Johann Allacher

Johann Allacher (* 1965 in Vienna ) is an Austrian writer and musician .

Life

Johann Allacher received classical piano training and began studying law in Vienna. He worked in various professions, including as a sporting goods retailer and as a consultant for the Employment Service (AMS). Since 2011 he has been working on crime novels and humorous texts in the Viennese dialect . From 2014 he performed poems in the Viennese dialect under the title Gfrieser, Gfraster and Krawäu , followed in 2016 by the second program entitled Wos i ned kenn, des friss i ned .

With Der Watschenmann , he published his debut novel with Emons Verlag in 2016 , a crime thriller with local Viennese flavor about the strolling student Erik “Erki” Neubauer. The sequel Der Knochentandler followed in 2018 . With the third book Wiener Blues about the main character Erik Neubauer, the song Boogie Street , composed and written by Allacher, was published in 2020 , which he recorded with friends in an ORF studio. The novel landed on the shortlist of five titles for the Leo Perutz Prize for Crime Fiction 2020.

Allacher lives with his family in Ebergassing in Lower Austria . In addition to piano, he plays guitar and blues harp .

Publications (selection)

• 2016: Der Watschenmann , crime novel, Emons Verlag, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-95451-953-8
• 2018: Der Knochentandler , crime novel, Emons Verlag, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-7408-0278-3
• 2020: Viennese blues , detective novel, Emons Verlag, Cologne 2020, ISBN 978-3-7408-0757-3

Awards and nominations

• 2020: Shortlist for the Leo Perutz Prize with Viennese blues

Web links

• Official website
• Johann Allacher on emons-verlag.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the person. In: The press . April 21, 2020, accessed May 19, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Mirjam Marits: When an AMS consultant becomes an author. In: The press . October 18, 2016, accessed July 2, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Johann Allacher. In: krimiautoren.at. Retrieved July 2, 2020 . 
4. ^ ^{A b} Johann Allacher: Music. In: johann-allacher.at. Retrieved July 2, 2020 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Otto Havelka: Ebergassing: Allacher's third stroke: A thriller with music. In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten . February 22, 2020, accessed July 2, 2020 . 
6. ^ Johann Allacher: Poetry. In: johann-allacher.at. Retrieved July 2, 2020 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Mirjam Marits: Johann Allacher: Crime with its own song. In: The press . April 21, 2020, accessed July 2, 2020 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b} Leo Perutz Prize for crime literature 2020 - the shortlist is here! In: buecher.at. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .