Alois Brandstetter

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Alois Brandstetter (2018)

Alois Brandstetter (born December 5, 1938 in Aichmühl near Pichl near Wels , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian writer and philologist .

Life

After attending elementary school in Pichl, Brandstetter entered the Episcopal boys' seminar Kollegium Petrinum in Linz- Urfahr in 1949. After relegation , which took place in 1951, he moved to the grammar school in Wels (Dr.-Schauer-Strasse) in the second largest Upper Austrian city, where he passed the high school diploma in 1957 with distinction.

From the winter semester 1957/58 to the summer semester 1961 Brandstetter studied German and history at the University of Vienna ("Alma Mater Rudolfina") . In 1962 he completed his studies under doctoral supervisor Eberhard Kranzmayer with a dissertation on the subject of phonetic and meaningful studies of the dialect of Pichl near Wels .

From 1962 he was a research assistant for ancient German studies and linguistics at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken . In 1970 he completed his habilitation in Saarbrücken on the subject of prose resolution . Studies on the reception of the courtly epic in the early New High German prose novel . In 1971 he was appointed professor at Saarland University in Saarbrücken and was visiting professor at Salzburg University in the 1971/72 winter semester . In 1974 Brandstetter was appointed to a university professorship for older German language and literature at the University of Klagenfurt , which he held until 2007. He also spends his pension in Klagenfurt.

Brandstetter is married to the daughter of an Albanian who came to Austria as a refugee after the Second World War .

A "late" writer

As a writer he began to work relatively late, but quickly became known after the first sponsorship awards (1973 Upper Austria, 1975 Carinthia ). In 1979 he was a member of the jury of the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition (only for this year) .

He loves language games and gets to the bottom of his topics and memories in detail and in plastic language, but also many words in the humanistic - etymological sense. It is said that despite the fluid, often loving style, he hardly leaves a detail to chance. This is shown in a special way in the subtle choice of his titles .

A review of his "tender iron wedge" (Eisvogel; Roman 2000) describes him as a conservative author of the "old school", an esthete who sometimes feels at a loss, but looks at his surroundings with critical benevolence - and comments. He states the tolerance of those who have grown older in himself , not without rethinking the position that he has partly assumed and partly ascribed to him.

On the occasion of his honors, he recapitulated his position in Austrian-German literature and his similarities and differences to other authors. But if the criticism compares him with Peter Handke or even Thomas Bernhard, he pushes things aside, but one should n't call him too modest because of that.

The above-mentioned review says that Brandstetter has something in common with Thomas Bernhard despite his barely concealed rejection . They are both considered story destroyers. Whereby [...] the spirit of Claudio Magris is more palpable - in the sense of literary essays or essayistic literature, the foundations of which are based on Central European intellectual history .

