Wolfgang Kudrnofsky
Wolfgang Kudrnofsky (born May 1, 1927 in Vienna ; † December 20, 2010 there ) was an Austrian writer , journalist , photographer and film and radio play author .
Life
The son of Raimund Kudrnofsky and Josefine Freiin von Bertrand (descendant of Henri-Gratien Bertrand) graduated from the Stiftsgymnasium Melk and then studied psychology and anthropology . In 1950 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil., in the same year he also passed the master's examination as a photographer.
1950 first prose and theater works, appeared in the "Voices of the Present", the "New Ways" and in various daily newspapers.
After the founding of the Hundsgruppe , two photo contributions were made in 1951 (No. 4: "Old Testament, Der Preacher Solomon, Chapter 3" and No. 9: "The majority is not able to influence") for the portfolio "Cave Canem". In 1951, together with Arnulf Rainer , he developed the photo folder “Perspektiven der Vernichtung”. The Ingeborg Bachmann collage by Wolfgang Kudrnofsky is printed in Hans Weigel's “Voices of the Present” in 1953. In Maria Fialik's “ Straw Case Conversations” (1998) his membership of the Art Club is discussed.
He was a co-founder of the RWR (Rundfunk / Radio Rot-Weiß-Rot ) with Louise Martini .
As a journalist he worked for the Stern - Wiener Illustrierte (Austrian edition of the German Stern) as a verbal reporter at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck . Later he was editor-in-chief of the German magazine Die Bunte Illustrierte (from 1972: Bunte ) and co-initiator of the journalists' union. As a radio play author and through numerous documentaries at ORF , he worked there as a journalist for years. As a writer he also worked with Helmut Qualtinger .
He died on December 20, 2010 at the age of 83 in Vienna and was buried at the Döblinger Friedhof . He had 2 children.
Film and exhibitions
- Experimental film “ The Raven ” (1951), adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe 's poem of the same name.
- Exhibition of photomontages in the "Art Club" and the ISB (Information Service Industry).
- Photo montages in the DOG GROUP folder.
- Together with Arnulf Rainer: PERSPECTIVES OF DESTRUCTION
- 1983: Exhibition "Historical Photography in Austria", Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna.
- 1984: Museum Folkwang, Essen - "Subject Photography", exhibition also in San Francisco.
- 1984: Exhibition Rupertinum, Salzburg.
- 1989: Exhibition "Steirischer Herbst", Graz
- 1996: "Surrealism and Photomontage", lecture at the Vienna Secession, on November 8, 1996
- 1999: Exhibition Photo Gallery Faber
Books
- Bubi's Wedding or the Immature (1967)
- Fall-Out (1969)
- Fashion Territory or The Art of Shining How You Want to Be (1970)
- Fifi Mutzenbacher (1971), under the pseudonym Wolfgang Bertrand , adapted as a play since 1993 at the latest
- On the situation of the Austrian writer (1973)
- Shut up, Mr. President , an unpublished distopic novel that describes the journey of a Frankfurt cinema owner to America in 1977. Manuscript lost. (1973)
- Man in His Wrath (1974)
- From Third Reich to Third Man (1975)
- The Messiah from Lobau. Peter Waller and the Unemployed in the Interwar Period (1983)
- Marek, Matuschka & Co: Criminal Cases of the First Republic (1989)
- Gassner, Gufler & Co: Criminal Cases of the Second Republic (1991)
- Schandl, Schubirsch & Co: Criminal Cases of the Second Republic (1994)
- Nature, oh nature (2000)
- The Shaman (2002)
- Pierre Ramus - The Anarchist of Klosterneuburg (2005)
- Catalog for "Photomontages 1949-1953", Wolfgang Kudrnofsky - From 1 meter to infinity
Panorama books 1957–1962:
Travel books from Wilhelm Andermann, Munich: Vienna / Brazil / Spain / Salzkammergut / Tirol / Tyrol
Theater productions
1962: "Jean d'Arc", a staged collage for the Theater der Jugend, Vienna.
1962: "Frau Havel x 3", play, premiered in Nora, Sweden.
1970: "Fall out", play, world premiere in the "Off-Off-Theater", Munich.
1975: "Darling, who bewitched you?", Comedy, premiered in the "Kleine Komödie", Vienna.
1980: "Coffee House Revue", Free Stage Vienna.
1988: "From the Third Reich to the Third Man", contemporary history review, "Freie Bühne Wieden", Vienna.
1990: "Frau Havel x 3", Stockholm, Gothenburg.
CDs and radio plays
- “Bubis Hochzeit” (2000), read by Helmut Qualtinger
- “Nature, oh nature” (2001), spoken by Karl Markovics
- “Fifi Mutzenbacher. A porn parody ”, read by Helmut Qualtinger
literature
- Gerhard Habarta: Lexicon of Fantastic Artists .
- Catalog of the Phantasten Museum Vienna, 2011: Photo by Arnulf Rainer, 2 images from the folder "Cave Canem", group of dogs.
- The Eye and the Apparatus - A History of Photography from the Albertina Collections , Eds. Monika Faber and Klaus Albrecht Schröder, 2003, ISBN 2-02-060452-3 .
Web links
- Wolfgang Kudrnofsky in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Archive recordings with Wolfgang Kudrnofsky in the online archive of the Austrian Mediathek (author readings, interviews, discussions, radio reports)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jörg Bohn: “Der Stern” in TRÖDLER, issue 10/2010, online atwirtschaftswundermuseum.de
- ^ Journalist Wolfgang Kudrnofsky has died
- ↑ Andreas Klimt (Ed.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar , KG Saur Verlag GmbH, 2002, ISBN 3-598-23585-2 , p. 682 ( limited preview in the Google book search, "Fifi Mutzenbacher" in the Google Book search)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kudrnofsky, Wolfgang |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wolfgang Bertrand; Kudrnofsky, Wolfgang Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer, journalist, photographer and film and radio play author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 2010 |
| Place of death | Vienna |