Daniel Wisser

Daniel Wisser (2018)

Daniel Wisser reads from STANDBY in the Literaturhaus Graz (2012)

Daniel Wisser (born May 21, 1971 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian writer and musician.

Life

Daniel Wisser studied German at the University of Vienna . Since 1990 he has written prose , poetry and radiophonic works and is active as an editor and publisher of contemporary literature. His debut novel Dopplergasse Acht was published in 2003 by Ritter Verlag . In 2011, Wisser took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt . In the same year his second novel STANDBY was published, which attracted a lot of attention with its instruction-based language, which is almost entirely passive.

He was awarded the Austrian Book Prize 2018 for his novel Queen of the Mountains .

As a musician, Daniel Wisser has been a member of the band First Vienna Home Organ Orchestra since 1994 .

Trivia

In 2017, Wisser appeared as a candidate at the millionaire show with Armin Assinger , where he made it to the hot seat and mastered 14 of 15 questions with flying colors. In the million question, however, he got out and won 300,000 euros.

Awards

2007 Austrian State Scholarship for Literature
2011 sponsorship award from the state of Carinthia
2013, 2015, 2017 Elias Canetti Scholarship from the City of Vienna
2018: Johann Beer Literature Prize for Queen of the Mountains
2018: Austrian Book Prize for Queen of the Mountains

Movies

Reading from STANDBY in brut Wien , Daniel Wisser in conversation with Franz Schuh , September 27, 2011 in brut Wien, online youtube.com 8:04
Reading from "A White Elephant", September 6, 2013 in the MuseumsQuartier , online youtube.com 11:45

Works

Literature literature. DeutschlandRadio, Berlin 1993.
The star in the west. ORF, Vienna 1995.
Long leg and frange leg. ORF, Vienna 1996.
Dopplergasse eight. Ritter Verlag , Klagenfurt 2003, ISBN 3-85415-338-4 .
The door. ORF, Vienna 2008.
STANDBY. Klever Verlag , Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-902665-37-9 .
A white elephant. Roman, Klever Verlag , Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-902665-68-3 .
No word for blue. Stories, Klever Verlag , Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-903110-06-9 .
Lions in the wasteland. Roman, Jung und Jung , Salzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-99027-095-0 .
Queen of the Mountains. Roman, Jung und Jung , Salzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-99027-224-4 .

Web links

Commons : Daniel Wisser - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Kleine Zeitung: Austrian Book Prize goes to Daniel Wisser, Debut Prize for Marie Gamillscheg . Article dated November 5, 2018, accessed November 5, 2018.
↑ Millionaire show: 300,000 euros won at Assinger . In: www.kleinezeitung.at . ( kleinezeitung.at [accessed on May 9, 2017]).
↑ orf.at: Johann Beer Literature Prize for Daniel Wisser . Article dated October 29, 2018, accessed October 30, 2018.
↑ Daniel Wisser: "A separate form for every text" ( Memento from September 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Interview with APA, Kleine Zeitung, June 27, 2011
^ Daniel Wisser: Pre-print from STANDBY in Die Presse , 23 September 2011
↑ Alexander Kluy: Review: The World - An Error Message Der Standard, May 18, 2012

personal data
SURNAME	Knower, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 21, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	Klagenfurt

[kleinezeitung5510115-1] Kleine Zeitung: Austrian Book Prize goes to Daniel Wisser, Debut Prize for Marie Gamillscheg . Article dated November 5, 2018, accessed November 5, 2018.

[2] Millionaire show: 300,000 euros won at Assinger . In: www.kleinezeitung.at . ( kleinezeitung.at [accessed on May 9, 2017]).

[3] orf.at: Johann Beer Literature Prize for Daniel Wisser . Article dated October 29, 2018, accessed October 30, 2018.

[4] Daniel Wisser: "A separate form for every text" ( Memento from September 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Interview with APA, Kleine Zeitung, June 27, 2011

[5] Daniel Wisser: Pre-print from STANDBY in Die Presse , 23 September 2011

[6] Alexander Kluy: Review: The World - An Error Message Der Standard, May 18, 2012