Jan Kossdorff
Jan Kossdorff (born October 25, 1974 in Vienna ) is an Austrian writer .
Life
Jan Kossdorff grew up in Vienna. After graduating from high school , he did an apprenticeship at the Viennese scriptwriting school and studied theater studies and psychology for a few semesters. After his first jobs as a TV writer, he was Internet editor for a large daily newspaper and content manager for the Internet provider yline . From 2002 he worked primarily as a copywriter.
In 2002, the novel Spam! - a mailodrama , an e-mail novel about the bursting of the dot-com bubble , remained unpublished for the time being. In 2009 Sunnyboys was published by Milena Verlag in Vienna, which broke with its tradition as a women's publisher. The following year came Spam! out.
2013 Publication of Kauft Menschen , which has received several awards. In 2016 he played live , now with Deuticke Verlag in Vienna .
Kossdorff lives and writes in Vienna and Altmünster am Traunsee. He was the singer and guitarist of the band "Seamount" and for many years the organizer of the "Ampers Club".
Literary work
In his novels, Kossdorff tells of his protagonists' search for meaning in an only ostensibly efficient and smoothly functioning business and consumer world. Alex out of Spam! leans against the false promises of the new economy and fighting for an idealized love, the Sunny Boys Clemens and Claudio will not agree on the meaning (un) employment of their small tanning salons, which serves them as a starting point for their individual pursuit of happiness. Caro sees himself as an employee of a franchise slave market in buys people confronted with their own corruptibility and unsuccessful actor Misha and Sebastian transform into life play a theater company into a service company.
Kossdorff's characters are always clever enough to ask the right questions, but often fail because of fear of their own courage. Happiness and self-realization are the great goal, the obstacles on the way there are to a large extent self-made.
Works
- Sunnyboys . Novel. Milena, Vienna 2009. ISBN 978-3-85286-176-0 .
- Spam! - a mailodrama . Novel. Milena, Vienna 2010. ISBN 978-3-852-86187-6 .
- Buy people . Novel. Milena, Vienna 2013. ISBN 978-3-85286-232-3 .
- Play life . Novel. Deuticke, Vienna 2016. ISBN 978-3-552-06312-9 .
Awards
- 2011 Rome grant from the Federal Chancellery
- 2011 scholarship from the Thomas Bernhard Archive, Gmunden
- 2012 work grant from the BMUKK
- 2013 Samiel Award for the best literary villain (1st place), Stuttgart
- 2013 Book Prize from the City of Vienna
- 2014 scholarship in the Schiele Art Center, Český Krumlov, of the Province of Upper Austria
- 2016/17 project grant for literature from the Federal Chancellery
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ culturmag.de - Article about Milena Verlag . Retrieved February 11, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kossdorff, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |