Klemens Renoldner

Klemens Renoldner (born August 14, 1953 in Schärding am Inn, Upper Austria ) is an Austrian writer and literary scholar.

Klemens Renoldner

Live and act

Studied literature and music from 1971 to 1979 at the Universities of Salzburg and Vienna , which he completed in Salzburg in 1980 with a doctoral thesis on Christa Wolf .

In 1975 he was co-founder of the Salzburg literary magazine SALZ , and the magazine's chief editor from 1975 to 1978.

From 1980 to 1986 he worked as a dramaturge at the Burgtheater in Vienna , after which he was the chief dramaturge of the Wiener Festwochen . Further engagements also at the Münchner Kammerspiele , the Schauspielhaus Zürich and the Stadttheater in Bern. From 1998 to 2002 he was acting director, chief dramaturge and director at the theater in Freiburg im Breisgau.

From 2002 to 2008 he was the curator for literature and science of the Austrian Cultural Forum at the Austrian Embassy in Berlin, where from 2003 he also published the bi-monthly magazine Kosmos Austria .

In addition, he repeatedly held teaching positions at universities in Austria, Switzerland and Germany: University of Salzburg (1983, 2003/2004), University of Bern (1995–1997), Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (1999–2001), and University of Innsbruck ( 2009) and University of Verona (2013). Lecturing at universities in various European countries, as well as in the USA and Latin America.

He was the founding director of the Stefan Zweig Center at the University of Salzburg, which he headed from 2008 to 2018. Together with Werner Michler, he is the publisher of the seven-volume edition Stefan Zweig - Das narrische Werk - Salzburg edition , which has been published by Paul Zsolnay in Vienna since 2017 .

Fonts (selection)

• Utopia and awareness of history. Attempts at the poetics of Christa Wolf. Stuttgart, Akademischer Verlag, 1981. (= Stuttgart papers on German studies no.92, sub-series: Salzburg contributions no.3)
• Hagenwil les deux Eglises. A conversation with Niklaus Meienberg . With a photo essay by Michael von Graffenried and an essay by Erich Hackl . Zurich, Limmat-Verlag , 2003.
• You just close your eyes for a moment. Stories. Vienna-Bozen, Folio-Verlag , 2008.
• Lily's impatience. Novel. Vienna-Bozen, Folio-Verlag, 2011.
• Avvenida Errázuriz. 5 novels that never end. Berlin, SuKuLTuR Verlag , 2013.
• The last shot of wisdom. Of fickle global citizens, flimsy biotopes and benign stage beauties. Vienna, Sonderzahl-Verlag , 2016.
• Meran shines . Drama, world premiere on October 3, 2017 (Meran, Theater in der Altstadt; Director: Rudolf Ladurner)

Editing

• Stefan Zweig . For a Europe of the spirit. Together with Hildemar Holl and Peter Karlhuber. Exhibition catalog for the Stefan Zweig exhibition in the city of Salzburg 1992. Salzburg, SPOT, 1992.
• Kapuzinerberg 5. A Stefan Zweig reader from Salzburg. Salzburg, Winter-Verlag, 1992.
• Stefan Zweig - pictures, texts, documents. Together with Hildemar Holl and Peter Karlhuber. Salzburg, Residenz-Verlag , 1993.
• Stefan Zweig - I loved France like my second home. Edited together with Régine Battiston. Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2011. (= series of publications by the Stefan Zweig Center Salzburg, No. 2)
• Stefan Zweig: Chess Novel . Reading output. Stuttgart, Reclam-Verlag , 2013.
• Stefan Zweig: Chess Novel. Annotated edition. Stuttgart, Reclam-Verlag, 2013.
• Stefan Zweig: I have a need for friends. Stories, essays and unknown texts. Vienna, Styria-Verlag, 2013.
• Zweig's theater. The playwright Stefan Zweig in the context of European cultural and theater history. Edited together with Birgit Peter. Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2013 (= series of publications by the Stefan Zweig Center Salzburg, No. 4)
• Stefan Zweig: Unification of Europe. A speech. Issued from the estate. Salzburg - Paris, Tartin Editions, 2013.
• Stefan Zweig - Farewell to Europe. Reader for the exhibition in the Vienna Theater Museum . Vienna, Brandstätter Verlag , 2014.
• Branch of England. Edited together with Rüdiger Görner . Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2014. (= Series of publications by the Stefan Zweig Center Salzburg, No. 5)
• Alfred Kubin - Stefan Zweig: The correspondence. Edited together with Franz Hamminger. With an essay by Helga Thieme. Brunnenthal, Edition Landstrich, 2016.
• On the productive power of stubbornness. The writer Karl-Markus Gauß . Edited together with Werner Michler and Norbert-Christian Wolf. Salzburg, Otto Müller Verlag , 2017.
• Stefan Zweig - Jewish Relations . Studies of work and biography. Edited together with Elisabeth Erdem and Mark H. Gelber . Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2017 (= series of publications by the Stefan Zweig Center Salzburg, No. 7)
• Stefan Zweig: Confusion of feelings . Edited together with Elisabeth Erdem. Stuttgart, Reclam-Verlag, 2017.
• "I don't belong anywhere anymore!" Stefan Zweig's Chess Novel - A Story from Exile. Edited together with Peter Karlhuber. Salzburg, publishing house of the Salzburg Museum , 2017.
• "I would prefer Rome!" - Stefan Zweig and Italy. Edited together with Arturo Larcati. Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2018. (= Series of publications by the Stefan Zweig Center Salzburg, No. 9)
• Stefan Zweig: Forgotten dreams. Stories 1900–1911. Edited together with Elisabeth Erdem. Vienna, Paul Zsolnay, 2018. (= Volume 2 of the Salzburg edition - Stefan Zweig - The narrative work )
• Stefan Zweig Handbook. Edited together with Arturo Larcati and Martina Wörgötter. Berlin and Boston, De Gruyter , 2018.
• Stefan Zweig: Confusion of feelings. Stories 1913–1926. Edited together with Elisabeth Erdem. Vienna, Paul Zsolnay, 2019. (= Volume 3 of the Salzburg edition - Stefan Zweig - The narrative work)
• Stefan Zweig: L'Esprit Européen en Exil. Essais, Discours, Entretiens 1933-1942. Published jointly with Jacques Le Rider . Paris, Bartillat, 2020.

Awards

• 2005: Awarded the professional title "Professor" by Federal President Heinz Fischer
• 2015: Salzburg Prize of the Cultural Fund of the State Capital Salzburg

literature

• Julia Danielczyk: Klemens Renoldner . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1482.

Web links

• Homepage of the Stefan Zweig Center Salzburg

Individual evidence

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