Catalog raisonné

Books, novels

  • Examination of conscience. With etchings by Friedrich Schmitt. Beck, Paris / Zweibrücken 1969.
  • About lodgers. Linocuts by Axel Hertenstein. Harlequin Press, Pforzheim 1970.
  • Prose resolution - studies on the reception of the courtly epic in early New High German prose novels. Athenaeum, Frankfurt 1971.
  • Still greatness. Harlequin Press, Pforzheim 1971.
  • Overcoming fear of lightning. Prose texts, 1971, ISBN 3-7017-0001-X .
  • Failures - natural and art stories. 1972.
  • At the expense of the postman. Novel. 1974. (New edition: 2004, ISBN 3-7017-1376-6 )
  • The Lion's Reputation - Stories of Great Animals and Men. Residenz-Verlag , Salzburg 1976, ISBN 3-7017-0150-4 .
  • The abbey. Novel. 1977, ISBN 3-7017-0178-4 .
  • From the snow of the past years - winter and Christmas stories. Residenz-Verlag, St. Pölten 1979, ISBN 3-7017-0223-3 . (New edition: 2009, ISBN 978-3-7017-1521-3 )
  • About the low shoes of the flatlands and the majesty of the Alps. Early prose. 1980, ISBN 3-7017-0258-6 .
  • The mill. Novel. Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-7017-0273-X .
  • About the green clover of childhood. 1982, ISBN 3-7017-0301-9 .
  • Old age. Novel. Salzburg 1983, ISBN 3-7017-0343-4 .
  • The castle. Novel. Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7017-0430-9 .
  • Landessäure - strong pieces and beautiful stories. Edited by Hans-Jürgen Schrader. 1986, ISBN 3-15-008335-4 .
  • Little knowledge of the human being. 1987, ISBN 3-7017-0485-6 .
  • As true as my name is Feuerbach. Novel. Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7017-0544-5 .
  • Romulus and Wörthersee. A poetic dictionary. Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-7017-0592-5 .
  • From the man from Eicha. Novel. 1991, ISBN 3-7017-0689-1 .
  • From hearing and saying - poetic acoustics. Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-7017-0733-2 .
  • Alpine dreams. A story. Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-7017-0794-4 .
  • Here the landlord cooks. Novel. Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-7017-0898-3 .
  • Calligraphy. Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7017-1003-1 .
  • Big in motion. Novel. Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-7017-1112-7 .
  • My best stories. Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7017-1153-4 .
  • The tenderness of the iron wedge. Novel. Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-7017-1178-X .
  • The born gardener. Novel. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-423-24456-9 .
  • A vandal is not a hun. Novel. Residenz-Verlag, St. Pölten / Salzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-7017-1480-3 .
  • Cant sends his regards. Novel. Residenz-Verlag, St. Pölten / Salzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7017-1526-8 .
  • To relieve the postman. Novel. Residenz Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7017-1565-7 .
  • Goodbye sorrow! Novel. Residenz Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7017-1614-2 .
  • Aluigi's image. Novel. Residenz Verlag, St. Pölten / Salzburg / Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-7017-1647-0 .
  • Signs of life. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-7017-1702-6

Editions

  • Tristan and Isolde: prose novel. Based on the oldest print from Augsburg from 1484, provided with the readings of the 2nd Augsburg print from 1498 and a Worms print of unknown date. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1966.
  • Home is home. New home stories. 1973, ISBN 3-7017-0083-4 .
  • Austrian stories of the 20th century. 1984, ISBN 3-7017-0363-9 .
  • The place where we are. Hungarian narrator of the present. Edited together with György Sebestyén. 1985, ISBN 3-215-05343-8 .
  • Austrian stories of the 19th century. 1986, ISBN 3-7017-0456-2 .
  • Advent, Advent. Stories about the run-up to Christmas. 1988, ISBN 3-7017-0543-7 .
  • Cheerful from Austria. From Artmann to Zeemann. 1994, ISBN 3-7017-0879-7 .

Play and films

  • At the expense of the postman. Theater am Schwedenplatz (Vienna 1992).
  • At the expense of the postman. TV film , screenplay by A. Brandstetter, directed by Georg Madeja ( ORF 1984).
  • The revealing. TV film based on the novel "Die Altenehrung". Screenplay by A. Brandstetter, directed by Georg Madeja , 1985.

Awards

literature

  • Siegmund Geisler: The narrator Alois Brandstetter. Röhrig, St. Ingbert 1992, ISBN 3-924555-82-6 .
  • Egyd Gstättner (Ed.): Vom Manne from Pichl. About Alois Brandstetter. Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-7017-1120-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. Alois Brandstetter: A human friend is 80 on ORF from December 5, accessed on December 5, 2018
  2. ^ Sabine E. Selzer: Alois Brandstetter: The tenderness of the iron wedge. In: literaturhaus.at . October 18, 2000, accessed December 3, 2018 .
  3. ^ Upper Austria New (not "New Upper Austria"!) Of December 10, 2008
  4. ↑ Governor Mag. Thomas Stelzer awards Prof. Dr. Alois Brandstetter the "Cross of Merit of the State of Upper Austria for Art and Culture". In: land-oberoesterreich.gv.at. February 6, 2019, accessed August 14, 2020 .

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