Janko Ferk

Janko Ferk (born December 11, 1958 in Sankt Kanzian am Klopeiner See / Škocijan ob Klopinjskem jezeru, Carinthia ) is an Austrian judge , scientist and writer .

Life

Janko Ferk studied German philology and history as well as law at the University of Vienna and graduated with a Mag. Phil. and Dr. iur. from. He is a judge at the Klagenfurt Regional Court and honorary professor for literary studies at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt / Univerza v Celovcu, where he headed the multilateral university course “Strategic Cooperation Management”.

He is a writer and literary translator.

He was a member of the advisory board for literary translators and was a member of the commission for compliance with the broadcasting law in the Federal Chancellery . Most recently he was chairman of a senate on the broadcasting commission. He was and is a member of various literary advisory boards and juries in the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture . In the Association of Austrian Judges , he was a participant in the “Working Group on Ethics” and is co-author of an ethics declaration of the association, which was adopted on November 8, 2007 and named after its place of origin (“Wels Declaration”).

Janko Ferk is an international member of the editorial board of the journal Zbornik znanstvenih razprav (Scientific Yearbook) of the Law Faculty of the University of Ljubljana . He regularly publishes legal articles and works for legal journals. He writes peer reviews for the Law Faculty of the University of Ljubljana . He lectures at universities abroad, including Stanford University in Palo Alto , California, and gave a presentation on Franz Kafka ( Academy And Monkey ) at the 2011 Convention of the US Modern Language Association in Los Angeles . He has given around two hundred literary readings at home and abroad and published in more than one hundred literary anthologies in Austria, Germany, Slovenia, the USA and other countries. He regularly writes book reviews and guest comments for the daily newspaper Die Presse .

He is the initiator and co-founder of the web lexicon of Carinthian Slovenian literature www.slolit.at . The Lexicon Profiles of Modern Slovene Literature in Carinthia (Ed. Johann Strutz , Hermagoras Verlag , Klagenfurt / Celovec) goes back to his initiative . At Hermagoras Verlag he gave the suggestion for the book series “Austriaca”, in which Austrian authors appear in Slovenian translation, and for the edition “Slovenica”, in which Slovenian authors are published in German translation.

He is a member of the editorial board of the Austria Forum , a general knowledge platform with a focus on Austria, designed by independent scientists and made available to the general public.

His scientific research focuses on literature and law. He is an internationally renowned cofcologist .

Works (selection)

prose

• The convicted plaintiff. Novel. Vienna / Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-552-03325-4 (Engl. Transl. 1993, ISBN 0-929497-58-9 ).
• The geography of man. Conversation book. Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-900379-79-3 .
• Land grabbing and flight. Prose. Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85308-027-8 (Slovenian edition 1989, ISBN 3-85013-100-9 . Croatian transl. 2007, ISBN 978-953-7289-13-3 ).
• Law is a "process". About Kafka's legal philosophy . Manz, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-214-06528-9 (also dissertation at the University of Vienna 1998) (Slovenian transl. 2007, ISBN 978-961-247-043-2 . Croatian transl . 2010, ISBN 978-953 -7289-23-2 ).
• Approved and cross-written. Essays. Klagenfurt / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85013-968-9 .
• Kafka and other damn good writers. Essays. Klagenfurt / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7086-0187-4 .
• How do you become Franz Kafka? Three essays. With a foreword by Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler . Vienna / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-1419-9 .
• Letter to the public prosecutor. A forensic novella. Prose. Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-902498-24-3 .
• A forensic trilogy. Three novels. Prose. Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902498-34-2 .
• Ulrich Habsburg-Lothringen. Aristocrat Democrat Greener. Biography. Klagenfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-7012-0054-2 .
• Basics of corporate and contract law Austria / Slovenia - Osnove podjetniškega in pogodbenega prava Avstrija / Slovenija. Textbook. Klagenfurt / Vienna / Ljubljana 2011, ISBN 978-3-7086-0606-4 .
• The Parenzana. Go. Enjoy. To go biking. From Trieste to Poreč. (Travel guide with photos.) Styria, Vienna / Graz 2013, ISBN 978-3-7012-0127-3 (5th edition 2020, Slovenian edition Sidarta, Ljubljana 2017, 2nd edition 2018, ISBN 978-961-6027-83- 0 ).
• Air out of the handbag. Reviews of German-language literature 2005–2012 from A to Zeh. Essays. Vienna / Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-50523-1 .
• The snail eater of Paris. Essays and stories. Wels 2013, ISBN 978-3-9503686-1-1 .
• The emperor sends soldiers out. A Sarajevo novel. Vienna / Graz 2014, ISBN 978-3-222-13408-1 (Slovenian transl. 2014, ISBN 978-3-7086-0814-3 ).
• Farmer Bernhard, civil servant Kafka. Poets and their civil professions. Vienna / Graz 2015, ISBN 978-3-222-13520-0 .
• Three lawyers. Gross - Kafka - Rode. Scientific essays. Graz 2017, ISBN 978-3-7011-0392-8 .
• Craft-based design. On Practical Knowledge and Manual Creativity / Of craftsmen and designers. Edited by Stefan Moritsch . Bilingual, German-English non-fiction book. Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-7212-0979-2 .
• Intermediate result. Collected prose. Leykam, Graz 2018, ISBN 978-3-7011-8100-1 .
• The art of judgment. Reviews of German-language literature 2013-2018 from A-mann to Z-mann. Essays. Vienna / Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-643-50897-3 .
• Kafka, redesigned. Originals and interpretations. Scientific essays. Graz / Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-7011-8133-9 .

