Josef Haslinger

This article deals with the Austrian writer. For the Austrian member of the state parliament see Josef Haslinger (politician) .

Josef Haslinger (2018)

Josef Haslinger (born July 5, 1955 in Zwettl , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian writer . From May 2013 to April 2017 he was President of the PEN Center Germany .

Life

Josef Haslinger was born in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel and grew up in Groß Meinharts near Groß Gerungs . He was a choirboy at the school of the Cistercian monastery in Zwettl and then from 1969 attended the grammar school in Horn , where he passed the Matura in 1973 . In Vienna he studied philosophy , theater studies and German literature and received his doctorate in 1980 on The Aesthetics of Novalis . With Gustav Ernst , Haslinger published the literary magazine Wespennest from 1977 . In the 1980s he was general secretary of the Graz Authors 'Assembly , the largest writers' association in Austria. In 1983/84 he was a lecturer at the University of Kassel .

In his work, Haslinger exercises social criticism and deals with the history of Austria. He conveys his socially critical analyzes in a differentiated and concise narrative style. In 1992 Josef Haslinger co-founded the human rights organization SOS Mitmensch , of which he was first chairman together with Willi Resetarits until 1993.

Haslinger has been teaching literary aesthetics at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig since 1996 . As a member of the management level, he was director of the institute at Leipzig University several times.

Josef Haslinger at the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2012

Haslinger is a member of the PEN Center Germany and was its President for two years from May 2013. He was confirmed as chairman in May 2015; in April 2017 he announced that he would not be available again. His successor was Regula Venske .

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His political thriller Opera Ball , which appeared in 1995 and depicts a terrorist attack on the Vienna Opera Ball from different perspectives, made him known beyond Austria's borders. In 1998 the book was turned into a three-hour television film with international cast: Opera Ball - The Victims / The Offenders . In 2019, a stage version of the novel directed by Alexander Charim with only six actors was staged at the Volx / Margareten venue of the Vienna Volkstheater . Josef Haslinger is “very impressed by the whole thing”.

In his work Phi Phi Island , published in 2007, Haslinger processed his experiences during his family's holiday in Thailand over Christmas 2004. Haslinger, his wife Edith and their children Sophie and Elias experienced the tsunami first hand on Phi Phi Island . It was only with a lot of luck that all family members survived the natural disaster.

In the work Mein Fall , published in 2020, Josef Haslinger reports on the sexual abuse that happened to him as a child in the Choir Boys' Convict of Zwettl Abbey by three educators, including the religion teacher Gottfried Eder . Haslinger describes both the attacks and his efforts to bring the case to the “Independent Victim Protection Commission” of the Austrian Bishops' Conference .

Awards and honors

• 1980 Theodor Körner Prize
• 1982 Austrian State Scholarship for Literature
• 1984 Award of the City of Vienna
• 1985 scholarship from the German Literature Fund
• 1988 Austrian drama scholarship
• 1989 Erostepost Literature Prize
• 1993–94 Elias Canetti scholarship from the City of Vienna
• 1994 Scholarship from the German Literature Fund e. V.
• 1994 Promotion Prize of the Province of Lower Austria for Literature
• 1996 New York scholarship from the German Literature Fund e. V.
• 2000 Literature Prize of the City of Vienna
• 2001 Prize of the LiteraTour North
• 2000 Prize of Honor from the Austrian book trade for tolerance in thought and action
• 2010 Mainz town clerk
• 2011 Rheingau Literature Prize
• 2017 Gold Medal of Merit of the State of Vienna

Works

prose

• The Konviktskaktus and other stories. Athenaeum Verlag, Bodenheim 1982, ISBN 978-3761005682
• The sudden gifts from heaven. What Father G. entrusted to us in the religion lesson. A story . 1983, first in: profil , 15, 1995
• Hugo Sunshine. 1984
• The death of the small house owner Ignaz Hajek. Novella. 1985
• Opera ball . 1995
• The father game . 2000
• Migratory birds . Stories. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-10-030057-2 .
• Phi Phi Island. A report. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-030059-1 .
• Jáchymov. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-030061-4 . (Novel biography of ice hockey goalkeeper Bohumil Modrý )
• Child in Time. A literary picture book about the unreasonable demands of being young. Photographically arranged by Maix Mayer . Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2019, ISBN 978-3-867301-37-4
• Mein Fall , S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2020, ISBN 978-3-10-030058-4 .

