Karl-Markus Gauss

Karl-Markus Gauß in Salzburg, October 2013 . by Kurt Kaindl

Karl-Markus Gauß (born May 14, 1954 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian writer . He lives in Salzburg as an essayist , critic and editor of the journal Literature and Criticism .

Life

Karl-Markus Gauß comes from a Danube Swabian family, his father was the publisher and folklorist Adalbert Karl Gauß . He studied German language and literature and history in Salzburg and emerged early on through literary essays, which he published primarily in the Vienna Diary . As editor, he and Ludwig Hartinger supervised the (incomplete) edition of Ernst Fischer's work at Sendler Verlag in Frankfurt.

Since 1991 Gauß has been the publisher and editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Literatur und Critique . Gauss' topics are also reflected in this magazine. He also writes for the Süddeutsche Zeitung (in which he has a column), the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and regularly in many Austrian newspapers and magazines.

At the end of 2006, Gauß was accepted as a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry . In 2007 he received an honorary doctorate in philosophy from Salzburg University .

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Gauss is primarily characterized by his essays. In them he takes a stand for a human world; Very concise and stylistically versed, he highlights the various paradoxes and perversions of modern life without falling into cultural pessimism . A recurring theme is the rapprochement with national minorities and ethnic groups ( e.g. Arbëreshe , Aromanians , Gottscheer- Germans, Roma , Sephardi of Sarajevo and Sorbs ). Other topics are Central and Southeastern Europe . Gauß has traveled to these regions many times for his books, often together with the photographer Kurt Kaindl .

His travel reports deal with cultural encounters, exchanges with intellectuals and writers as well as with people on the street and in inns. In his essays as well as in travel reports and journals , Gauß often introduces little-known Central and Eastern European writers in Austria.

Awards

• 1987 Portoroz International Prize for Essay Writing
• 1988 State grant from the Federal Ministry for Education and Art
• 1989 book award from the Federal Ministry for Education and Art
• 1992 literary scholarship from the city of Salzburg
• 1994 book award from the Federal Ministry for Education and Art
• 1994 Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism
• 1997 Prix ​​européen de l'essai Charles Veillon (European Essay Prize Charles Veillon) for The European Alphabet
• 1998 Bruno Kreisky Prize for the political book (main prize) for Ins undiscovered Austria for Das Trauma, ein Leben. Austrian details
• 1998 Literature Prize of the Salzburg Economy
• 2001 honorary award from the Austrian book trade for tolerance in thought and action
• 2004 René Marcic Prize
• 2005 Manès Sperber Prize Vienna
• 2005 Prize for Central European Literature from Vilenica (Slovenia)
• 2006 Georg Dehio Book Prize (main prize)
• 2007 Central Europe Prize
• 2009 Grand Art Prize of the State of Salzburg
• 2010 Johann Heinrich Merck Prize
• 2013 Austrian Art Prize for Literature
• 2013 International Prize for Art and Culture from the Culture Fund of the City of Salzburg
• 2014 Decoration of Honor of the State of Salzburg (2014)
• 2018 Jean Améry Prize

