Harald Kollegger

Harald Kollegger (born March 14, 1955 in Bruck an der Mur ) is an Austrian neurologist and writer .

life and work

Harald Kollegger grew up in the Mürz Valley, graduated from the BRG in Mürzzuschlag and completed his studies in human medicine at the University of Graz in 1981. Between 1976 and 1979 he was co-editor of the literary magazine Nebelhorn and student representative for the List of Independent Physicians. From 1979 to 1981 he studied sociology. Between 1984 and 1989 he completed his specialist training in neurology and psychiatry at the University of Vienna. He then worked as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Biochemistry, Trinity College Dublin until December 1991, and completed his habilitation in clinical neurology in 1993 (monograph Excitatory Amino Acids and Brain Damage (Facultas Verlag 1993, ISBN 3-85076-331-5 )) . From 1994 to 2005 he headed the multiple sclerosis outpatient clinic and the research laboratory of the University Clinic for Neurology in Vienna and completed several additional training courses, including neurolinguistic programming, scientific writing and traditional Chinese medicine. Since 2008 he has been head of the polyneuropathy outpatient department at the Vienna General Hospital. His scientific Œvre includes 43 original articles on the chemoarchitecture of the brain, cerebrovascular diseases and multiple sclerosis, 15 review articles on CSF diagnostics, posturography, viscometry and neuro-AIDS, as well as 10 articles in neurological textbooks. In 2001 his novel Sommerholz was published by Haymon Verlag Innsbruck. Since then, Harald Kollegger has worked as an essayist, poet and novelist and has published articles on ORF, in anthologies and for the Allegro Vivo music festival and the Giro d'Arte artists' association (Giro catalog of works at www.bankl.at). He has been a board member of the Austrian PEN Club since 2011 and its vice-president since April 2015. Harald Kollegger lives in Vienna-Ottakring and is the father of two adult sons.

Publications

Single track

• Sommerholz or Die Versprengten. Novel. Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck, 2001, ISBN 3-85218-349-9 .
• Letters only. 81 miniatures. edition pen, Volume 3, published by Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85409-635-1 .
• Loosen knots - balance, skepticism, strength. Sonderzahl Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-85449-391-4 .
• Pallawatsch & Palaver. Essays. edition pen, Volume 12, published by Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-85409-687-0 .
• Freshly loaded. Poetry. edition innsalz, Ranshofen 2015, ISBN 978-3-902981-30-1 .
• Bleeding in the temporal bone - weeping ear. Report. eBook, edition innsalz, Ranshofen 2015, ISBN 978-3-902981-53-0 .
• Nothing happens. Long poem. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-85409-829-4 .

Release

• 23 + 23 = 1st anthology 90 years of PEN (with Helmuth A. Niederle), own contribution: Near the wild heart / Clarice Lispector. Platform Johannes Martinek Verlag, Perchtoldsdorf 2014, ISBN 978-3-9503683-0-7 .
• Word body . Anthology PEN (with Helmuth A. Niederle). Own contribution: Let Feathers - Corpora frivolarum. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-85409-828-7
• Eating alone is like dying alone. Anthology PEN (with Helmuth A. Niederle). Own contribution: Thinking makes you sad, rhyme burlesque in 3 short acts. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-85409-835-5

translation

• Plums wet from rain. Stories about the youth (= Chinese contemporary literature. Volume 2, ed. Wang Jing, Helmuth A. Niederle, Richard Trappl). Translated from the English, Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-85409-715-0 .

Contributions

• About new telling - summiteers and lowland walkers. Essays, conversations, e-mail dialogues (Walter Grond). E-mail dialog with Walter Grond and Kurt Lanthaler: About science and literature for authors, non-readers and readers. Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2001, ISBN 3-85218-363-4 .
• Every other side. 46 Kubinesken (Eds. Alfred Rossi, Helmuth A. Niederle). Title: Class Reunion. Platform Johannes Martinek Verlag, Perchtoldsdorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-9502672-1-1 .
• Time to say: NO! Project of the Austrian PEN Club (Eds. Philo Ikonya, Helmuth A. Niederle). Title: Sandwiched between Shooting and Singing. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-85409-665-8 .
• In the middle of the sentence - fragments. Anthology 90 years of PEN (Eds. Helmuth A. Niederle, Christian Teissl) Title: Danklichkeitsaversion. Platform Johannes Martinek Verlag, Perchtoldsdorf 2014, ISBN 978-3-9503683-1-4 .

Web links

• Homepage
• Author portrait at the Literaturhaus Wien
• Video interview whatchado
• Literature by and about Harald Kollegger in the catalog of the German National Library