!!!Kraus, Wolfgang

Kraus, Wolfgang, b. Vienna, Jan. 13, 1924, 
d. Lienz (Tyrol), Sept. 19, 1998, essayist and cultural journalist. 
After a career in publishing founded the Austrian Society for 
Literature  Oesterreichische Gesellschaft fuer Literatur in 1961 and 
was its head until 1994. 1975-1981 Head of the Cultural Office of the 
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Numerous literary broadcasts for the 
Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF), edited anthologies of works 
by e.g. O. Wilde, F. Nietzsche and Novalis. A.-Wildgans Prize, 1979; 
and Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism, 1983.

!Works
Essays: Der fuenfte Stand, 1966; Die stillen Revolutionaere, 
1970; Kultur und Macht, 1975; Die verratene Anbetung, 1978; Die 
Wiederkehr des Einzelnen, 1980; Nihilismus heute, 1983; Die Spuren der 
Paradiese, 1986; Neuer Kontinent Fernsehen, 1989; Zukunft Europa, 
1993; Rettung Kultur - Markierungen zu einem neuen Humanismus, 1999.



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