Works

• When does the night end. About Albert Ehrenstein - an essay. Edition Moderne, Zurich 1986. ISBN 3-907010-24-8 .
• Ink is bitter. Literary portraits from Barbaropa - essays. Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 1988. ISBN 3-85129-003-8 ; New edition 2014, ISBN 978-3-99029-117-7 .
• The benevolent despot. On the State Shadows - Essay. Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 1989. ISBN 3-85129-018-6 .
• The destruction of Central Europe. Essays. Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 1991. ISBN 3-85129-043-7 .
• Knight, Death and the Devil. Essay. Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 1994. ISBN 3-85129-149-2 .
• Inge Morath : Danube. With an essay by Karl-Markus Gauß. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1995. ISBN 3-7013-0916-7 .
• The European alphabet. Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 1997. ISBN 3-552-04827-8 .
• To undiscovered Austria. Obituaries and attacks. Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 1998. ISBN 3-552-04878-2 .
• The man who wanted to go into the freezer. Album sheets. Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 1999. ISBN 3-552-04936-3 .
• The dying Europeans. On the way to the Sephardi of Sarajevo, Gottscheer Germans, Arbëreshe, Sorbs and Aromanians. Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2001. ISBN 3-552-05158-9 .
• Kurt Kaindl : The Unknown Europeans. Photo tour to the Aromanians, Sephardi, Gottscheers, Arbëreshe and Sorbs. With texts by Karl-Markus Gauß. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 2002. ISBN 3-7013-1060-2 .
• With me, without me A journal. Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2002. ISBN 3-552-05181-3 .
• From near, from far. An annual book. Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2003. ISBN 3-552-05286-0 .
• The dog eaters of Svinia. Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2004. ISBN 3-552-05292-5 .
• Tavern talks in the expansion zone. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg. 2005 ISBN 3-7013-1102-1 .
• The scattered Germans. On the way in Lithuania, through the Spiš and on the Black Sea. Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2005. ISBN 3-552-05354-9 .
• Too early, too late , Paul Zsolnay Verlag 2007, Vienna. ISBN 3-552-05397-2 .
• The happy goers of Roana. On the way to the Assyrians, Cimbri and Karaimen. Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2009. ISBN 3-552-05454-5 .
• Down the Danube. With drawings by Christian Thanhäuser . Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2009. ISBN 978-3-85218-599-6 .
• In the forest of the metropolises. Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2010. ISBN 978-3-552-05505-6 .
• Afternoon glory. Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2012. ISBN 978-3-552-05567-4 .
• First thing I saw Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2013. ISBN 978-3-552-05638-1 .
• Praise of language, happiness of writing , Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-7013-1214-6 .
• Everyday life in the world. Two years and many more. Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2015. ISBN 978-3-552-05733-3 .
• Twenty leva or dead. Four trips. Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2017. ISBN 978-3-552-05823-1 .
• Adventurous journey through my room , Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2019. ISBN 978-3-552-05923-8 .

Editing

• Ernst Waldinger : Before the last day. Selected poems and essays. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1990 ISBN 3-7013-0799-7 .
• The Book of the Edges - Prose. Readings from a distant Europe. Anthology. Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 1992 ISBN 3-85129-065-8 .
• Theo Waldinger : Between Ottakring and Chicago. Stations. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1993 ISBN 3-7013-0852-7 .
• Karl-Markus Gauß and Ludwig Hartinger (editors): The book of the edges - poetry. Anthology. Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 1995 ISBN 3-85129-128-X .
• Karl-Markus Gauß and Till Geist (editors): The restless spirit. Rudolf Geist - A collage. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 2000 ISBN 3-7013-1011-4 .
• Ivo Andrić : The locked door. Stories. Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2003 ISBN 3-552-05262-3 .

literature

• Herbert Ohrlinger, Daniela Strigl (ed.): Border crossings: the writer Karl-Markus Gauß. Zsolnay, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-552-05513-1 .
• Christian Tanzer: Being in oblivion is the memory. The essayist Karl-Markus Gauß. Verlag Dieter Heinz, Stuttgart 2007 ISBN 978-3-88099-438-6 .
• Werner Michler, Klemens Renoldner , Norbert Christian Wolf (eds.): From the productive power of obstinacy. The literatures of Karl-Markus Gauß. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7013-1243-6 .

Web links

Commons : Karl-Markus Gauß  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Karl-Markus Gauß in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Karl-Markus Gauß at perlentaucher.de
• Entry about Karl-Markus Gauß in the Austria-Forum  (biography)
• Entry about Karl-Markus Gauß ( memento from July 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on Literature in Context , a multilingual project of the University of Vienna (in German , archived from the original ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stefan Teppert: Gauß, Adalbert Karl . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
2. ↑ Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book Prize winners 1993-2018 , renner-institut.at, accessed December 1, 2019
3. ^ OTS of the Salzburg Chamber of Commerce
4. ↑ http://derstandard.at/2059470/Feengrotte-Preis-an-Karl-Markus-Gauss
5. ^ Ceremonial award of the Georg Dehio Book Prize 2006 to Karl-Markus Gauß and Thomas Urban on November 29, 2006 in the atrium of Deutsche Bank in Berlin-Mitte In: German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe on November 29, 2006
6. ^ Karl-Markus Gauß receives award from the city of Salzburg. In: The Standard of November 21, 2013
7. ^ The Greens Salzburg: Decoration of Honor of the State of Salzburg for Karl-Markus Gauß from April 25, 2014
8. ↑ orf.at: Karl-Markus Gauß receives Jean Amery Prize . Article dated December 15, 2017, accessed December 15, 2017.
9. ^ Michael Girke: Small writings by Karl-Markus Gauss: Everywhere is world center. Review. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 29, 2014, accessed April 9, 2015.