Christian Kössler

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Christian Kössler (born December 1, 1975 in Innsbruck ) is a writer and librarian at the University of Innsbruck .

life and work

In 2006 Kössler began to write short prose. The main focus of his works are macabre but also eerie stories that Kössler combines with local color and black humor. Since 2007 he has been on the road with reading evenings, author's lessons and culinary readings and has been a guest in Austria, Germany and other countries. In 2012 he presented a cabaret literary evening with his Tyrolean colleagues Thomas Schafferer and Daniel Suckert under the name SKS, with which he went on tour.

In 2016, Kössler took his readings to Scandinavia and the Baltic States, among others. His text Rupicapra Rupicapra was put on the longlist for the “Frankfurter Orthographie-Preis”, the eponymous short story of the Tyrolean author by Felix Gorbach and Moritz Neumayr was made as a short film with Grenzgänger 2017 and was awarded the audience award at short film festivals in Innsbruck and Wörgl. In 2018 Grenzgänger was nominated for the Shocking Shorts Award at the Munich Film Festival , in 2019 there was a nomination for the short film competition "Grenzenlos" of the Franco-German cultural broadcaster ARTE and for the Dogslaughter Film Festival in the USA. In the same year the film was a semi-finalist at the European Cinematography Award in Amsterdam.

At the University of Tartu / Estonia, several of Kössler's stories were translated into Estonian. On the occasion of a reading tour through Bosnia-Herzegovina , the author made a guest appearance in 2018 at the Austrian libraries in Banja Luka, Mostar and Sarajevo as well as at the University of Mostar and read at the literature festivals “Höhenflug” in Zug and “Prima Vista” in Tartu. Based on a course at the University of Innsbruck, “Alpi noir - Racconti di demoni e spiriti” was published in 2020, an Italian-language translation of several sagas from North, East and South Tyrol and Lombardy that Kössler had already published.

Kössler played for many years as a goalkeeper in the Tyrolean football lower house and has several appearances in the goal of the Austrian football literary national team - among others in Basel, Berlin, Ljubljana, Rome and Vienna.

He is a member of the board of IG Authors Tirol.

Works

  • Bestial Innsbruck . 12 mysteriously dark short stories. With a preface by Florian Pranger (ed.). - Innsbruck, 2007. ISBN 978-3-9501923-6-0 .
  • Innsbruck dance of death . 12 macabre and dark short stories. Zirl 2009. ISBN 978-3-9502705-1-8 .
  • Eerie Tyrol . 17 ghost and devil tales from North, East and South Tyrol retold and relocated to the present. With an afterword by Wolfgang Morscher. - Zirl, 2011. ISBN 978-3-9502705-9-4 .
  • Tyrolean Grim Reaper blues . Hypo-Roman. Innsbruck, 2013. ISBN 978-3-9503021-4-1 .
  • She will get you . Mysteriously dark short stories. Innsbruck, 2015. ISBN 978-3-9503021-9-6 .
  • The dead souls of Innsbruck . Innsbruck, 2017. ISBN 978-3-9503933-3-0 .
  • Eerie Tyrol . 17 ghost and devil tales from North, East and South Tyrol retold and relocated to the present. With an afterword by Wolfgang Morscher. - Zirl, 2018, second edition. ISBN 978-3-9504419-2-5 .
  • Alpi noir - Racconti di demoni e spiriti . Innsbruck, 2020. ISBN 978-3-903187-91-7 .

Contributions

  • As long as there are stories in Enchanted Mountains - Legends and Pictures , Bozen 2005.
  • Undead in the literary magazine Cognac & Biskotten, issue 28/2008, topic: Superstition .
  • Cash desk in the literary magazine Cognac & Biskotten, issue 33/2011, topic: odds and ends .
  • Missed in the literary magazine Cognac & Biskotten, issue 35/2013, topic: apocalyptic mood .
  • Without a trace in bay window, monthly magazine for southern Wipptal, no. 04/2013 pages 50-51 , WippMedia GmbH.
  • Celebrate in Litrero & Gioco. Festschrift Bücherei und Spielothek Telfs 2014 , compilation / publisher . Nadja Fenneberg & Sebi Seib.
  • Considerations from the goalkeeper's perspective in Wienzeile. Supranational magazine for art, literature and politics, No. 67, summer 14, page 22 , publisher VEWZ-Literaturverein.
  • Am Wasser in St. Kassian-Kalender 2015, pages 246-247 , Verlag A. Weger (Brixen / Südtirol) 2014.
  • A promise in film and photography, pages 6-9 , cultural reports from Tyrol and South Tyrol 2015.
  • Vinschgauer legend autumn in St. Kassian calendar 2016, page 277 , Verlag A. Weger (Brixen / South Tyrol) 2015.
  • Rupicapra Rupicapra in Twenty Years of Spelling Reform - An Anthology, page 8 , Study Group Reading and Spelling Today 2016.
  • Innsbruck University and State Library - Fundus of Treasures in Literatures, pages 132-133 , cultural reports from Tyrol and South Tyrol 2016.
  • Select the Army of the Night in Europe - Hall in Tirol, ed. Christine Zucchelli, pages 148-150 , Wieser Verlag 2016.
  • The warning in Gegen den Ball - when authors kick it, Leutgeb, Pöltl, Ruiss (eds.), Pages 274-275 , Sisyphus 2017.
  • At the water in Passeirer Blatt , No. 148, volume 32, page 8, August 2018.
  • Free fall in the Estonian translation Vaba langemine in the cultural magazine Müürileht , pages 38–39, May 2018.
  • I am a writer in Over the Years - 47 Tyrolean women writers remember stories and poems . Pages 101-103, pyjamaguerilleros, 2018.
  • Eating and drinking hold ... authors together too! tastes good in reading! Culinary excerpts from the Telfs library & games library , pages 12–13, 2019.

literature

  • There is no slaughter . autorevue 7/2019. Pp. 78-79.
  • Anna Fliri: Do you already know ... Christian Kössler? Innsbruck, UNIpress May 2014, page 16.
  • Helmuth Schönauer : Dancing away . Epilogue in: Christian Kössler, Innsbrucker Totentanz (pp. 133–135). Zirl, 2009
  • Helmuth Schönauer: lightning and coma . Materials on contemporary Tyrolean literature 2000–2014. Innsbruck, Vienna 2014. pp. 256–258.

Television / radio

  • Simone Lackner: Goosebumps guarantee . In: Südtirol today on February 17, 2014.
  • Martin Sailer : Christian Kössler's Unheimliche Tirol. In: ORF Tirol on November 13, 2011.
  • Felix Gorbach and Moritz Neumayr: Grenzgänger (short film based on the story of the same name by Christian Kössler; actors: Anna Mariani and Martin Strele; running time: 9 minutes) 2017
  • Christine Flatscher: TIROL DREISSIG Weekly topic "Successful Tyrolean Authors" . In: Tirol TV on June 26, 2017.
  • Kathrin Bragagna: fairy tales, magic, legends. The art of storytelling. "Eerie Tyrol" . In: RAI Südtirol on October 17, 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME Kössler, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and librarian at the University of Innsbruck
DATE OF BIRTH 1st December 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck