Erich Wolfgang Skwara

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Erich Wolfgang Skwara (born November 4, 1948 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian writer and literary scholar.

Life

Erich Wolfgang Skwara studied music history and Romance studies in Paris and German in the USA. Since 1975 he has had his main residence in the USA ; In addition to being Austrian, he is now also a citizen of the United States. 1985 doctorate he attended the State University of New York at Albany with a thesis on the author Hans Sahl to the doctor of philosophy , while he worked at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, as a lecturer. Today Skwara is Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University in San Diego ( California ). He also stays regularly in Florence and Paris .

Erich Wolfgang Skwara has been working for newspapers and magazines since 1970. In the 1970s he published several volumes of poetry and then a number of larger prose works , often in an elegiac tone. The themes of Skwara's texts are the passing of time, love, melancholy and longing, as well as dealing with the unloved Austria of the present.

Erich Wolfgang Skwara is a member of the Austrian and French PEN Center and was a member of the board of the PEN Center for German-Language Authors Abroad until he left the company in 2005 . In 1972 he received the Poetry Prize for Young Poetry of the City of Karlsruhe and in 2002 the Hermann Lenz Prize . In 2003 he was given the professional title of Professor by the Austrian Federal President . In 2005 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada for his work as a poet.

Works

  • Soldered , Karlsruhe 1973
  • Beat me out , Karlsruhe 1973
  • Blindness sister , Karlsruhe 1975
  • Pest in Siena , Karlsruhe 1976
  • Black sailing ships , Düsseldorf 1979
  • "Der Totenengel" and other prose , Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1981
  • Bankrupt idyll , Munich 1985
  • Hans Sahl , New York a. a. 1986
  • Rehearse the farewell , Karlsruhe 1987
  • Ice on the bridge , Frankfurt am Main 1991
  • Tristan Island , Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1992
  • The secret kings , Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1995
  • To the north , Eisingen 1998
  • Attempt to return home , Frankfurt am Main 1998
  • Call from Rome , Frankfurt am Main 1999
  • Rehearsal diary. Pest in Siena , Vienna 2001
  • Telling dreams , Vienna 2002
  • Fragility or Die Toten der Place Baudoyer , Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2002
  • Design of a desert , Wels, 2008
  • In freefall , Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-455-40261-2
  • A reality of the siren song , Wels 2010
  • Mare nostrum or a train station for those who arrive , Edition Korrespondenzen, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-902951-46-5 .

Translations

  • Philippe Derivière: Paul Nizon: Das Leben am Werk , Frankfurt am Main 2003
  • Gustave Flaubert : November , Frankfurt am Main 2001
  • Gustave Flaubert: Bouvard and Pécuchet , Berlin 2010
  • Claude Lanzmann : The Patagonian Hare , Reinbek near Hamburg 2010
  • John Minihan : Samuel Beckett , Frankfurt am Main 1995
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau : From the social contract or foundations of political law , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1996
  • Tennessee Williams : Eight Ladies, Obsessed and Mortal , Frankfurt am Main 1977
  • Thomas Wolfe : The Lost Boy , Frankfurt am Main 1998

Secondary literature:

  • Adam, Erik: Erich Wolfgang Skwara - an aristocrat of literature. In: Austria in history and literature. 51st year 2007, issue 4–5. Pp. 256-257

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personal data
SURNAME Skwara, Erich Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian literary scholar and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg