Walter Zrenner

Walter Zrenner (* 1914 in Vienna ; † 2009 ) was an Austrian poet , essayist, radio play author and translator.

Zrenner studied philology and received his doctorate. After the war he worked first as an interpreter, then as a high school teacher in Salzburg and then at the Theresianum in Vienna. In addition to his work as a teacher, he has published poetry, essays and radio plays. In 1957 he received the Georg-Trakl-Förderungspreis für Lyrik for his lyric work . He also translated from Latin. In 1987 he was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art for the translation of the neo-Latin poetry by Simon Rettenpacher .

Appreciations

• 1957 Georg Trakl Prize for Poetry
• 1975 Award of the Vienna Art Fund
• 1987 Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art

Works

• In the radiation field. Modern images of time and their interpretation. Austrian Publishing House, Vienna 1977.
• Chords, dissonances. Impressions from the technical era. Austrian Publishing House, Vienna 1977.
• "La machine de Marly". Aspects of the zeitgeist change. Turia et al. Kant, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-85132-004-2 .
• At the turn of the millennium. Thought-lyric texts. Frieling, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-89009-546-1 .
• ... through the prism. Considerations, interpretations, stories from the "inner technical epoch". Ed. Colon, Vienna 2002.

literature

• Franz Richter: Who was Walter Zrenner (1914–2009). An obituary. In: Günter Stahl (Ed.): Wiesbadener Anthologie 1. Verl. Freudenberger Treffen, Wiesbaden-Freudenberg 2009, pp. 255–267.

Web links

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