Gerhard Rühm (born 12 February 1930 in Vienna) is an Austrian author, composer and visual artist. 2015-05-06-GerhardRühm

Biography

Rühm studied the piano and music composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Following his studies he undertook private lessons with the twelve-tone composer

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. Since the beginning of the 1950s Rühm has produced sound poetry, spoken word, visual poetry, photomontages and books. He is a co-founder of the

Wiener Gruppe The Wiener Gruppe (''Vienna Group'') was a small and loose avant-garde constellation of Austrian poets and writers, which arose from an older and wider postwar association of artists called Art-Club. The group was formed around 1953 under the influ ...

(Vienna Group), with

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, Hans Carl Artmann,

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und Oswald Wiener, as well as the publisher of an anthology by the same name. From 1972–1996 Rühm taught as a professor at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg and from 1978–1982 he acted as president of the

Grazer Autorenversammlung The Grazer Autorinnen Autorenversammlung (GAV) was founded under the name of ''Grazer Autorenversammlung'' in March 1973 and is one of the two major Austrian writers' association (besides the Austrian PEN). H. C. Artmann was its first president. O ...

. His artistic production is inspired by

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und

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. Rühm's works are often located at the border between music, language, gestures and the visual. His audible works are outstanding examples of innovative radio plays and acoustic art. During a sojourn in Lebanon he became interested in eastern musical styles. In addition to producing his own work, which has been recognized by numerous awards and prizes. Rühm is also the administrator of the estate of Franz Richard Behrens and is the publisher of the works of

. Since 1978 he has been a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg. In 2009 he was awarded the

Alice Salomon Alice Salomon (19 April 1872, in Berlin – 30 August 1948, in New York City) was a German social reformer and pioneer of social work as an academic discipline. Her role was so important to German social work that the ''Deutsche Bundespost'' (G ...

Prize for Poetics and on January 25, 2010 he received an honorary doctorate from the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...

. His son is the photographer and director David Rühm.

Prizes

* 1976 – Austrian Appreciation Prize for Literature * 1977 – Karl Sczuka Prize * 1984 –

Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden The Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden (War Blinded Audio Play Prize), also known as the Kriegsblindenpreis (War Blinded Prize) is the most important literary prize granted to playwrights of audio plays written in the German language. The award was e ...

(War Blinder Audio Play Prize (for ''Wald. Ein deutsches Requiem'') * 1984 – Literature Prize of Vienna * 1991 – Austrian State Prize for Literature * 1991 – Medal of Honour of Vienna * 2007 – Alice Salomon Prize for Poetics * 2007 – Gold

Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria The Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (german: Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich) is a state decoration of the Republic of Austria. It is divided into 15 classes and is the highest award in the A ...

* 2010 – Honorary Doctorate,

* 2013 –

Austrian Decoration for Science and Art The Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (german: Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst) is a state decoration of the Republic of Austria and forms part of the Austrian national honours system. History The "Austrian D ...

* 2014 – Award of the City of Vienna, Art * 2015 – Karl Sczuka Prize (prize for cutting-edge works of radio art) * 2022 –

America Award in Literature The America Award is a lifetime achievement literary award for international writers. It describes itself as a modest attempt at providing alternatives to the Nobel Prize in Literature. It was first presented in 1994. The award does not entail a ...

Collected Works

* ''Gesammelte Werke''. Published by Michael Fisch. * Volume 1.1 and 1.2: poems. published by Michael Fisch. Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2005. * Volume 2.1: visual poetics. published by Monika Lichtenfeld. Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2006. * Volume 2.2: visual music. published by Monika Lichtenfeld. Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2006. * Volume 3.1: audible music. published by Monika Lichtenfeld. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2013. * Volume 3.2: audio pieces. published by Paul Pechmann. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin, forthcoming in autumn 2014. * Volume 4.1: prose texts. published by Michael Fisch. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin, forthcoming in autumn 2015. * Volume 4.2: image history. published by Thomas Eder. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin, forthcoming in autumn 2014. * Volume 5: plays. published by Michael Fisch and Monika Lichtenfeld. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2010. * Volume 6.1 and 6.2: sound poems, composition for piano. * Volume 7: melodramas, songs, chansons. * Volume 8.1 and 8.2: sculptural works. * Volume 9: theoretical writing. * Volume 10: supplement. This edition of work comprises 10 volumes in 16 books, and has been published since the fifth volume by Matthes & Seitz Berlin.

