Erich Hackl
Erich Hackl (born May 26, 1954 in Steyr , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian writer and literary translator .
Life
Erich Hackl spent his youth in Steyr. He attended the High School and studied then German and Hispanic Studies at the universities in Salzburg , Salamanca and Malaga . From 1977 he was lecturer for German language and Austrian literature at the Complutense University in Madrid . From 1979 to 1983 he taught German and Spanish in Vienna and from 1981 to 1990 at the Institute for Romance Studies at the University of Vienna . He has been a freelance writer since 1983 . Numerous trips took him to various countries in Latin America .
Erich Hackl is a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt .
Awards and honors
- 1987: Aspect Literature Prize
- 1991: Evangelical Book Prize for Farewell to Sidonie
- 1991: Austrian Promotion Prize for Literature
- 1994: Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria
- 1995: Gerrit Engelke Prize
- 1996: Bruno Kreisky Prize for the political book (main prize) for In firm embrace
- 1997: Premio Hidalgo
- 2002: Solothurn Literature Prize
- 2002: Literature Prize of the City of Vienna
- 2004: Honorary award from the Austrian book trade for tolerance in thought and action
- 2006: Brothers Grimm Professorship
- 2007: Donauland Non-Fiction Book Prize
- 2010: Honorary doctorate from the Paris Lodron University in Salzburg
- 2013: Great Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria (Adalbert Stifter Prize)
- 2014: Willy and Helga Sale-Verlon Prize
- 2014: Austrian State Prize for Literary Translation
- 2015: Ring of Honor of the City of Steyr
- 2015: Anton Wildgans Prize
- 2017: Human rights award of the state of Upper Austria
- 2020: Theodor Kramer Prize
Works
Authorship
- Aurora's occasion . Narrative. Diogenes Verlag , Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-257-22915-1 .
- Farewell to Sidonie . Erzählung, Diogenes, Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-257-01824-X , as paperback 1991, ISBN 3-257-22428-1 .
- King Wamba. A fairy tale. Diogenes, Zurich 1991.
- Sara and Simón. An endless story. Diogenes, Zurich 1995.
- In a tight hug. Stories and reports. Diogenes, Zurich 1996.
- Design of a love at first sight. Diogenes, Zurich 1999.
- Farewell to Sidonie: materials for a book and its story. Edited by Ursula Baumhauer. Diogenes, Zurich 2000.
- The dreamer Krivanek. A story about pictures by Trude Engelsberger. Seywald Gallery, Salzburg 2000.
- The wedding of Auschwitz. An incident. Diogenes, Zurich 2002.
- Trying on a father. Stories and considerations. Diogenes, Zurich 2004.
- As if an angel. Narrative after life. Diogenes, Zurich 2007.
- Salzmann family. A story from our midst. Diogenes, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-257-06758-3 .
- With Libertad Hackl: The homesick bearer. Ninety minutes with Fritz Kalmar . Documentary film. Literaturhaus Wien , Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-900467-81-4 .
- This book belongs to my mother. Diogenes, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-257-06866-5 .
- Three tearless stories. Diogenes, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-257-06884-9 . ( Family Klagsbrunn (2013) / The photographer of Auschwitz (around Wilhelm Brasse ; first publication 2007) / Tschofenigweg. Legend. (Around Gisela Tschofenig ; first publication 2009).)
- Literature and conscience. innsbruck university press, Innsbruck 2016, ISBN 978-3-903122-07-9 . (= Innsbruck Poetics Lectures , Volume 1.)
- On the rope: a heroic story , Diogenes, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-257-07032-3
- More happiness in life: Speeches and writings , Diogenes, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-257-07057-6 .
Editing
- With Willy Puchner : The Heart of Heaven. From the suffering of the Indians in Guatemala. Herder Verlag , Vienna 1985.
- Nobody died here. Postponed poems from Latin America. Schwiftinger Galerieverlag, Schwifting 1985.
- With Cristina Timón Solinís: Tales from the History of the Spanish Civil War. Luchterhand Verlag, Darmstadt [u. a.] 1986.
- Vienna, Vienna alone. Literary close-ups. Luchterhand, Darmstadt [a. a.] 1987.
- With Willy Puchner: Migratory birds have always been. Joy and hardship of Spanish gypsies. Herder, Vienna 1987.
- With Manuel Lara García: Spain in the shade of the sun. A literary journey in 26 stages. Luchterhand, Frankfurt am Main 1989.
- Henriette Haill : street ballad . Book workshop Thanhäuser, Ottensheim / Donau 1996.
- Alfredo Bauer : Witch Trial in Tucumán and other chronicles from the new world. Döcker Verlag, Vienna 1996.
- With Hans Landauer : Album Gurs. A find from the resistance. Deuticke Verlag , Vienna [u. a.] 2000.
- With Hans Landauer: Lexicon of the Austrian fighters in Spain 1936–1939 . Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft , Vienna 2003. Improved and enlarged new edition 2008.
- With Till Mairhofer : The Y in the name of this city. A Steyr reading book. Ennsthaler Verlag, Steyr 2005.
- With Máximo Eseverri and Laura Malena Kornfeld: Traspasar la tierra de nadie. Desaparecidos austríacos o hijos de austríacos en la memoria de sus familiares y amigos. Buenos Aires 2013, ISBN 978-987-28921-9-7 .
- With Evelyne Polt-Heinzl : In cold fever. February stories 1934. Picus Verlag , Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7117-2009-2 .
- As far as Spain's hope carried us. Stories and reports from the Spanish Civil War. Rotpunktverlag , Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-85869-686-1 .
