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Scotland Island - Western Shores - Mackerel Beach

March 22, 2019

Newsletter for Offshore Residents of Pittwater, Australia


VALE

Rudolf Krausmann

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Informing that Rudolf Oscar Krausmann passed away peacefully in his sleep on 15th March 2019 aged 85 years.

He was a long standing member of the Scotland Island and the Western Forshore's Community, he lived on top of Scotland Island with his wife Lorraine, and children, Michael, Andreas & Ariadne, Rudi and was a well known and respected Poet, Playwright, and Publisher.

Whilst living on the Island Rudi was the editor of Aspect (Art and Literature Magazine, a quarterly publication) for 12 years, and published

Frome Another Shore (prose,illustrated)

Flowers of Emptiness (prose)

The Water Lily and Other Poems

Recent German Poetry (ed)

Everyman (a comedy of education play)

The Leader (a documentary play)

Paradox (poems, illustrated)

He was Creative Arts Fellow at the Australian National University in 1980 and Writer-In Residence at the University of New South Wales in 1982.

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Poem by Rudi, Flowers of Emptiness

FLOWERS

Sometimes they grow on hills

that we know


They die in our hands

that is a fact


They sleep in our vases

perhaps


But those

which we can't reach

which we can't see

of which we know nothing


are the best


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FUNERAL SERVICE AND WAKE FOR RUDOLPH OSCAR KRAUSMANN

SATURDAY 23RD MARCH

Service @ 11am at Mona Vale Cemetery (Mona Vale Road) MONA VALE

Celebration for Rudi, Street of the Painters @ 12.30pm at Pasadena Hotel, CHURCH POINT

A notice will be posted via Gregory and Carr funeral services website for service details and directions,

Any queries please contact Ariadne Krausmann, Phone: 0429705164 or Email: ariadnekrausmann@gmail.com

Copies of Rudi's publications will be handed out at the wake.


Please see attached a Wikipedia link which may be of interest to those who knew Rudi or are interested in his Arts legacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi_Krausmann

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