!!!Rühm, Gerhard

Ruehm, Gerhard, b. Vienna, Feb. 12, 1930, experimental poet, 
playwright and prose writer, trained musician (student of J.M.  
Hauer). From 1964-1975 in Berlin, then Cologne; from 1972 taught at 
the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg, co-founder of the  Wiener Gruppe. 
As its most radical "concrete poet" R. tried to form a theoretical 
definition of the position of the Wiener Gruppe, partly by reverting 
to the avant-garde of expressionism and surrealism (together with 
H. C.  Artmann and K.  Bayer); his own works are very 
heterogeneous, his poetic works containing acoustic and graphical 
elements, his dramatic works being reminiscent of "happenings". R. 
influenced the development of a new style of radio play through 
numerous innovative acoustic works, replacing the conventional 
distribution of roles with verbal and innovative acoustic sound 
effects. From 1978 to 1983 president of the  Grazer 
Autorenversammlung; in 1991 awarded the Grand Austrian State Prize for 
Literature.

!Works
hosn rosn baa, 1959 (with F. Achleitner and H. C. 
Artmann); konstellationen, 1961; Gesammelte Gedichte und visuelle 
Texte, 1970; Die Froesche und andere Texte, 1971 (prose); Ophelia und 
die Woerter, 1972 (collected plays 1954-1971); Super Rekord 50 + 50, 
1980; Dialektstuecke, 1982; Reisefieber, 1989; theatertexte, 1990; 
Geschlechterdings, 1990 (poems); Die Winterreise dahinterweise, 1991 
(poems and photo collages); Textall. Ein utopischer Roman, 1993; Auf 
Messers Schneide, 1995 (plays); Knochenspielzeug. Maerchen, Fabeln und 
Liebesgeschichten, 1995; Visuelle Poesie, 1996. - Edition: J. Drews 
(ed.), Um zwoelf Uhr ist es Sommer, 2000. - Editions: Die Wr. Gruppe, 
1967; F. R. Behrens, Blutbluete, 1979; K. Bayer.Saemtl. Werke, 
2 vols., 1985. - Radio plays, objects, scores, audio tapes.

!Literature
K. Schoening (ed.), Hoerspielmacher, 1983; Publikationen 
des G.-R.-Symposions, in: Protokolle 2, 1987; K. Bartsch (ed.), 
G. R., 1999.


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