Harald Kislinger

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Harald Kislinger 2006 in Paris

Harald Kislinger (born March 6, 1958 in Linz ) is an Austrian writer and playwright .

Life

Harald Kislinger is considered to be the pioneer of a new generation of playwrights who speak violent language in the 1980s and 1990s. At the beginning of the 1990s he belonged, together with Werner Schwab and Marlene Streeruwitz, to the new "Austrian wave" of playwrights and was celebrated by the German feuilleton as a "breaking natural event". He is the author of numerous plays, radio plays and short stories. World premieres took place at the Vienna Burgtheater , the Residenztheater Munich, the Wiener Schauspielhaus and the Royal Court Theater London.

In 1995 he received the highest endowed German playwright award , the Else Lasker Schüler Dramatist Prize, for Höllenschlund, along with many other prizes . In the 1991/92 season he was the most frequently performed German-language playwright. Harald Kislinger lives in Vienna. In spring 2018, the acquired StifterHaus in Linz the premature legacy of Harald Kislinger.

reception

“In the 1991/2 season, Kislinger became the most premiered author of the season with five pieces. At the same time as Werner Schwab and Marlene Streeruwitz, his texts break like a natural event over a rather lethargic theater landscape and set glaring accents. Desolate, garish, deformed - this is how his theater appears - a theater of anger and pain about the state of the world. The materials are often unimportant normal cases, material for social reports. But the jump is sought from the realism of images into the monstrous nightmare. But the issue here is no longer people in conflict with society, but people themselves become a horror, stumbling through nightmares and horror experiences. "

- Siegfried Kienzle : Actor of the present

“Characteristic is Kislinger's picture-rich language, and his many word inventions are striking. “Reality can only be experienced as the grotesque”, says the program in his foreword to HEIMATSTÖHNEN, in which Kislinger declares the grotesque to be a contemporary, dramatic form for social criticism. His pieces reproduce reality, show social grievances, expose emotional deformations, but what is truly remarkable about them is their language. "

- C. Bernd Sucher : Theater Lexicon

Works

Plays

  • Television (first performance 1979)
  • Kalt und Warm (first performance 1980)
  • Television II (world premiere 1980)
  • Die Steinheiligen (first performance 1986)
  • Asphyxiation (first performance 1987)
  • The Donaufürst (first performance 1989)
  • Stoning of a Naked Woman (first performance 1991)
  • A dear child (first performance 1992)
  • From meat chopping and loving (first performance 1992)
  • Thoroughbred stars (world premiere 1992)
  • Heimatmoehne (world premiere 1992)
  • Moldaublick (first performance 1992)
  • Mating murder (world premiere 1993)
  • Hellmouth (first performance 1995)
  • Jägerstätter - the most famous suicide in Upper Austria (first performance 1995)
  • The ax in the bishop's back (first performance 1996)
  • CoverVersungMacbeth (first performance 1999)
  • Negro (first performance 2001)
  • My mom, my Temelin (world premiere 2002)
  • Edward Hopper or the hygiene distance (DRAMA @ HOME Microdramas, S.Fischer 2020)

libretto

  • Carved holiness. Anton Bruckner and the women (for the Peter Androsch opera, Internationales Brucknerfest Linz 1996)

Radio plays

  • Yesterday ( ORF , 1977)
  • Grandma (ORF, 1983)
  • The Mühlviertler (ORF, 1986)
  • Suffocating ( RIAS BERLIN , 1994)
  • The connection (ORF, 2002)
  • Naxos Naxos Naxos Rap (ORF, 2004)

Publications

prose

Pieces

  • Home groan . In: Theater Theater. Current pieces 1 . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag 1991, ISBN 3-596-10717-2 .
  • Hellmouth . In: Theater Theater. Current pieces 4 . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag 1994, ISBN 3-596-12189-2
  • The agony affinities . In: Theater Theater. Current pieces 7 . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag 1997, ISBN 3-596-13717-9 .

Awards

Footnotes

  1. ^ Siegfried Kienzle: Acting leader of the present. Alfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 1999.
  2. ^ C. Bernd Sucher: Theater Lexikon. DTV, 1999.
  3. ↑ Published online at https://www.fischer-theater.de/theater/journaleintrag/3513092

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Kislinger, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian playwright
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz