Alfred Kolleritsch died at the age of 89. The editor of the “manuscripts” and president of the Forum Stadtpark promoted many authors. He was an important poet himself.
When the poet Alfred Kolleritsch spoke about literati and their works that were alive for him, his eyes shone: he called Bauer, Jelinek, Roth, Schwab, Mayröcker, the Viennese group – Artmann, Bayer, Rühm. There was a special relationship with Barbara Frischmuth: “We were mutually exclusive. It was a great experience, ”he once told the“ press ”. He had a deep friendship with Peter Handke since the early 1960s. He had great respect for the solitary work of the Nobel Prize winner for literature, which he always defended with commitment. Kolleritsch’s eyes shone when he also praised younger authors – Unterweger, Fritsch, Schmidt, Stangl, Setz …
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