Winfried Bruckner
Winfried Bruckner (born July 15, 1937 in Krems an der Donau ; † June 27, 2003 in Leopoldsdorf ) was an Austrian author of children's and young people's books and an official at the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions .
Life
Winfried Bruckner began his journalistic activity in 1955 for the ÖGB youth magazine Der jugendliche Arbeiter and was editor-in-chief of its successor Hallo! . He studied psychology and newspaper science. From 1966 to 1997 he was editor-in-chief of the membership magazine Solidarity of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions (ÖGB). In addition, from 1991 he was press spokesman for the ÖGB President Fritz Verzetnitsch and also head of the ÖGB department for public relations. From 1974 to 1999, Bruckner was a union representative on the ORF listener and viewer representation and from 1980 to 1989 a member of the ORF board of trustees . In 1998 he received the Johann Böhm plaque for his many years of involvement in the trade union movement.
Bruckner wrote a large number of books for young people, which were also staged or filmed in the theater. He was an author at Jungbrunnen publishing house .
The widely published book Die toten Engel (Vienna 1963) is about the Warsaw Uprising . Wolfgang Lesowsky staged Romeo and Juliet 80 in 1972 and Gustav Manker in 1978 Raped in the evening at the Volkstheater Vienna .
In 1965 Bruckner received the Austrian Children's and Youth Book Prize for the book Die Pfoten des Feuers . In 1988 Winfried Bruckner was awarded the professional title of Professor by the Federal President in recognition of his literary achievements .
Works (selection)
- The dead angels . Vienna: Verl. Jungbrunnen 1963
- The paws of the fire . Vienna: Verl. Jungbrunnen 1965
- The yellow lions of Rome . Munich: Domino Verl. Brinek 1964
- The big process . Vienna: Verl. Jungbrunnen 1964
- The cloud ship . Vienna: Verl. Jungbrunnen 1966
- Ash butterflies . Vienna: Verl. Jungbrunnen 1967
- For seven days . Vienna: Verl. Jungbrunnen 1968
- The long days . Vienna: Verl. Jungbrunnen 1968
- The sad sheriff . Vienna: Verl. Für Jugend u. People 1969
- 11 black snowmen . Vienna: Verl. Jungbrunnen 1969
- Traces into space: science fiction. The strange foreign . Vienna: Volksbuchverl. 1970
- The cry: Documentation about d. Human rights . Vienna: Verl. Jungbrunnen 1970
- The invincible frogs . Vienna: Verl. Jungbrunnen 1971
- Kill him: utop.-techn. Novel . Munich: Goldmann 1972
- Super frog and the fall of the sleepless dormouse . Munich: Betz 1973
- The house of the lions . Munich: Betz 1973
- The green class horse . Ravensburg: Maier 1973
- Thief's gold . Göttingen: Fischer 1979
- (Ed.): I was fourteen then: reports and memories . Vienna: youth u. Volk 1978
Web links
- Literature by and about Winfried Bruckner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Winfried Bruckner in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Literature by and about Winfried Bruckner in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Winfried Bruckner. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
- Works by and about Winfried Bruckner at Open Library
- Winfried Bruckner , obituary at ÖGB, June 30, 2003
- Winfried Bruckner , at Austriaforum
Individual evidence
- ↑ Adienne Karsten: Winfried Bruckner , in: Bettina runt-Meibauer (ed.): Jewish children's literature: history, traditions, perspectives. Exhibition catalog . Wiesbaden 2005, p. 18 f.
- ^ Former ÖGB press chief Prof. Winfried Bruckner has passed away. In: APA -OTS. ÖVG Press and Public Relations, June 30, 2003, accessed on February 21, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bruckner, Winfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian author of books for children and young people and trade union editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krems at the Donau |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 2003 |
| Place of death | Leopoldsdorf |