Konrad Bayer

Austrian writer and poet, born in 1932 on the 17 December, member of the The Vienna Group, he combined apparently irreconcilable elements - violence, hermeticism, pessimism, ecstacy, banality - and influences (dadaism, surrealism, pataphysics, Wittgenstein, Stirner, Sade et al) into a bizarre linguistic solipsism which has held increasing fascination for German writers of the last few decades. His most important works are the novels Der Kopf Vitus Berings (The Head of Vitus Bering) and Der sechste Sinn (The sixth Sense), published posthumously in 1965 and 1966, rspectively. Bayer himself committed suicide in October 1964 at the age of 32.

External links

[http://www.geocities.com/kinkig/ijonkb.htm Essay on Bayer by Ingemar Johansson]

Reference

Selected Works of Konrad Bayer by Konrad Bayer, [http://www.atlaspress.co.uk/index.cgi?action=view_backlist&number=5 Atlas] , London, ISBN 0 947757 06 6

The Head of Vitus bering by Konrad Bayer, [http://www.atlaspress.co.uk/index.cgi?action=view_backlist&number=6] , London, ISBN 0 947757 83 X

The Sixth Sense by Konrad Bayer, [http://www.atlaspress.co.uk/index.cgi?action=view_eclectic&number=6] , London, ISBN 1 900565 41 2