Norbert Conrad Kaser

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Norbert Conrad Kaser (19 April 1947 – 21 August 1978) was a writer and poet from the ethnically conflicted South Tyrol / Alto Adige region of north-eastern (since 1918) Italy. His literary works and polemical writings contributed significantly to the establishment of a new South Tyrolean literature during the later 1960s. Much of his work was published only after his death at the early age of 31. Kaser was politically engaged: while many of his attitudes defy easy pigeon-holing, he was born into the region's German-speaking community, and in most respects he comes across as part of the political-intellectual left. Outside Italy, Kaser's work has become better known across the German speaking world only posthumously. Norbert C. Kaser was born in Brixen, a regional centre and the seat of a former Prince-Bishopric roughly 25 miles up-river of Bolzano. Paula Thum, his mother, was not married to Alois Mairunteregger (1913-1957), his father. Despite the social conventions of the time and place, Mairunteregger refused to "legitimize" his son retrospectively by marrying the child's mother. The infant was initially farmed out, looked after at one point by the "Grey Sisters of Saint Elizabeth". When Norbert was 10 his father was killed in an accident.