Franzobel
Franzobel (born March 1, 1967 in Vöcklabruck , Upper Austria ; actually Franz Stefan Griebl ) is an Austrian writer.
Life
Franzobel is the son of a chemical worker. He graduated from the technical college for mechanical engineering in Vöcklabruck and studied German and history in Vienna from 1986 to 1994. He also worked as an extra at the Vienna Burgtheater . He completed his studies with a thesis on visual poetry . He has been a freelance writer since 1989. He lives in Vienna , Pichlwang , Buenos Aires and Orth on the Danube .
In a standard interview in 2004, Franzobel stated that there are numerous legends about the origin of his stage name. According to one, the name comes from a football broadcast on television (France versus Belgium), in which he caught the eye of the "FRAN 2: 0 BEL" mark, which he read as "Franzobel". In another 2007 interview with the courier, he stated that the name was a combination of his father's first name, Franz, and his mother's maiden name, Zobl.
Franzobel has a son, born 1998, with the visual artist Carla Degenhardt. In April 2010 he became a father for a second time - his mother is his wife and artistic partner, the actress Maxi Blaha . Maxi Blaha and Franzobel have been living separately since 2018.
Create
In addition to his literary work (he publishes in his own publishing house, in small publishers and within mail art projects) Franzobel worked as a painter ( Concept Art until 1992). He has published numerous plays , prose texts and poetry that stand in the tension between structure and experiment. For example, he worked with automated translation, including in the periodical Rampe . His great novels, on the other hand, are a mixture of fantastic realism, language play and Viennese folk play. Franzobel presents “his world” as bizarre, full of humor and allusions to contemporary history.
His work is influenced by the Dadaists, the Wiener Gruppe and Heimito von Doderer . He once described himself as a literary actionist who primarily pursues the concept of individual anarchism. He also writes for children, e.g. B. the picture book Butterfly Fetterling (2004) and the play Moni and the monster monkey (2006). The latter has been played in the Niedermair cabaret since October 2006 . From 1994 to 1998 he was in charge of the small publishing house Edition ch .
Franzobel is a supporter of the SK Rapid Wien football club . In 2006, a volume of stories entitled Der Schwalbenkönig was published about his passion for football . Franzobel took part in the ORF football show “ Das Match ”, but was selected by the team from the team in the second episode (as the first of three players).
In his 2010 play about Bertha Pappenheim (1859–1936), a patient of Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer, he was interested in “whether the hysteria actually occurred” or whether Pappenheim was only in love with her doctor Josef Breuer as a young woman. Pappenheim is considered to be the very first psychoanalytic patient. The play Die Pappenheimer or the O of Anna O had its world premiere on October 4, 2010 at the Schauspielhaus Wien under the direction of Jan-Christoph Gockel.
Franzobel, who sees himself as a “lateral thinker”, also deals with current questions in science, for example in his book LHC, published in 2011 .
His plays have been shown in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Denmark, France, Poland, Romania, Ukraine, Italy, Russia and the USA, among others. Translations are currently available in 23 languages.
His satire crime novel Groschens Grab (2015) was adapted by Susanne Hoffmann for the radio play Groschens Grab - Ein Wiener Herbstkrimi .
Awards
- 1992: Linz town clerk
- 1994: Vienna Workshop Prize for Literature
- 1995: Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for The Krautflut
- 1997: Wolfgang Weyrauch Award of the City of Darmstadt
- 1998: Kassel Literature Prize for Grotesque Humor
- 1998: Floriana Literature Prize
- 2000: Bert Brecht Medal
- 2002: Arthur Schnitzler Prize
- 2003: Golden badge of honor from the market town of Lenzing for cultural merit
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Ten special books about Andersentag
- 2004: for the nose
- 2005: for Butterfly Fetterling
- 2005: Nestroy Theater Prize Best Play - Author Prize
- 2005: Nestroy Theater Prize Special Prize
- 2005: Longlist for the German Book Prize with Das Fest der Steine or Die Wunderkammer der Ezentrik
- 2006: Book Prize for The Festival of Stones or The Chamber of Wonder of Eccentricity
- 2007: Vöckla Award special prize for culture
- 2008: Island writer on Sylt
- 2012: Resident writer in Sarajevo
- 2015: Town clerk in Split
- 2017: Nicolas Born Prize (main prize)
- 2017: Shortlist for the German Book Prize for The Raft of Medusa
- 2017: Bavarian Book Prize for The Raft of Medusa
- 2017: Town clerk in Weißenburg in Bavaria
- 2019: Fine Crime Award for Rechtswalzer
- 2020: Dresden city clerk
Works
Books
- Thesaurus . Same thing. Poems . Self-published, 1992.