Poetry

• cool fire. Poems. Klagenfurt / Celovec 1978.
• samoumevnost nesmisla / the self-evident of the senseless. Poetry and prose. Klagenfurt / Celovec 1979.
• Buried in the sands of time. Poems. Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-9009-7937-8 . (Engl. Transl. 1989, ISBN 0-929497-13-9 .)
• At the edge of the silence. Poems. Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-900379-67-X . (Italian transl. 1997, ISBN 88-86950-02-0 .)
• Psalms and Cycles. Poems. Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85308-074-X . (Croatian transl . 2006, ISBN 953-7289-08-7 .)
• 10 × 7 . Poems in seven languages. Zagreb 2008, ISBN 978-953-7289-18-8 .
• Pasadena . Poems in three languages. Zagreb 2012, ISBN 978-953-7289-42-3 .
• Bread and love. Collected poems . Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-222-13452-4 . (Bulgarian translation 2014, ISBN 978-954-488-130-6 ; Croatian translation in two volumes including the Slovenian original 2019, ISBN 978-953-8258-63-3 ; Slovenian edition 2019, ISBN 978-961- 6850-76-6 .)

Publications in newspapers and magazines

Structure (New York), BuchKultur (Vienna), Delo (Ljubljana), Die Brücke (Klagenfurt / Celovec), Die Furche (Vienna), Die Presse (Vienna), Europäische Rundschau (Vienna), Fidibus (Klagenfurt / Celovec), Freeboard (Vienna), Halifax (Stockholm), InN (Innsbruck), Journal of the Kafka Society of America (New York), Kleine Zeitung (Graz and Klagenfurt), le livre slovéne (Ljubljana), literature and criticism (Salzburg), Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (Frankfurt am Main), Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zurich), New York Times (New York), Nova Revija (Ljubljana), manuscripts (Graz), Österreichische Richterzeitung (Vienna), Pegasus (Passau), Podium (Vienna), Salzburger Nachrichten (Salzburg), sodobnost (Ljubljana), Standard (Vienna), Sterz (Graz), Večer (Maribor), Wiener Journal (Vienna), Dial (Vaduz) and many more

Translations

• from Slovenian into German:

Drago Jančar , Niko Grafenauer , Andrej Hieng , Alojz Ihan , Lojze Kovačič , Kajetan Kovič , Florjan Lipuš , Brane Mozetič, Josip Osti , Žarko Petan , Rudi Šeligo, Marjan Strojan , Herman Vogel and Pavle Zidar .

• from German into Slovenian:

Georg Bydlinski and Josef Winkler .

Awards (selection)

• 1978: Great Austrian Youth Prize for Literature
• 1981 and 1989: Book award from the (Austrian) Federal Ministry for Education and Art
• 1986: Promotion Prize of the Province of Carinthia for literature
• 1987 and 1989: Translator bonus from the (Austrian) Federal Ministry for Education and Art
• 1988: Theodor Körner Prize Promotion Prize for Literature
• 1993: Theodor Körner Prize Promotion Prize for Science
• 1997, 2005 and 2006: Translator's premium from the Austrian Federal Chancellery
• 2002: Literature Prize of the PEN Club Liechtenstein
• 2018: Prize of the State of Carinthia

Memberships

Association of Austrian Judges (Vienna); Graz authors' assembly of authors (Vienna); IG authors authors (Vienna); Literar-Mechana (Vienna); Literary collecting society (Vienna); IG Translators Translators (Vienna); Kafka Society of America (New York); Austrian Franz Kafka Society (Klosterneuburg); ULV - Association of the Scientific and Artistic Personnel of the Austrian Universities (AAU, Klagenfurt).

literature

• Günter Kanzian , Annemarie Kanzian (ed.): Fest.Schrift für Janko Ferk. In: Fidibus . Journal of literature and literary studies. Klagenfurt, vol. 36, 2008, H. 3/4.
• Günter Kanzian, Annemarie Kanzian (Ed.): Translated from Janko Ferk. In: Fidibus. Volume 37, 2009, no. 2.

Web links

• Literature by and about Janko Ferk in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Janko Ferk at Literaturport
• Janko Ferk: "Kafka can also be very funny" (Janko Ferk in conversation with Oliver Pink , March 9, 2013)
• History will ridicule this solution (Janko Ferk in conversation with Gerald Heschl, June 28, 2011)
• Business card at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt / AAU

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Declaration of Ethics of November 8, 2007
2. ↑ Barbara Frischmuth presents the writer Janko Ferk ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Altaussee Literature Museum accessed on January 17, 2013.