Hergouth Alois
Alois Hergouth (pseudonym: Veit Krambach), born on 31.5.1925 in Graz, died on 17.1.2002 ibid. writer and translator. Eleventh child of a Styrian-Slovenian family, drafted into labor and military service in 1943; after WWII studied German and folklore at the University of Graz, from 1955 worked at the Institute of Folklore, 1960 doctorate with a dissertation on the carnival race in the upper Murtal; member of the "Künstler-Club-Graz", published poems in Otto Basil's "PLAN" in 1946, in Hans Weigel's anthology "Stimmen der Gegenwart" (1952, 1953); Participated in the "Pürgger Dichterwochen" (1955); involved in the founding of the Forum Stadtpark, until 1961 consultant of the "Studio der Jungen", then until 1963 literary consultant of the Forum, together with Alfred Kolleritsch initiator of the first issue of "manuskripte"; represented the coexistence of traditional and avant-garde literature; resigned from the "Forum Stadtpark" in 1972; retired in 1978;
Member of IG Autorinnen/Autoren, the Austrian P.E.N. Club and the Austrian Writers' Association; awarded the title "Professor" in 1999;
Awards include: Peter Rosegger Prize (1965), Golden Medal of Honor of the City of Graz (1985), Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art (1987), Grand Josef Krainer Award of Appreciation (1995), awarded the Ring of Honor of the City of Graz (2000);
Works include: Poetry volumes Neon and Psyche (1953), Black Tribute (1958), Sladka Gora. The Sweet Mountain (1965), Stations in the Wind. Poems 1953-1973 (1973), Aloys and Aloїse. Exhumed gallows fragments from the estate of Christian Ringelbusch and Wilhelm Morgennatz (1987), Grenzgänge (1988) and Jahr um Jahr (1991); prose volume Der Mond im Apfelgarten (1980).
Stock
Scope: 7 archive boxes
Contents: Works, correspondence, life documents, collections.
Degree of processing: The fonds are finely indexed, a detailed index is available.
Call number: FNI-HERGOUTH
Current/core period: 1925-2002