Robert Schindel

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Robert Schindel Biography

Robert Schindel (born April 4, 1944 in Bad Hall , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian poet , director and author . Robert Schindel was born in 1944 in Bad Hall as a child of Jewish communists. He survived the arrest of his parents, who had disguised themselves as foreign workers from Alsace, to build a resistance group on behalf of the exiled KPÖ in Linz under the name of Robert Soel . He was accommodated in the Jewish Children's Hospital in the Vienna Tempelgasse (then Mohaplgasse). The Jewish welfare worker Franzi Löw and the Jewish childmother Mignon Langnas prevented his deportation to the concentration camps to Auschwitz and Theresienstadt . His father, René Hajek, was murdered on 28 March 1945 in Dachau concentration camp , the mother, From 1950 to 1954 he attended the Volksschule and then the German Federal Realschymnasium in Vienna. In 1959, Robert Schindel left the Gymnasium, he was "dismissed because of bad leadership" and began a bookseller apprenticeship at the Viennese Globus publishing house, which he broke. He followed journeys to Paris and Sweden, where he intervened as a dish washer. According to his own data, Schindel was an active member of the KPÖ between 1961 and 1967. In 1967, Schindel attended a Matura school at a Matura school , studied philosophy and two semesters of jurisprudence and engaged in Maoist circles. However, as his real university, he described the Café Hawelka , in which he met among others HC Artmann and Oskar Werner . He co-founded the student movement "Kommune Wien" and the literary magazine "Hundsblume", in which he also published his lyric texts. His circle included other later known artists such as Elfriede Jelinek and the twin couple Konstantin Kaiser and Leander Kaiser . In 1970, Schindel published the novel Kassandra .)

The Best Poem Of Robert Schindel

Foolish Love 2

The same old inner-life unsheathed,
adrift, holding fast
to what remains unbroken.

You. My variegated reason.
You, glimmering body of marble.
I, locked within my outer-life,
send word to you. I send and send

translated by by Paul Vermeersch

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