Sound Recordings

* Interpretation of

: ''Sieben kleine Stücke für Klavier op.3, Fünf Hölderlin-Lieder op. 6, Sechs Zwölftonspiele'', Gerhard Rühm (Klavier) and Adelina Rühm (Sopran), Amadeo AVRS 3013, Vienna, LP 1953 * ''ich küsse heiß den warmen sitz – gerhard rühm spielt und singt eigene chansons nach texten von rühm, bayer und wiener'', da camera song sm 95022, Heidelberg, LP, 1969 * With

Christian Attersee Christian Ludwig Attersee (born Christian Ludwig on 28 August 1940 in Bratislava) is an Austrian artist. Biography After he had spent his youth in Upper Austria (also at the Attersee, the origin of his artist's name), Attersee began his studies ...

: ''Klaviertreiben'', Gerhard Rühm (Klavier), Christian Attersee (Klavier), Galerie Heike Curtze 001, Privatpressung, Düsseldorf/Vienna, 1981 * ''bleistiftmusik''. (= 1 MC in Kassette zu dem Buch-Objekt mit 14 Dias ''Bleistiftmusik''). Köln: Edition Hundertmark 1982. * ''das leben chopins und andere ton-dichtungen''., Edition Block EB 115/6, Berlin, DoLP, 1988 * ''botschaft an die zukunft.'' Collected spoken texte. Reinbek: Rowohlt 1988. (= 1 MC in cassettes to the book ''Botschaft an die Zukunft'') * ''Wiener Lieder und Gedichte.'' Graz und Vienna: Droschl 1993 (= CD in Kassette to the book ''Sämtliche Wiener Dialektdichtungen'') * ''vom eintonstück zum damentango''. Piano pieces and Melodrama 1950–1997. Edition Zeitton. Vienna: Österreichischer Rundfunk 1998. (= 3 CD in Kassette) CD 151 * ''Opheila and the words / Wald, ein deutsches Requiem / Kleine Geschichte der Zivilisation''. Mainz: Wergo 1998. (= Ars Acustica in coproduction with the WDR.) * ''verlier' nicht den kopf aus liebe''. Collected Chansons from five decades. Edition Zeitton. Vienna: Österreichischer Rundfunk 2000. (= 3 CD in Kassette) CD 211 * With

: ''gemeinschaftsarbeiten 1957–1962''. Köln: supposé 2002. (= 1 CD in Pappschuber) * ''foetus.'' Graz: Literaturhaus 2003. (= Production by ORF-Landesstudio as part of ''Graz 2003. European Cultural Capital''.)

Literature

Issued by Gerhard Rühm

* Gerhard Rühm (with

und Hans Carl Artmann): . Vienna: Frick 1959. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''konstellationen.'' gomringer-press 1961. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm (publisher): ''Die Pegnitz-Schäfer''. Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, Johann Klaj, Sigmund von Birken. Gedichte. Berlin: Gerhard 1964. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''fenster'' Rowohlt 1968. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''Thusnelda.'' Romanzen. Eremiten-Presse 1968. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''DA''. An alphabet book for children. Frankfurt am Main: Insel 1970. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''Gesammelte Gedichte und visuelle Texte.'' Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt 1970. * Gerhard Rühm: ''Knochenspielzeug''. Fairtales and fahles. With illustrations by

Christian Ludwig Attersee Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a Monotheism, monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ (title), Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive ...

. Eremiten-Presse 1970. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''die frösche''. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt 1971. (= Rowohlt Taschenbuch 1460) * Gerhard Rühm: ''Die Reise nach Cythera.'' remiten-Presse 1971. * Gerhard Rühm: ''Ophelia und die Wörter.'' Collected plays 1954–1971. Darmstadt und Neuwied: Luchterhand 1972. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''Mann und Frau''. Darmstadt und Neuwied: Luchterhand 1972. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''wahnsinn''. München: Hanser 1973. (= with a record) * Gerhard Rühm: ''Comic''. Linz: Edition Neue Texte 1975. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''bücher bilder bilder-bücher''. Berlin * Gerhard Rühm: ''Adelaides Locken.'' Illustration and commentary on a poem by Johann Heinrich Füssli. Köln and Berlin: Edition Hundertmark 1979. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''automatische zeichnungen.'' Vienna: Museum Moderne Kunst 1979 (= Publikation 13 a) without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''fotomontagen.'' 1958–1966. Vienna: Museum Moderne Kunst 1979 (= Publikation 13 b) without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''hand- und körperzeichnungen.'' Vienna: Museum Moderne Kunst 1979 (= Publikation 13 c) without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''knochenspielzeug''. Fairytales, fables and love stories. Düsseldorf: Eremiten-Presse 1979. * Gerhard Rühm: ''Zeichnungen aus dem Bestand der Galerie.'' München: Galerie Klewan 1979. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''Selten gezeigte Kunst.'' group project from Berlin. (Gerhard Rühm and others) München: Galerie Klewan 1979. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''super rekord 50 + 50''. with

