HW Valerian

HW Valerian (born Heinrich Payr on May 4, 1951 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian writer and journalist .

Life

HW Valerian studied German and English / American studies at the University of Innsbruck . This was followed by teaching at a technical college and at a university of applied sciences. At the same time he wrote as a freelance journalist and writer for various magazines and for Austrian radio; Among other things, he worked for the cultural magazine Gegenwart . He is particularly interested in the English-speaking world: its language, history and literature - and here again especially England in the narrower sense. HW Valerian lives and works in Innsbruck and the surrounding area.

Works

When Heinrich Payr

• The difficult art of neutrality . Vienna 1990.
• The critical imperative . On the psychology of intellectuals. Vienna 1997.

As HW Valerian

• Unbelievable . Letters to a Catholic friend. Innsbruck 2006. ISBN 3-902534-01-X .
• In the Kennedy House . Stories. Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-7375-3442-0 .
• Affidavit . Confessions of an Austrian Anglophile, Volume 1. Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-7418-5025-7 .
• Crossings . Confessions of an Austrian Anglophile, Volume 2. Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-7418-5026-4 .
• The album . Song lyrics. Berlin 2018. ISBN 978-3-7450-7834-3 .
• Mourir pour Dantzig . Narrative. Berlin 2019. ISBN 978-3-750244-43-6 .

literature

• Helmuth Schönauer : lightning and coma . Materials on contemporary Tyrolean literature 2000–2014. Innsbruck, Vienna 2014. p. 593.

Web links

• Literature by and about HW Valerian in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by HW Valerian
• HW Valerian in the Lexicon of Literature in Tyrol