Bernhard Hüttenegger

Bernhard Hüttenegger (2008)

Bernhard Hüttenegger (born August 27, 1948 in Rottenmann , Styria ) is an Austrian writer .

Life

Bernhard Hüttenegger grew up in Rottenmann, where he also attended elementary and secondary school. He has two younger sisters. The late father was an employee of the Sparkasse in Rottenmann. Mother and sister ran a shoe shop in Rottenmann.

At the age of 14 he moved to Graz. There he completed his training as a primary school teacher. However, he never practiced this profession. He also studied German and history at the Karl Franzens University in Graz . When he had already started his dissertation, he came to a turning point. In 1971 he began to write regularly for the " manuscripts " and was a member of the " Forum Stadtpark ". Later he separated from the "Forum". In 1973 he decided to become a freelance writer and against studying.

As a result, he wrote as bread work for numerous magazines and daily newspapers ( Die Presse , Kleine Zeitung , Kronen Zeitung ) and was a literary critic and reviewer. He wrote down his travel and island experiences in the form of travel reports for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .

The young author enjoyed his time in Graz, he says himself that he was a "sore thumb" there and describes Graz as his "youth home". He published his first book in 1975 ( Observations of a Blind Runner ). Numerous other books with novels, poems and essays for various publishers followed. Hüttenegger also writes radio plays.

In 1978 he gave up his apartment in Graz and moved to Launsdorf in Carinthia. He spent ten years in Carinthia and went to Vienna in 1988. In 1998 Hüttenegger married his longtime partner in St. Veit an der Glan in Carinthia. Since then the author has lived alternately in Vienna and Carinthia.

The author gave his first reading in 1969 in St. Pölten. Readings followed in Moscow, Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main, Trieste , Ljubljana , Geneva, Zurich, Bern, Kiel, Vienna and in villages and cities in Styria. Because of a rare muscle disease diagnosed in 2002, he withdrew.

Stays abroad led Hüttenegger to England, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Iceland, Yugoslavia and became the starting point for publications. Hüttenegger, who is an early bird and has shifted his literary work to the morning hours, says of himself that he is more of a loner and an outsider.

In most cases, he does not use significant events as an occasion for his descriptions. It's the simple, seemingly banal situations. In Hüttenegger's works the seemingly ordinary is alienated, distorted and exposed to absurdity.

Awards

• 1975 Literature Promotion Prize of the City of Graz
• 1979 Theodor Körner Prize for Literature Promotion
• 1980 Literature Prize of the State of Styria
• 1984 Promotion Prize for Literature from the Province of Carinthia
• 1991 Theodor Körner Prize for Literature Promotion

Publications

Books

• Observations of a blind man . Prose. Vienna: Europe, 1975.
• The Siberian friendliness . Narrative. Salzburg: Residence 1977.
• Journey across the ice . Novel. Salzburg: Residence, 1979 / paperback edition 1982.
• A day without a story. Stories. Pfaffenweiler: Pfaffenweiler press 1980.
• Pursuit of dream robbers. Stories. Graz: Droschl 1980.
• The gentle wolves . Novel. Reinbek: Rowohlt 1982.
• The glass cage . Novel. Reinbek: Rowohlt 1985.
• How not to get famous True stories . Vienna: Österr. State printing office 1990.
• The camouflage color . Novel. Vienna: Zsolnay 1991.
• Felix the flea . A fable. Klagenfurt, Salzburg: Wieser 1993.
• The Paris Dog Cemetery . Stories. Klagenfurt, Salzburg: Wieser 1994.
• The innocence in the morning. Travel and writing . Vienna, Klosterneuburg: Edition va bene 2000.
• Occident . Novel. Vienna, Klosterneuburg: Edition va bene 2001.
• Who loves his son . Narrative. Klagenfurt, Vienna: Kit from 2003.
• Island of all islands . Narrative. Klagenfurt, Vienna: Kit from 2004.
• Away from it all. Travel and writing . Klagenfurt, Vienna: Kit from 2006.
• Quasi una fantasia. Poems and an erotic chamber play . Klagenfurt, Vienna: Kit from 2006.
• Rockall . Narrative. Klagenfurt, Vienna: Kit from 2006.
• Book of silence . Novel. Klagenfurt, Vienna: Kit from 2007.
• Alphabet of loneliness . Notebook 1973–2006. Klagenfurt, Vienna: Kit from 2008.
• The origin of the world . Essays. Klagenfurt, Vienna: Kit from 2009.
• I too in Arcadia . Travel novel about Italy. Klagenfurt, Vienna: Kit from 2011.
• My mother, my language . Novel. Vienna: Styria 2014.
• Confession of an old fool . Novel. Graz: Keiper 2017.
• The fish in the water. Novel. Graz: Keiper 2018.
• The sky is the roof of my skull. Vademecum. Graz: Keiper 2019.

Radio plays

• Nice silence . Austrian radio. June 6, 1978.
• Atlantis . Austrian radio. January 18, 1983.
• Quasi una fantasia . Austrian radio. May 21, 1991.
• Anatomy of the angels . A journey into the soul world of the poet Edgar Allan Poe. Austrian radio. June 28, 1994

Editing

• Poetic encounters. Intermediate sciences. Graz: Artline, 1976 (together with Rose Nager and Reinhard P. Gruber).

portrait

• "Movement and Contemplation" in the Ö1 radio series Menschenbilder of ORF from March 25, 2007, designed by Heinz Janisch.

Secondary literature

• Wurz, Irmgard: The structure of the vocabulary in Bernhard Hüttenegger using the example of the novel "Reise über das Eis". Dipl.-Arb. Vienna, 1984.

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernhard Hüttenegger in the catalog of the German National Library