Bernhard Aichner

Bernhard Aichner (2018)

Bernhard Aichner (* 1972 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian writer and photographer.

Life

Bernhard Aichner spent his childhood in East Tyrol . At the age of 17 he dropped out of high school in Lienz and went to Innsbruck. There he worked first as a waiter and then as a photo lab technician. During this time he started writing. In 1992 he completed the Matura at the grammar school for working people. He then studied German and turned his passion into a profession: photography. He contributed to numerous art catalogs and worked for five years as a photographer for the Austrian daily newspaper Kurier . In parallel, he published in literary magazines and gave first readings.

In 2000 he opened a photography studio. In the same year his first volume of short stories, Babalon, was published by Skarabaeus Verlag. Two years later, his first novel The Necessities About Happiness was published . In 2004, his play Pissoir was premiered at the Tyrolean Dramatists Festival. At the same time he began work on his new novel Nur Blau , which was published in March 2006. In spring 2006, ORF produced his radio play Schick . His piece Poltern was also premiered. In October 2008 Super Andi , a commissioned work for the Tiroler Landestheater , premiered in the Kammerspiele. In February 2009 his third novel Snow Comes was published by Skarabaeus Verlag. In August 2010, Aichner's first crime thriller, Die Schöne und der Tod, was published by Haymon Verlag . In 2011 the second Max Broll crime thriller Forever Dead followed and in 2012 funeral games . Also in 2012, the ORF radio play production Our dear neighbor Dr. Fuchs premiered.

Today Bernhard Aichner lives in Innsbruck with his wife and three children.

Awards

• 1995 ÖH literature prize
• 1998 Brachland Literature Prize
• 2002 Art Prize of the City of Innsbruck
• 2006 Christoph Zanon Literature Prize
• 2008 Austrian State Scholarship for Literature
• 2008 Tyrolean state scholarship for literature
• 2014 Burgdorf Crime Award
• 2015 Crime Cologne Award for Totenfrau
• 2017 Friedrich Glauser Prize (Best Novel) for an interview with a murderer

Works

Books

• Babalon. Stories. Scarab Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-7066-2209-2 .
• The essentials about happiness. Roman, Scarab Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-7082-3152-X .
• Just blue. Roman, Scarab Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-7082-3200-3 .
• Snow is coming. Roman, Scarab Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7082-3243-0 .
• Badland . Thriller, btb Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-442-75638-4 .
• Cashmere feeling: A little novel about love , Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2019, ISBN 978-3-7099-3456-2
• The find . Thriller, btb Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-442-75783-1 .

Max Broll series

• Beauty and death. A Max Broll thriller. Roman, Haymon Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-85218-827-0 .
• Forever dead. A Max Broll thriller. Roman, Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2011, ISBN 978-3-85218-882-9 .
• Funeral games. A Max Broll thriller. Roman, Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2011, ISBN 978-3-85218-915-4 .
• Interview with a murderer. A Max Broll thriller. Roman, Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2016, ISBN 978-3-7099-7133-8 .

The woman of the dead trilogy

• Woman of the dead. Roman, btb Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-442-75442-7 .
• House of the dead. Roman, btb Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-442-75455-7
• Totenrausch , Roman, btb Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3442756377

Plays

• Vegas. Commissioned for the Westbahntheater. Director: Alexander Kratzer. Premiere March 2009.
• Super Andi. Commissioned for the Tiroler Landestheater. Director: Christian Hilmbauer, Premiere October 2008
• Urinal. with Johannes Nikolussi . Director: Thomas Gassner. Premiere May 2004, production by the Tiroler Landestheater.
• Rumble. Production as part of the Tyrolean Dramatists Festival. Premiere June 2006, Literaturhaus am Inn
• Woman of the dead. Stage version together with Susanne Felicitas Wolf, premiere June 2018
• Lucifer. Commissioned for the Melk Summer Games. WP June 2018.

Radio plays

• Fancy. ORF production. Director: Martin Sailer . Premiere April 2006
• Our dear neighbor Dr. Fox. Director: Martin Sailer. WP July 2012 i
• Play. ORF radio play, director: Martin Sailer, world premiere 2015

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernhard Aichner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of Bernhard Aichner
• Interview with Bernhard Aichner in the PRESSE
• Portrait Bernhard Aichner - World on Sunday