FOREIGN RIGHTS AUTUMN 2013 - Hanser Literaturverlage

A R C H I T E C T U R E
A trans-national artistic statement both
imposing and redemptive – Friedrich
Achleitner describes Eastern Europe’s
most striking memorials, created
by Bogdan Bogdanović.
© Lukas Beck
Bogdan Bogdanović (1922 - 2010) is the creator of the legendary »Flower of Stone« monument
in Jasenovac as well as the Memorial Park at Vukovar on the Danube, which was
awarded the Piranesi Prize for architecture before being partially destroyed during the
Yugoslavian Civil War. His monuments, memorials and necropolises throughout former
Yugoslavia bear witness to the cultural diversity and the tragic history of the Balkans.
Collectively, they stand as an expression of Bogdan Bogdanovich’s vision: »Inclusive rather
than exclusive, uniting rather than separating.«
Friedrich Achleitner
Den Toten eine Blume
Die Denkmäler von
Bogdan Bogdanović
A Flower for the Dead
The Monuments of
Bogdan Bogdanović
Zsolnay Verlag
Approx. 184 pages with
illustrations. Hardcover
Publication date:
September 2013
In this photographic record, Friedrich Achleitner takes this as his central tenet to describe
the vision of the architect, urbanist, writer, polymath and former mayor of Belgrade whom
he befriended during Bogdanovich’s period of exile in Vienna. The two of them, and later
Achleitner on his own, repeatedly visited all of Bogdanovich’s monuments, encountering
memorials »devoted to life«, which not only »assume a special status in modern European
art but are distinctive in their uniqueness in the entire history of the European culture of
remembrance during the 20 th century.«
Friedrich Achleitner
born in 1930 in Upper
Austria, is a member of
the avant garde collective
Wiener Gruppe. Until 1998,
he was a professor at the
University of Applied Arts in
Vienna. His previous books
include Österreichische
Architektur (1980); his
most recent publications at
Zsolnay are der springende
punkt (2009) and iwahaubbd
(2011).
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