Arno Geiger

Arno Geiger will present his novel Unter der Drachenwand at the Leipzig Book Fair 2018 .

Arno Geiger in conversation with Felicitas von Lovenberg about his book Alles über Sally ( O-Töne 2010)

Arno Geiger (born July 22, 1968 in Bregenz , Vorarlberg ) is an Austrian writer .

Life

Arno Geiger grew up in Wolfurt , Vorarlberg. He studied German Philology , Ancient History and Comparative Literature in Innsbruck and Vienna . In 1993 he wrote a diploma thesis on coping with foreigners in the German-language long-distance travel texts of the late Middle Ages . In 1994 Geiger received his first performance scholarship.

From 1986 to 2002 he worked as a video technician at the Bregenz Festival in the summer . Geiger took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt in 1996 and 2004 . In 1997 he published his first novel Little School of Carousel Driving . In 2005 Arno Geiger received the German Book Prize for the novel Es geht uns gut . In The Old King in Exile , he dealt with his father 's Alzheimer's disease . In 2018 Geiger was awarded the Joseph Breitbach Prize . In his acceptance speech he named the leitmotif of his understanding of art and life: “Art does not save people from chaos, but from order. Art protects the individual from the one-dimensional view. People are not unique in a simple but in a complicated way. "

Arno Geiger has a sister who is a musician. Since 1993 he has lived as a freelance writer in Vienna and Wolfurt / Vorarlberg. He is married.

Works

• The pumpkin patch . Narrative. In: manuscripts . No. 134 , 1996, ISSN  0025-2638 .
• Case with contents . In: literature and criticism . No. 315/316 , 1997, ISSN  0024-466X .
• Case with contents. The best stories . dtv large print, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-423-25370-3 .
• Small school of carousel driving . Novel. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-446-19107-0 .
  • Small school of carousel driving . Novel. dtv, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-423-13505-4 .
• Will-o'-the-wisps . Novel. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-446-19779-6 .
  • Will-o'-the-wisps . Novel. dtv, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-13697-6 .
• Arno Geiger, Heiner Link: Everything on tape or Die Elfenkinder . Drama. 2001.
• Nice friends . Novel. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-446-20211-0 .
  • Nice friends . Novel. dtv, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-423-13504-7 .
• We are fine . Novel. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-446-20650-2 .
  • We are fine . Novel. dtv, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-13562-7 (paperback).
  • also audio, spoken by the author.
• Don't forget Anna . Stories. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-446-20911-4 .
  • Don't forget Anna . Stories. dtv, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-13785-0 (paperback).
  • also audio.
• All about Sally . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-446-23484-0 .
  • All about Sally . dtv, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-423-14018-8 (paperback).
  • also e-book and audio.
• The old king in his exile . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23634-9 .
  • also e-book, audio and large print
  • The old king in his exile . dtv, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-423-14154-3 .
• Arno Geiger, Meike Fessmann, Felicitas von Lovenberg: Boundaries . three speeches (and two laudations). Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23914-2 .
• Jonah is raging . Arno Geiger & Kitty Kahane tell a story from Nineveh. Hansisches Druck- und Verlagshaus / edition chrismon, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-86921-104-6 (illustrated by Kitty Kahane).
• Self-portrait with a hippo . Novel. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-24761-1 .
• Under the dragon wall . Novel. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-446-25812-9 .
• The cock crow. Three speeches . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-446-26462-5 .

Radio plays

• 2011: All about Sally. SWR, director: Leonhard Koppelmann
• 2013: My father's house has many rooms. SWR, director: Leonhard Koppelmann

Awards

• 1994: Junior scholarship from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Culture
• 1998: Abraham Woursell Award, New York
• 1999: Vorarlberg Literature Scholarship
• 2001: Sponsorship award at the Carl Mayer script competition , with Tobias Albrecht , Graz
• 2005: Sponsorship award for the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize of the city of Bad Homburg
• 2005: German Book Prize , for We are fine
• 2008: Johann Peter Hebel Prize
• 2010: Literature Prize of the Vorarlberg Book and Media Industry
• 2011: Nomination for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for The Old King in His Exile
• 2011: Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize of the City of Bad Homburg (main prize)
• 2011: Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
• 2011: “The Second Reality” award from the Sonnweid Foundation , Switzerland, for The Old King in His Exile
• 2011: Honorary award (category media and public relations) of the German Hospice and Palliative Association, for the old king in his exile
• 2011: Johann Beer Literature Prize for The Old King in His Exile
• 2012: Austrian Industry Literature Prize - Anton Wildgans
• 2013: Radio Play of the Month for August for My Father's House Has Many Rooms
• 2017: Alemannic Literature Prize
• 2018: Joseph Breitbach Prize
• 2018: Nomination for the German Book Prize ( longlist ) with Unter der Drachenwand
• 2018: Austrian Art Prize for Literature
• 2019: Literature Prize of the City of Bremen for Unter der Drachenwand
• 2019: Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
• 2019: European Literature Prize (Netherlands) for Onder de Drachenwand together with the Dutch translator Wil Hansen
• 2020: Friedrich Schiedel Prize for Literature for the novel Unter der Drachenwand