- The public nuisance. Prose. edition selene, Klagenfurt 1993.
- Over The Gosche. Prose . Illustrations: Franzobel. edition selene, Klagenfurt 1993.
- Scam and shame. The Germanist trap - an implementation & the public nuisance. Procliticon. Edition Selene, Klagenfurt 1993.
- The muse press. From a novel by Margarete Lanner. With several picture credits. Ritter, Klagenfurt 1994.
- Ulna and radius. Models of love. Poems and prose . The happy living room, Vienna 1994.
- Tendrils. Prose . Illustrations: Carla Degenhardt. edition selene, Klagenfurt 1994.
- Dog brain. Prose . Illustrations: Franzobel. Blattwerk, Linz 1995.
- The herb flood. Narration . Nachw .: Thomas Eder . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1995.
- Ham sins. A catalog . Ritter, Klagenfurt 1996.
- with Christian Steinbacher: Under rushes. edition opposites, Graz 1996.
- Linz. An obsession . Janus Press, Munich, Berlin 1996.
- The idiot congress. Commedia dell'pape. A minimalist homeland novel. Ritter, Klagenfurt / Vienna 1998.
- Malevolent and Ferdinand. A bestseller by Karol Alois. Zsolnay, Vienna 1998.
- The public nuisance. Procliticon. & Scam and shame. The Germanist trap - an implementation. Edition Selene, Vienna 1998.
- Met ana oanders black ink. Dulli dialect poems . Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra 1999, ISBN 3-85252-305-2 . (Alluding to HC Artmann )
- Scala Santa or Josefine Wurznbacher's highlight. Novel. Zsolnay, Vienna 2000.
- Volksoper - Olympia. 2 pieces . Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra 2000, ISBN 3-85252-336-2 .
- Best of. The highlights. Edition Aramo, 2001.
- Shooting Star . Ritter, Klagenfurt 2001 (withdrawn from the market due to legal disputes)
- Austrian Psycho or Der Rabiat Hödlmoser. A Trashroman in memory of Franz Fuchs . Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra 2001, ISBN 3-85252-414-8 .
- Mayerling. The Austrian tragedy. Pieces, materials, collages . 1st edition. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 978-3-85165-514-8 .
- Lusthaus or the school of meanness. Novel. Zsolnay, Vienna 2002.
- Mundial. Prayers to the football god. Droschl, Graz / Vienna 2002.
- Scala Santa or Josefine Wurzenbacher's highlight . Piper 2002.
- Mozart's vision. Pieces, materials, collages . 1st edition. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 978-3-85165-611-4 .
- Luna Park. Pleasure poems. Zsolnay, Vienna 2003.
- Circus blood or an Austrian psycho trash thriller, part two . Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra 2004, ISBN 3-85252-584-5 .
- About language in the sporty age . Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra 2004, ISBN 3-902416-04-1 .
- We want the Messiah now or The Accelerated Family . 1st edition. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-85165-707-4 .
- The tower of fools . 1st edition. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-85165-660-2 .
- The festival of stones or the cabinet of curiosities of eccentricity . Zsolnay, Vienna 2005.
- Hunt or all of February . Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra 2006, ISBN 3-85252-741-4 .
- The Swallow King or The Little Art of Football Retreats. Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt / Vienna 2006.
- Love story. Novel . Zsolnay, Vienna 2007.
- Franzobel's big soccer test . Picus, Vienna 2008.
- Zipf or the dark side of the moon . Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra 2008, ISBN 978-3-85252-892-2 .
- Kreisky. A piece for people's aid . Publishing House Library of the Province, Weitra 2008, ISBN 978-3-85252-927-1 .
- Lady Di or The Queen of Hearts . A farce of desire. 1st edition. Passagen, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85165-832-3 .
- Austria is beautiful , a fairy tale. Zsolnay , Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-552-05473-8 .
- with Franz Novotny, Gustav Ernst: felt or an economic flip-fop film with bloodsucker blues and Lucky Strike fondue from the land of the Bawagbabas, also called EXIT III . Ritter, Klagenfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-85415-449-5 .