. Linz: Edition Neue Texte 1980. * Gerhard Rühm: ''Abenteuer des Don Juan''. Drawings 1980/81. Innsbruck, Vienna und Düsseldorf: Galerien Krinzinger und Curtze 1981. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''Triumph des Herzens''. Paintings, Kitsch and Curiosities (Gerhard Rühm and others) München: Galerie Klewan 1982. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''Schriftzeichnungen 1956–1977''. Hannover: Verlag Zweitschrift 1982. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''Bleistiftmusik''. (Book with 1 MC und 14 slides.) Köln: Edition Hundertmark 1982. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''Salome''. Adaptation of a text by Oscar Wilde. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag der Autoren 1983. * Gerhard Rühm: ''Zwölf Österreicher.'' (Gerhard Rühm and others) München: Galerie Klewan 1983. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''Text Bild Musik.'' A show and read book. Edition Freibord, Wien 1984. without ISBN (=Freibord 41/42) * Gerhard Rühm: ''Wandrers (Geheimnis)''. Köln: Edition Hundertmark 1985. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''Die Wiener Gruppe''. Achleitner, Artmann, Bayer, Rühm, Wiener. published by Gerhard Rühm. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt 1985. (new edition) * Gerhard Rühm: ''Leselieder/visuelle musik''. Bielefeld and Graz: Communal Gallery and Culture House 1986. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''Zeichnungen.'' Salzburg and Vienna: Residency 1987. * Gerhard Rühm: ''botschaft an die zukunft.'' Collected spoken word. (with 1 MC in slipcase) Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt 1988. * Gerhard Rühm: ''reisefieber''. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt 1989. * Gerhard Rühm: ''Albertus Magnus Angelus.'' Salzburg and Vienna: Residenz 1989. * Gerhard Rühm: ''Schrifttuschen''. Frankfurt am Main: Kunstverein 1989. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''Geschlechterdings''. Chansons, Romances and Poems. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt 1990. * Gerhard Rühm: ''theatertexte.'' Frankfurt am Main: Collection of the Author 1990. * Gerhard Rühm: ''zeichnungen und scherenschnitte''. Mürzzuschlag: Walter-Buchebner-Gesellschaft 1990. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''Die Kunst der Fingerfertigkeit.'' Hommage to

Carl Czerny Carl Czerny (; 21 February 1791 – 15 July 1857) was an Austrian composer, teacher, and pianist of Czech origin whose music spanned the late Classical and early Romantic eras. His vast musical production amounted to over a thousand works and ...

. Zell am See: Galerie Zell am See 1991. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''Die Winterreise dahinterweise.'' New Poems and photomontgages. Zu Franz Schuberts Liederzyklus. Klagenfurt: Ritter 1991. * Gerhard Rühm: ''liederbilder''. Bremen: Galerie am Steinernen Kreuz 1992. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''überkreuzt''. (with Heinz-Günter Prager). Köln: Wienand 1993. * Gerhard Rühm: ''Sämtliche Wiener Dialektdichtungen''. (with 1 CD in slipcase) Graz und Wien: Droschl, 1993, (= Edition Neue Texte) * Gerhard Rühm: ''textall''. a utopian novel. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt 1993. * Gerhard Rühm: ''Musik des Verstummens''. A cycle for 12 collages. Meinigen: Galerie Ada 1994. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''Bravo'' Haymon 1994. * Gerhard Rühm: ''auf messers schneide''. Innsbruck: Haymon 1995. * Gerhard Rühm: ''zeichen-buch''. Hamburg: Kunsthalle 1995. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''3 fragen, 2 sätze, bitten''. Hamburg: Material 1995. * Gerhard Rühm: ''knochenspielzeug''. Düsseldorf: Eremiten 1995. (Neuausgabe) * Gerhard Rühm: ''drei kinematographische texte''. Vienna: Edition Freibord 1996. * Gerhard Rühm: ''Visuelle Poesie''. Innsbruck: Haymon 1996. * Gerhard Rühm: ''Coole Serie in memoriam''. Salzburg: Edition Fotohof 1996. * Gerhard Rühm: ''

