Wolfgang Mayer König

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Wolfgang Mayer König at the Hamburg Authors' Association, August 2008

Wolfgang Mayer König , also: Wolfgang Mayer-König (born March 28, 1946 in Vienna ) is an Austrian author .

Life

Mayer König was elected in 1968 by the main committee of the Austrian Students' Union at the University of Vienna as non-party-bound education and culture advisor. In the same year he was appointed to the central committee and elected as the Austrian education and culture officer of this body and re-elected in the following term of office.

As a student, Mayer-König called together many cultural workers, especially in the years 1967 to 1970, in order to develop seminars with them in addition to the existing lectures and to take account of the teaching content that was not taken into account. According to press reports, these comparative , generally accessible events had a significant influence on the practical orientation and topicality of existing research and teaching. This initiative was open to the general public and was used by around 800 listeners per course.

In 1968, Wolfgang Mayer König founded a literary prize , which was awarded to Elfriede Jelinek in the first year for her very first, as yet unpublished texts.

For his teaching activities at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz, Wolfgang Mayer König was awarded the professional title of university professor on October 2, 1986 .

Mayer König has one son and lives in Graz.

University Literature Forum Literary Situation

Wolfgang Mayer König founded the University Literature Forum Literary Situation in Vienna in 1968 , which existed until 1977 and later set up branches in the Austrian federal states. He brought Elias Canetti , Erich Fried , Martin Walser , Rudolf Hagelstange , Holthusen , Hans Erich Nossack , Günter Eich , Karl Krolow , Walter Jens , Heinz Piontek , Horst Bienek , Peter O. Chotjewitz to the University of Vienna for the first time , in order to provide workshops and text advice (Erich Fried e.g. about his own language and about the problems of Shakespeare translations) together with young and as yet unpublished authors and listeners to be able to have a beneficial influence on the existing cultural scene. Elfriede Jelinek , Wolfgang Bauer , Klaus Hoffer , Joseph Zoderer , Peter Henisch , Gert Jonke , Heidi Pataki were able to present their first works at these meeting places, develop them further and realize opportunities for publication.

Hilde Spiel wrote in Kindler's literature history of the present , "It existed in fact, no influential new vanguard - periodical . In contrast, around this time the young lyric poet and student Wolfgang Mayer-König at the Alma Mater Rudolphina in Vienna, and later also at the universities of Salzburg, Graz, Linz and Innsbruck, activated the up to then moderate interest in contemporary poetry. An Austrian University Forum founded by him in 1968, entitled Literary Situation , held socio-political, linguistic, poetic-linguistic and general literary lectures and seminars, made unpublished texts heard and was sometimes able to gather up to 800 spectators on academic grounds in the name of literature. Everywhere in Austria, however, there were now conferences, discussion groups, symposia , especially in Carinthia and Styria, but also beyond the borders in Gorizia, Ljubljana and elsewhere. "

Literary magazine LOG

In 1978 Wolfgang Mayer König founded the journal for literature LOG , which he still publishes and publishes together with Lev Detela. By the end of 2007, this magazine featured one thousand two hundred authors from 128 nations. The special cultural organization of the United Nations , UNESCO, has, together with Wolfgang Mayer König and his magazine LOG, published the only German-language representative work of UNESCO in Paris that comes from Austria .

Career

In February 1971 Wolfgang Mayer König was entrusted by the Austrian Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky in the Federal Chancellor's cabinet with matters relating to the cooperative federal state.

In 1972 he drafted the Federal Civil Service Bill and from 1972 to 1974 Wolfgang Mayer König also coordinated the Austrian contribution to humanitarian reconstruction aid for Vietnam on behalf of the Federal Chancellor, within the framework of international aid to Indochina, of which he was Secretary General, based in Vienna. In this position he worked together with the “Groupe Operationnel de la Croix-Rouge pour l'Indochine” of the “ Ligue des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge ”.

In 1972 Wolfgang Mayer König von Kreisky was entrusted with the function of Secretary General of the International Congress "The Future of Science and Technology" convened by the Austrian Federal Government. As a result, together with Walter Kohn and Carl F. Cori, a model for closer cooperation between industrial and university research was developed and applied in practice. From this point on, Mayer-König also cooperated intensively with the industrial sector.

In December 1975 Mayer König was entrusted by the Federal Chancellor with negotiations for the release of the hostages following the terrorist attack by foreign terrorists at the meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Vienna.

From 1978 to 1990 Mayer König worked in the private sector. He was the managing director of the ready-mixed concrete company . From 1978 to 1983 Wolfgang Mayer König held the position of director and general authorized signatory of the Porr construction group and was appointed to the board of this company in 1983 through the election of the supervisory board.