- Moser or The Passion of the Weekend Living Room God . Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85165-831-6 .
- Romeo and Juliet in Purkersdorf. Three folk plays . Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85165-990-0 .
- The Boxer or The Second Air of Hans Orsolics . Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85165-989-4 .
- Deer or the salvation of Austria . Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra 2011, ISBN 978-3-85252-997-4 .
- Princess Iron Heart . Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra 2011, ISBN 978-3-902416-91-9 .
- Fist. The Viennese part. A comedy . Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7092-0045-2 .
- What men do when women are in the bathroom . Zsolnay, Vienna 2012.
- Yedermann. Or death suits him well . Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7092-0089-6 .
- Steak for everyone. The new meat tourism . mikrotext, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-944543-03-1 .
- Adpfent. A child is on fire . Publishing House Library of the Province, Weitra 2013, ISBN 978-3-99028-282-3 .
- Viennese miracle. Detective novel . Zsolnay , Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-552-05690-9 .
- Bad Hall Blues. An Upper Austria strategy . Kehrwasserverlag , Linz 2014, ISBN 978-3-902786-27-2 .
- Metropolis or The Great Soft Heart of the Beast . Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7092-0128-2 .
- Othello or A Bad from Hernals . Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7092-0129-9 .
- Hamlet or what is the question here? Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-7092-0194-7 .
- Groschen's grave: detective novel Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-552-05743-2 .
- Me Zarah or the wild flesh of the last diva . Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7092-0229-6 .
- Sarajevo 14 or The Big Bang of Europe . Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-7092-0230-2 .
- The raft of the Medusa , Roman . Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-552-05816-3 .
- Right waltz , detective novel. Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-552-05922-1 .
Children's books
- The nose . Picus Verlag , Vienna 2002, ISBN 978-3-85452-861-6
- Butterfly fatling . Picus Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-85452-872-2
- Moni and the monster monkey . Picus Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85452-140-2
- Phantastasia or the funniest story about sadness . Ueberreuter , Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-8000-5534-0
- The flying sable . Picus Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-85452-872-2
- The little pirate . Picus Verlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-85452-183-9
Plays
- 1996 The cozy braid
- 1997 Kafka . A comedy
- 1998 paradise
- 1998 Nathan's Dachshund or The Straight Bend of the Ring Parabola. A Lessing enforcement
- 1998 Bibapoh
- 1998 The Ficus speaks. Mini drama for A, B, a folk singer, a flower girl and a rubber tree
- 1999 Phettberg. A Hermes tragedy
- 1999 Volksoper
- 2000 Olympics. A Carinthian magic posse including striptease
- 2001 Mayerling
- 2003 Black Jack
- 2003 Mozart's vision
- 2004 fear of flying
- 2005 Hunt or Total February
- 2005 We want the Messiah now or the accelerated family
- 2006 deer
- 2007 Z! Pf or the dark side of the moon
- 2008 The Impresario from Schmierna
- 2009 Princess Eisenherz
- 2009 Big Bang Löbinger
- 2010 Brothel Ballad (Songspiel, together with the composer Moritz Eggert )
- 2010 Moser or the Passion of the Weekend Living Room God , Premiere: February 25, 2010, Theater in der Josefstadt , Vienna
- 2010 Die Pappenheimer or the O of Anna O. Premiere: November 4th, 2010, Schauspielhaus , Vienna
- 2011 The Boxer or the Second Air by Hans Orsolics
- 2014 Othello, Ein Schlechter in Hernals , Wiener Lustspielhaus
- 2014 Me Zarah or the wild meat of the last diva
- 2018 The Gingerbread Man (July 2019 in the Bergwaldtheater Weißenburg )
- 2020 Hanni World premiere: March 10, 2020, Brucknerhaus , Linz (about the life of the witness to the Mühlviertel hare hunt, Hanni Rittenschober). Music: Gerald Resch
Secondary literature
Essays
- Inge Aartel: The exhaustion of the subversive . In: Sepp, Arvi, Gunther Martens [Hrsg.]: Against the Grain: The Subversive in German-Language Literature after 1945 . Lit-Verlag, Berlin 2017, pp. 195–208.
- Alexander Košenina: novel and painting as 'allégorie réelle'. Human experiment in Franzobel's and Géricault's raft of the Medusa. In: Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik , 9, 2018, pp. 105–117.
