Klaus Zeyringer

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Klaus Zeyringer (* 1953 in Graz ) is an Austrian German studies scholar , was professor of German studies at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest in Angers and is a literary critic for magazines.

Life

Zeyringer studied German, Romance studies and philosophy at the University of Graz , his dissertation was on language and situation comedy with Karl Valentin , the work was approved in 1980. He completed his habilitation in 1993 on Austrian literature of the eighties .

Zeyringer was the Austrian curator for the EU project Literature on the Internet “Liffey”, operator of the Internet salon about the foreign and the periphery house-salon.net from 2000 to 2002. Between 2008 and 2014 he was a board member of the Documentation Center for Modern Austrian Literature in Vienna.

Zeyringer is co-editor of literature and criticism , full text and research ; He was co-editor of the Jahrbuch Gegenwartsliteratur in St. Louis from 2001 to 2007 and Modern Austrian Literature , also in the USA, from 2005 to 2008.

He is a member of the jury on the ORF top list; he was on the jury for the Austrian State Scholarship for Literature 2003 and 2007; at the Rauriser Literature Prize 2011 and "Innsbruck reads", also in 2011 and since 2014 he has been a member of the jury of the Veza Canetti Prize of the City of Vienna. From 2009 to 2014 he was a literary advisory board member of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture .

He has conceptualized and moderated the “Transflair” series in the Independent House of Literature Lower Austria since 2004 and has led other literary presentations and discussions with authors in Austria, Germany, France and Switzerland.

He was also responsible for the conception and organization of international conferences, literary studies on Austrian literature and cultural studies on the paradigm of Central Europe.

As a literary critic he works for Der Standard , Volltext , both in Vienna, and for literature and criticism in Salzburg .

Zeyringer lives in Pöllau (Styria) and Munich.

Works (selection)

  • The comedy of Karl Valentin ; 1984
  • Inwardness and publicity. Austrian literature of the eighties , 1992
  • History of literature: Austria. Prolegomena and case studies , 1995 (with W. Schmidt-Dengler, J. Sonnleitner)
  • Continuités et ruptures dans la littérature autrichienne , 1996 (with D. Hornig, G. Jankovic)
  • The Worlds of Paul Frischauer , 1997 (with U. Prutsch)
  • Austrian literature since 1945 ; 1999 - 3rd, revised, supplemented edition 2008
  • Productions of collective memory , 2002 (with M. Csáky)
  • Leopold von Andrian , 2003 (with U. Prutsch)
  • Views from the outside. Austrian literature in an international context , 2003 (with F. Haas, H. Schlösser)
  • Honor laps in the salon. Literature - Culture - Business , 2007
  • A literary history: Austria since 1650 , 2012 (with H. Gollner)
  • Soccer. Eine Kulturgeschichte , 2014 - updated and expanded: Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-596-03587-8 .
  • Olympic games. A cultural history from 1896 until today . Volume 1: Summer. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-002248-6 .
  • Olympic games. A cultural history from 1896 until today . Volume 2: Winter. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-10-002249-3 .
  • The sore leather. How commerce and corruption destroy football . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2018 (with Stefan Gmünder ). ISBN 978-3-518-07359-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Board of the "Doku" , www.literaturhaus.at
personal data
SURNAME Zeyringer, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Germanist and cultural journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz