Harald Havas

Harald Havas (* 1964 in Vienna ) is an Austrian journalist , author and translator .

Live and act

Havas was born in Vienna, where he also lives and works. He was editor-in-chief of the trade journal Comic Forum for seven years and was in charge of the Comic Worlds exhibition . In addition, he was the author of the internet comic Fred , which was supervised by ORF . From 1998 to 2006 he was a member of the jury for the award of the Max and Moritz Prize at the Erlangen Comic Salon .

From 1999 he was involved as an author and exhibition designer in the Austrian retro media phenomenon Wickie, Slime & Paiper .

Havas is together with u. a. Michael Wittmann and Rachel Gold founding members of “Comics gegen Rechts”, an initiative by Austrian comic artists to “send a signal against the recent incidents of right-wing and right-wing extremist 'slip-ups' and manifestations of all kinds.”

Havas has also been running a YouTube channel since April 2010 , where he regularly uploads videos of translations of the songs he reads out there.

Havas is a book author, screenwriter , game writer, comic writer , writer for children's media and journalist for magazines such as Wiener and has two daughters.

He is co-founder and main author of the comic series Austrian Superheroes, which has been published since 2016 .

Works (selection)

• Comics from Austria , Harfe-Verlag 1987
• together with Gerhard Gerhard Habarta (ed.): Comic Welten. History and structure of the ninth art , Edition Comic Forum 1992, ISBN 3-900390-61-4
• IQ , Compact-Verlag Munich 1997, ISBN 3-8174-3317-4
• Viennese hodgepodge , Pichler-Verlag Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85431-375-6
• The greatest dangers in Austria and how to survive them , Pichler-Verlag , Vienna, Graz and Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-85431-410-8
• The Austropop hodgepodge , Ueberreuter, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3800073689
• Curious Vienna , Metroverlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3993000004
• The man who wanted to drain Lake Neusiedl - and other curious Austrians , Metroverlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3993001391
• Curiosities Austria , Metroverlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3993002114
• Weird Vienna (in English), Metroverlag 2015, ISBN 978-3993002329
• ASH: Return of the Heroes (Scenarist), Cross Cult, Ludwigsburg 2016, ISBN 978-3959811330
• Drunk - German: A Viennese phrasebook , Holzbaum, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3902980632
• The book of Vienna's wonders of the world , Metroverlag 2017, ISBN 978-3993003067

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} The authors of the COMIC! Yearbook 2001 on comic-i.com , accessed on November 27, 2007
2. ↑ Harald Havas on styriapichler.at , accessed on November 27, 2007
3. ↑ Members of the "Comics Against Right" initiative
4. ↑ The Standard June 3, 2009
5. ↑ Harald Havas on vienna.at  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 27, 2007  

Web links

• Literature by and about Harald Havas in the catalog of the German National Library
• Harald Havas's website
• Overview of the books by Harald Havas
• Comic Radio Show - Interview with Harald Havas (December 1, 2009)
• Harald Havas' YouTube channel
• Fascination Manga explained by an Austrian report on the lecture in Munich's Gasteig (01/2014)