Joseph Zoderer

Joseph Zoderer (born November 25, 1935 in Meran ) is a writer from South Tyrol .

Joseph Zoderer

Life

Zoderer spent the first years of his life in South Tyrol. As part of the option in South Tyrol , the family moved to Graz in 1940 , where Joseph Zoderer spent his childhood. In 1948 the now 13-year-old became a student at the grammar school in Widnau (Switzerland).

When his family returned home in 1949, Zoderer did not accompany them. He attended the Widnau grammar school for another three years before returning to South Tyrol. There followed stays in various high schools. Finally graduated Zoderer 1957 in Merano .

From 1957 to 1963 Zoderer studied law, philosophy, theater studies and psychology at the University of Vienna, but broke off these studies again. At the same time he worked as a journalist for Kurier , the Kronen Zeitung and Die Presse . Zoderer's first poetry and short prose publications appeared at the end of the 1950s. The South Tyrolean first attracted public attention in 1974 with a collection of socially critical dialect poetry . He made his official debut as a novelist in 1976 with The Luck When Washing Hands , although according to Zoderer's The Other Hill (published in 1995) is his first novel. After participating in the Austrian Youth Culture Weeks in 1965 and 1969, Zoderer began to do more literary work. In 1970 he toured Canada, the USA and Mexico. In 1971 Zoderer became radio editor at Rai Sender Bozen , before he decided to work as a freelance writer in 1981.

From 1981 to 1982 Zoderer was a founding member of the South Tyrolean Authors 'Association , and since then he has been a member of the Graz Authors' Assembly . The South Tyrolean writer has also been a corresponding member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt since 1993 .

Joseph Zoderer lived for years in Terenten in the Puster Valley , but is now living in Bruneck .

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Zoderer's literary work includes prose (novels, short stories) as well as poetry, a total of three volumes of short stories, five volumes of poetry and nine novels have been published to date. In addition, the children's book When Anja went towards the Christ Child was published in 1996 , illustrated by Linda Wolfsgruber .

The author, who describes himself as a “German author with Austrian cultural stamps and an Italian passport”, devotes himself again and again to the so-called “South Tyrol theme”, a life between two cultures that almost inevitably leads to an identity crisis. Zoderer's best-known novel Die Walsche , which achieved the status of a bestseller in Italy, deals with this topic, with the rigid cultural boundaries and the unwillingness of people to mentally attend to strangers serving as points of criticism. Since the publication of this novel in 1982, Zoderer has been one of the most important authors in South Tyrol. His books have been translated into Italian, French, Slovenian, Chinese, Russian and Japanese. The novels Das Glück beim Handwaschen and Die Walsche were also successfully filmed for television, Die Walsche also successfully adapted as a theater play.

A general characteristic of the extensive prose work is the fact that many of the author's material elements show parallels to his biography, as can be seen in the topics that are often taken up, such as the post-war period, foreigners, South Tyrol, boarding school life etc.

Prizes and awards

• 1981 Austrian State Scholarship
• 1983 Literature Prize of the Kulturkreis in the Federal Association of German Industry
• 1984 Marburg Literature Prize (sponsorship prize)
• 1986 ITAS Literature Prize Trento
• 1986 Premio Catullo di Sirmione
• 1986 Finalista Premio Napoli
• 1986 New York scholarship from the Darmstadt Literature Prize
• 1987 Franz Theodor Csokor Prize from the Austrian PEN Club
• 1987 TV film award from the German Academy of Performing Arts for the screenplay for Die Walsche
• 1988–1989 DAAD scholarship in Berlin
• 1989 Scholarship at the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben
• 2001 Eugen Viehof gift of honor from the German Schiller Foundation
• 2003 Hermann Lenz Prize
• 2005 Walther von der Vogelweide Prize
• 2007 Cross of Honor for Science and Art of the Republic of Austria
• 2007 Calwer Hermann Hesse Scholarship
• 2008 honorary citizen of the University of Innsbruck
• 2015 honorary citizen of the city of Merano

Works

• S mouth on the earth or dirty knuckles . Munich: Relief 1974. (South Tyrolean dialect poetry)
• The eleventh molt . Munich: Relief 1975. (volume of poetry)
• The luck with washing your hands . Munich: Relief 1976. New edition: Munich: Carl Hanser 1982. (novel)
• Cardboard poems . Eppan: Verlag Galerie Prielhof, 1979 (volume of poetry)
• The whale . Munich: Hanser, 1982. (novel)
• Lontano . Munich: Hanser, 1984. (novel)
• Permanent dawn . Munich: Hanser, 1987. (novel)
• Potholes . Vol. 1. Bozen: Edition Raetia, 1993 (perm novel)
• The ponnies on the second floor . Vol. 2. Bozen: Edition Raetia, 1994. (Narrative volume)
• The turtle festival . Munich: Hanser, 1995. (novel)
• And yet lost the silence . Meran: Offizin, 1995. (fragment of prose)
• The other hill . Vol. 3. Bozen: Edition Raetia, 1995. (novel)
• When Anja went to meet the Christ Child . Munich: Hanser, 1996. (novel)
• The pain of getting used to it . Munich, Vienna: Hanser, 2002. (novel)
• We went. Ce n'andammo . Bozen: Edition Raetia, 2005 (bilingual book of stories)
• The sky over Merano . Munich, Vienna: Hanser, 2005. (collection of stories)
• Love turned upside down . Munich, Vienna: Hanser, 2007. (volume of poetry)
• The colors of cruelty . Innsbruck: Haymon, 2011. (Novel) ISBN 978-3-939557-46-3 .
• My brother is putting off his end. Innsbruck: Haymon, 2012.
• Dog mourning. Poems. With drawings by Josef Fürpaß . Innsbruck u. Vienna: Haymon, 2013.
• An edition of Zoderer's collected works has been published by Haymon Verlag , Innsbruck, since 2015, edited by Johann Holzner and the Brenner-Archiv research institute at the University of Innsbruck .

