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Klaus Nüchtern, at the presentation of his book The hairdressers used to be bolder, 2013.

Klaus Nüchtern (born November 20, 1961 in Linz ) is an Austrian journalist .

Klaus Nüchtern studied English and German and graduated with a thesis on Hans Robert Jauß . Since 1989 he has been writing for the Viennese city newspaper Falter , where he headed the cultural department from 1990 to 2015. His popular weekly column "Soberly Viewed" (with a tapir lying on his back as his own mascot) is also published in book form. In autumn 2012 "Buster Keaton or the love of geometry" was published, a study of the silent films of the comedian and director Buster Keaton (1895–1966). In 2016, Nüchtern published a study on the Viennese writer Heimito von Doderer .

From 2004 to 2008, Nüchtern was a juror for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize . He writes u. a. for literatures and is a member of the Cloud Appreciation Society . He also runs the CD label Handsemmel Records . The album "code" (Handsemmel Records / cracked anegg) produced by him was awarded the Hans Koller Prize in 2009 in the "Album of the Year" category.

Works

• Rain On My Crazy Bearskin Hat. The 76 second best columns with numerous forewords and 4 bonus tracks (=  soberly considered . Volume [1] ). Falter-Verlag, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85439-216-8 .
• Small goulash in St. Pölten. 78 very useful columns with 5 exclusive, previously unpublished prefaces (=  soberly considered . Volume [2] ). Falter-Verlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85439-306-7 .
• Small quince cantata for castrato soprano and flute quintet. 78 easy-care columns and four bold forewords (=  soberly considered . Volume [3] ). Falter-Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85439-348-2 .
• Here comes the antipastidepp. 75 pretty okay columns and three pretty nice prefaces (=  soberly considered . Volume [4] ). Falter-Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85439-386-3 .
• ok is ok anyway. 74 dashing columns with two sparkling forewords by Harald Martenstein and Harald Tautscher (=  soberly considered . Volume [5] ). Falter-Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85439-428-0 .
• Buster Keaton or the love of geometry. Comedy in times of practicality . Zsolnay, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-552-05584-1 .
• The hairdressers used to be bolder. With a foreword by Roger Willemsen . Metro, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-99300-135-3 .
• Continent of Doderer. A crossing . CH Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-69744-9 .

Awards

• 2009: Prize of the City of Vienna for Journalism
• 2011: Austrian State Prize for Literary Criticism

Web links

Commons : Klaus Nüchtern  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Klaus Nüchtern in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Klaus Nüchtern at perlentaucher.de
• Interview with Klaus Nüchtern on the website of the Main Association of the Austrian Book Trade. Archived from the original on February 15, 2016 ; accessed on March 26, 2018 . 
• Handsemmel Records
• Klaus Nüchtern in conversation with Alexander Horwath about Buster Keaton

Individual evidence

1. ^ Library with Klaus Nüchtern. fm4.orf.at, accessed on November 26, 2011 . 
2. ↑ Reception aesthetics as a provocation of literary studies? A twofold discussion with Hans Robert Jauß . University of Vienna, diploma thesis. 1988.
3. ↑ I see myself as a Doderer animator. In: Wiener Zeitung. September 4, 2016, accessed March 26, 2018 . 
4. ↑ State Prize for Literary Criticism to Klaus Nüchtern. derStandard.at , accessed on November 26, 2011 .