Armin Gatterer

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Armin Gatterer (born May 9, 1959 in Bozen , Italy ) is a writer and administrative officer for culture from South Tyrol .

Life

From 1978 Armin Gatterer studied German and philosophy at the Universities of Innsbruck , Würzburg and Vienna . In 1984 he received his doctorate with a dissertation submitted in Innsbruck on the valences of certain nouns . From 1986 to 1989 he was a teacher at a secondary school, and in 1986 and 1987 also cultural editor of the ff . From 1989 he worked as an advisor to the South Tyrolean Provincial Council for Culture and Education Bruno Hosp . In 1999 Gatterer was appointed to the board of directors of Eurac Research . In 2003 he ran on the list of the SVP for the South Tyrolean state parliament , but could not win a mandate. From 2004 he worked as a department director in the German culture department of the South Tyrolean regional administration. In 2016, Provincial Councilor Philipp Achammer commissioned him to manage the education promotion, German culture and integration departments.

In addition to his job, Gatterer is also active in literature. In 1981 he was a co-founder of the culture magazine “ Die Distel ”, published in Bolzano , of which he was an editor until 1996. In 1986 he took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt . Gatterer lives in Bolzano.

Armin Gatterer is the author of short stories , essays , poems and plays .

He is a member of the Liechtenstein PEN Club . In 1987 he was awarded the Brixen-Hall prose prize , and in 1980 the Liechtenstein Prize of the PEN Club Liechtenstein for an essay on Albert Camus .

Works

  • Sun, big spider , Bozen 1981
  • Head scaffolding , Bolzano 1983
  • Geneva novellas , Innsbruck 1991
  • Eye levels. Essays on Politics and Culture , Bozen 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation by Armin Gatterer (University of Innsbruck, 1984)
  2. ↑ Review by Johann Holzner: http://www.uibk.ac.at/brenner-archiv/literatur/tirol/rez_03/holzner_augenhoehen.html
personal data
SURNAME Gatterer, Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer (South Tyrol)
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano