Christian Teissl

Christian Teissl (born August 23, 1979 in Graz ) is an Austrian writer .

Life

Christian Teissl grew up in southern Styria . He completed his studies in German and philosophy with a master's degree . As a freelance writer, he works for various magazines and publishers. He has lived mainly in Graz since 1998 .

Christian Teissl is primarily the author of poems , and he also writes literary criticism essays , feature articles and stories and acts as publisher of texts of forgotten Austrian authors. He paid particular attention to the poet Ernst Goll , who died early and was a contemporary of Georg Trakl . From 2010 to 2012 he was among the staff of the Styrian Medieval Literature Paths project , which was initiated and directed by the Graz mediavist Wernfried Hofmeister. This resulted in a dissertation project at the German Medieval Studies at the University of Graz on the Styrian minstrel and verse novellist Herrand von Wildon and his literary reception up to the present day.

In the Rosegger year 2018, he published the book “You feel like you are in the desert”, a highly acclaimed biographical essay about the old age of Peter Rosegger against the background of the First World War.

Teissl is a member of the Austrian Writers 'Association and the Austrian PEN Club and has been a board member of the Podium authors' association for several years . For 2016 and 2017 he was appointed editor of the Linz literary yearbook Facetten , and since autumn 2017 he has been a lecturer in poetics at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Poems by Christian Teissl have been translated into Polish, Italian, Serbian, Greek and Bulgarian, among others.

Awards

• 1999 Literature Promotion Prize of the City of Graz
• 2005 Promotion Prize for the Theodor-Körner-Prize
• 2011 Literature Prize of the Graz Academy, 2nd Prize

Works

• Draft of a landscape. Poems. Styrian publishing company . Graz 2001, ISBN 3-85489-055-9 .
• Paths into the absurd: to the poetry of Michael Guttenbrunner . Rimbaud, Aachen 2005, ISBN 3-89086-630-1 .
• The great rain alphabet . Poems. Rimbaud, Aachen 2006, ISBN 3-89086-605-0 .
• Kišni alfabet (Smederevska Pesnička Jesen, Međunarodni Festival Poesije, Smederevo Srbija) = The Rain Alphabet / Kristijan Tajsl. S nemačkog ireveo Zlatko Krasni, text in German and Serbian. Partly in Cyrillic, Smederevo: Meridijani 2006.
• Circumnavigations of the nameless . Poems. Echter Verlag, Würzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-429-03222-7 .
• The flower clock. Poems. Mitter-Verlag, Wels 2010, ISBN 978-3-9502277-9-6 .
• We were born in 1979. Childhood and youth in Austria. Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8313-2679-2 .
• Out of town . Poems. Horn: Berger 2016. (New Lyrik aus Österreich, Volume 15.) ISBN 978-3-85028-734-0
• “The handsome man ... with the eloquent paw” On the 90th anniversary of Bruno Ertler's death . Graz: Steiermärkische Landesbibliothek 2017. (Catalog for the exhibition of the same name)
• "You feel like you are in the desert" The slow farewell of Peter Rosegger. [Biographical essay]. Vienna, Graz, Klagenfurt: Styria Publishing Group 2018. ISBN 978-3-222-13582-8

Editing

• Max Hölzer : Woman and Bird. Klagenfurt et al. 2004
• Otto Basil : We are already mouth and urn. Aachen 2008
• with Heimo Halbrainer : Erich H. Schneider : Poems from the Paulustor. Graz 2008.
• Herta Staub : Herta F. Staub. Vienna 2009.
• with Sylvia Unterrader: encounters along time. Texts from 40 years of literature on the Podium ( anthology ). Literature edition Lower Austria, St. Pölten 2011, ISBN 978-3-902717-10-8 .
• Rudolf Henz : A premonition of eternity. Selected poems. real publishing house, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-429-03479-5 .
• Ernst Goll : In the bitter human land. The collected work. Igel-Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86815-570-9 .
• with Helmuth A. Niederle : In the middle of the sentence. Fragments. An anthology by the Austrian PEN Club, plattform Verlag, Perchtoldsdorf 2014, ISBN 978-3-9503683-1-4 .
• with Helmuth A. Niederle: Colorful stones. Freshly colored. (= penyapaa). An anthology by the Austrian PEN Club, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-85409-680-1 .
• Ernst Goll: A review. (= Series of publications of the Styrian State Library. Volume 39). Graz 2015, ISBN 978-3-9503989-1-5 .
• Ernst Goll: first prints 1910 to 1912. Graz: self-published 2016. (see the entry in the Austrian union catalog)
• Facetten 2016. Literary Almanac of the City of Linz. With illustrations by Wolfgang Hanghofer. Weitra: Provincial Library 2016, ISBN 978-3-99028-420-9
• Facets 2017. Literary Almanac of the City of Linz. With illustrations by Susanne Purviance . Weitra: Provincial Library 2017, ISBN 978-3-99028-720-0
• Aline Aliberti ( Marie Knittelfelder ): Now spread your wings, wind! , Ein Lesebuch, Wies: Edition Kürbis 2018. ISBN 978-3-900965-54-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Teissl in the catalog of the German National Library
• http://www.christianteissl.at/
• poetenladen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. Jelka Samec Sekeres, Christian Teissl in Ernst Goll. In: Odsevanja 105/106 (2018), p. 90
2. ↑ Cf. Wernfried Hofmeister, Old German Texts in Public Space. In: ZfdA 143 (2014), pp. 467–483, esp. 470. https://literaturpfade.uni-graz.at/de/
3. ↑ Cf. Christian Teissl, Hoher Courage, strong courage, bright joy. Herrand von Wildon - the Minnesian poet and his writers. In: Hengist-Magazin 2/2017, pp. 6–11.
4. ^ Renate Wagner: Christian Teissl: The slow farewell of Peter Rosegger. In: Online marker . June 14, 2018, accessed February 2, 2019 .