Christian Futscher

Christian Futscher (born April 19, 1960 in Feldkirch / Vorarlberg ) is an Austrian writer .

Life

Christian Futscher studied German and Romance languages at the University of Salzburg . He has been based in Vienna since 1987 , where, in addition to various other activities, he was temporarily tenant of a wine tavern in Josefstadt . In 1998 he took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt .

Christian Futscher is the author of prose texts , poetry and radio plays . His works tend mainly towards the satirical and grotesque .

Christian Futscher has been a member of the Graz Authors' Assembly since 1994 .

Awards

• 1985 Culture Prize of the City of Feldkirch
• 1989 Audience Award for the Max von der Grün Prize
• 1995 Prize in the " Open Mike " competition of the Berlin Literature Workshop
• 2001 Austrian State Scholarship for Literature
• 2003 Brixen-Hall prose prize
• 1992 and 2006 Vorarlberg literature scholarship
• 2008 Dresden Poetry Prize
• 2016: Artist in Residence at Villa Sträuli in Winterthur

Works

• What the Adler tells me , Vienna 1995
• Look, the little bird! , Vienna 1996
• A successful evening , Berlin 1997
• The pugs bark from the warm hut or From Radviliskis to Siauliai , Vienna 1999 (together with Uwe Schloen)
• Nidri , Graz 2000
• Soledad or in the south below , Vienna u. a. 2000
• Men like us , Vienna and the like a. 2002
• Small letters , Wangersen 2005 (together with Uwe Schloen)
• Well and good , Graz u. a. 2005
• Dr. Bird or what! , Vienna 2006
• Flowers of the Blood , Poems (special issue of the literary magazine miromente ), Dornbirn 2007
• Poems for Astrid , Humoreske (About Astrid Lindgren [1] ), Glarean Magazin 2007
• Arrow in the eye . Czernin, Vienna 2008.
• Courage, little darling . Czernin, Vienna 2011.
• Marzipan from Marseille . Poems. Czernin, Vienna 2013. ISBN 978-3-7076-0445-0 .
• The man who couldn't stand the sight of women eating . An adventure novel. Czernin, Vienna 2014.
• Frau Grete and the penchant for beauty . Czernin, Vienna 2015. ISBN 978-3-7076-0527-3 .
• What the meerkats tell me . Texts with animals. Czernin, Vienna 2016. ISBN 978-3-7076-0573-0 .
• Who is lonely in the big city . Stories. Czernin, Vienna 2017. ISBN 978-3-7076-0614-0 .

Web links

• Christian Futscher (literary publisher Droschl)
• Christian Futscher - bachmannpreis.orf.at
• Christian Futscher - vorarlberg.at
• Literature by and about Christian Futscher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Christian Futscher at perlentaucher.de