Axel Karner

Axel Karner (born May 18, 1955 in Zlan , Carinthia ) is an Austrian writer.

life and work

Karner studied Protestant theology , theater studies , psychology and religious education . From 1987 to 1988 he did community service in the Evangelical Hospital in Vienna . From 1994 to 2001 he was editor of the magazine Das Wort. Austrian magazine for Protestant religious instruction . Since 1974 he has lived in Vienna as an author and teacher for Protestant religion , social learning and performing games .

He is a member of the International Dialect Institute (IDI), the Austrian Dialect Authors / Archives (ÖDA), the Graz Authors 'Assembly (GAV), the Literature Circle Podium and the Austrian Writers' Association .

Karner writes poems and crime short stories in dialect and written language, sharply demarcating dialect as an authentic form of language from "dialect" with its traditionalist connotations.

Works

• A meada is aa lei a human. Poems. Alekto Verlag, Klagenfurt 1991, ISBN 3-900743-67-3 .
• A ongnoglts child. Poems. Alekto Verlag, Klagenfurt 1995, ISBN 3-900743-12-6 .
• Georg Schurl. Killer. Crime stories. Alekto Verlag, Klagenfurt 1997, ISBN 3-900743-97-5 .
• Cross. Poems. With paper cutouts by Jo Kuehn . Provincial Library, Weitra 2003, ISBN 3-85252-455-5 .
• schottntreiba. Poems. Provincial Library, Weitra 2004, ISBN 3-85252-568-3 .
• From the first look through the fabric on November 10th and after. Crime stories. Provincial Library, Weitra 2007, ISBN 978-3-85252-796-3 .
• The spines of the rosary. Lisbon poems. Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2007, ISBN 978-3-85129-708-9 .
• Chanson Grillée. Poems. Illustrations by Anne Seifert. Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2010, ISBN 978-3-85129-900-7 .
• The pink balcony. Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2012, ISBN 978-3-99029-033-0 .
• The white anger. Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2015, ISBN 978-3-99029-162-7 .
• Selected poems. Podium Verlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-902886-21-7 .
• The tongue dried. Jezik posušen. Five poems in four languages ​​and a zero line. Drawings Wilhelm Dabringer. Slovenian by Ivana Kampuš. Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2019, ISBN 978-3-99029-342-3 .

Editing

• Bernhard C. Bünker : Wos ibableibt. Dialect poems. Edited and with accompanying texts by Manfred Chobot and Axel Karner. Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2018. ISBN 978-3-7084-0620-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Axel Karner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Poems by Axel Karner on lyrikline.org (text and audio)