Andreas Weber (writer)

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Andreas Raimund Weber (born December 24, 1961 in Horn (Lower Austria) ) is an Austrian writer and filmmaker .

Life

He spent his childhood in Gobelsburg and Langenlois. He attended the Bundesrealgymnasium Krems and studied German and history in Vienna. As a student trainee, he worked in various professions, including in factories, as a representative in Germany, as a gas pipeline fitter, in the advertising industry and as a journalist. He wrote film and literary reviews, portraits of authors, articles in chronicles and reports. After completing his studies in December 1990, he worked part-time in Vienna for intercultural learning, in addition to translating practical texts and working as a journalist. From summer 1992 he worked as a language teacher in Nova Gorica (Slovenia), from September 1992 to June 1993 in England, Ilfra-combe / Devon, then from September 1993 to July 1994 AHS teaching internship, from September 1994 to February 1998 professional and Social pedagogue in an integration project for unemployed young people in Wels.

He has been a freelance writer, editor and filmmaker since February 1998, and he also writes author portraits and reviews . He publishes in numerous literary magazines and anthologies as well as radio articles ( Ö1 , Radio Niederösterreich , Radio Oberösterreich , NDR , Hanover) and gives readings. He has been a member of the Graz Authors' Assembly since 1998 . Translations into Hindi, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak.

Weber is a professor of German and history at the Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium in Perg .

Awards and grants

  • Hans Weigel Literature Fellowship 1995
  • Working grants from the Federal Ministry of Education, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
  • Work grants from the City of Linz 1997, 1998
  • Working grants from the state of Upper Austria in 1996, 1998, 2003
  • Theodor Körner Fund Award 1998
  • Rome grant from the BM for August 1999
  • Recognition award of the state of Lower Austria for literature 1999
  • Works scholarship from the Literar-Mechana 2000/01
  • Adalbert Stifter grant 2002
  • State grant 2006/07
  • Switzerland grant from ULNÖ, May 2007
  • Factory grant 2008

Publications

  • Veitels Traum - Roman Picus Verlag, Vienna, 2010, approx. 190 pages ISBN 978-3-85452-665-0
  • Not like that! - Sentimental Stories Picus Verlag, Vienna, 2007, 168 pages ISBN 978-3-85452-624-7
  • Romans Boobs - Narrative With Graphics by Bettina Patermo, Edition Thurnhof, Horn, 2007, 22 pages
  • Lanz - Roman Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg, 2004, 200 pages
  • Rebellen - A drama in III acts, in: Lower Austria Dramenanthologie, Verlag Literaturedition Niederösterreich, 2000, 40 pages, world premiere on January 23, 2003, Stadttheater St. Pölten , Werkstattbühne
  • Blind book - a novella with graphics by Georg Koenigstein, Verlag Edition Koenigstein, Klosterneuburg, 2003, 35 pages
  • Paliano - texts and images together with Leopold Federmair, Helda Cmelka, Judith Fischer and Domenico Riccardi, Verlag Literaturedition Niederösterreich, St. Pölten 2002, 96 pages
  • Der Speckjäger - An essay about encounters with the writer and typesetter Hermann Gail, with photos by Joerg Th. Burger, Verlag Literaturedition Niederösterreich, St. Pölten 1997, 54 pages
  • Night game - eight stories in one landscape, Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Vienna / Linz / Weitra / Munich 1996, 174 pages

editor

  • When I once interviewed Harreither in the shower - 11 texts on Austrian football (edited with Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler), contributions by Gustav Ernst, Erich Hackl, Gerhard Jaschke, Erwin Riess, Gerhard Roth, Margit Schreiner, Johann Skocek, Alfred Tatar , Andreas Weber and Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler, Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg, 2008, 155 pages
  • Ritalin Baby - 7 Austrian and 7 Czech stories (together with Walter Kohl) Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Vienna / Linz / Weitra / Munich 2008, 200 pages
  • Stifter reloaded - a dozen colored stones - acc. hsgg. with Rudolf Habringer and Walter Kohl, with texts by the editors and by Margit Schreiner, Adelheid Dahiméne, Hans Eichorn a. a., short stories, Picus Verlag, 2005
  • Experienced history (together with Walter Kohl), Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus, 2004
  • The scholar from the left gallows - Fritz Habeck, Roman, Otto Müller Verlag, 2004
  • Behind the no man's land - changing to cheerful, Bohemian and Austrian stories (together with Rudolf Habringer and Walter Kohl), edition sandkorn, 2003
  • Before writing - alongside writing , 52 Lower Austrian authors, Literature Calendar 2002, Verlag Literaturedition Niederösterreich, 2002
  • He can let fly - Conversations and texts about Bernhard Wicki - (Conversations with Armin Mueller-Stahl, Michael Haneke, Elisabeth End-riss, Peter Kremer and others, texts by: Robert Buchschwenter, Christian Cargnelli, Stefan Grissemann, Andrea Lang / Franz Marksteiner, Michael Omasta, Bernhard Seiter, Andreas Weber and others) Verlag Literaturedition Niederösterreich, 2000
  • Lower Austria authors 2000 , inventory of the state's literary scene, brochure from the cultural department of Lower Austria, 2000
  • The Lion Call - Hermann Gail (Novel, Provincial Library, 1998)
  • Dear Fritz - Texts and conversations about Fritz Habeck (contributions: Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler, Karl Markus Gauß, Milo Dor, Robert Menasse, Hermann Schreiber, Karl Müller, Carl Szokoll, Richard Pils, Andreas Weber) Verlag Literaturedition Niederöster-reich, 1998
  • Thoughts in the Night - Fritz Habeck (Stories 1948-1958), Provincial Library, 1995

Movies

  • The perfect moment - a film about Mario Kempes (book, director, prod .: Fischerfilm, Linz / Vienna 2006)
  • Maximilian Schell Idea, curation and planning of the first Austrian retrospective in FILM-ARCHIV AUSTRIA, from December 1, 2005 to January 6, 2006
  • Bernhard Wicki Idea, curation and planning (together with Robert Buchschwenter) of the first Austrian retrospective at FILM-ARCHIV AUSTRIA, from May 5th to 25th, 2000
  • Der Speckjäger - A portrait of the writer and typesetter Hermann Gail (screenplay, direction, production management, prod .: PRISMA-Film / Vienna, DV, 45 min, color, 1999)
  • Dear Fritz-A film about the writer Fritz Habeck (30 min / 16mm / b / w, idea and book, realization together with Joerg Th. Burger, Prod .: NAVIGATOR -Film, Vienna, 1995)
  • Rebels premiere on January 23, 2003, Stadttheater St. Pölten, Werkstattbühne

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.borg-perg.eduhi.at/BorgPerg/Seiten/index1.php?choosenLink=7 - teachers who work at BORG Perg, accessed on February 19, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weber, Andreas Raimund (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Horn (Lower Austria)