Web links

Commons : Arno Geiger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Arno Geiger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Arno Geiger at the publisher. In: hanser-literaturverlage.de. January 9, 2018, accessed December 27, 2018 . 
• The writer Arno Geiger in a Saturday conversation. In: www1.wdr.de. March 10, 2018, accessed December 27, 2018 . 
• Short biography and information on Arno Geiger's work at Literaturport
• Short biography and reviews of works by Arno Geiger at perlentaucher.de
• FM4 profile - survey (text) from March 16, 2007 as a member of the jury for wording, the FM4 (ORF) literary competition. In: fm4v2.orf.at. ORF , March 16, 2007, accessed on December 27, 2018 . 
• http://www.literaturhaus.at/index.php?id=4881
• Arno Geiger. In: Dichterlesen.net. Retrieved December 27, 2018 (readings with Arno Geiger to listen to and download). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arno Geiger in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
2. ^ Literaturhaus Wien: Geiger Arno. Retrieved October 1, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Arno Geiger received the Breitbach Prize 2018 - Awarded on September 28, 2018 in the Koblenz Theater. In: SWR2 . October 1, 2018, accessed October 3, 2018 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Alexander Solloch: Arno Geiger tells of war and hope. In: NDR culture. NRD.de, January 18, 2018, accessed on February 11, 2018 (probably only in the 43-minute radio interview itself is the sister and his marriage mentioned). 
5. ↑ https://www.kas.de/de/veranstaltungsberichte/detail/-/content/-und-was-hat-er-konrad-adenauer-dazu-gesagt- Article with photo of Arno Geiger and his wife
6. ↑ Pamela Krumphuber: Geiger, Arno. Committed to modernity. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 22, 2010 ; Retrieved on December 27, 2018 (interview on Es geht uns gut . 2 days after the German Book Prize 2005 was awarded for this work). 
7. ^ Andreas Platthaus: 1 book, 1 sentence. No hope without horror. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. January 12, 2018, accessed on December 27, 2018 (review of Unter der Drachenwand ). 
8. ↑ Carl Mayer Screenplay Competition 2001 - Topic: Pfusch - Förderungspreis. In: kultur.graz.at. Cultural Office of the City of Graz, archived from the original on July 7, 2012 ; accessed on February 11, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Lever Prize 2008 for Arno Geiger. In: hausen.pcom.de. 2008, accessed December 27, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Ulrike Längle: Laudation on the award of the Lever Prize 2008 to Arno Geiger. Happiness in unheroic times. In: hausen.pcom.de. 2008, accessed December 27, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Literature Prize 2011 Arno Geiger - Documentation of the awarding of the literature prize by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V. (PDF) In: kas.de. Günther Rüther, 2011, accessed on December 27, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Sonnweid Foundation: The Second Reality Award 2011 . Sonnweid Foundation, June 20, 2008, accessed on December 27, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Honorary Awards 2011. In: dhpv.de. German Hospice and Palliative Association, October 7, 2011, accessed on December 27, 2018 . 
14. ↑ Petra Plättner: Arno Geiger receives the Joseph Breitbach Prize 2018. Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, press release from April 26, 2018 at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de), accessed on April 26, 2018.
15. ↑ Breitbach Prize to Arno Geiger. "Mastery of Conversion". In: boersenblatt.net. Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, April 26, 2018, accessed on December 27, 2018 . 
16. ^ Anna Edlinger: Minister of Culture Blümel: Congratulations on the Austrian Art Prize 2018. In: ots.at. APA-OTS , February 8, 2019, accessed February 8, 2019 . 
17. ↑ https://www.europeseliteratuurprijs.nl
18. ↑ https://volltext.net/nachrichten/arno-geiger-friedrich-schiedel-literaturpreis/