Schlagworte: Journal Poetry, poetry inspired by travelling on two continents, immediacy of first thought-writing, wide pallet of memories, Öffis and inspiring music
The bard's creative process springs from his extensive travelling between two continents and places of recluse for his creative work, inspiring his poetry and his art, with the help of friends and Muses, travelling companions, and people he met while travelling. In Africa , where spent many years with his spouse, good friends from his time as a professional and a freelance architect, up to his European roots, enjoying the contrast of cultures with its inert tension, wherein the artist's world expanded, freeing him from the tunnel vision of the one dimensional existence. His poems that sprung into life at an instant while working together with a multitude of different professional and skilled workmen. At times, making friends with professional engineers, who supported his ideas as a team leader. In Europe he made friends with an art-gallery owner, who promoted the artistic work of his late father, an eyewitness to the Holocaust.
Born in eastern Austria, close to the Hungarian border, he witnessed as a young man the horrors of a nation's brutal suppression, erupting in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He finished his education in art and architecture in Vienna, married, and sailed for the Cape of Africa, an adventure that followed his childhood dreams. he had drawn African animals for his art classes, but the time had come to see them in their natural habitat. Meeting a varied facet of people and cultures, working as a draughtsman in an engineering office, and as an architect for a cultural centre, he made good use of his language skills travelling throughout Southern Africa. During a trip to Lesotho, a native artist showed him rock paintings with their stark palimpsest outlines and typified movements of animals and humans. These paintings made a lasting impression on him and influenced his work. His vast collection of drawings and slides had been lost during a change of domiciles, but further studies of the San people would reawaken his dormant artistic longing for the expression of his art, filling sketchbooks with drawings and notepads with poetry and prose. While revisiting the capitals of Europe, he sensed that the bond of art, being borderless and free, would reach across continents into the world. During a visit to Greece, he was accepted into a circle of artists and poets who encouraged him to continue his art. A poetess introduced him to the works of famous Greek poets. In South Africa, he joined the writing and poetry workshops of Writers Write. It was to open the floodgates to his creativity. He decided to travel through Greece and visit its sites of antiquity, read up on Classical mythology, and enjoy first-class translations of Greek poetry and prose. he settled 2013/14 in Klosterneuburg-Weidling. Nikolaus Lenau is buried here. Franz Kafka had visited here. Their writings will always be an inspiration.
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