Gustav Ernst

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Gustav Ernst (born August 23, 1944 in Vienna ) is an Austrian writer .

Life

Gustav Ernst, born and raised in Vienna , where he still works and lives today, studied philosophy , psychology , history and German , but switched to literature before completing his studies. From 1969 he worked as an editor and co-editor for the literary magazine Wespennest . In 1996 he was co-founder of the Austrian magazine Kolik , which he has since published together with Karin Fleischanderl . From 1992 to 2004 he was chairman of the “ Screenplay Forum Vienna ”. Since 2001 he has been a juror in the Leondingen writing competition Sprichcode , a youth prize for language and photography.

His literary work began in 1979 with the publication of his first major novel "Einsame Klasse", a novel about the main character's engagement with political issues and his fanatical search for a political direction that would suit him. But before that, he had already caused a stir with his prose volume Am Kehlkopf , published in 1974, and his play Ein irrer Hass in 1977, which premiered in 1979 at the Theater am Turm in Frankfurt am Main and was only performed a few years later, from 1983 onwards, on the Austrian stages .

With the main concern of criticizing the encrusted social conditions and their changes, to provoke them and to present real events artistically, Ernst primarily resorts to prose and plays and often uses a language that is sometimes extremely unusual: satirical social criticism becomes sometimes enriched with insults, fecal expressions and a coarse Viennese language of expression and thus reinforced. Often the language of the characters is mainly shaped by anger, anger and sexuality.

Since the beginning of the 1980s, dramatic works as well as screenplays for television games and feature films have been the focus of his work. Gustav Ernst's first feature film " Exit - Nur kein Panik" (1980) together with director Franz Novotny was a huge success.

Gustav Ernst founded the Johann Beer Literature Prize together with Karin Fleischanderl in 2009 and has headed the Leondingen Academy for Literature since 2005.

Gustav Ernst is one of the members of the Graz Authors' Assembly . In addition to various author grants , he also received a variety of prizes, such as a. the young talent scholarship for literature of the BMfUK (1974), the price of the Frankfurt Authors Foundation (1979), the promotion price of the BMfUK for drama (1980), the Elias Canetti scholarship of the city of Vienna (together with Liesl Ujvary and Peter Henisch , 1998) and the Prize of the City of Vienna for Literature (2013).

Works

  • Looting , Vienna 1970
  • On the larynx , Berlin 1974
  • A crazy hatred , Frankfurt am Main 1977
  • Lonely class , Königstein / Ts. 1979
  • Tausend Rosen , Frankfurt am Main 1986
  • Spring in Via Condotti , Vienna [u. a.] 1987
  • Herzgruft , Vienna [u. a.] 1988
  • Not with me , Frankfurt am Main 1991
  • Bloodbath , Frankfurt am Main 1992
  • A friend of the people , Vienna 1994
  • Heart is trump , Frankfurt am Main 1994
  • Casino , Vienna 1997
  • Faust , Vienna 1997
  • Separations , Vienna [u. a.] 2000
  • The Chancellor's wife , Vienna 2002
  • Lulu , Vienna 2003
  • Blood bath, strip and a thousand roses , Vienna 2004
  • Grado , Vienna 2004
  • Tollhaus , Vienna 2007
  • Allegretto , Theater id Drachengasse, Vienna 2009
  • Best relationships . Haymon-Verlag, Innsbruck / Vienna 2011 ISBN 978-3-85218-677-1
  • Grundlsee , Vienna 2013
  • On the impossible prospect , Innsbruck 2015

Editing

  • Literature in Austria , Berlin 1979 (together with Klaus Wagenbach )
  • In memoriam Heinz Knienieder , Vienna 1987 (together with Franz Schuh )
  • Wasp's Nest , Vienna [u. a.] 1989
  • Script writing , Vienna [a. a.] 1990 (together with Thomas Pluch )
  • Film location desk , Vienna [a. a.] 1992
  • Close-ups , Vienna [u. a.] 1992 (together with Gerhard Schedl )
  • Write a film review , Vienna [a. a.] 1993
  • Language in Film , Vienna 1994
  • Authors' films - film authors , Vienna 1996
  • Zeit , Vienna 1999
  • Luckily there is Austria , Berlin 2003 (together with Karin Fleischanderl )
  • Colic. Zeitschrift für Literatur , Vienna since 1997 (together with Karin Fleischanderl )

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personal data
SURNAME Ernst, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna