Humbert Fink

Humbert Fink (actually Luigi Umberto F., born August 13, 1933, Vietri sul Mare near Salerno, Italy, † 16 May 1992 Maria Saal, Carinthia ) was an Austrian writer and journalist.

Life

Humbert Fink spent his childhood in southern Italy, after which he lived for many years in Villach, Klagenfurt and Vienna, from 1978 he lived until his death in Maria Saal.

After a volume of poetry and two novels Fink wrote numerous travel and non-fiction, especially biographies of historical figures. He admitted in 1957/58 The Austrian leaves and from 1959 with Paul Kruntorad the books of literature and criticism out. Fink was a member of Group 47, ten years after its dissolution he developed with Ernst Willner 1977, the idea of the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition. Fink designed as an author and lecturer and program series in the ORF, from 1967 a week for two to three programs, ( such as the Cultural Policy Perspectives ). He was a regular employee of the Bayerischer Rundfunk and other German and Swiss radio stations, author, lecturer and newspaper commentator.

Awards

Works (excerpt)

  • Verses from Aquafredda, poetry, publishing Ferd. Kleinmayr, Klagenfurt 1953
  • The rejection, novel, Henry Goverts Verlag, Stuttgart 1960
  • Tales of the City - In the footsteps of European history, Rainer Wunderlich Verlag Hermann Leins, Tübingen and Stuttgart 1971
  • Angry Dreams - Report on the Mediterranean countries, publishing Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1974
  • In the beginning was the Aegean - From islands and coasts, Verlag Fritz Molden, Vienna -Munich- Zurich 1976
  • Anatolian elegy - From the Bosporus to Antioch, Verlag Fritz Molden, Vienna -Munich- Zurich -Innsbruck 1977
  • Adriatic shore - Montenegro, Dalmatia, Croatian Littoral, Istria, Veneto, Emilia -Romagna, Marche, Puglia, Fritz Molden Verlag, Vienna -Munich- Zurich -Innsbruck 1978
  • Southern Italy - tears of the sun, Süddeutsche Verlag, Munich 1979
  • Iberian Sun - The Mediterranean Spain from Catalonia to Andalusia, Fritz Molden Verlag, Vienna -Munich- Zurich -Innsbruck 1980, 322 pp., ISBN 3217009673
  • On pilgrimage routes through Europe - An angel flying over the continent, Paul List Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3471775226
  • The Holy Land - From Galilee to the Sinai, Fritz Molden Verlag, Vienna -Munich- Zurich - New York 1981, ISBN 3217010353
  • Francis of Assisi - The Man / The Factory / Time, Biography, Paul List Verlag, Munich 1981, ISBN 3471775234
  • A trip through Tuscany, Umbria and the Marches, Süddeutsche Verlag, Munich 1982
  • In the footsteps of the great archaeologist, Paul List Verlag, Munich 1982
  • Martin Luther - The contradictory reformer, biography, publishing Molden - S. Seewald, Munich 1982, ISBN 3889190049
  • When I think of Austria - dwarfs, hermaphrodites, second comrades Molden Verlag - S. Seewald, Munich 1983
  • The Messenger of God - A cultural history of the saints, Paul List Verlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3471775331
  • The Road to Jerusalem - The incredible story of the First Crusade, Paul List Verlag, Munich 1984
  • Country of the Germans - reporting from a strange land, Penguin Publishing, Innsbruck / Arrange -Verlag, Frankfurt 1985
  • I am the Lord of the World - Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, Biography, Paul List Verlag, Munich 1986
  • Encounter with Carinthia, Penguin Publishing, Innsbruck / Arrange -Verlag, Frankfurt 1987
  • Encounter with Florence, Penguin Publishing, Innsbruck / Arrange -Verlag, Frankfurt 1988
  • Machiavelli, Biography, Paul List Verlag, Munich 1988, 279 pp., ISBN 3471775374
  • Metternich - Statesman, player, gentleman, Biography, Paul List Verlag, Munich, 1989, 287 pp., ISBN 3471775447
  • Encounter with Venice, Penguin Publishing, Innsbruck / Arrange -Verlag, Frankfurt 1989
  • At Mantua in bands - The Life and Death of a folk hero Andreas Hofer, biography, ECON Verlag, Dusseldorf, Vienna, New York and Moscow 1992, ISBN 3-430-12779-3
  • In the footsteps of the double eagle - A old Austrian broadsheet, ECON Verlag, Dusseldorf, Vienna, New York and Moscow in 1992

Essays for picture books and / or co-editor of many publications have appeared in paperback editions, reprints, translations into several languages ​​, book club or book club editions, special editions: (selection)

  • Fink, Humbert: The road to Jerusalem. Frankfurt / M.; Berlin [ West ]: Ullsteinhaus 1987, ISBN 3548343988
  • In the footsteps of the double eagle A old Austrian broadsheet. Dusseldorf; Vienna; New York; Moscow: ECON -Verl. 1996
  • Fink, Humbert; Planters, Hella; Schiestl, Reiner Impressions from Austria Innsbruck: Penguin Publishing in 1984, mainly Ill. (some color), essay by Humbert Fink. Photos of Hella planters. Drawing. by Reiner Schiestl.
  • Statesman Metternich, player, gentleman. A biography, Knaur Paperback 2420; 1993 ISBN 3-426-02420-9

Swell

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