Wolf Martin

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Wolf Martin (born July 31, 1948 ; † April 12, 2012 in Vienna ; actually Wolfgang Martinek ) was an Austrian author . From 1989 until shortly before his death he wrote the poem In the Wind rhymed daily in the Kronen Zeitung .

Life

Martinek initially studied history and art in Vienna, but soon broke off his studies and worked after stays in psychiatric clinics as an official in the field service of the Austrian gaming monopoly administration.

According to his own information, he started with the Catholic MKV association “Kreuzenstein”. After a brief flirtation with Marxism, he found his salvation temporarily in pilgrimages to Lourdes and Fátima . In addition, he began to work literarily.

In the early 1980s, Martin joined the newly founded homosexual initiative HOSI in Vienna in order to take action against discrimination against homosexuals . In the HOSI newspaper Lambda News he published for the first time under his pseudonym "Wolf Martin". There he wrote essays under the title Constellations , in which, according to Falter, he processed and described "his gay forays and excesses".

At the end of the 1980s Martinek published a drama for the first time in the left-wing liberal debate paper FORVM , in which he mocked Hans Dichand and Kurt Waldheim . From then on, Martin made a name for himself as a provocative author against xenophobia , but also against the church and the FPÖ . In a dramolet he had Adolf Hitler exclaim, alluding to Jörg Haider : "My hope is Jörg!" In a poem he put the following words in the mouth of the Viennese Auxiliary Bishop Kurt Krenn , alluding to his body weight: “I resist the sins of all, / by going broader. / You Christians, do the same to me, / then you will get into that Heaven."

According to Martinek, the Krone editor, Hans Dichand, became aware of the author through a text in FORVM and brought him to the Krone as a freelancer in 1989, where he wrote his first poem on April 1st. Since then Martinek has been a regular freelance writer at the Krone: every day he wrote a multi-line poem under the rubric In den Wind rhymed , but did not take part in any internal editorial appointments, but only provided the texts.

In 1991, the gaming monopoly administration sent him early retirement due to illness.

Martinek attacked massively homosexual people in two Krone poems in 1995. On July 28th he took a stand against “gay left church eaters”, on September 10th he located a “campaign” by the “left left” for “traitors, blasphemists, for cross-removers in schools” and “for groups of crazy gays” . He was then outed as a former Hosi activist by some members of the HOSI. The news magazine Profil accused him of " gay baiting " in an interview . Martin denied that. He never attacked gays across the board.

Not only his attacks against homosexuals caused criticism of his person. Poems in which he attacked individual artists or public figures head-on also caused a stir: Profil , for example, judged one polemic against Rudolf Scholten to be anti-Semitic , in another poem he accused Claus Peymann , Elfriede Jelinek and Peter Turrini of the stage boards of the To sully the Burgtheater with "penetrating dirt". His poems were also criticized, in which he called migration a “gentle Holocaust ”, warned against the “mixing” of peoples, called homeless people “as annoying as lice and bedbugs” or - in stark contrast to his texts in FORVM - raised mood against foreigners.

Such blanket condemning texts earned him numerous condemnations by the Austrian Press Council . His poems on Adolf Hitler's birthdays, on April 20, 1994 and 2001, caused special discussions. In 1994 he wrote that he would celebrate "if you let me, today that Adolf's cradle festival, which was once the top priority in our beautiful country", by which he meant the former Austrian Federal President Adolf Schärf , who had his birthday on the same day. (The right-wing extremist singer - songwriter Frank Rennicke also uses the same theme in one of his songs, some of which are literally identical.) In 2001 he began the poem with "Indeed, a great day is today, I've been looking forward to it for a long time" and ended it with these words "Be it for his credit, for our salvation!" This time he wants to know about the second season of the ORF reality soap Taxi Orange .

On March 30, 2012, it was announced that Wolf Martin was leaving the Kronen-Zeitung for health reasons. On March 31, after exactly 23 years with the Krone, his last poem "Rhymed in the Wind" was published in the Krone. Martin died on April 12, 2012 in Vienna.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The people's Verswolf. In: Falter . November 28, 2001, p. 14.
  2. ↑ Wolf Martin ( Memento from October 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b c brought to the abdomen. In: Profile. September 25, 1995, p. 87.
  4. ↑ The Critic of the Elk. Interview with Format magazine . November 26, 2001, p. 134.
  5. ↑ Kronen Zeitung. July 28, 1995, p. 2.
  6. ↑ Kronen Zeitung. September 10, 1995, p. 9.
  7. ↑ http://pontisblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/kronenzeitung/
  8. ↑ Kronen Zeitung. April 20, 1994 and April 20, 2001
  9. ↑ http://www.krone.at/Oesterreich/Wolf_Martin_nnahm_Abschied_mit_einem_allerletzt_Gedicht-In_den_Wind_gereimt-Story-316709
  10. ↑ Krone poet Wolf Martin has died . In: derStandard.at . April 13, 2012. Retrieved April 13, 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME Martin, wolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martinek, Wolfgang (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1948
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 2012
Place of death Vienna