Vodopiutz Michael

Michael Vodopiutz (pseudonym: Theodor Uz), born on April 30, 1949 in Graz, died in 2002; cultural journalist and writer. Vodopiutz attended the Kirchengasse grammar school and studied English/American Studies and German Studies in Graz from 1969, but did not complete his studies. He worked briefly as a music teacher and from 1972 as a cultural journalist, primarily a music critic, for the "Neue Zeit" and from 1977 for the "Kronen Zeitung" in Graz. In the 1980s, he was increasingly affected by mental illness and took early retirement at the age of 40. In 1986, ORF Styria produced his radio play "Büblerstund", he read several times at the Forum Stadtpark, in 1989 as part of a double reading with Werner Schwab. He wrote literary texts for over 30 years, which (with exceptions such as early poems in the youth magazine "Perplex" or a poem in the anthology "Hör dich kichern. Gedichte von seelisch kranken Menschen", Graz 2000) were not published.