“iwahaubbd iwahaubbd / hods the to the hian naigschdaubd / immahin immahin / is iazd wos in it”: So it sounds, if Friedrich Achleitner seals. The combination of dialect and the avant-garde is the hallmark of the legendary Vienna group, in the 1950s, the reactionary culture of Austria on fire. Belonged to you h. C. Artmann, Konrad Bayer, Gerhard Rühm, and Oswald Wiener. They were linked to the Baroque, with its figure-tight-tight as well as concrete poetry and the experimental results in the Sound of the dialect.
at the Latest, all the rage Achleitner was in 1959, after he provoked with the writer Gerhard Rühm in a piano-smashing action.
the group fell apart, remembered Achleitner on his actual job: He was trained as an architect. Built he of course never. Instead, he wrote in Newspapers, architectural reviews, and taught history of architecture at the Academy of art and later at the University of Applied arts in Vienna. He also wrote a multi-volume work on “Austrian architecture in the 20th century. Century”.
letter as a building material
The literary history will remember him as a voice player, the words and letters as a building material treated and also on the paper with the (Empty)space worked. Last, 2015, appeared in the Band, “said riff-raff” with a lot of Mini-reflections, dialogues, and almost most of the stories. The “Wiener Zeitung” quoted at the time of the Band one of the scarcest scenes: “a: you, I know that prillinger ferdl now forty year. think me a fallert his name? the other: I can’t help you, I can’t hear the name today for the first time.”
Witty observations and biting comments about political correctness belong to his work. Achleitner was awarded for his literary Work and his work as an architect for many awards.
On Wednesday died Achleitner 88-year-old in Vienna.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 27.03.2019, 14:17 PM
