Georg Pichler

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Georg Pichler (born July 30, 1959 in Judenburg / Styria ) is an Austrian writer . He also uses the pseudonym Simon Walcher.

Life

After schools in Judenburg, Fohnsdorf and Graz, Georg Pichler completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter at the Leykam printing company in Graz. Meanwhile, he published the magazine for literature and rock music Schuwiduwa . He also worked as a journalist and attended German and philosophical lectures.

In 1980 Pichler began to work as a bookseller in Graz and Vienna and from 1986 he wrote reviews and essays for Die Presse . From 1992 to 1993 he headed the literature department at Forum Stadtpark .

Since 1994 he has been editor of the library magazine Bücherschau in Vienna. Today Pichler lives in Raglitz and Douala .

Works

  • Between two mainlands . Prose, Droschl, Graz 1989
  • The vegetation of language . Prose, Droschl, Graz 1991
  • Way . Photo-text volume in collaboration with Lorenz Gaiser, Frankfurt 1996
  • Paradeis . Stories, Edition Atelier, Vienna 1999
  • All holy times . Roman, Edition Atelier, Vienna 2000; as a paperback with an afterword by Peter Handke, Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 3685, Frankfurt 2004; as audio book with author reading, Autengruber Audio, Vienna 2010
  • The description of happiness . Peter Handke biography, Ueberreuter, Vienna 2002
  • Do you speak Styrian? . A phrasebook for locals and newcomers, Ueberreuter, Vienna 2003 (under the pseudonym Simon Walcher)

Editing

  • Dober večer, sosed! . Literary texts from Peter Altenberg to Oton Župančič - German and Slovenian, Drava, Klagenfurt 2000 (edited together with Matjaž Kmecl)
  • LebensKunst: ArtLife . An anthology of Austrian literature, book marketing, Vienna 2000
  • Scolding in Austria . Juicy meanness from Grillparzer to Jelinek , Ueberreuter, Vienna 2004

Awards and grants

  • 1988 Manuscripts Literature Promotion Prize of the City of Graz
  • 1990 Literature Promotion Prize of the City of Graz
  • 1991 Literature grant from the State of Styria
  • 1995 Austrian State Scholarship for Literature
  • 2000 Rome scholarship
  • 2002 working grant to promote literary creativity in the province of Styria
  • 2007 Switzerland grant from the state of Lower Austria in Gottlieben
  • 2007 Austrian State Scholarship for Literature

literature

  • Wolfgang Hermann: About Georg Pichler . In: Art and Transgression. Edited by Christine Rigler and Klaus Zeyringer 1999, 234/240
  • Peter Handke: Failed home. About Georg Pichler's story All holy times . In: Peter Handke: My place-name signs. My time tables. 1967-2007, Suhrkamp 2007, 341/345

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personal data
SURNAME Pichler, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walcher, Simon (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Judenburg