Leopold Federmair

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Leopold Federmair

Leopold Federmair (born August 25, 1957 in Wels in Upper Austria ) is an Austrian writer and literary translator .

Life

Leopold Federmair grew up in Sattledt and studied journalism , German and history from 1975 to 1985 at the University of Salzburg . In 1985 he was with a thesis on Johann Christian Günther Doctor of Philosophy PhD . From 1985 to 1993 he worked as a lecturer for the German language in France, Italy and Hungary. In addition, from 1989 he traveled regularly to Latin America . From 1993 to 1999, Federmair lived as a freelance writer in Vienna , then in Buenos Aires . Federmair has lived in Hiroshima since 2006 , is married and has a daughter.

Federmair is a writer of novels and essays ; he also translates from French , Spanish and Italian . Experiences from his life in Japan also flow into his literary work. In addition to personal observations, there are references to classical Japanese literature .

Federmair is a member of the IG authors authors and the IG translators translators . He received u. a. 1996 a working grant from the City of Vienna, 2005 the Adalbert Stifter grant from the State of Upper Austria, 2012 the Austrian State Prize for literary translations. Federmair took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt in 1997 and 2012 .

Works

  • The Passions of the Soul Johann Christian Günther , Stuttgart 1989.
  • The danger of the rescuer , Vienna 1992.
  • Monument and Chance , Klagenfurt 1994.
  • The head thinks in pictures , Klagenfurt [u. a.] 1996.
  • Flight and Elevation , Klagenfurt [u. a.] 1997.
  • Mexican triptych , Vienna 1998.
  • Borges translates Kafka , in Jorge Luis Borges to the hundredth. Akzente (magazine) volume 4, August 1999, edited by Michael Krüger . Carl Hanser, Munich ISBN 3-446-23219-2 ISSN  0002-3957 pp. 340-356 of the Jg.
  • The exile of dreams , Vienna 1999.
  • Little Viennese Waltz , Vienna 2000.
  • The smallest size , Vienna 2001.
  • Dreikönigsschnee 1723 , Vienna 2003.
  • Adalbert Stifter and the joys of bigotry , Otto Müller, Salzburg-Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-7013-1095-1 .
  • A fish goes ashore , Salzburg [u. a.] 2006.
  • Forms of unrest. Essays on literature , Klever Verlag Vienna 2008.
  • An office in La Boca : Stories , Otto Müller, Salzburg 2009 232 pp.
  • Remembering what we weren't , Otto Müller, Salzburg, 2010.
  • Buenos Aires , word and meat. Essays , Klever, Vienna, 2010.
  • The banks of the river , Otto Müller, Salzburg, 2012.
  • The apple trees of Chaville . Approaches to Peter Handke , Jung und Jung, Salzburg 2012.
  • The red sofa , Otto Müller, Salzburg 2013.
  • The big and the little brothers. Japanese reflections , Klever, Vienna 2013.
  • Changes of Prince Genji , Otto Müller, Salzburg, 2014.
  • Breaking roses. Austrian stories , Otto Müller, Salzburg, 2016.
  • Tokyo Fragments , Salzburg, 2018.
  • The long night of illusion , Otto Müller, Salzburg, 2020, ISBN 978-3-7013-1276-4

Editing

Translations

  • José Emilio Pacheco : Death in the Distance . Salzburg and Vienna 1992 [together with MA Rogel Alberdi]
  • Marcel Béalu: The night experience . Vienna 1993
  • Ricardo Piglia : The Absent City . Cologne 1994 [together with MA Rogel Alberdi]
  • José Emilio Pacheco : Fighting in the Desert . Salzburg and Vienna 1995 [add. m. MA Rogel Alberdi]
  • Marcel Béalu: Memories from the shadows . Vienna 1995
  • Michel Onfray : The enjoyable reason . Zurich 1996
  • Jacques Le Rider : Historicism and Modernism. Hugo von Hofmannsthal in the context of the culture of the turn of the century . Vienna 1996
  • Michel Meyer : The cheek. Essay on morality and politics . Zurich 1997
  • Jean-Christophe Valtat: Ex . Vienna 1998
  • Sibylle Lacan: A father . Vienna 1999
  • Michel Houellebecq : Expansion of the combat zone . Berlin 1999
  • Henri Thomas : The cinema in the barn . Frankfurt / M. 1999
  • François Emmanuel: The Value of Man . Munich 2000
  • Ricardo Piglia : Burning cash . Berlin 2001
  • Leonardo Sciascia : The Death of Raymond Roussel . Salzburg and Paris 2002
  • Francis Ponge : Malherbarium . Klagenfurt and Vienna 2004
  • José Emilio Pacheco : Return to Sisyphus . Vienna 2003 [add. with A. Rogel Alberdi]
  • Rodolfo Walsh : This woman and two other stories . Salzburg, Paris 2004
  • Gerhard Kofler : Notebook about New York from a distance . Klagenfurt 2007
  • Michel Deguy : Yes . Vienna and Bolzano 2008
  • Ignazio Buttitta : Three Poems. With a foreword by Pier Paolo Pasolini . Salzburg and Paris 2010
  • Ricardo Piglia : The last reader . Vienna 2010
  • Henri Thomas : Perjury . Vienna 2012
  • Ryu Murakami : The casting . Vienna 2013 [together with Motoko Yajin]
  • Jean-Patrick Manchette : Portrait in Noir . Berlin 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federmair on lyrikwelt.de ( memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed September 15, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lyrikwelt.de
  2. ↑ Literaturkritik.de of April 8, 2014: Lisette Gebhardt : “In search of the soul” Review of The Big and Little Brothers. Japanese considerations .
  3. ↑ Literaturkritik.de of December 3, 2014: Lisette Gebhardt : “Ich und Genji”, a review of the changes of Prince Genji .
  4. ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur from February 25, 2009: “Linguistic text paintings”, review of “Büro in La Boca”
personal data
SURNAME Federmair, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH catfish