!!!Bayer, Konrad

b. Vienna, Dec. 17, 1932, 
d. Vienna, Oct. 10, 1964 (suicide), avant-garde writer. Until 1957 
bank employee, 1951 he joined the "Art-Club" which was the predecessor 
of the  Wiener Gruppe. His performances with other members of the Art 
Club took the form of simultaneous readings, "literary revues" 
(1958/59) and theatre performances. His experimental literature aimed 
at dissolving language-inherent distortions ("es gibt nichts 
gemeinsames. nur die sprache schafft gemeinsamkeiten" - "we have 
nothing in common. language alone creates common ground") using serial 
text production, montage and word play. Afforded little appreciation 
in his lifetime, today he is counted among the forerunners of 
avant-garde writing after 1945.

!Works
Prose: starker toback, 1962 (with O. Wiener); der stein der 
weisen, 1963; montagen 1956, 1964 (with H. C. Artmann and G. Ruehm); 
Der Kopf des Vitus Bering, 1965; der sechste sinn, 1966 (ed by G. 
Ruehm). - Dramas: braeutigall & anonymphe, 1963; kinderoper, 1964; 
kasperl am elektrischen stuhl, 1968; der analfabet, 1969; die boxer, 
1971; idiot, 1972. - Radio plays: der kopf des vitus bering, 1964; der 
berg, 1966; der schweissfuss, 1971. - Editions: Das Gesamtwerk, ed. by 
G. Ruehm, 1977; Saemtliche Werke, ed. by G. Ruehm, 2 vols., 1985; K. 
B., Theatertexte, ed. by G. Ruehm, 1992.

!Literature
U. Janetzki, Alphabet und Welt. Ueber K. B., 1982; U. 
Janetzki and W. Ihrig (eds.), "Die Welt bin ich". Materialien zu K. 
B., in: protokolle 1983, vol. 1; F. Achleitner and P. Weibel (ed.), 
Wiener Gruppe, 1997; F. Achleitner and W. Fetz (ed.), Wiener Gruppe, 
exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle Wien, 1998.



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