Friedrich Achleitner

Friedrich Achleitner (* May 23, 1930 in Schalchen, Upper Austria, the name is on the second syllable stressed ) is an Austrian architect, critic and writer. As a writer he is one of the main representatives of the modern dialect poem and concrete poetry, as an important critic and essayist, chronicler of modern architecture. He is a member of the Association country air - Association for the promotion of planning in rural areas

  • 4.1 Non-fiction
  • 4.2 Fiction
  • 4.3 essay writing

Life and work

Youth, study, Architect

Friedrich Achleitner is the son of a farmer and miller, the further formed to mill construction engineer. The family experienced the devastation of the Second World War in some way: Shortly before the end of hostilities the parental home was severely damaged and uninhabitable.

After graduating Achleitner went to Vienna, where he studied from 1950 to 1953 at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1953 he went with Clemens Holzmeister his degree and then worked as a freelance architect in a joint venture with Johann Georg Gsteu who was responsible 1956-58 for the then controversial redesign of the interior of the parish church Hetzendorf ( " purifizierende reinterpretation " of the neo-Romanesque architecture). Part-time Achleitner studied in the Master School of Emil Pirchan stage.

Writer and critic

1958 Achleitner heard on the practical architecture and was a freelance writer. He is counted to the Vienna group that drafted modern dialect poems especially. Within this group Achleitner turned his interest mainly to phonetic spellings. In 1959 as a joint work with HC Artmann Achleitner and Gerhard Ruhm the book hosn rosn baa, eight years later, the anthology the Vienna Group.

Since 1961, Friedrich Achleitner of architecture turned to again, as a critic for the evening paper ( column eyesores ) and 1962-1972 for the press. In his contributions, he criticized vehemently the destruction of old buildings and urban development densification by high-rise buildings (such as the Gartenbauhochhaus or the Hotel Intercontinental Wien). From 1963 to 1983 Achleitner taught at the Academy of Fine Arts, History of Construction.

In addition dialect poems worked Achleitner, inspired by Eugen Gomringer to concrete poetry and mounting texts. With the square roman ( 1973) Achleitner systematized his hitherto undertaken typographic studies by the hero of his novel, the eponymous square, a total of 174 times (including the cover and imprint) with over-, under -, import, export and descriptions knew.

1983 Achleitner Head of the Chair of History and Theory of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Since his retirement in 1998 Achleitner has again published works of fiction.

Architecture chronicler

1965-2010 Friedrich Achleitner worked on his masterpiece, Austrian Architecture in the 20th century, a leader in four volumes, three of which ( band III in three parts ) were published until 2010. ( Volume IV, Lower Austria, must now be created by younger, Achleitner said. )

For this unique work Achleitner has collected and analyzed materials for decades, has visited every mentioned in the guide structure and Austria has thus traversed architecturally. The critics spoke of a

1981 doctorate Achleitner the published work since 1980 at the Technical University of Graz for Dr. techn. (Doctor of Engineering).

The archive of the work underlying Achleitner was the occasion of his 70th birthday bought in 2000 by the City of Vienna and the Vienna Architecture Centre passed establishing a database of Austrian architecture. The archive comprises 25 030 flashcards, 66,500 negatives, 37,800 slides, 13,800 photographic prints, 570 plan representations, 250 commission plans and 1030 books, brochures, catalogs and magazines.

Quote

Gustav Mahler said so beautifully: Not the ashes, but the fire that should be worn. Regional architecture, there is always, they should just not be regionalist. So no formal disguises, costumes, but an architecture that develops from the cultural, human and economic resources of a country. Scale are of course the major international trends. This has always been, from the Gothic to the Renaissance to historicism and modernism.

Awards

Works

Non-fiction

  • Austrian Architecture in the 20th century. A leader in three [ from Volume III / 1: four ] volumes, published by the Museum of Modern Art Vienna and Vienna Architecture Centre (Band III / 3), Residenz Verlag Salzburg Volume I: Upper Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg; 1980; ISBN 3-7017-0248-9
  • Volume II of Carinthia, Styria, Burgenland; 1983; ISBN 3-7017-0322-1
  • Volume III / 1: Vienna, 1st - 12th District; 1990; ISBN 3-7017-0635-2
  • Volume III / 2: Vienna, 13 - 18th District; 1995; ISBN 3-7017-0704-9
  • Band III / 3: Vienna, 19th - 23rd District; 2010; ISBN 978-3-7017-3209-8
  • (The planned Volume IV Lower Austria Friedrich Achleitner is no longer published. )

Fiction

  • Hosn rosn baa. With a record of H.C. Artmann and Gerhard Ruhm. Frick, Vienna, 1959
  • Heavy black. Gomringer, Frauenfeld, 1960
  • Prose, constellations, montages, dialect poems, studies. Collected texts. Rowohlt, Reinbek, 1970
  • Square - roman: square & other matters; 1 new bildungsroman, 1 new entwicklungsroman etc. etc. etc. Luchterhand, Darmstadt and Neuwied, 1973
  • Super Record 50 50 With Gerhard Ruhm. New Edition lyrics, Linz, 1990
  • Kaaas. Dialect poems. Residenz, Salzburg and Vienna, 1991
  • Bedtime. Zsolnay, Vienna, 2003
  • Wiener lines. Zsolnay, Vienna, 2004
  • And or or and. Zsolnay, Vienna, 2006
  • The crucial point. Zsolnay, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-552-05471-4.
  • Iwahaubbd. dialect poems. paul zsolnay publisher, vienna, 2011, ISBN 978-3-552-05546-9.

Essay writing

  • Lois Welzenbacher 1889-1955. Together with Ottokar Uhl. Residenz, Salzburg, 1968
  • Happy Austria. Literary Tour of a fatherland. Together with Jochen Jung. Residenz, Salzburg and Vienna, 1979
  • Austrian Architecture in the 20th century. A leader in four volumes. Residenz, Salzburg and Vienna, 1980-1990
  • Down with Fischer von Erlach. Collected reviews. 1986
  • Invitation to trust. Essays on architecture. Residenz, Salzburg and Vienna, 1987
  • The retrogressive utopia. Engine of progress in the Viennese architecture. Picus, Vienna, 1994
  • Viennese architecture. Between typological fatalism and semantic mess. Böhlau, Vienna, Cologne and Weimar, 1996
  • The Plotteggs come. A report. Special number, Vienna, 1996
  • Region, a construct? Regionalism, a bankruptcy? Birkhäuser, Basel, Boston and Berlin, 1997
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