Franz Weinzettl

Franz Weinzettl (born July 15, 1955 in Feldbach in Styria ) is an Austrian writer who lives as a psychotherapist in Graz .

Franz Weinzettl

Biographical

Weinzettl, who lives in Gossendorf and Graz, attended elementary and secondary school in Bad Gleichenberg and graduated from BORG Bad Radkersburg in 1973 . From 1973 he studied German and history at the University of Graz . His literary activity began in the 1970s. In 1979, Peter Handke decided to pass half of the prize money of the Franz Kafka Literature Prize on to Franz Weinzettl. From 1980 Weinzettl wrote in the context of the Grazer Gruppe and was published in the manuscripts . In addition to his work as a freelance writer, he trained in client-centered psychotherapy at the ÖGWG and has worked as a psychotherapist in the counseling centers in Bruck , Kapfenberg and Weiz ("Rettet das Kind") and in private practice in Graz since 1997 .

Weinzettl's literary works can be assigned to prose and poetry.

Works

• Heart nestled against the earth . Vienna: Edition Korrespondenzen, 2015
• Aside, on the tracks . Vienna: Edition Korrespondenzen, 2007
• Anna Neuherz's annual cycle. Narrative. New edition with a comment by Alfred Kolleritsch. Vienna: Edition Korrespondenzen, 2004
• Halfway up. Narrative. Adult new edition with two letters from Peter Handke. Vienna: Edition Korrespondenzen, 2003
• The luck in between. Prose and verse. Vienna: Edition Korrespondenzen, 2001
• Between night and day. Salzburg, Vienna: Residence, 1997
• Prague, Pécs, Budapest. Notes. Graz: Leykam, 1993
• In the poplar shade, dearest. Narrative. Salzburg, Vienna: Residence, 1990
• Anna Neuherz's annual cycle. Narrative. Salzburg, Vienna: Residence, 1988
• The story with her. Narrative. Salzburg, Vienna: Residence, 1987
• 600 years of Gossendorf. Gossendorf municipality, 1985
• Halfway up. Narrative. Salzburg, Vienna: Residence, 1983

To his works

At the beginning of his literary activity Weinzettl wrote a number of shorter prose texts, such as "Kreuzer", "Angst" or "Die Verengung" (both 1980), which mainly deal with fear and loneliness and were published in the magazine "manuskripte". Critics have celebrated Weinzettl's debut story Auf halber Höhe , which appeared for the first time in 1983, as a new kind of educational novel. It is a book that tells about growing up and growing self-confidence. In Franz Weinzettl's tale Between Night and Day , Wagner, the main character, sets off to the point where his father died more than twenty years ago. He tries to reassemble his father's image from memories, notes and letters. The happiness in between includes unpublished and scattered prose texts and poems. The selection of texts spans an arc from the mid-1970s to the present day. A volume that - according to Weinzettl himself - contains "the sum total of what concerns me in a small way". Aside, on the rails is a novel that captivates above all through its language. In the form of a diary, the narrator reports on his impressions and perceptions during the train journey. The travel and landscape book "Prague, Pécs, Budapest" is a diary-like report of his three-city scholarship. For the font "500 years Gossendorf" Weinzettl researched for a year on behalf of his hometown.

Publication in the manuscripts

The first text published in the manuscripts was in 1976 Kreuzer . This was followed by fear in 1980 and, on the occasion of the “20 years of manuscripts”, the text Die Verengung . In 1982 several of his texts appeared in the 75th edition, such as Liebesgedicht, Am Telefon, Die Hügel hier, Wimpernwunsch and Sometimes , to name just a few. In 1985, for the 25th anniversary, Die Geschichte mit IHR appeared and in 1988 excerpts of the new story The Visit were printed.

Prizes and awards

• 1979 Franz Kafka Literature Prize of the City of Klosterneuburg and the Lower Austrian Society for Art and Culture Vienna (together with Gerhard Meier, passed on by Peter Handke)
• 1981 Literature Promotion Prize of the City of Graz
• 1982 Literature Promotion Prize from Forum Stadtpark Graz
• 1983 Prize of the literature initiative of the Girozentrale Vienna
• 1983 and 1990 book award from the Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts
• 1985 Residence grant from the Literary Colloquium and the Berlin Senate for young German-speaking authors
• 1990 Literature Prize of the State of Styria
• 1990 State grant from the Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts
• 1997 manuscript award of the state of Styria
• 2005 Hermann Lenz Prize

literature

• Evelyn Breiteneder: On the function of descriptions of nature in Gerhard Roth, Peter Handke, Gisela Corleis and Franz Weinzettl. Vienna 1989 (Vienna, Univ., Dipl.-Arb., 1989).

Web links

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