Christoph W. Bauer

Christoph W. Bauer (2019)

Christoph W. Bauer at LEGIMUS in Aguntum (May 2011)

Christoph W. Bauer (* 1968 in Kolbnitz ) is an Austrian writer . He spent his youth in Lienz and Kirchberg in Tyrol and now lives in Innsbruck .

He has written several volumes of poetry, novels, radio plays and plays. He also works as an editor and looks after the poetry page in TOPIC - The Young Magazine .

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In his work, Christoph W. Bauer ties in with literary traditions as well as the tone of modern pop culture. He often chooses personalities from literary life as godfathers of his work, as most recently in his volume of poems my love my hate my middle you (2011) the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus . Guido Cavalcanti , whose work Bauer already dealt with in his prose debut Aufstummen (2004), also plays a programmatic role in this volume . In the radio play And always again Cordoba (2006), it is Ibn Hazm to whom Bauer dedicates himself, as a model for the play Miles G. (2006) he uses Miles Gloriosus by the Roman poet Plautus . At the invitation of the Literaturhaus Innsbruck, Bauer also designed several portraits, primarily of poets of the 20th century.

Bauer also sees his poetry as an attempt to continue writing on given traditions; he describes himself as poeta legens, who, while reading, finds those materials in the works of world literature that he modifies, renews, and thinks further in a distinctive tone. His most recent volume of poetry (2011), to which Niklas Holzberg contributed an epilogue, is on the one hand under the sign of the Roman poet Catullus, but also refers to pieces of music by the band Die Toten Hosen through quotations . Bauer designed his previous volumes of poetry in a similar way, in the volume supersonic published in 2005 . logbook of a journey into disappearing, he addressed death and its literary design in the history of poetry. The long tradition of fountain poems was reflected in Bauer's fontanalia.fragmente cycle published in 2003. The latter was presented to the public for the first time in 2002 in a recitation by Peter Simonischek as part of the S [PR] ING.BRUNNEN project in the arcade courtyard of Tanzenberg Castle .

In 2007, Bauer had his prose debut Aufstummen followed by the first of three books in which he deals with the history of his current place of residence, Innsbruck. Formally, Im Alphabet der Häuser (2007) also reveals a recourse to ancient traditions. In the form of a platonic dialogue , Bauer roams the eventful history of the Tyrolean capital. The murder of the Jewish businessman Richard Graubart in the November pogrom in Innsbruck in 1938 became the starting point for Bauer's book Graubart Boulevard , published in 2008 . In the story Der Buchdrucker der Medici (2009), Bauer goes on a walk through the history of book printing using a book printer from Innsbruck.

In addition to radio plays, plays, lyrics and libretti, Bauer also writes essays, columns and reviews that have been published in various newspapers, magazines and anthologies. In 2010 his first youth book Mord in Carnuntum was published in collaboration with Reinhold Embacher .

Awards

• 2001 Literature Prize of the Graz Academy for Poetry
• 2001 Reinhard Priessnitz Prize
• 2002 audience award at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
• 2002 Art Prize of the City of Innsbruck 1st Prize for Poetry
• 2004/2005 state scholarship for literature
• 2009 Travel Grant - The literary report based on Joseph Roth
• 2010 Hausacher Reading Lenz grant
• 2010 Prize of the Carinthian Writers' Association
• 2015 Outstanding Artist Award for Literature
• 2015 Tyrolean State Prize for Art

Works

Poetry

• ways branched out , poems, Haymon, 1999.
• it should be possible to rent the mobility of water , Gedichte, Haymon, 2001.
• fontanalia.fragmente , poems and prose, Haymon , 2003, ISBN 3-85218-437-1 .
• supersonic , Gedichte, Edition Korrespondenzen, 2005, ISBN 3-902113-39-1 .
• my love my hate my right in the middle of you , a love story in 37 poems, Haymon , 2011, ISBN 978-3-85218-697-9 .
• stream. poems , Haymon Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7099-7022-5 .

prose

• Aufstummen , Roman, Haymon, 2004, ISBN 3-85218-460-6 .
• In the alphabet of houses. Novel of a City , Haymon, 2007, ISBN 3-85218-546-7 .
• Graubart Boulevard , Haymon, Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-85218-572-9 .
• The Medici Printer , Haymon, 2009, ISBN 978-3-85218-600-9 .
• The second stranger . Ten Jewish life pictures. Haymon, Innsbruck 2013, ISBN 978-3-7099-7021-8 .
• In a bar under the sea . Stories. Haymon, Innsbruck 2013, ISBN 978-3-7099-7088-1 .

Editing

• Ahoy! , Poems from 25 years of Haymon Verlag, 2007 ISBN 978-3-85218-522-4 .
• As a Child I Was Wise , Childhood Texts, Haymon, 2009 ISBN 978-3-85218-611-5 .

Radio play / theater

• And again and again Cordoba , radio play (world premiere ORF-Landesstudio Tirol), 2006.
• Miles G. , play (world premiere: March 1, 2007, Westbahntheater / Innsbruck).
• Helena ex Machina , prologue behind the curtain, Maria Saal, 2009.
• Franzens Feste , radio play, ORF, 2010.

Children's and young people's book

• Murder in Carnuntum , Austrian Youth Book Club , GORILLA Volume 37, Vienna 2010.

Others

• Floating in your head. 25 poems based on sketches by Anton Christian, Haymon, 2010, ISBN 978-3-85218-616-0 .
• The second eye of Florence. On the life and work of Guido Cavalcanti . Zwiesprachen - a series of the Stiftung Lyrik Kabinett Munich. Das Wunderhorn Heidelberg, 2017, ISBN 978-3-88423-555-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Book Day: Federal Minister Ostermayer awards literary prizes 2015. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved April 30, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Orf.at - State Art Prize to Christoph W. Bauer . Article dated June 15, 2015, accessed June 15, 2015.

Web links

Commons : Christoph W. Bauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Christoph W. Bauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of Christoph W. Bauer
• Short biography and reviews of works by Christoph W. Bauer at perlentaucher.de
• Christoph W. Bauer in the poet shop
• Short biography and information on the work of Christoph W. Bauer at Literaturport
• Poems by Christoph W. Bauer on lyrikline.org (text and audio)