– Sämtliche Werke''. published by Gerhard Rühm. (Edited new edition) Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 1996. * Gerhard Rühm: ''lesebilder – bildgedichte''. Gumpoldskirchen: DEA 1997. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''Wo die Landschaft beginnt (gefährlich zu werden)''. Bremen: Galerie am Steinernen Kreuz 1998. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''Organische und geometrische Formen''. Salzburg: Galerie im Traklhaus 1999. * Gerhard Rühm: ''Um zwölf Uhr ist es Sommer''. Poems, spoken work, Chansons, plays, prose. Stuttgart: Reclam 2000. * Gerhard Rühm: ''ICH''. I love you, Ich-images and Ich-objects. Weitra: Bibliothek der Provinz 2000. * Gerhard Rühm: ''Besteckstück''. for table theater. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt 2000. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''Kunst-Stücke''. Vienna, Libro 2000. * Gerhard Rühm: ''LICHT''. Visual Poetics Visual Music. Graz: Steierischer Herbst 2001. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''momentgedichte und kurzgeschichten''. Köln: Edition Fundamental 2001. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''schwellenchronik der jahrtausendwende''. Graz: Droschl 2001. * Gerhard Rühm: ''masoch.'' Graz: Droschl 2003. * Gerhard Rühm: ''Das Welthände''. Vienna: Edition Freibord 2003. * Gerhard Rühm: ''Was verschweigt die schwarze Witwe?'' Graz. Droschl 2004, * Gerhard Rühm: ''Die geregelte Wiedervereinigung Europas.'' Vienna: Freibord 2004. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''Weit weg und ganz nah''. Kassel: Kunsthalle Fridericianum 2006. * Gerhard Rühm: ''Kleine österreichische Volkskunde''. Vienna: Edition Freibord 2008. without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''Schriftbilder''. Köln: Museum Ludwig 2008 (Print Collection). without ISBN * Gerhard Rühm: ''Aspekte einer erweiterten Poetik''. Berlin: Matthes und Seitz 2008. * Gerhard Rühm: ''Von Graz nach Grinzing.'' Klagenfurt: Ritter 2010. * Gerhard Rühm: ''Sichtwechsel''. Weitra: Bibliothek der Provinz 2010. * Gerhard Rühm: ''Lügen über Länder und Leute''. Klagenfurt: Ritter 2011, * Gerhard Rühm: ''Rosenkränze und Kettengedichte''. Hannover: Officin Albis 2011. * Gerhard Rühm: ''hero liest grillparzer / leander lernt schwimmen. eine klassische liebesgeschichte // kuchen und prothesen. zwei dutzend kurzprosatexte.'' Klagenfurt: Ritter 2019, . * Gerhard Rühm: ''Epigramme und Epitaphe''. Klagenfurt: Ritter 2021, . * Gerhard Rühm: ''der mann mit eigenschaften. ein litaneiroman''. Wien: Edition Melos 2022, .

Secondary Literature on Gerhard Rühm

* Kurt Bartsch and Stefan Schwär (publisher): ''Gerhard Rühm''. Graz: Droschl 1999. (=Dossier 15) *

Joachim Brügge Joachim Brügge (born in 1958) is a German musicologist and composer. Life Brügge was born in Kiel. After his studies of music theory at the Musikhochschule Lübeck (Diploma 1985), he studied Historical and Systematic Musicology/Music Ethnolo ...

, Wolfgang Gratzer and Otto Neumaier (publisher): ''Gerhard Rühm und die Kunst der Gegenwart''. Saarbrücken: Pfau 2007. * Thomas Eder and Klaus Kastberger (publisher): ''Schluss mit dem Abendland! Der lange Atem der österreichischen Avantgarde''. Vienna: Zsolnay 2000. (= Profile 5) * Michael Fisch: ''Gerhard Rühm – Ein Leben im Werk (1954–2004). Ein chronologisches Verzeichnis seiner Arbeiten''. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2005, (= Bibliography of German Literary History)) * Michael Fisch: ''»Ich« und »Jetzt«: Theoretische Grundlagen zum Verständnis des Werkes von Gerhard Rühm und praktische Bedingungen zur Ausgabe seiner »Gesammelten Werke«''. Bielefeld: Transcript 2010, (= Lettre) * Renate Kühn (publisher): ''Einfacher Durchgang. Zu Poesie und Poetologie Gerhard Rühms''. Bielefeld: 2009. without ISBN * Renate Kühn (publisher): ''Doppelter Durchgang. Zu Poesie und Poetologie Gerhard Rühms''. Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2010. (with a CD) * Melitta Becker and Gerhard Melzer: Gerhard Rühm. In: "Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartsliteratur." Published by Heinz Ludwig Arnold. München:(Vorschau)

References

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