Antonio Fian

Antonio Fian (2018)

Antonio Fian (born March 28, 1956 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian writer , essayist and playwright .

Life

Antonio Fian grew up in Spittal an der Drau and moved to Vienna in 1976 . He was a co-founder and editor of the literary magazine Fettfleck from 1976 to 1983 . Fian publishes in many categories, but is best known for his weekly published Dramolets. These first appeared in the Falter and since January 2005 in the Standard . His literary work appears mainly in the Graz literary publisher Droschl . Fian lives with his wife Elsbeth in Vienna- Leopoldstadt .

The screenplay for the feature film Glückhaben (2019) by Peter Payer is based on the novel The Polykrates Syndrome (2014) by Antonio Fian.

Works

Dramolet anthologies

What happened so far . Dramolette. - Graz, Vienna: Droschl 1994.
What has happened since then . Dramolette II .-- Graz: Droschl 1998.
Alarm . Dramolette III. - Graz, Vienna: Droschl 2002.
Boring questions . Dramolette IV .-- Graz, Vienna: Droschl 2007.
You can't know everything . Dramolette V. - Graz, Vienna: Droschl 2011.
Swimming lesson . Dramolette VI. - Graz, Vienna: Droschl 2016.

Novels

Schratt . Novel. - Graz, Vienna: Droschl 1992.
The Polykrates Syndrome. Literaturverlag Droschl, 2014. ISBN 978-3-85420-938-6

comics

The alpine forester. Disturbing picture stories about the violence of love, loyalty to the heart and the power of fate . Draftsman: Hansi Linthaler. - Frankfurt am Main : Eichborn 1987. ISBN 3-8218-0408-4

stories

Wasteland. Outside, day . Stories. - Graz, Vienna: Droschl 1987.
Desks of Austrian authors . Stories. Photographs. With Nikolaus Korab. - Graz, Vienna: Droschl 1987.
Heroes, first-person narrators. Seven examples . Stories. - Graz, Vienna: Droschl 1990.
Until now . Stories. - Graz, Vienna: Droschl 2004.
In sleep . Tales based on dreams. - Graz, Vienna: Droschl 2009.

theatre

The bookmakers . Director: Christian Ankowitsch . Vienna: Remise Engerthstrasse, December 11, 1992.
Peymann or The Triumph of Resistance . Director: Christian Ankowitsch. Vienna: Theater in the Künstlerhaus, 1992.
Bussi, Kant or The Recidivist . Director: Christian Ankowitsch. Stage editing: Martina Winkel . Co-production: Kulturverein Perchtoldsdorfer Kreis. Vienna: Remise ( Wiener Festwochen ), 1994.
Investigations, results . Director: Bernd Jeschek . Salzburg : Mozarteum , 1996.
Hennir . Director: Hanspeter Horner . With Isabel Karajan , Bruno Ganz , Gerhard Gruber . Vienna: Theater Nestroyhof Hamakom, 2009.

Radio plays

Stupid Kaffirs, dark continent . With Werner Kofler . Director: Hans Gerd Krogmann . ORF Vienna , RB , December 1, 1987.
The Redeemer . With Werner Kofler. Director: Hans Gerd Krogmann. ORF Vienna, HR , May 18, 1989.

Essay volumes

There is a look after the look . Essays. - Graz, Vienna: Droschl, 1989.
Hell, paradise lost . Essays and Polemics. - Graz, Vienna: Droschl 1996.

Further publications

3 pieces Austria . With Elisabeth Reichart , Bodo Hell . - Salzburg: edition eizenbergerhof / edition prolit 1996.
Lieselotte . Director: Johannes Fabrick. Wega Film , Vienna, 1998
Bad content in low forms . Poems. - Vienna, Graz: Droschl 2000.
Death on the moon . for the siren opera theater 2007.
Do like the egg timer [poems]. - Vienna, Graz: Droschl 2018, ISBN 9783990590119 .

Awards

1980: Junior scholarship from the Federal Ministry for Education and Art for Literature
1985: State grant from the Federal Ministry for Education and Art for Literature
1988: Prize of the City of Vienna for Literature
1990: Austrian State Prize from the Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts for cultural journalism
1992: Promotion Prize of the Province of Carinthia for Literature
1994: Sponsorship award for the Hans Erich Nossack Prize
1996/97: Project grant from the Federal Ministry for Science, Transport and Art
2001: Austrian Promotion Prize for Literature
2004: Promotion Prize for the Lessing Prize for Criticism
2009: Johann Beer Literature Prize from the Upper Austrian Medical Association and Deutsche Bank
2014: Humbert Fink Literature Prize of the City of Klagenfurt
2014: Longlist at the German Book Prize with The Polykrates Syndrome
2018: Reinhard Priessnitz Prize

Web links

Literature by and about Antonio Fian in the catalog of the German National Library
Antonio Fian at Droschl-Verlag
Antonio Fian at Pearl Divers
Antonio Fian on derstandard.at

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↑ ^a ^b ^c Antonio Fian in Munzinger , accessed on February 14, 2015.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Antonio Fian: Short biography , Literaturhaus Wien on June 1, 2007, accessed on February 14, 2015.
^ Austrian Film Institute: lucky . Retrieved November 21, 2019.
^ Lieselotte , Wega Film, accessed on February 14, 2015.
^ German Book Prize 2014: Jury nominated 20 novels , German Book Prize on August 13, 2014, accessed on February 14, 2015.
↑ derStandard.at: Antonio Fian receives Reinhard Priessnitz Prize . Article dated July 2, 2018, accessed July 3, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Fian, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian writer, essayist and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH	March 28, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH	Klagenfurt

[Munzinger-1] Antonio Fian in Munzinger , accessed on February 14, 2015.

[LW-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Antonio Fian: Short biography , Literaturhaus Wien on June 1, 2007, accessed on February 14, 2015.

[filminstitut-heft-3] Austrian Film Institute: lucky . Retrieved November 21, 2019.

[4] Lieselotte , Wega Film, accessed on February 14, 2015.

[5] German Book Prize 2014: Jury nominated 20 novels , German Book Prize on August 13, 2014, accessed on February 14, 2015.

[6] derStandard.at: Antonio Fian receives Reinhard Priessnitz Prize . Article dated July 2, 2018, accessed July 3, 2018.