Kurt Holzinger, our friend and comrade is dead. Although he had been battling a serious illness for year, his decease on the 27th of June 2019 came unexpected,

Kurt was intelligent, sensitive and uncompromising.
For decades he significantly shaped the Stadtwerkstatt and countercultural scenes far beyond Linz.

When hearing the name Kurt Holzinger, many think of the Band Willi Warma. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he and his band colleagues gave the gray and narrow-minded Linz the kick in the arse it so well deserved and transformed it permanently.

The band's radiance still shines today and testifies to the early adopted attitude that it's always about everything.

The variety of projects, influences, encouragements, empowerments, collaborations that arose out of Kurts boundless energy at that time or later, are legend. Already within the first hours after his death we received many comments on who or what would not exist without Kurt.

Since the early 1990s it was his devotion to different journals for which we will remember him.
Starting from the town paper „hillinger“ and the online magazine „prairie“, he dedicated his unremitting enthusiasm in recent years to the “Versorgerin”. In this journal he found and formed a medium to oppose common dullness, conventionality and lack of critical ability - so he would not have to resign himself into it.

With his sense for relevant subjects, intelligent texts and resistant authors, as well as his dislike of ostentatious phrases and careerist arse licking, Kurt made the “Versorgerin” into an exceptional phenomenon: A journal of a cultural club that is read and appreciated beyond the borders of this country.

With everything he did, he wanted to challenge the nearly impossible task, “of refusing to allow oneself to be rendered dumb, either by the power of others or by one’s own powerlessness.” (Adorno)

We can only hope that Kurt knew, to how many people he was important.
Kurt was carried by a deep love - if sometimes he seemed unapproachable, this was due to the heartless world we live in. A world he did not want to reconciliate with - just playing along was not his thing.

Kurt - we miss you and at this point we are only left with the word you often used to end your emails:

Luv!