literature

• Ruth Esterhammer: Joseph Zoderer in the mirror of literary criticism. Vienna, Berlin, Münster: LIT 2006 (= Innsbruck studies on everyday reception. 2.) ISBN 3-8258-8959-9 . Table of contents .
• Text and criticism, Zeitschrift für Literatur, Heft 188, Joseph Zoderer , Munich: Richard Boorberg Verlag, October 2010. ISBN 978-3-86916-081-8 . Table of contents .
• Günther A. Höfer and Sigurd Paul Scheichl (eds.): Joseph Zoderer. Graz, Vienna: Droschl 2010. (= Dossier. 29.) ISBN 978-3-85420-776-4 . Table of contents .
• Giuditta Pedrazzoli: Joseph Zoderer. The reception in Italy , Innsbruck: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller 2010. ISBN 978-3-639-30081-9 .
• Bernhard Arnold Kruse: Against nationalism - or from the difficulties of an intercultural life. On the South Tyrolean novels by Joseph Zoderer , Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2012. ISBN 978-3-89528-969-9 . Table of contents .
• Sieglinde Klettenhammer and Erika Wimmer (eds.): Joseph Zoderer. New perspectives on his work. Innsbruck, Vienna, Bozen: StudienVerlag 2017. (= Edition Brenner-Forum. 13.) ISBN 978-3-7065-5580-7 . Table of contents .
• Franco Bernard : The literary activity of Joseph Zoderer in the mirror of the press. Padua: 1981-1982. Dissertation - University of Padua

Web links

• Literature by and about Joseph Zoderer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Joseph Zoderer at perlentaucher.de
• Zoderer article in the Lexikon Literatur in Tirol
• Zoderer bibliography on the website of the Literaturhaus Wien , with detailed reviews and reading samples of the works by Zoderer that have been published since 2002
• Zoderer-Vorlass and FWF-Projekt The South Tyrolean author Joseph Zoderer - relocating and critical reassessment of the complete works including the first accessible Vorlass in the research institute Brenner-Archiv of the University of Innsbruck

Individual evidence

1. ↑  Beatrice Simonsen: Joseph Zoderer (interview). In: www.literaturhaus.at . September 2005, accessed May 25, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Hans Christian Kosler: The guardian of the lizard. The South Tyrolean Joseph Zoderer works on the word on the mountain. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 2, 2001, accessed on May 25, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Hans Christian Kosler: The longing for love could be fulfillment. Die Presse , June 6, 2015, accessed April 30, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Press release from the University of Innsbruck (accessed on November 3, 2008)
5. ↑ Lisa Maria Gasser: Cross-border commuters as an honorary citizen. salto.bz , October 23, 2015, accessed April 20, 2018 . 
6. ^ ^{A b c} Henning Klüver : A narrator from South Tyrol: Trilogy of Alienation. Joseph Zoderer and his novels . In: The time . April 5, 1985. Retrieved December 19, 2014 .  
7. ^ ^{A b c} Bernhard Arnold Kruse: Literary work on identity problems in Europe using the example of literature from South Tyrol . In: TRANS. Internet journal for cultural studies. No. 17 . March 2010, accessed August 18, 2015 . 
8. ↑ Beatrice von Matt : Getting hold of the strangeness. Joseph Zoderer's novel "The Pain of Getting Used" . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . March 2, 2002, accessed December 19, 2014 . 
9. ↑ Holger duration: The happiness of headache-conscious unhappiness. Joseph Zoderer's novel "The Pain of Getting Used". In: www.tour-literatur.de . Retrieved May 22, 2015 . 
10. ^ South Tyrolean border crossers , review of "Love turned upside down". In: Deutschlandfunk , December 11, 2007
11. ↑ Beatrice von Matt: The knife of longing. “The colors of cruelty” - Joseph Zoderer's new novel about seduction and security . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . March 22, 2011, accessed May 25, 2015 . 
12. ↑ Presentation of the first volume of Joseph Zoderer's work edition . In: Website of the University of Innsbruck . April 9, 2015, accessed May 22, 2015 . 
13. ↑ Zoderer  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of Haymon Verlag.