, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85458-159-8 (Wespennest; 159).
• The Adolf Holl Breviary . Residenz-Verlag , St. Pölten 2010, ISBN 978-3-7017-3184-8 .
• To be old . Wespennest , Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85458-157-4 (Wespennest; 157).
• Dilemma 89 . Wespennest, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85458-156-7 (Wespennest; 156).
• Via Danube. Literature in flux . Wespennest, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85458-146-8 (Wespennest; 146).
• Yes and no. Affirmation . Wespennest, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85458-149-9 (Wespennest; 149).
• Schützenhöfer . Art comes from work . Wespennest, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85458-307-9 (Wespennest special issue).
• Wealth, poverty . Wespennest, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85458-134-3 (Wespennest; 134).
• Helter Skelter. Literature, essay, criticism; no problem? Wespennest, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85458-133-5 (Wespennest; 133).
• STRANDED . Wespennest, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85458-130-0 (Wespennest; 130).
• Enmity . Wespennest, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85458-131-9 (Wespennest; 131).
• Adolf Holl. Between reality and truth . Waspennest, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85458-305-2 .
• Study successfully. Tips, tricks and all addresses for university beginners, advanced students and graduates . Falter-Verlag , Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-85439-050-5 (together with Herbert Rainer).

Web links

Commons : Walter Famler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Walter Famler in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Imprint Alte Schmiede. Retrieved March 19, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Imprint wasp nest , sighted on March 31, 2011
3. ↑ Deutschlandfunk on March 2, 2010 , portrait of an extraordinary literary magazine, by Nils Kahlefeld.
4. ↑ Edition Wespennest ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2011 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. , Read on Literaturhaus.at on April 5, 2011. 
5. ↑ "I am candidate number 1" . In: cruiser . Leipzig August 26, 2008 ( kreuzer-leipzig.de [accessed March 19, 2018]).
6. ↑ Sputnik and the earth vehicle , by Wolfgang Müller on September 26, 2008 in Die Presse .
7. ↑ From thief to editor. Nils Kahlefendt on the cosmos enthusiast Walter Famler . In: Börsenblatt . December 17, 2009 ( boersenblatt.net [accessed March 19, 2018]).
8. ↑ space. The art and a dream. Retrieved March 19, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Anne Katrin Feßler: In space with Juri, but without Laika. In: Der Standard , print edition, April 1, 2011.
10. ↑ An exhibition is lost in space ( Memento from April 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Michael Huber in the courier .
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