Klaus Kastberger
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Klaus Kastberger (born April 19, 1963 in Gmunden , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian Germanist and literary critic (including for ORF , Die Presse and Falter ). He became known to a wide audience as a juror for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize .
Life
Kastberger passed the Matura at the Bundesgymnasium Gmunden and then studied German Philology and History at the University of Vienna . He wrote a diploma thesis on Konrad Bayer and obtained his doctorate in 1991 with a thesis on Friederike Mayröcker under Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler .
From 1996 to 2015 Kastberger was a research assistant at the literature archive of the Austrian National Library . During this time, he also held regular courses at the University of Vienna. In November 2003 Kastberger submitted his habilitation thesis ("On the obstinacy of writing. Production methods of modern Austrian literature") at the University of Vienna. In December 2004 he received the Venia legendi for the subject of modern German literature . In March 2015, he took over a professorship for modern German-language literature at the Franz Nabl Institute of the University of Graz and at the same time headed the Literaturhaus Graz . In October 2019, his appointment as head of the Literaturhaus was decided by the local council for the next five years until 2025.
Kastberger has held numerous lecture and teaching commitments at home and abroad, he leads research projects, designs exhibitions and is always active in the media as a literature expert. He is the general editor of the new historical-critical edition on the work of Ödön von Horváth , which has been published by de Gruyter since 2009 . His research focus is on Austrian literature of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Fonts (selection)
- Fair copy of life: Friederike Mayröcker's journey through the night; Edition and analysis , Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2000, ISBN 978-3-205-99174-8
- In the Assessment Center: Language in the Age of Coaching, Controlling and Monitoring , Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra 2007, ISBN 978-3-902416-08-7
- On the obstinacy of writing: modes of production of modern Austrian literature , Verlag Sonderzahl, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85449-269-6
- Graz: With writers to special places in the city , Edition Kleine Zeitung, Graz 2018, ISBN 978-3-902819-92-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Klaus Kastberger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Klaus Kastberger at perlentaucher.de
- Texts by Klaus Kastberger on academia.edu
supporting documents
- ^ Klaus Kastberger in the course catalog of the University of Vienna
- ^ Literaturhaus Graz: Klaus Kastberger is extended, the financing increased. In: Small newspaper . October 17, 2019, accessed October 18, 2019 .
- ↑ (including: handkeonline.onb.ac.at )
- ↑ Ödön von Horváth complete edition
1. Chair for Older German Language and Literature: Karl Weinhold (1851–1861) | Karl Tomaschek (1862–1868) | Richard Heinzel (1868–1873) | Anton Emanuel Schönbach (1876–1911) | Konrad Zwierzina (1912–1934) | Leo Jutz (1936–1958) | Anton Schwob (1981-2005) | Arne Ziegler (since 2005)
2. Chair for New German Literature: Bernhard Seuffert (1892–1924) | Karl Polhelm (1929–1945) | Robert Mülher (1958–1980) | Dietmar Goltschnigg (1981–1997) | Uwe Baur (1997–2002) | Anne-Kathrin Reulecke (since 2012)
3rd Chair for German Language: Hellmuth Himmel (1968–1983) | Hans Helmut Hiebel (1985–2009) | Paul Portmann-Tselikas (2009–2016) | Edgar Onea Gáspár (since 2017)
4. Chair of Didactics, German as a Second Language and Linguistic Education: Sabine Schmölzer-Eibinger (since 2014)
5th Chair at the Franz Nabl Institute for Literary Research: Klaus Kastberger (since 2015)
6. Chair for German Medieval Studies: Julia Zimmermann (since 2020)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kastberger, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian Germanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gmunden , Upper Austria |