- David-Christopher Assmann: Autonomy or Corruption? Literature business (in) the Austrian literature after 2000. In: Michael Boehringer, Susanne Hochreiter (Hrsg.): Zeitwende. Austrian literature since the millennium: 2000–2010. Praesens, Vienna 2011, pp. 82–101. (including on Franzobel, "Shooting Star")
- Andrea Bartl: stabbed, slain, slandered. On dealing with reviewers in contemporary German literature - using the example of Martin Walser's “Death of a Critic”, Bodo Kirchhoff's “Trash novel” and Franzobel's “Shooting Star”. In: Weimar Contributions. Journal for Literary Studies, Aesthetics and Cultural Studies , 50, 2004, No. 4, pp. 485–514.
- Martin A. Hainz : »reality continues to inflate and burst«. To Heimito von Doderer , Oswald Wiener and Franzobel. In: Weimarer Contributions , Vol. 50, 2004, Issue 4, pp. 539-558, ISSN 0043-2199 .
- Bettina Rabelhofer: The hunger for madness. On the subculture of the psychopathological shelter: Franzobel, Soria , Hochgatterer . In: Friedbert Aspetsberger, Gerda E. Moser (eds.): Suffering… Enjoying. On forms and settings of life in contemporary literature . StudienVerlag, Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 3-7065-4167-X , pp. 164–182.
- Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler: "I am my own inflation". Franzobel's contribution to the physiognomy of the latest literature from Austria. In: Literaturen , 2002, No. 11, pp. 78-80.
Books
- Barbara Falter: Franzobel French? An examination of literary and scenic translation processes with special consideration of the comic elements . Thesis . University, Vienna 2009.
- Andreas Freinschlag: Cynical-comical chaosmology. A genealogical research in literary history for Franzobel's novel “Scala Santa” . Edition Praesens, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7069-0310-5 .
- Sibylla Haindl: The grotesque as a structural principle in Franzobel's novel “Scala Santa or Josefine Wurznbacher's climax”. Thesis. University of Vienna, 2007. ( Online version ( Memento from October 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), PDF file)
- Notburga Leeb: Aspects of Dialogicity in Franzobel's “Die Musenpresse”. Thesis. University of Vienna, 2005.
Web links
- Literature by and about Franzobel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Franzobel: New German Drama. Website of the Goethe Institute
- Interpretations and list of works in the author's lexicon of the University of Duisburg-Essen / Faculty of Humanities - German Studies
- Franzobel in an interview with Günter Kaindlstorfer published in Der Standard
- Interview with Michael Niavarani
- Archive recordings with Franzobel in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library (literature readings)
Individual evidence
- ^ "Franzobel - The Versatile Artist" , ORF Niederösterreich-Magazin.
- ^ "Biography of Franzobel" , DiePresse.com.
- ↑ "Franzobel wants to chat with Seeger" - Der Standard, May 7, 2004
- ↑ “Football is like love. An eternal fear and hope. ”, Interview with Franzobel. Courier , October 21, 2007.
- ↑ Today (Austrian newspaper) of December 23, 2009.
- ↑ kurier.at: Separation between actress Maxi Blaha and author Franzobel , accessed on February 17, 2019
- ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur from October 4, 2010: "Who was Gerda Pappenheim?"
- ↑ Review of Groschen's grave in the Tagesspiegel from April 12, 2016, accessed October 11, 2017
- ↑ The crime radio play: Groschens Grab , NDR 2017 Original broadcast on October 7, 2017, director: Beatrix Ackers, accessed October 11, 2017
- ↑ orf.at: Franzobel receives Bavarian Book Prize . Article dated November 7, 2017, accessed November 7, 2017.
- ↑ orf.at: Franzobel received the first Graz detective award . Article dated March 3, 2019, accessed March 3, 2019.
- ^ Badische Zeitung of October 18, 2019: Author Franzobel becomes city clerk in Dresden ; accessed on October 23, 2019
- ↑ Franzobel's lust for fables in: Deutschlandfunk, October 9, 2005.
- ^ Ironization of love in: Deutschlandfunk, October 14, 2007.
- ↑ nachtkritik.de: Princess Eisenherz - Franzobel's piece about a courageous apolitical woman premiered ; accessed on November 12, 2017
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Franzobel |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Griebl, Stefan (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1967 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vöcklabruck |