Ferdinand Schmatz

Ferdinand Schmatz (2013)

Ferdinand Schmatz (born February 3, 1953 in Korneuburg , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian writer , experimental poet and essayist.

Life

Ferdinand Schmatz graduated from the Technological Trade Museum in Vienna in 1972 and studied German , history and philosophy at the University of Vienna . He received his doctorate in 1982 with a dissertation on Karl Hans Strobl's Bismarck trilogy .

From 1983 to 1985 Schmatz was lecturer for German language and literature at Nihon University Tokyo , Japan , from 1985 to 1987 lecturer for contemporary literature at the University of Artistic and Industrial Design in Linz . Schmatz also worked as a consultant for the Killy literary lexicon for Austrian literature of the 20th century. From 1989 to 1992 he had lectureships on "Writing and Book" and on "Art and Poetics in the 20th Century" at the University of Applied Arts Vienna , where in 1992 he was visiting professor for free graphics . Schmatz has headed the Institute for Linguistic Art at the Angewandte in Vienna since 2012 .

He published his first works as early as 1975; his poetry is shaped by the experimental literature of the Viennese group. In 1995 and 1996 Schmatz was a juror for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize .

Ferdinand Schmatz is the administrator and editor of Reinhard Priessnitz's works and lives as a freelance writer in Vienna and Burgenland. Schmatz's part is in the Austrian National Library, in the literature archive. The first part contains 78 archive boxes, the second consists of two archive boxes and a large format folder.

Awards and honors

• 1986 and 1992: Book award from the Federal Ministry for Education and Art
• 1987: Prize of the City of Vienna for Literature
• 1988: State grant from the Federal Ministry for Education and Art for Literature
• 1999: Christine Lavant Prize
• 2001: Promotion Prize for the Great Austrian State Prize for Literature
• 2002: Book Prize of the Chamber of Labor Upper Austria
• 2003: Anton Wildgans Prize
• 2004: Georg Trakl Prize
• 2006: Elias Canetti Scholarship from the City of Vienna
• 2006: Heimrad Bäcker Prize
• 2006: HC Artmann Prize
• 2009: Ernst Jandl Prize
• 2010: Prize of the City of Vienna in the literature category

Works

• The entire run 1975-1977. texts and drawings, G., Vienna 1977
• The clearing and the beehive, G., Vienna 1977
• Five nights, together with Peter Veit, G., Vienna 1979
• The tight run. 1977-1980, G., Linz 1981
• The cloud and the clock. Poem, G., Linz, Vienna 1986
• The travels. In eighty poems around the world, together with m. Franz Josef Czernin , G., Salzburg 1987
• The trip. In eighty flat dogs in the whole deep pit, altogether m. Franz Josef Czernin, G., Ess., Linz, Vienna 1987
• work edition reinhard priessnitz, 4 vols., ed., G., Pr., Ess., Linz, Vienna, Graz 1986-1994
• The art of the encyclopedia, together m. Heimo Zobernig , Vienna, Graz, Munich 1988
• ganganbuch 6th yearbook 1989 for contemporary literature, ed., together with m. Franz Josef Czernin, Graz, Vienna 1988
• friedrich handl: no page. from the estate. With an afterword v. Ferdinand Schmatz ed. together with Heimrad Bäcker , G., Pr., Linz, Vienna 1990
• PLATE AND SWEAT, together with m. Franz Josef Czernin, G., Vienna 1991
• Piece for kitchen radio, Hsp. 1991
• Lexicon of Art 1992, together with Heimo Zobernig, Lexicon, Stuttgart 1992
• BALIBI (or: kau der welsch), G., Graz, Frankfurt 1992
• Noon, ed. Elisabeth Fiedler, record, Graz 1992
• Sense & Senses. Wiener Gruppe, Wiener Aktionismus und other Wegbereiter, Ess., Vienna 1992
• Speise Gedichte, G., Graz, Vienna 1992
• LANGUAGE MAKES VIOLENCE. Engraving words for a fragment of the common, Pr., Lexikon, Vienna 1994
• Color theory, together with Heimo Zobernig, artist book, Vienna, New York 1995
• Frog Prince or the one who finds me. A round table by Ferdinand Schmatz, Hsp. 1995
• Dear Mr. Fuchs - Dear Mr. Schmatz !. Correspondences between poetry and systems theory, together with. Peter Fuchs , Br., Opladen 1996
• jungle. all times. (prosa poem), G., Pr., Innsbruck 1996
• painter as donor. Poetic texts on the visual arts, Pr., Ess., Innsbruck 1997
• Radical interpretation. Essays on Poetry, Ess., Vienna 1998
• Death or Life or the Cat in the Airman's Belly, Hsp. 1998
• das great babel, n, G., Innsbruck 1999
• Felicitas Leitner solves a murder in the snow, Hsp. 2001
• Portierisch, R., 2001
• tokyo, echo or: how to build the shaft of babel, weiter, G., Innsbruck 2004
• Fluoroscopy. A wild novel from Danja and Franz, R., Innsbruck 2007, Verlag Haymon, ISBN 978-3-85218-543-9
• swell. Poems . Verlag Haymon, Innsbruck 2010, ISBN 978-3-85218-627-6
• Seal for everyone. Vienna Ernst Jandl Lectures on Poetics, Innsbruck 2013, Verlag Haymon
• that belonged to fire. Orphic sketches. G. Innsbruck 2016
• Essays! Essays on poetics, literature and art. Ess. 2016

literature

• Martin A. Hainz: Creation - a polylogue? On a theological-poetic problem, among others with and with Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock and Ferdinand Schmatz. In: Weimar Contributions , No. 53 · 1, 2007, pp. 67–88
• Sebastian Kiefer: Do I seal in words when I think? Ferdinand Schmatz or: Only the "avant-garde" can be a romantic. Ritter, Klagenfurt 2012

Individual evidence

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Schmatz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Ferdinand Schmatz in the database of the state's memory for the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
• Literature by and about Ferdinand Schmatz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Helmut Neundlinger: letter dribbler . Portrait of Ferdinand Schmatz in the magazine Datum , June 2009.
• Author portrait at haymonverlag.at
• Ferdinand Schmatz in the literary archive of the Austrian National Library