Performance, radio play, rap

• America. a travel epic. (Narration also in: Migratory birds). Haslinger reads and raps accompanied by trombonists Bertl Mütter and Werner Puntigam. Record 1993, later also as CD. Produced by the hr2.

Literary studies, essays

• The aesthetics of the Novalis. (1981)
• Politics of Emotions - An Essay on Austria. (1987), S. Fischer Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-12365-8
• What do we need Atlantis for? (1990)
• The misery of America. 11 attempts across a promised land. (1992)
• House searches in the ivory tower. (1996)
• Great fellows. (2001)
• At the end of the language culture? About the fate of writing, speaking and reading . ( Viennese Karl Kraus lectures on cultural criticism , Volume 1), ISBN 3-902416-01-7 (2003)

Editorial activity

• RED AND WHITE BOOK. Austrian authors on the Anschluss in 1938 . Gangan , Graz / Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-900530-13-0 .
• How do I become a damn good writer? Reports from the workshop . Edited together with Hans-Ulrich Treichel , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / Main 2005, TB: ISBN 978-3-518-12395-9 .
• Learn to write - teach to write . Edited together with Hans-Ulrich Treichel, Fischer, Frankfurt / Main 2006, TB: ISBN 978-3-596-16967-2 .
• Refuge in Germany. Texts from persecuted authors . Edited together with Franziska Sperr , Fischer, Frankfurt / Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-596-29800-6 .

Movie

• Nachtasyl - The home of the homeless , documentary, 2010

literature

• Joanna Drynda: Beautiful appearance, unclear being. The poetics of criticism of Austria in the work of Gerhard Roth , Robert Menasse and Josef Haslinger . Rys-Studio, Poznań 2003, ISBN 83-88856-26-X . Poznań, Univ., Diss. 2002.

Web links

• Literature by and about Josef Haslinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Josef Haslinger in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Josef Haslinger in the literary archive of the Austrian National Library
• Entry on Josef Haslinger in the database of the state's memory for the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
• Josef Haslinger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• German Literature Institute Leipzig
• "The SPÖ has lost the intellectuals" - Josef Haslinger in an interview with Günter Kaindlstorfer
• Archive recordings with Josef Haslinger in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library
• WDR 3 (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) talk on Saturday, February 8, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ^ Austria Forum: Biography Haslinger Josef , accessed on January 24, 2020
2. ^ Writers' Association: Josef Haslinger is the new PEN President , Spiegel Online , May 3, 2013
3. ↑ PEN Center Germany confirms leadership for another two years , Deutschlandradio Kultur from May 8, 2015
4. ↑ Josef Haslinger - Why the PEN President won't continue , deutschlandradiokultur.de, April 20, 2017, accessed on April 23, 2017
5. ↑ Morten Freidel: Enemy of the power skirmish. To the writer Josef Haslinger for his sixtieth . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 4, 2015, p. 11.
6. ↑ Opera Ball. In: volkstheater.at. Retrieved February 7, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Josef Haslinger's “Opernball” premiered “That fits into our time in a strange way” , Deutschlandfunk Kultur from March 17, 2019, accessed March 19, 2019
8. ↑ Josef Haslinger “My case”. In: Website Ö1 . January 24, 2020, accessed February 7, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Josef Haslinger becomes Mainz city clerk ( memento from April 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), KleineZeitung.at, November 9, 2009
10. ^ Josef Haslinger becomes Mainz city clerk nq-online.de, November 9, 2009
11. ↑ opus5 interactive medien gmbh, http://www.opus5.de : S. Fischer Verlage - Refuge in Germany (paperback). Retrieved November 13, 2017 . 
12. ↑ " Night Asylum - The Home of the Homeless" , ard.de, December 23, 2010