Reinhard Wegerth

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Reinhard Wegerth (2009)

Reinhard Wegerth (born June 25, 1950 in Neudorf bei Staatz ) is an Austrian writer . He also published under the pseudonym Leidergott .

Life

Reinhard Wegerth grew up in Mödling , where he graduated from the Realgymnasium Keimgasse . In 1968 he began studying law at the University of Vienna, which he earned in 1975 as Dr. jur. completed.

In 1971 he founded the literary magazine Frischfleisch together with Gregor Adamcik, Nils Jensen and Reinhard P. Gruber in Vienna , to which he remained connected as editor and author until 1978. He initially earned his living as a legal trainee at the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna and at the District Court of Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus and as a trial teacher for civics at the Vienna Commercial Academy ; from 1977 he worked as a freelancer for the features section of the Arbeiter-Zeitung .

From the eighties Wegerth was a publishing editor at the Austrian Federal Publishing House . There he published the anthology Zeit-Histories , was co-supervisor of the anthologies Young Literature (with authors such as Daniel Glattauer and Daniela Strigl ) and edited a. a. Books by Thomas Pluch and Alexander Tollmann . Then he was editor of the publisher's own school magazines Jungösterreich and Kleines Volk until 2004 , where he worked closely with the illustrator Franz Hoffmann . During these years, he created his own books on the future novel The Great Green Breath Strike , the comic saga Graf Schleckerl (illustrated by Herbert Pasteiner ) and the text book Wienerlied - freshly greened (illustrated by Karl Berger ). The latter was titled Des would never be Vienna! Also set to music in collaboration with the songwriter Reinhard Liebe .

From 2006 to 2014 Reinhard Wegerth worked as a freelance editor and moderator for the Viennese reading organizer Alte Schmiede .

Awards

  • 1976 grant from the Vienna Art Fund
  • 1977 Theodor Körner Prize
  • 1979 working grant from the Federal Ministry for Education and Art
  • 1979 grant from the state of Lower Austria
  • 1979 Working grant from the City of Vienna's Department of Culture
  • 1985 Working grant from the City of Vienna's Department of Culture
  • 2014 Lower Austrian Culture Prize
  • 2018 finalist at Floriana (literature prize)

reception

Wegerth's “vocal novels” received particular attention from book reviews. Already at Damals und there (2010), the reviews emphasized both the topic and the narrative:

  • In the Wiener Zeitung , David Axmann wrote under the title Lebenskaleidoskop: “… reports in 30 short chapters about experiences from 1970 to 2000 that were significant for him, remembers his political, existential and erotic training time […] The stylistic joke of this so-called ' Voices' romance is based on the basic idea of ​​presenting each of the reminiscences gathered here from the perspective and with the words of a segment of reality that is unforgettable for the author. "
  • In the daily newspaper Die Presse Peter Henisch wrote under the title Kreisky, Hainburg, Waldheim: “The author (Reinhard Wegerth) writes quite unabashedly about the author designated as such (also Reinhard Wegerth). But he puts the observation of this type in his mouth in miniatures that are spread over a period of 30 years. Sometimes, but relatively seldom, the human, more often - and that is the charming chutzpah of these mostly short texts, on average two or three pages long - of the material environment, i.e. the objects from whose perspective the subject (i.e. one's own self in various stages of development) observed. "
  • Lutz Holzinger wrote in the street newspaper Augustin under the title Let things talk: “Reinhard Wegerth, who made his debut at the time of the 'Working Group of Austrian Literature Producers' (1971–1975) under the pseudonym Leidergott, […] has presented an original collection of texts. The whole book is made up of relatively short sections, each devoted to a single topic and in which mostly things are orchestrated as narrators [...] It can be read as a chronicle of a largely bygone epoch and always conjures up a smile the lips."

Works

Books

Radio plays

compact disc

  • That would never be Vienna! Extraplatte , Vienna 1993.

Editing

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wegerth, Reinhard: Pseudony Leidergott , in: Clarissa: Clarissas Krambude: Authors tell of their pseudonyms. novum pro Verlag, Neckenmarkt 2011, ISBN 978-3-9900391-4-4 , p. 461 f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ Fresh meat 1971-1978 , literature archive of the Austrian National Library
  3. ↑ Culture prizes awarded by the state of Lower Austria. noe.orf.at, accessed on June 26, 2016.
  4. ↑ David Axmann: Life kaleidoscope. In: Wiener Zeitung . Print edition 14./15. August 2010 (supplement extra ).
  5. ^ Peter Henisch : Kreisky, Hainburg, Waldheim. In: The press . Print edition December 24th 2010 (Supplement Spectrum ).
  6. ↑ Lutz Holzinger: Let things talk. In: Augustin . 12-25 January 2011 (in the Bibliotick section ).
personal data
SURNAME Wegerth, Reinhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sorry god (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Neudorf near Staatz