Franz Kabelka

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Franz Kabelka (born October 1, 1954 in Linz ) is an Austrian teacher and writer .

Life

Franz Kabelka grew up in Upper Austria in Perg and Arbing and after graduating from the Bundesgymnasium Steyr studied German and English in Salzburg and Dublin . In 1981 he moved to Vorarlberg and worked as a teacher at vocational (1981 to 1994) and general secondary schools (1995–2016) and as a writer in Feldkirch . He is married and has two daughters.

Kabelka has published literary works in literary magazines, anthologies and on ORF since 1975. He has been awarded several literary scholarships from the states of Vorarlberg and Upper Austria. He published his first book with the Grasl Verlag in 1996 with the volume of poetry, Schneller als Instant Coffee . In 2003 he was the first prize winner at the Brixen-Hall prose prize for the manuscript for the novel Heimkehr .

In Innsbruck Haymon Verlag published after returning home two more detective novels , the figure of Vorarlberg Chief Inspector Tone Hagen Last hostel and thin skin . In September 2011, a crime thriller called Somebody else appeared, which does not require a professional investigator and is set on the one hand in a modern fitness center and on the other hand in a Franciscan boarding school somewhere in eastern Austria. Longer stories and "Bohemian miniatures" can be found in the volume Die Muschel. Stories of Travel and Time Travel (2013). The novel Gesundes Gift was published as a hardcover by Styria Premium in 2014. The central theme is the fault lines between Eastern (Ayurvedic) and Western (allopathic) medicine. The starting point of this economic crime is the sale of food supplements contaminated with heavy metals on the Internet. The locations: Vienna, the Lower Austrian Waldviertel, the city of Boston (USA) and southern India (Kerala and Tamil Nadu). Kabelka's last crime novel, Kaltviertel , was published in 2017 in the provincial library. In it, the author deals with the very controversial use of wind energy in the Waldviertel and dealing with social outsiders. In 2019, the Hohenems Bucher Verlag published Das Böse was my clientele. A chief inspector is questioned . In this non-fiction book you can find the exchange of ideas in which the crime writer and the former chief inspector of the State Criminal Police Office in Bregenz, Hans Poiger, cover a variety of topics using real and fictional criminal cases.

Between 1975 and 1980 Kabelka was a member of the Salzburg literary group projekt-IL and a member of the editorial board of the literary magazine of the same name. Today he is a member of the Graz authors' assembly (GAV) as well as of Literature Vorarlberg and krimiautorinnen.at.

Works

literature

• Faster than Instant Coffee , Gedichte, Grasl Verlag, Baden near Vienna 1996
• Heimkehr , Krimi, Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2004, ISBN 978-3-85218-445-6
• Time out. Reflexes and reflections , Hämmerle Verlag, Hohenems 2005
• Last hostel , Krimi, Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2006, ISBN 978-3-85218-513-2
• Thin skin , crime thriller, Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-85218-574-3
• Somebody else , Krimi, Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2011, ISBN 978-3-85218-694-8
• The shell , stories of travel and time travel, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-902693-47-1
• Gesundes Gift , Roman, Styria Premium, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-222-13466-1
• Kaltviertel , detective novel, Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra 2017, ISBN 978-3-99028-675-3
• Evil was my clientele. A chief inspector is questioned, Bucher Verlag, Hohenems 2019, ISBN 978-3-99018-492-9

Ö1 Radio Coll

After research in Cuba, Kabelka wrote the manuscript for four episodes of a radio protocol that was broadcast on Ö1 from July 8th to 11th, 2013 under the title Son, Reggaeton, Revolution - Music in Cuba between topicality and nostalgia .

Web links

Commons : Franz Kabelka  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of Franz Kabelka
• Literature by and about Franz Kabelka in the catalog of the German National Library