David GL Weiss

David GL Weiss, 2014.

David GL Weiss (full name: David Gustav Leopold Weiss ; born February 4, 1978 in Vienna ) is an Austrian writer .

Life

David Weiss completed his studies in cultural and social anthropology at the University of Vienna in 2009. His diploma thesis "The circumnavigation of the Austrian frigate SMS Novara in the years 1857-1859" has been published in a revised form as a book. Since 2005 he has been working as a freelancer for Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, he can be heard regularly on Ö3's program Einfach zum Nachmachen . In 2005 he received the Lower Austrian State Exhibition Medal . In the period from 2006 to 2012, several dependent publications on cultural-historical topics were published. Between 2009 and 2011 he published three detective novels with Gerd Schilddorfer .

Works

• Miasma or The Stone Guest, with Richard Steurer, Vier-Viertel-Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902141-33-0
• Ewig, with Gerd Schilddorfer, Langen Müller, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7844-3191-8 .
• Narr, with Gerd Schilddorfer, Langen Müller, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7844-3235-9
• The Novara - Austria's dream of world power, with Gerd Schilddorfer, Amalthea, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85002-705-2
• Just to think about, with August Staudenmayer and Christian Stuhlpfarrer, Amalthea, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85002-737-3
• The seven faces of Doctor Faust, Edition Karo , Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-937881-58-4
• Teufel, with Gerd Schilddorfer, Langen Müller, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7844-3267-0
• Power. Langen Müller, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7844-3336-3
• Law. Langen Müller, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7844-3374-5

Articles and catalog contributions

• Character assassination? - The Novara expedition to the Solomon Islands. In: Hermann Mückler (ed.): Austrians in the South Seas - researchers, travelers, emigrants., Austria: Research and Science - Cultural and Social Anthropology Vol. 1, LIT Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-50390-9
• The Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, 1857-1859: Economic and Colonial Motivations and the Forgotten Photographer. In: James Braund (ed.): Ferdinand Hochstetter and the Contribution of German-Speaking Scientists to New Zealand Natural History in the Nineteenth Century, Germanica Pacifica - Volume 10, Peter Lang, 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-60408-3
• Don Juan and Dr. Fist. In: Richard Steurer, Markus Vorzellner (ed.): Mozart (v) explain. - Publication for the 2006 Mozart Symposium in the Society for Music Vienna (April 21-22, 2006), Praesens 2010, ISBN 978-3-7069-0603-6
• Children of our time - writers as cultural anthropologists. In: Die Maske - Journal for Cultural and Social Anthropology, No. 3 (pp. 78–81), Vienna, 2008, ISSN  1996-5249
• France, Pöchlarn, the Danube, and everything is OK! In: Stadtmarketing “Atelier an der Donau” (ed.): “Atelier an der Donau 2006” (pp. 4–7), catalog for the international artist symposium “Atelier an der Donau” and “1. Pöchlarn Art Prize “in Pöchlarn / Lower Austria, 2006.
• Animals and Religion In: Gemeinde Heldenberg (ed.): Einfach tierisch (pp. 71–85), catalog for the exhibition “Einfach tierisch”, 2006, ISBN 978-3-200-00644-7

Radio

• since 2005: Author with a lecture of his own for the series “Einfach zum Thought”, broadcast on Hitradio Ö3.
• 26.-30. April 02011: “Prophet, human being, son of God? - Associations with Jesus of Nazareth ”In:“ Thoughts for the day ”; ORF radio / Ö1.
• 8-13 February 2010: “Conspiracy theories” In: “Thoughts for the day”; ORF radio / Ö1.
• 16.-21. February 2009: “Cowboys and Bandits - The Heroes of the Wild West.” In: “Thoughts for the day”; ORF radio / Ö1.
• February 9, 2009: Presentation of the novel manuscript “Lost in Vienna” by David GL Weiss in the program “Texts-New Literature from Austria” on Ö1.
• December 5, 2005: Presentation of the novel manuscript "Miasma or: The Stone Guest" by David GL Weiss in the program "Texts-New Literature from Austria" on Ö1.
• December 22nd, 2003: “Highnoon in the subway” in the program “Texts-New Literature from Austria” on Ö1.
• 07/2001: Design, recording and broadcasting of 25 questions about the Lower Austrian state exhibition 2001 (Sein & Sinn / Burg & Mensch) as part of a competition for Radio Niederösterreich.

Filmography (selection)

• 2018: The Professor - Crime Scene Oilfield (screenplay)

Web links

• Literature by and about David GL Weiss in the catalog of the German National Library
• Personal blog
• Blog by the Schilddorfer-Weiss team of authors
• Just to think about
• "Character assassination? - The Novara expedition to the Solomon Islands" by DGL Weiss

Individual evidence

• David Gustav Leopold Weiss: The circumnavigation of the Austrian frigate SMS Novara in the years 1857–1859 , diploma thesis, University of Vienna 2009. (PDF, ~ 1MB).