Georg Biron

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Georg Biron (2017)

Georg Biron (born October 18, 1958 in Vienna ) is an Austrian writer , reporter , screenwriter , actor , director and cultural producer .

Life

Georg Biron grew up in a social housing estate in Vienna-Penzing . There he also attended kindergarten and elementary school. In 1969 he became a student at the Bundesrealgymnasium Vienna VII in Kandlgasse. There he began to get involved politically. In 1977 he graduated from high school and worked as a tour guide until 1979 . From 1977 he studied at the Vienna University of Jura , later journalism and theater arts . In Vienna he moved in the alternative Viennese cultural scene and met Elfriede Jelinek , Hermann Schürrer , Joe Berger , Helmut Qualtinger , Oskar Werner , Wolfgang Bauer , Heinz R. Unger , Franz Ringel , Peter Turrini , Hari Schütz and others. v. a. know. On April 1, 1980, after a few months of acquaintance, he married the half-Greek Eva-Maria Rossolimos, who lived in Vienna; the marriage lasted only six months. In 1981/82 he completed eight months of basic military service with the guard battalion in the Maria-Theresia-Kaserne in Vienna.

Eric Burdon and Georg Biron in the Rockhaus Vienna 1984

In 1982 he moved to Florence in Italy , later to Central America , where he lived in Mexico and Belize and made reports on the civil war in Guatemala and the Contra movement in Nicaragua . He then traveled to Africa, Asia, South America and the Middle East. From 1984 he lived most of the time in Vienna-Rudolfsheim, but in the following years continued to travel regularly to distant countries and lived for several weeks a year on the Greek Cycladic island of Folegandros . His friendship with Udo Proksch , the owner of the Viennese confectionery Demel , who hit the headlines as an insurance fraudster and murderer because of the Lucona affair , brought him public criticism. On October 28, 1994 he married Britta Bruckner. They have had a son together since 2001. After the divorce in 2018, he married the communication scientist Bettina Paur (University of Vienna) on July 26, 2019.

Career

Georg Biron was already interested in literature and films as a ten-year-old. In 1969 he wrote his first novel ( Blaue Reiter ), but it was never published. From 1973 he wrote lyrical prose and short stories, in 1975 his first text ( marshalling yard ) was published in the Austrian literary magazine Neue Wegen . In 1976 he joined the Viennese author collective Frischfleisch and published texts in the literary magazine of the same name and in the features section in the weekend supplements of the Austrian daily newspapers Arbeiterzeitung and Volksstimme . From 1977 he also wrote for the German men's magazine Playboy , later also for Penthouse , Der Spiegel , Die Zeit , Konkret . In 1984 he was editor-in-chief of Harald Irnberger's monthly magazine Das Magazin . In the same year he and his friend Josef Muff Sopper launched the free youth and music magazine Juke Box , in 1986 he published the monthly magazine Extrablatt , and in 1990 he published with Marian Stermschegg Montgolfier. The magazine of the balloon flight .

Helmut Qualtinger and Georg Biron 1985

In 1987 his biography Der Qualtinger appeared (with Michael Kehlmann ). In the 1990s he concentrated on screenwriting and made several television films with director Peter Patzak . In 1992 the ZDF film Das Glück is in Waikiki was nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize . In addition, the novels were published Women under a full moon , In the Park of Spies and Red is Sin . In addition to his writing activities, Georg Biron began to appear as an actor - not only in films that he realized with Peter Patzak, but also for the directors Kitty Kino ( K + M + B ), Stephan Wagner ( Nachtbus , Kubanisch rauchen ) and Valeska Grisebach ( Come on, dance with me! ).

In 2001 he turned to the stage and wrote the cabaret program Der Reiseyeti for Werner Ploner, which he also directed. In 2002 he staged the Karl Schönherr play Der Weibsteufel in Graz and wrote, produced and staged the Janis Joplin Story , a show with the music formation Beat4Feet about the life of the singer Janis Joplin . In 2003 Graz was the European Capital of Culture , and Georg Biron staged a collage with texts by Werner Schwab ( Planet Schwab ) as part of the festival . In 2004 he directed the TV feature Grenzerfahrungen (with actor Karl Merkatz ) for the first time in the medium of film. In 2017, Biron interpreted the Machatschek's "birthday song".

Georg Biron is a member of the Graz Authors' Assembly and the PEN , he published 20 books and numerous newspaper articles, wrote a dozen scripts, realized numerous cultural projects and stage productions and made a name for himself with his revealing erotic literature as well as with extensive interviews with personalities such as Elfriede Jelinek , Udo Proksch , Horst Janssen , Eric Burdon u. v. a.