Translations
- Humberto Ak'abal : The weeping of the jaguar. 77 poems and a report. Book workshop Thanhäuser , Ottensheim 2005
- Humberto Ak'abal: Ghost Dance. Poems. Waldgut Verlag , Frauenfeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-03740-247-4
- Humberto Ak'abal: drum made of stone. Poems. Unionsverlag , Zurich 1998
- Memo Ánjel : The mixed year. Novel. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2005 (together with Peter Schultze-Kraft)
- Roque Dalton : ¡Fusilemos la noche! Let's shoot the night! Poems. Edition Meerauge, Klagenfurt 2015 (together with Tina Leisch)
- Luis Fayad : Information about Ester's relatives. Novel. Lamuv Verlag , Bornheim-Merten 1987 (together with Peter Schultze-Kraft)
- Eduardo Galeano : The Book of Hugs. Peter Hammer Verlag , Wuppertal 1991
- Eduardo Galeano: The world. Peter Hammer, Wuppertal 2007
- Carilda Oliver Labra : At seven in my chest. Poems. Distel Literaturverlag, Heilbronn 2001 (together with Dorothee Engels)
- Rodrigo Rey Rosa : The Executioners of Peace. Novel. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2001
- Rodrigo Rey Rosa: The Lost Revenge. Novel. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2000
- Ana María Rodas : Poems of the Erotic Left. Otto Müller Verlag , Salzburg [u. a.] 1995 (together with Peter Schultze-Kraft)
- Mauricio Rosencof : The letters that never arrived. Residenz Verlag , Salzburg [u. a.] 1997
- Juan José Saer : The opportunity. Novel. Piper Verlag , Munich [u. a.] 1992 / Wagenbach, Berlin 2010.
- Idea Vilariño : Of love. Poems. Otto Müller, Salzburg [a. a.] 1994 (together with Peter Schultze-Kraft). Extended new edition: Library Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / Main 2005
- Rodolfo Walsh : The San Martín Massacre. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2010
- Alfons Cervera : The colors of fear. Novel. Bahoe Books , Vienna 2020
literature
- Ursula Baumbauer (ed.): Farewell to Sidonie. Materials on a book and its history. Diogenes, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-257-23027-3 .
- Herbert Domanski: Analysis aids Erich Hackl “Farewell to Sidonie”. Stuttgart u. a. 1999.
- Joachim Gatterer: On the poetics of Erich Hackl using the example of the anthology 'Im Kältefieber' , in: Literatur im Lichthof. 5/2014, Brenner Archive, Innsbruck 2014, online text
- Georg Pichler (Ed.) Portrait Erich Hackl . With contributions by Humberto Ak'abal, Memo Ánjel, Lothar Baier, Alfredo Bauer, Patricia Cifre Wibrow, Karl-Markus Gauß, Belén Gopegui, Konstantin Kaiser, Fritz Kalmar, Ruth Klüger, Hans Landauer, Till Mairhofer, Sara Neum Méndez, Kurt Kalmar, Georg Pichler, Jorge A. Pomar, Frank Schulze, Peter Schultze-Kraft, Andreas Simmen and Walter Wippersberg. In: Die Rampe 3/05, Linz 2005.
- Michael-Josef Richter: E. Hackl's story "Auroras Anlaß" in the tradition of Kleist. Master thesis. Aachen 1991
- Michael-Josef Richter: Intertextuality as a means of representation in Erich Hackl's stories . Berlin 1996.
- Frank Schulze: Conversation with Erich Hackl about political literature today . In: Peter Weiss Yearbook. St. Ingbert 2001, pp. 132-140.
- Frank Schulze: Erich Hackl's documentary look. A new perspective on the Spanish Civil War . In: Peter Weiss Yearbook. St. Ingbert 2001, pp. 120-131.
Web links
Commons : Erich Hackl - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Literature by and about Erich Hackl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Erich Hackl at perlentaucher.de
- Erich Hackl's biography in the Austria Forum
- Erich Hackl at Diogenes Verlag
- Entry about Erich Hackl ( memento from June 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on Literature in Context , a multilingual project of the University of Vienna (in German , archived from the original ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book Prize winners 1993-2018 , renner-institut.at, accessed December 1, 2019
- ↑ Hans Ulrich Probst: Laudation for Erich Hackl on the occasion of the award of the Solothurn Literature Prize on July 15, 2002, accessed on January 14, 2011.
- ↑ Doctorates at the Dies Academicus. Press information with press photos of the University of Salzburg - December 2, 2012 - Dies Academicus ( Memento from November 28, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Upper Austrian News Ring of Honor for Erich Hackl; accessed on January 15, 2015.
- ↑ Erich Hackl "Literature Prize of Austrian Industry - Anton Wildgans" 2015 ( Memento from April 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Diogenes, accessed April 3, 2016
- ↑ The 20th Theodor Kramer Prize for Writing in Resistance and Exile will be awarded to Erich Hackl in 2020. Accessed July 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Depressing contemporary document. ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Review by Klaus Ebner in Etcetera , accessed on June 25, 2012.
- ↑ Book Description on the website of the University of Innsbruck, accessed on June 2, 2016.
- ↑ Review of “Am Seil” in the book magazine of the Literaturhaus Wien by Michaela Schmitz.
- ↑ suhrkamp.de
- ↑ Recommendation as teaching material in the portal “Learning from History”, accessed on January 14, 2011.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hackl, Erich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer and translator |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1954 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Steyr , Upper Austria |