Gernot Wolfgruber

Gernot Wolfgruber (Vienna,  original sounds  2009)

Gernot Wolfgruber (born December 20, 1944 in Gmünd , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian writer .

Life

Gernot Wolfgruber completed an apprenticeship after attending secondary school ; afterwards he worked in various professions, most recently as a programmer . In 1968 he passed his Matura as an external student and studied journalism and political science at the University of Vienna until 1974 . Since 1975 he has lived as a freelance writer in Vienna .

Wolfgruber became known for his autobiographical development novels , which are also anti-homeland novels . In them the author depicts in a depressing way the existence of workers in the Austrian provinces with no prospects.

Gernot Wolfgruber was a member of the Graz authors' meeting .

In September 1997, Wolfgruber published a long text in the Graz literary magazine manuskripte with the title “How to wait. Always ”- with the note that it is an excerpt“ from a novel in progress ”. In 1998, Wolfgruber published the text “With a hand far away” in the second issue of the Viennese literary magazine Kolik , which is also identified as an excerpt “from a novel in progress”.

“You can write without publishing. [...] Nobody in Austria can make a living from writing. " (Gernot Wolfgruber, 2004)

Awards

• 1975 Theodor Körner Prize
• 1989 Austrian Prize for Literature

Works

• At large , Salzburg 1975; New edition 2009
• Herrenjahre , Salzburg 1976 (made into a film by Axel Corti in 1983, for which Corti and Wolfgruber received the 1985 Adolf Grimme Prize from the Minister of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia)
• Screenplay for the film Der Einstand , 1977
• The hunting guest , Salzburg [u. a.] 1978
• No man's land , Salzburg [u. a.] 1978 (made into a film by Dieter Berner in 1981 )
• Arrival attempt, Pfaffenweiler 1979 (together with Christine Lichthardt)
• Course of a summer , Salzburg [u. a.] 1981
• Wiener Schnitzel or High noon , Baden 1981 (together with Helmut Zenker)
• The proximity of the sun , Residenz-Verlag, Vienna, Salzburg 1985; dtv paperback 1991

literature

• Cegienas de Groot: Poor people , Hildesheim [u. a.] 1988.
• Sylvia Szely: Heimat, Bilder , Vienna 1998.
• Benedikt Viertelhaus: Arrival attempts. Gernot Wolfgruber's novels are more than just the literature of the world of work In: Critical Edition. No. 21 ISSN  1617-1357 , Bonn 2012.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gernot Wolfgruber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Gernot Wolfgruber at perlentaucher.de
• Gernot Wolfgruber in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Search for someone who has fallen silent - On the 60th birthday of the novelist Gernot Wolfgruber , review by Peter Landerl in the Wiener Zeitung, December 10, 2004, accessed on July 19, 2012