Social

Georg Biron has been supporting social projects of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Austria since September 2015 and works in the Samariterbund department for public relations.

Filmography (selection)

Theater direction

  • Qualtinger lives! , staged reading with Karl Merkatz, Hanno Pöschl, Max Mayerhofer, Georg Biron, Komödie am Kai, Vienna 2008, script and direction
  • On The Road , scenic reading, Literaturhaus, Vienna 2007, script and direction
  • Qualtinger lives: Blues for a partisan , staged reading, Andino, Vienna 2006, script and direction
  • Rebellen on the Internet , play, 7stern, Vienna 2006, production, script and direction
  • The Laughing Parade , I don't need cocaine , 2 stage shows as tributes to Hermann Leopoldi and Helli Möslein, Vienna 2004, production, script and direction
  • Planet Schwab , Werner Schwab Collage near Graz 2003 (European Capital of Culture), clock tower casemates, Graz 2003, script and direction
  • Der Weibsteufel by Karl Schönherr, Theater, Uhrturmkasematten, Graz 2002, direction
  • The Janis Joplin Story , Rocktheater, Planet Music, Vienna 2002, director
  • Der Reiseyeti , cabaret with Werner Ploner, Austria 2001, script and direction
  • Love, Lust & Passion , play, 1st Viennese Reading Theater, Vienna 1998
  • Pig Malion '85 , play, Salzburg Summer Theater, Vienna 1985

Works

  • A lonely lover , Roman, Riga (Latvia) 2018, Goldene Rakete (German)
  • Letters Soup , Reader 1977–2017, Vienna 2017, Verlag Der Apfel
  • Geile Weiber , Roman, Vienna 2016, Edition Private Moments
  • Sold Beauty , Das Model-Biz (with Wolfgang Schwarz), Vienna 2015, Echomedia Verlag
  • Dirty Vienna , Roman, Vienna 2015, Edition Private Moments
  • Hai Society , 23 stories, Vienna 2014, Echomedia Verlag
  • Quasi Mr. Karl , non-fiction book, story of Mr. Karl, Vienna 2011, Braumüller Verlag
  • Sacrifice of love , story about Hari Schütz , Vienna 2008, MEL art trade
  • The pornographic Buddhist , Roman, Vienna 2008, Edition Private Moments
  • On the Road , Short Stories, Vienna 2004, Edition Private Moments
  • A culinary trip around the world , cookbook for the benefit of SOS Children's Villages (with Werner Ploner), Vienna 2004, Outdoor Print Management
  • That with men and women , short stories, Vienna 2003, Edition Private Moments
  • Rebels on the Internet , essay, Vienna 1998, Aarachne Verlag.
  • Im Park der Spione , narration, Vienna 1997, apple
  • The pornographic night , Lyrik, Vienna 1997, self-published
  • We're getting on in years , Clippings 97, Ed., Vienna 1997, Limited Edition
  • Red is Sin , Roman, Vienna 1996, Aarachne Verlag
  • Der Qualtinger , biography, Vienna 1995, Hannibal
  • Is there an afterlife? - Supernatural high-tech contacts , non-fiction book, Vienna 1994, Ueberreuter publishing house
  • Joe Berger-Lesebuch , Ed., Vienna 1994, Edition S published by the Austrian State Printing House
  • Frauen bei Vollmond , Roman, Vienna 1993, Edition S published by the Austrian State Printing House
  • Waikiki , narration, Vienna 1990, Edition Free Life.
  • The last confession - story of a betrayal , documentary novel, Vienna 1989, Edition S published by the Austrian State Printing House
  • Greeny. The green fibula , non-fiction book, Vienna 1989, Loidelsbacher
  • The Qualtinger Blues for a Partisan , biography, Vienna 1987, Verlag Kremayr and Scheriau
  • Men Men Men , Erzählungen, Vienna 1986, Edition S published by the Austrian State Printing House
  • This is America! , Mannen without women , luck and glass , Sex'n'Crime , Gravestone Land , volumes of poetry, Vienna 1985, Edition S&B
  • Highest Time , Roman, Vienna 1984, Edition S&B
  • Poems from different nights , Lyrik, Vienna 1980, Edition head notes

literature

Jürgen Zacharias: The Buddha from the suburbs. Der Herr Biron - Portrait of an Unadjusted , Vienna 2008, Edition Private Moments

Awards

  • 1989 young scholarship for literature from the Austrian Minister of Culture
  • 1980 Literature Prize of the PEN CLUB Liechtenstein for the novel Highest Time
  • 1979 Theodor Körner Prize for Literature for the novel Highest Time
  • 1976 K.Ö.LA theater award for the play Phlegma

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personal data
SURNAME Biron, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna