Alfred Goubran

Author and musician Alfred Goubran 2012

Alfred Goubran (born January 6, 1964 in Graz ) is an Austrian author , musician , reviewer , publisher and translator .

life and work

Alfred Goubran, the Egyptian father and Austrian mother, spent the first years of his life in Graz and Iserlohn. After the death of his father, he moved to Carinthia . First publications in literary magazines, performances and readings from 1981. In 1993 he founded the publishing house edition selene in Klagenfurt . 1998 Relocation to Vienna , which also becomes the new location of the publishing house. While he was a publisher, Goubran published - with one exception: Der Pöbelkaiser. Ein Brief (2002) - no works of his own and only works as editor and translator. In 2010 the publisher ceases business. In the same year Goubran's debut novel "Aus."

Alfred Goubran is a corresponding member of the Academia de Jubarte, Imbassai, Brazil and a member of the Moscow Poetry Club. In summer 2011 he was Max Kade Writer-in-Residence at the Deutsches Haus at New York University, in 2012 for four months and in 2014 for three months at the Cité des Arts in Paris. In 2016 his third novel “The Last Journal” and the volume of poetry “Gebete & Sitzbilder” will be published. In May 2017 the prose text "Heart. A Constitution" was published.

Since 2010 he has been running the music project [goubran]. The first CD “Die Glut” was released in 2014 by Lindo Records Vienna, the second CD “irrlicht” in 2016 by the Konkord label, Vienna. With the release of the LP (compilation) "Ships from Snow" (Label: Konkord, Vienna) in November 2016, the [goubran] project will come to a preliminary conclusion. 2018 first release of the music project NABIL with the CD "Relocated", which exclusively contains cover versions by Bob Dylan, Jaques Brel, Jimmy Davies and others. a. m. includes. Live performances solo and as NABIL & friends (with Hannes Wirth and Stephan Stanzel).

Alfred Goubran lives in Vienna.

Works (selection)

• Considerations in the finiteness of free fall , Lyrik, Alekto Verlag, Klagenfurt 1987
• Riedmüller , Suada, Röschnar Verlag, Klagenfurt 1992
• Der Pöbelkaiser , A letter, Residenz Verlag, Salzburg – Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7017-1287-5
• Gate . Kitab Verlag; 2007. ISBN 3-902585-15-3
• Place . Stories, Braumüller Verlag , Vienna 2010. ISBN 978-3-99200-011-1
• Out. Roman, Braumüller Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-99200-016-6
• Small country studies . Essaí. Braumüller Verlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-99200-052-4
• The trained Austrian . Idioticon. Braumüller Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-99100-095-2
• Through the time in my room . Novel. Braumüller Verlag, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-99200-104-0
• Ships made of snow . Appreciation booklet. Fidibus, Klagenfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-9503716-0-4
• You are nobody where I live. Prosaminiatures, facsimiles with photos by Gerhard Maurer. Malandro Verlag, Klagenfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-902973-15-3
• The last journal . Roman, Braumüller Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-99200-133-0
• Prayers & Seated Images . Poems, with drawings by Simon Goritschnig, curated by Boris Manner, Drava Verlag, Klagenfurt 2016, ISBN 978-3-85435-791-9
• HEART . A constitution. Braumüller Verlag, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-99200-183-5
• Technical animals . Poems, with drawings by Kazaki Maruyama, Limbus Verlag, curated by Boris Manner, Innsbruck 2018, ISBN 978-3-99039-135-8
• Pain and presence, scratches . Essai. Braumüller Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-99200-254-2

Translations

• The perfumed garden . A handbook of Arabic love art. Transposition of the book The Perfumed Garden by Sheik Nefzawi, edition selene, Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-85266-207-7 .
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman : The Yellow Wallpaper . Narrative, edition selene, Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-85266-270-1

Release

• per head . Culture magazine Carinthia, 1995–1996
• State Prize. The Bernhard case . edition selene, Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-85266-036-3
• Anton Überfelders Carinthian Idioticon . Heyn Verlag, Klagenfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-7084-0504-9

Plays

• Kaspel Monologue, premiered in Vienna 2002, directed by Wolfgang Palka, with Hubert Wolf ; Retrieved Feb. 11, 2013
• Host . Monologue, premiered in 2012 at the RAJ, Klagenfurt with Heinrich Baumgartner and Alfred Goubran ; Retrieved December 10, 2016

Discography

• [goubran], EP, [goubran] REC., Vienna 2013
• Die Glut, CD, produced by Oliver Welter, with Stefan Deisenberger and Oliver Welter, Lindo Records, Vienna 2014
• irrlicht, CD konkord, Vienna 2016
• Ships from Snow, LP, compilation, konkord, Vienna 2016
• Relocated, CD, with Hannes Wirth, Lukas Lauermann, Markus Perner, Stefan Deisenberger, Lindo Records, Vienna 2018

Web links

• Literature by and about Alfred Goubran in the catalog of the German National Library
• The smallheater as a revolutionary , essay in Berliner Zeitung from June 5, 1999
• We only have imitations , interview in the Standard from May 5, 2012
• The Viennese aggression is unbelievable , interview in Standard from October 25, 2013
• You can only experience the whole thing in art , interview in Die Presse on August 2, 2014
• I was always AntiEstablishment Bob Dylan interpreted by Nabil , Nabil interview in Die Presse on September 30, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ KulturServerGraz: Alfred Goubran ; Retrieved Feb. 24, 2012
2. ↑ [1] ; accessed on Nov. 2, 2016
3. ↑ The Gap: "Views from the sidelines" ; Retrieved Jan. 24, 2014
4. ^ Presentation of the authors , Braumüller Verlag
5. ↑ Rolling Stone: "The Last Journal" ; Retrieved June 9, 2016
6. ↑ [2] , [goubran]
7. ↑ [3] , NABIL