Wolfgang Kraus (writer)

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Wolfgang Kraus (born January 13, 1924 in Vienna ; † September 19, 1998 in Lienz , East Tyrol) was an Austrian author, presenter, literary critic and essayist , who was also the founder, longtime director and, since 1994, honorary chairman of the Austrian Society for Literature emerged.

Life

After studying German , Wolfgang Kraus worked as a freelance (professional) writer and editor for various publishers, press and radio editors .

In 1961 he was the founder and until 1994 head of the Austrian Society for Literature . From 1975–1981 he headed the cultural contact point of the Austrian Foreign Ministry.

Wolfgang Kraus designed numerous literary programs for ORF . He emerged as editor with anthologies by Oscar Wilde , Friedrich Nietzsche and Novalis, among others . In the last years of his life he edited, among other things, the annual volumes of the Austrian Franz Kafka Society and developed markings on a new humanism that appeared posthumously.

Grave of Wolfgang Kraus at the Vienna Central Cemetery

He received an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 40, number 63).

Works

  • Rescue culture. Marks to a new humanism . Vienna, Böhlau 1999 ISBN 3-205-99007-2
  • Future of Europe. Departure through union . Frankfurt 1993. 164 pp.
  • New Continent Television ", 1989
  • The traces of paradise. About Ideale , Verlag Paul Zsolnay, Vienna, Hamburg 1985
  • Nihilism Today. or The patience of world history . Vienna, Hamburg: Zsolnay 1983. 183 pp. ISBN 3-596-24348-3
  • The Return of the Individual , 1980
  • Adoration Betrayed , 1978
  • Culture and Power , 1975
  • The silent revolutionaries , 1970
  • The fifth estate. The rise of intellectuals in the West and East . Munich 1969. 131 pp., 1966

Awards

Editing

  • The Franz Kafka phenomenon . Lectures at the symposium of the Austrian Franz Kafka Society in Klosterneuburg in 1995. Vitalis, Prague 1997, ISBN 80-85938-02-2 (series of publications by the Franz Kafka Society, Volume 7).
  • (with Norbert Winkler) Franz Kafka's problem of guilt. Böhlau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-205-98241-X (series of publications by the Franz Kafka Society, Volume 6).

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personal data
SURNAME Kraus, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author, moderator, literary critic and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1998
Place of death Lienz