Johann Holzner

Johann Holzner (2016)

Johann Holzner (born September 16, 1948 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian German studies scholar and university professor.

Life

Johann Holzner studied history, German language and literature and philosophy after attending the academic high school in Innsbruck (graduation in 1972 from the University of Innsbruck: Dr. et Mag. Phil.). In 1985 he became a university lecturer (modern German language and literature), in 1994 Ao. Univ.-Prof. at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Innsbruck . 2001–2013 he was head of the Brenner Archive research institute at the University of Innsbruck. - Lecturer at the University of Wrocław (1979/80), University of Salzburg (1986), University of California, Santa Barbara (1994 and 1996), University of St. Petersburg (1998), University of Jyväskylä (2009) and University of Maribor (2012) ). Since 2014 he has been chairman of the Society of Friends and Patrons of the Theodor Fontane Archive in Potsdam, and since 2016 chairman of the International Trakl Forum in Salzburg.

Johann Holzner is married to the writer Dragica Rajčić .

Awards

Theodor Körner Foundation Fund Award (1983)
Prize of the State Capital Innsbruck for Scientific Research (1986)
Decoration of Honor for Art and Culture of the State Capital Innsbruck (2011)
Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria (2014)

Publications

Monographs

Studies to overcome National Socialism in Austria. Dissertation. Innsbruck 1971
Franz Kranewitter. Provincial literature between Kulturkampf and National Socialism. Habilitation thesis. Innsbruck 1985

Editorships

(with Michael Klein and Wolfgang Wiesmüller) Studies on the literature of the 19th and 20th centuries in Austria: Festschrift for Alfred Doppler for his 60th birthday . Innsbruck 1981.
(with Gerhard Oberkofler ) Breakout from the provinces. Adolf Pichler - Alois Brandl: Correspondence (1876-1900) . Innsbruck 1983.
(with Wolfgang Wiesmüller) Yugoslavia - Austria. Literary neighborhood . Innsbruck 1986.
(with Udo Zeilinger) The Bible in the Understanding of Contemporary Literature . St. Pölten - Vienna 1988.
Head or eagle. Other stories from Tyrol . Innsbruck 1991.
(with Sigurd Paul Scheichl and Wolfgang Wiesmüller) A difficult homecoming. Austrian literature in exile 1938 to 1945 . Innsbruck 1991.
(with Erika Schuster) Modern literature - a challenge for theology and the church . Innsbruck - Vienna 1992.
(with Wolfgang Wiesmüller) Aesthetics of History . Innsbruck 1995.
(with Dragutin Horvat) Inclusion and rejection of tradition. Austrian poetry 1945–1995 . Zagreb 1996.
(with Oskar Putzer and Max Siller) Literature and language culture in Tyrol . Innsbruck 1997.
Literature in South Tyrol . Innsbruck 1997.
(with Karl Müller) Literature of the 'Inner Emigration' from Austria . Vienna 1998.
(with Stefan Simonek, Wolfgang Wiesmüller) Russia - Austria. Literary and cultural interactions . Bern 2000.
(with Elisabeth Walde ) Fractures and bridges. Cultural transfer in the Alpine region from the Stone Age to the present . Vienna-Bozen 2005.
(with Manfred Moser, Hans Prantl, Daniela Rummel-Volderauer, Anton Unterkircher) Josef Leitgeb: Christian and Brigitte. Novel . Innsbruck 2005.
(with Sandra Unterweger) Shadow fights. Literature in East Tyrol . Innsbruck 2006.
(with Barbara Hoiß) Max Riccabona. Bohemian - Writers - Contemporary Witnesses (Edition Brenner-Forum, Volume 4). Innsbruck 2006.
(with Karin Dalla Torre, Paul Renner, Anton Unterkircher and Silvano Zucal) Carl Dallago. The great ignoramus . Innsbruck 2007.
(with Stefan Neuhaus ) Literature as a scandal. Cases - functions - consequences . Göttingen 2007.
(with Alois Hotschnig) Changing addresses . Innsbruck 2008.
(with the Brenner Archive Research Institute) Timepiece. 100 years of “Brenner” . Innsbruck 2010.
(with Barbara Hoiß) Franz Tumler. Observer - partisan - narrator . (Edition Brenner Forum, Volume 6). Innsbruck 2010.
(with Brigitte Mazohl and Markus Neuwirth) Triumph of the Province. History and stories 1809–2009 . Innsbruck 2012.
(with Alois Hotschnig) Changing Addresses. Contemporary Austrian Writing . New Orleans-Innsbruck 2012.
(with Marjan Cescutti and Roger Vorderegger) Space - Region - Culture. Literary historiography in the context of current discourses. (Schlern writings 360). Innsbruck 2013.
(with Bettina Schlorhaufer and Anton Unterkircher) Walter Schlorhaufer: Glasfeder . Innsbruck 2016.
(with Lenka Schindlerová and Anton Unterkircher) The lost souls of Malcesine. Adolf Pichler (1819-1900). Works and materials. Innsbruck 2019.

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personal data
SURNAME	Holzner, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 16, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	innsbruck