Henrik Szanto

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Henrik Szanto (born August 23, 1988 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a Finnish - British author, slam poet and presenter.

Life

Szanto's father comes from Hungary , his mother from Finland, he was born in Germany . In addition to Finnish, he also has British citizenship. He described himself in an interview with Der Standard as a "mixture of circumstances".

Szanto has been a poetry slammer in the entire German-speaking area since 2012. Often his texts take up his everyday life in a humorous way or deal with current political events in a satirical and critical way. Szanto qualified several times for the national championships ("Ö-Slam") as well as for the German-language championships . In the individual competition he achieved fourth place as the best place at national level in 2015 in Innsbruck , and in 2014 he reached the semifinals of the “Slam 2014” in Dresden . In 2015 he won the "Univie.Slam.Poetrie" contest as part of a campus festival on the occasion of the 650th anniversary of the University of Vienna . Together with Jonas Scheiner he forms the slam team “Kirmes Hanoi” and also takes part in championships with them. In 2016 they were chosen as the second best team at the Ö-Slam in Vienna , and at the German-speaking championships in 2016 (in Stuttgart ) and 2017 (in Hanover ) they reached the finals. In 2018, Scheiner and Szanto won the team competition at the Ö-Slam in Klagenfurt. Szanto also worked with Jonas Scheiner from 2015 to 2016 on the video blog project “Slamsenf” for the ÖRF , for which he worked as an author and also acted in front of the camera. As part of the Viennese artist collective FOMP, he regularly moderates literary and cultural events.

In 2016, Szanto's debut novel “It shines and is beautiful” was published by Milena . He is represented with texts in various anthologies as well as in some issues of the literary magazine & Radieschen .

In 2018 his book “It has 18 letters and nine of them are Ys”. The book title refers to “Hyppytyynytyydytys”, a Finnish made-up word that describes the joy one feels when jumping around on pillows. It was named the Most Unusual Book Title of 2018.

He is a founding member of the Vienna reading stage “Sinn & Seife ”, which was launched in 2016 and whose ensemble includes Yasmo , Mieze Medusa , Markus Köhle , Elias Hirschl , Fabian Navarro , Christopher Hütmannsberger and Jonas Scheiner.

Szanto speaks Finnish , Hungarian , English and German . Since 2011 he has lived in Vienna , where he is studying psychology and communication sciences.

Publications (selection)

as editor:

  • Henrik Szanto, Anna-Lena Obermoser (eds.): G'SCHEIT GOSCHERT: The Austrian U20 Poetry Slam Anthology . Lektora, 2019, ISBN 978-3-95461-144-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Henrik Szanto: "I am a mixture of circumstances" - derStandard.at. Retrieved August 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ When a Syrian arrives in Austria . In: news.ORF.at . October 18, 2017 ( orf.at [accessed August 10, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Henrik Szanto | 10th Austrian Slam 2016 in Linz on October 21/22, 2016. Retrieved on August 10, 2018 (German).
  4. ^ Austrian Society for Literature: Guests since 1999. Accessed on August 10, 2018 .
  5. ↑ NDR: These poets convinced the jury . ( ndr.de [accessed on August 10, 2018]).
  6. ↑ The Ö-Slam to read: Sarah Anna Fernbach is Austrian poetry slam champion 2018 . In: www.kleinezeitung.at . ( kleinezeitung.at [accessed on November 5, 2018]).
  7. ↑ ORFeins goes online: "[M] eins" . ( kurier.at [accessed on August 10, 2018]).
  8. ↑ semi-final 2 . In: U20 SLAM 2017 . ( u20slam2017.de [accessed on August 10, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Germany 2018 - Routes . In: Routes . ( routes-europe.eu [accessed on August 10, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Henrik Szantos' debut novel takes imagination . In: The Gap . June 15, 2016 ( thegap.at [accessed August 10, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Archive :: Literature & radishes . In: literature & radishes . ( radieschen-literaturzeitschrift.at [accessed on August 10, 2018]).
  12. ↑ "Most unusual book title of 2018" awarded . In: What are you reading? , Magazine of Mayersche Buchhandlung . Retrieved December 2, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Szanto, Henrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish-British author
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd August 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main