In 1992 Mayer König was a permanent delegate and representative at the United Nations . He is a member of the Academy of Sciences and the Accademia Cosentina in Cosenza, a full member of the Accademia Tiberina in Rome and the Burckhardt Academy , St. Gallen, another of the Austrian PEN Center of the International and Honorary Chairman of the Literary Society St. Pölten.

The then president of the German Academy for Language and Poetry, Karl Krolow, describes Wolfgang Mayer-König as “a language master who has already processed what the Viennese group had demonstrated as an achievement and at that time only acted as a mere sandpit game:“ organized language material ”." Literary and linguist Heinz Gerstinger certified that Mayer-König had an influence on the German language.

Awards (selection)

Works

  • Visible pavilions, poems, Vienna 1968
  • Engraving marks, Long Poem, Bern 1968, 1969
  • Psychology of literary language, essay on Gottfried Benns Morgue, Kentucky 1974
  • Texts and drawings, Vienna 1976
  • Language - Politics - Aggression, Prose, Riverside California 1978
  • Johann Caspar Goethe's “Viaggio per l´ Italia” and Johann Wolfgang Goethe's “Italian Journey”, A Comparison, Vienna 1978
  • Karl Kraus as a theater critic and actor, Vienna 1978
  • Robert Musil's Possibility Style , Vienna 1978
  • In the arms of our keeper, poems, Marburg an der Lahn, 1979
  • Responsible for writing, literary essays, Vienna 1985
  • Provisional refusal, poems, Munich-Vienna, 1985
  • Chagrin non dechiffre, poems in French, Paris 1986
  • Colloqui nella stanza, poems and prose in Italian, Calliano-Trento 1986
  • A complicated angel, Vienna 1989
  • Colloquios nel cuarto, Spanish poems, Vienna-Madrid 1989
  • A hatalom bonyolult angyala, poetry and prose in Hungarian, Budapest 1989
  • Siirleri, Poems in Turkish, Ankara-Vienna 1990
  • Guter Mond, poems in Arabic, Cairo-Vienna 1991
  • Delay in Confidence, Poetry and Prose, Bucharest 1995
  • Behind desires deficits, New York 1999
  • Lost from Heaven, Confessions of an Angry Loving European, Vienna 2000
  • Unrecognized depth, poems, Hühnfeld-Rhön 2005
  • Delayed trust, prose, Bolzano It. 2006
  • Grammar of the Soul, prose, Bratislava 2006
  • A grammar of the soul, prose, Vienna 2006
  • Unprotected child - fatherless society, Prose Graz 2007
  • Runkelsteiner Elegien, Bozen It. 2007
  • The torn child, prose, Vienna 2009
  • The enthusiastic word. A grammar of the soul. Prose texts. edition pen Volume 51 in Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-85409-830-0 .
  • Instead of a person's friendliness. The lyric work. edition pen Volume 104 in Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-85409-926-0 .

literature

  • New beginnings and tradition. Introduction to Austrian literature since 1945, Vienna 1982
  • Kindler's literary history of the present, Berlin 1976
  • Authors and Writers Who is Who, Cambridge 1989
  • Who's Who in Literature, Cambridge 2001
  • Who's Who in the World, New Providence 2008
  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar, 65th year, Leipzig 2006
  • International Whos Who Poetry, Europa Biographical Reference, London 2006
  • The Global Leaders of the New Century, Los Angeles 2000
  • Who is Who?, The German Who's Who, Lübeck 2008
  • Dictionary of International Biography, 33rd Edition as Co-Publisher, Cambridge 2007
  • Outstanding Intellectuals of the 20th Century, Cambridge 1990
  • German Writer's Lexicon, Frankfurt 2002
  • Parnassus of World Poets, New Delhi India 2001
  • Literature goes to school, Vienna 1986
  • The Austrian Literature Lexicon, Vienna 1994

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Wolfgang Mayer has many demands on the literary business, he denounces many grievances, but always with a precise suggestion of how to do it better and always with the willingness to work for an improvement. A new kind of student demonstration ” in Die Welt , No. 237 of October 10, 1968. This key quote from the Hamburg Springer daily newspaper Die Welt appeared at the time of the greatest student unrest in Germany and France and was therefore not only astonishingly significant, it also became discussed worldwide.
  2. ^ Literatures - The Journal for Books and Topics 2004 . Review on the occasion of the Nobel Prize award to Elfriede Jelinek.
  3. ↑ Hilde Spiel in Kindler's literary history of the present .
  4. ↑ Karl Krolow in Tagesspiegel Berlin from August 9, 1970
personal data
SURNAME Mayer Koenig, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayer-Koenig, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna