Gerhard Fritsch Klaus Kastberger (Edited by) Stefan Alker-Windbichler (Commentaries by) - We cannot live the way we want

Diaries

It's time to rediscover a radical author.

Who was Gerhard Fritsch? One of the most significant Austrian authors of the post-war era, to be named in the same breath as Hans Lebert or Thomas Bernhard? A highly active literary figure, who as a reviewer, editor, critic and member of numerous juries significantly influenced the literary world of his time? A driven individual, who was married three times, fathered four children and in the end hanged himself dressed in women's clothes? The author of "Moos auf den Steinen" and "Fasching" who cut his life short was all that and more. Accessible to the public for the first time, his diaries offer an insight into his creative crises, flights of fancy and private transvestite yearnings. But above all, they show us Gerhard Fritsch as a tireless writer and enable an entirely new reading of his work.

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mit einem Vorwort von Klaus Kastberger. Transkription von Stefan Alker-Windbichler
264 pages
format:125 x 205
ISBN: 9783701717057
Release date: 12.02.2019

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Authors

Gerhard Fritsch

born 1924 in Vienna, died 1969 in Vienna. Following his return from World War II, Fritsch studied history and literature. He worked as a publishing editor and librarian, and from 1958 as a freelance writer and literary critic. Fritsch was awarded numerous literary prizes and published several volumes of poetry, as well as the novels "Moos auf den Steinen" (1956) and "Fasching" (1967); "Katzenmusik" was published posthumously (Residenz, 1974).

Klaus Kastberger (Edited by)

born in 1963 in Gmunden, Kastberger studied literature and history in Vienna. He worked at the ÖNB Literaturarchiv from 1996 to 2015, since 2015 he is a professor of modern German literature at the Franz Nabl Institute, as well as head of the Literaturhaus Graz. Klaus Kastberger is currently a member of the jury for the Bachmann Prize.

Stefan Alker-Windbichler (Commentaries by)

born in 1980 in Vienna, Alker-Windbichler studied literature, journalism and dramatics and is head of the faculty library for German, Dutch and Scandinavian literature at the University of Vienna. He has extensively researched and published on Gerhard Fritsch.

Press

Die Ausgabe seiner Tagebücher zeigt das von Selbstzweifeln zerfurchte Leben des österreichischen Schriftstellers. (…) Fritsch leidet, doch gelingen ihm zwischendurch tödlich genaue Sätze.
[Quelle: Willi Winkler, SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG]

Die Tagebücher Gerhard Fritschs sind dezidiert als intime Bekenntnisse zu sehen, nicht als Chronik für die Nachwelt.
[Quelle: Sebastian Gilli, FALTER]

Fritschs Tagebücher veranschaulichen, was es heißt ein hochbegabter und zugleich zutiefst zerrissener Mensch zu sein.
[Quelle: ZIB, ORF]

Kaum ein Autor ist zu seinem 50. Todestag so lebendig wie Gerhard Fritsch mit seinen Tagebüchern.
[Quelle: DIE PRESSE]

Die Tagebücher zeigen ihn als einen hochbegabten zugleich zutiefst zerrissenen Menschen. Dass sein Hang zu Frauenkleidern, seine Lust am Transvestitismus, eine zutiefst existenzielle Dimension für ihn hatten, wird mit diesem Buch erstmals unmissverständlich deutlich.
[Quelle: ORF BESTENLISTE]

Gerhard Fritsch zählte zu den prägendsten Gestalten der österreichischen Nachkriegsliteratur.
[Quelle: Katja Grasser, ORF KULTURMONTAG]

Ein Coming-out, bevor es den Begriff gab.
[Quelle: DEUTSCHLANDFUNK KULTUR]

Von den sowjetischen Panzern in Budapest schwenkt die Aufmerksamkeit nach Venedig: zu Wolkenbruch und Zahnschmerzen. Den privaten Charakter der Aufzeichnungen beweisen solche Sprünge. Fritsch baut nicht heimlich für die Nachwelt vor. Er kokettiert nicht und betreibt kein Wörterringen. Wortwiederholungen und ungehemmte Redundanz im Register der Empfindungen (eines Genervten) zeigen den uneitel-flüchtigen Alltagsrezensenten.
[Quelle: Jamal Tuschik, FAUST KULTUR]

Man lernt einen Schriftsteller und einen Menschen kennen, der gesellschaftlich und politisch sehr reflektiert ist (…).
[Quelle: Insa Wilke, WDR3, GUTENBERGS WELT]

Er war einer der bedeutendsten österreichischen Autoren der Nachkriegszeit. (…) Anhand seiner nun erschienenen Tagebücher kann man ihn neu entdecken.
[Quelle: KRONENZEITUNG]

Fritsch war ein maßgeblicher Repräsentant des Literaturbetriebs, missbrauchte aber diese Macht nicht, wie der Germanist Klaus Karstberger im Vorwort betont. Fritsch förderte junge Dichter wie den noch unbekannten Thomas Bernhard. (…)
[Quelle: Christian Pichler, OÖ VOLKSBLATT]

Er musste sich in Schürzen und Mieder kleiden, um bei sich selbst anzukommen. Man lernt den 1969 tragisch verstorbenen österreichischen Schriftsteller Gerhard Fritsch in seinen Tagebüchern ganz neu kennen.
[Quelle: Paul Jandl, NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG]

Un aspetto che poi colpisce il lettore dei giorni nostri è la forte attinenza con l’attualità.
[Quelle: Stefano Apostolo, OSSERVATORIO CRITICO DELLA GERMANISTICA]

Freunde der österreichischen Literatur und literaturwissenschaftlich Interessierte finden hier reichlich Material.
[Quelle: Andrea Kathrin Kraus, KREUZER]

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