Ernst Herbeck

Ernst Herbeck ( born October 9, 1920 in Stockerau, † September 11, 1991 in Maria Gugging ) was patient for 45 years in the Lower Austrian Psychiatric Hospital Gugging. Under the guidance of his doctor Leo Navratil Herbeck began to write poems.

Life

Ernst Herbeck was born with a cleft lip and cleft palate, and had thus an associated speech disorder. He graduated from high school and then attended one year trade school. At 20, he was admitted for the first time at the Vienna University Psychiatric Clinic. Two years later, a second hospital stay. After his discharge from the hospital Herbeck again worked as a laborer in an armaments factory. In the fall of 1944 he was drafted into the German military, in March 1945 he was discharged as unfit for military service. In September of the same year, the third was admitted to the hospital. In May 1946, Herbeck was admitted for the fourth time. He was transferred to the hospital and was hospitalized with a one-year interruption since that time.

He became known after 1966, first in publications Navratil, under the pseudonym Alexander. Some of his poems were also changed and updated by Heinar Kipphardt for his fictional character " Alexander March " übernommenzum part, which led to a controversy between Kipphardt and Navratil. Wolf Biermann has three "March poems " set to music and sung, and thus provide for a wider distribution. Under his own name Herbeck poems were published after his death in two collections.

Unlike his fellow artists in Gugging Johann Hauser, August Walla and Oskar Tschirtner, the central artists of the Art Brut were with her painting, Ernst Herbeck has always sought only artistic expression in poetry. " Herbeck has always written only on request and usually only after specifying a title. Changes and corrections to his texts, he no longer has introduced is during their formation, afterwards, " Navratil wrote about his way of working.

A 1980 visit undertaken at Ernst Herbeck describes the writer and literary critic WG Sebald in his (but real experiences and fiction -mixing ) prose " dizziness. Feelings. " of 1990. Sebald was also discussed in some essays with the lyrics Herbeck.

Publications

• Alexander's poetic texts. Hg Leo Navratil. dtv, Munich 1977. ISBN 3-423-01304-4
• Quivering heart in the body of the dog - Ernst Herbeck / Oswald Tschirtner. Hg Leo Navratil. Rogner and Bernhard, Munich 1979. ISBN 3-8077-0128-1
• Alexander. Selected texts. From 1961 to 1981. Residenz, Salzburg 1982. ISBN 3-7017-0319-1
• Ernst Herbeck: In the fall because joins the Feenwind. Collected Texts 1960 - 1991. Residenz, Salzburg 1992, ISBN 3-7017-0762-6.
• Ernst Herbeck. The past is gone clear. Eds. by Carl Aigner and Leo Navratil. Brandstätter, Vienna 2002. ISBN 3-85498-164-3.
• Ernst Herbeck: The rabbit! ! Selected poems. Edited and with an afterword by Gisela Stein Lechner. Young and Young, Salzburg and Vienna in 2013