Gerald Grassl

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Gerald Grassl (born April 11, 1953 in Telfs ) is an Austrian writer.

Live and act

After completing a commercial apprenticeship, Grassl worked in various professions. He was editor of Nouvelle from 1973 to 1975 . Cultural magazine of emergency and resistance in the Alps (together with Christine Bierbauer). In 1975 Grassl started working as a bookseller and became editor of the literary magazine Frischfleisch & Löwenmaul , one year later co-founder of Werkstatt wien. Working group literature in the world of work and editor of the magazine Keyword . He has been a freelance writer since 1979.

In the 1980s he founded the art gallery and art magazine Kunst und Laune . In 1984 he finished his work as a bookseller. From 1987 onwards, Grassl was head of the cultural section of the Volksstimme daily for four years .

In 1991 he co-founded the authors' publishing house "Vido" and was editor of the magazine Anfechtungen, published by Vido, for two years . He worked on many other magazines.

From 1979 to 1984 Grassl was the spokesman for the Vienna Workshop of the Working Group Literature and is on the board there. He is editor of the Austrian edition of the magazine Tarantel - for a culture from below . In 1988 he took part in an anti-Semitism debate about Thomas Bernhard .

Grassl also writes for the Viennese street newspaper Augustin .

Works (selection)

  • Tenderness or The Perversion of the World. Three poems . (Foreword by Hermann Schürrer . Photos by Heidi Heide ), Frischfleisch & Löwenmaul, Vienna 1980
  • Country tour - a hate speech against 140,721 Austrians . Prelude, Vienna 1980
  • Action death by grace . (With Club Handicup.) Frischfleisch & Löwenmaul, Vienna 1981
  • Action death by grace . World premiere: Dramatic Center as part of the Wiener Festwochen. Vienna 1981 (stage play)
  • Pig or not pig (on behalf of the Austrian peace movement). Dramatic center. Vienna 1982 (stage play)
  • 1984 - Calendar Stories . Self-published, Vienna 1984
  • Cabaret: the porn hunter . World premiere: Galerie Lust und Laune. Vienna 1987 (stage play)
  • Dear Pier Paolo Pasolini. Love letter to a dead person & an interview with Alfred Hrdlicka . Assembly. Vido - Association for Information d. Public to art, science u. Cultural Policy, Vienna 1991
  • Imperious women. 12 interviews with women about their sexuality . Vido - Association for Information d. Public to art, science u. Cultural Policy, Vienna 1993
  • News from the 31st floor. Poems . Vido - Association for Information d. Public to art, science u. Cultural Policy, Vienna 1995
  • When the dibbuk came: sagas and stories about the history of the Jews in Vienna . Edition Tarantel, work group literature in the world of work - Werkstatt Wien, Vienna 2012
  • Lilith's seduction . Edition Tarantel, work group literature in the world of work - Werkstatt Wien, Vienna 2014
  • Rebekah's power . Edition Tarantel, work group literature in the world of work - Werkstatt Wien, Vienna 2016

As editor (selection)

  • Karl Stojka : The pictures came after childhood in the concentration camp . Vido - Association for Information d. Public to art, science u. Cultural Policy, Vienna 1992
  • Zum Schwarzen Mohren - Spittelberger Lieder . (2 volumes). Vido - Association for Information d. Public to art, science u. Cultural Policy, Vienna 1994

Awards

  • 1977 Second prize in the "Literatur zur Arbeitswelt" competition organized by the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees for Upper Austria
  • 1978 Theodor Körner Prize for Literature
  • 1979 half-year scholarship from the Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts for dramatic poetry
  • 1980 Young scholarship for literature from the Federal Ministry for Education and Art
  • 1981 Prize for Literature from the Theodor-Körner-Stiftungsfonds for the promotion of science and art
  • 1981 drama scholarship from the Federal Ministry for Education and Art
  • 1982 half-year scholarship from the Federal Ministry for Education and Art for dramatic poetry
  • 1986 State grant from the Federal Ministry for Education and Art

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author reading Left word: Gerald Grassl. Retrieved February 9, 2018 (Austrian German).
  2. ↑ Vienna workshop. In: onb.ac.at. Retrieved August 27, 2018 .
  3. ^ Lexicon Literature in Tirol (University of Innsbruck): Gerald Grassl. Retrieved February 5, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Oliver Bentz: Thomas Bernhard: Poetry as a scandal . ( Epistemata: Series Literary Studies Bd. 337.), Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-8260-1930-X .
  5. ↑ Article by Gerald Grassl in: Augustin
personal data
SURNAME Grassl, Gerald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Telfs