{"id":4715,"date":"2022-05-18T12:28:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T12:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/veranstaltung\/in-memorian-gerhard-roth"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:22:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:22:58","slug":"in-memorian-gerhard-roth","status":"publish","type":"kreisky_event","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/veranstaltung\/in-memorian-gerhard-roth","title":{"rendered":"IN MEMORIAM GERHARD ROTH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>IN MEMORIAM GERHARD ROTH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201eMemory is a mirage in the desert of oblivion.\u201c<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Greeting:<br \/>\n<strong>Rudolf Scholten<\/strong>, Federal Minister (retired), President of the Bruno Kreisky Forum<\/p>\n<p>Memories of Gerhard Roth:<br \/>\n<strong>Heinz Fischer, <\/strong>Former Federal President.<\/p>\n<p>Conversation: Politics - Power - Literature. Gerhard Roth and Bruno Kreisky<br \/>\n<strong>Wolfgang Petritsch<\/strong>, Diplomat<br \/>\n<strong>Peter Stephan Jungk<\/strong>, Writer<\/p>\n<p>Reading:<br \/>\n<strong>Cornelius Obonya<\/strong>, actor and director<\/p>\n<p>Music:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theessink.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Hans Theessink<\/strong>, Roots &amp; Blues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moderation<br \/>\n<strong>Gertraud Auer Borea d\u2019Olmo<\/strong>, Secretary General of the Bruno Kreisky Forum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gerhard Roth, born on 24 June 1942 in Graz and died in February 2022, was one of the most important Austrian writers. He published numerous novels, short stories, essays and plays, including the seven-volume cycle \u00bbDie Archive des Schweigens\u00ab (The Archives of Silence), completed in 1991, and the subsequent cycle \u00bbOrkus\u00ab (Orcus). Each of the novel cycles centres on the narrated and documented reappraisal of the past from a general perspective and Austrian contemporary history from a particular perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Gerhard Roth described himself as \u201eobsessed with writing in the best sense of the word\u201c. Roth had a respectful relationship with the Austrian statesman and politician Bruno Kreisky. He visited Kreisky in his holiday home on Mallorca, accompanied him on a state visit to Belgrade, at the 1 May march in Vienna and on an election campaign trip through Lower Austria. Roth was also a guest at Kreisky's Viennese residence at Armbrustergasse 15 on several occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Gerhard Roth has received numerous awards, including the Bruno Kreisky Prize for a political book in 2003 and the Great Austrian\u00a0<em>State Prize<\/em>\u00a0His latest novel \u00bbDie Imker\u00ab was published by Fischer Verlag in May 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He would have celebrated his 80th birthday on 24 June 2022.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN MEMORIAM GERHARD ROTH \u201eDie Erinnerung ist eine Fata Morgana in der W\u00fcste des Vergessens.\u201c &nbsp; Begr\u00fc\u00dfung: Rudolf Scholten, Bundesminister a.D., Pr\u00e4sident des Bruno Kreisky Forums Erinnerungen an Gerhard Roth: Heinz Fischer, Bundespr\u00e4sident a.D. Gespr\u00e4ch: Politik \u2013 Macht \u2013 Literatur. Gerhard Roth und Bruno Kreisky Wolfgang Petritsch, Diplomat Peter Stephan Jungk, Schriftsteller Lesung: Cornelius Obonya, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4717,"template":"","format":[46],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"schwerpunkt":[38],"class_list":["post-4715","kreisky_event","type-kreisky_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","schwerpunkt-demokratie-diversitaet-und-zusammenhalt","format-specials"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IN MEMORIAM GERHARD ROTH - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/event\/in-memorian-gerhard-roth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IN MEMORIAM GERHARD ROTH - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"IN MEMORIAM GERHARD ROTH \u201eDie Erinnerung ist eine Fata Morgana in der W\u00fcste des Vergessens.\u201c &nbsp; Begr\u00fc\u00dfung: Rudolf Scholten, Bundesminister a.D., Pr\u00e4sident des Bruno Kreisky Forums Erinnerungen an Gerhard Roth: Heinz Fischer, Bundespr\u00e4sident a.D. 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