Dietmar Grieser

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Dietmar Grieser (2018)
Dietmar Grieser, with dog (2005)

Dietmar Grieser (born March 9, 1934 in Hanover ) is an Austrian author of non-fiction books , journalist , radio and television author.

Life

Dietmar Grieser grew up in the Saar-Palatinate , began his studies in journalism and social science in Münster and Munich and has lived in Vienna since 1957 after a semester abroad , where he also took on Austrian citizenship. From 1957 to 1960 he worked as a student editor for the Semesterspiegel . Since 1973 he has written several bestsellers and longsellers , which have been translated into various languages. His extensive work also includes numerous radio and television series such as scenes from world literature , poetry and truth and heads . He specializes in literary reports, documentaries and feature sections . Grieser is a member of the Austrian PEN Club .

Dietmar Grieser has been honored with numerous prizes, such as the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class and the Eichendorff Literature Prize . In 1988 he was awarded the title “Professor honoris causa ” by the Republic of Austria through its Federal President Kurt Waldheim . In the anniversary year of the city of Zweibrücken ("650 years Zweibrücken") in 2002, Grieser was town clerk there , in 2004 he received the first book prize awarded by the Viennese economy , in 2017 he received the Sudeten German Culture Prize for Literature .

Works (selection)

Autobiography
  • All roads lead to Vienna. Adventure of a literary tourist . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1999, ISBN 3-458-34243-5 .
  • Only available in Vienna. An autobiographical search for traces . Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85002-805-9 .
  • Country party. Encounters, experiences, discoveries in Austria . Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-85002-839-4 .
Non-fiction
  • The second me. From Hans Moser to Kishon, from Falco to Loriot . Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85002-756-4 .
  • It is never too late. Your second life; from Charlie Chaplin to Karlheinz Böhm . Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85002-718-2 .
  • The uncle from Pressburg. On the Austrian trail through Slovakia . Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85002-684-0 .
  • The good spirits. they served the greats of this world; Cooks, butlers, secretaries . Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85002-662-8 .
  • Dietmar Grieser for connoisseurs. The reading book . Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-85002-558-4 .
  • The bohemian grandmother. Travel to a distant near country . Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85002-536-5 .
  • Hidden fame. Austria's secret genius . Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85002-508-X .
  • The late luck. Great loves great artists . Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85002-505-5 .
  • World tour through Vienna. Stations in the life of famous personalities . Dtv, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-423-34275-7 .
  • You really lived. Literary figures and their role models . Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna - Munich, 2nd edition October 2001, ISBN 3-85002-467-9 .
  • Home are you big names. Austrians all over the world . Heyne, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-453-21624-5 .
  • One love in Vienna . NP-Buchverlag, St. Pölten 2003, ISBN 3-85326-216-3 .
    • One love in Vienna. Audio book . Jumbo Neue Medien und Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-89592-838-0 (2 CDs, read by Dietmar Grieser).
  • Vienna. The adopted home of geniuses . Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85002-357-5 .
  • A summer dream in the Salzkammergut. A literary search for traces . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2004, ISBN 3-458-33548-X .
  • Theaters of literature. From the magic mountain to the Strudlhofstiege . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1996, ISBN 3-458-33522-6 .
  • In the zoo of world literature. In the footsteps of the cat Murr , Maya the bee , Bambi , Jonathan the seagull and the others . Dtv, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-423-30361-1 .
  • Pinocchio , Pumuckl and Peter Pan . Children's book characters and their role models . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2003, ISBN 3-458-34628-7 (former title Die kleine Helden ).
  • No bed like any other. Furniture that made history . Piper, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-492-22907-7 .
  • In your interest. Encounters with artist widows . Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1988, ISBN 3-548-22010-X .
  • Viennese addresses. A cultural and historical guide with street maps and photos . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1989, Insel-Taschenbuch 1203, ISBN 3-458-32903-X , Edition 4, 1995; after the edition of Alte Häuser, Große Namen , Verlag Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus, St. Pölten and Vienna 1986 to 1988.
  • Great historical streets. From the Via Appia to the Avus ; a cultural-historical search for traces . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1997, ISBN 3-458-33674-5 .
  • In the rose garden. A literary search for traces in South Tyrol . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2003, ISBN 3-458-34209-5 (based on an idea by Sabrina Fasching).
  • From Zweibrücken into the world. 650 years of the city of Zweibrücken . City administration, Zweibrücken 2003, ISBN 3-00-010337-6 (edited by the city administration Zweibrücken).
  • The sufferings of the old words . Edition Thurnhof, Horn 2003, ISBN 3-900678-36-7 (with offset color lithographs by Bernhard Hollemann ).
  • All of my women. a portrait gallery . Residenz-Verlag, St. Pölten 2006, ISBN 3-7017-1446-0 .
  • The first waltz and other sensations from yesteryear . Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 3-85002-606-X .
  • Locations of world literature. Albert Langen-Georg Müller Verlag GmbH, Munich-Vienna 1974/76, ISBN 3-442-11219-2 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Dietmar Grieser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview on literatopia.de, January 2009
personal data
SURNAME Grieser, Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian publicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover