Ludwig Laher

Ludwig Laher during a workshop with 14-year-old students

Ludwig Laher (born December 11, 1955 in Linz ) is an Austrian writer.

Life

Ludwig Laher studied German , English and Classical Philology in Salzburg and graduated with a Dr. phil. from. He then worked as a high school teacher at the Christian Doppler High School in Salzburg .

In 1993 he moved to St. Pantaleon in Upper Austria and has been working as a freelance writer since 1998 . Laher published prose, poetry , essays , translations, academic papers, radio plays , scripts and received numerous literary prizes and grants.

Awards and grants

• 1987 First prize of the Ernst Koref Foundation's Literature Prize
• 1989 Talent promotion bonus from the state of Upper Austria
• 1990 Theodor Körner Prize
• 1990 Rauris Promotion Prize
• 1992 Large translation grant from the City of Salzburg
• 1994 Theodor Körner Prize
• 1997 Federal translator bonus
• 1998 Large works grant from the Literar-Mechana anniversary fund
• 2001/2002 Large federal project grant
• 2001 Austrian Book Prize
• 2001 Green Prize
• 2002/2003 Austrian State Scholarship
• 2003 Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria
• 2003 Federal Book Prize
• 2004/2005 Austrian State Scholarship
• 2005–2008 Robert Musil grant
• 2005 Elfriede Grünberg Prize of the Wels Initiative against Fascism
• 2006 3rd place at the Feldkircher Poetry Prize
• 2011 Shortlist of the German Book Prize "Procedure"

Works (selection)

• Nude in front of the easel. Narrative. Haymon, Innsbruck 1998, ISBN 3-85218-267-0 . (Story about the Hamburg painter Victor Emil Janssen )
• Wolfgang Amadeus junior: being Mozart's son. Novel. Haymon, Innsbruck 1999.
• Degeneration of the heart . Novel. Haymon, Innsbruck 2001, ISBN 3-85218-346-4 .
• Unfolded. Novel. Haymon, Innsbruck 2003.
• firing hour. poems. Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 2003.
• It shouldn't have been us: Rosa Winter, Gitta and Nicole Martl. Three generations of Sinti women tell stories. Franz Steinmassl, 2004, ISBN 3-902427-10-8 .
• Consequences. Novel. Haymon Verlag , Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 3-85218-465-7 .
• Cross Lane. Essays and sketches. Wieser Verlag , Klagenfurt 2005.
• And take what comes. Novel. Haymon, Innsbruck 2007, ISBN 978-3-85218-530-9 .
• Degeneracija srca. Novel. Zagreb 2007. (Croatian from Sead Muhamedagic)
• Settling in. Novel. Haymon, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-85218-603-0 .
• Procedure. Haymon, Innsbruck 2011, ISBN 978-3-85218-680-1 .
• Bitter. Novel. Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8353-1387-3 . ( Documentary novel about the Austrian Nazi war criminal Friedrich Kranebitter )
• Transfer pieces. Novel. Wallstein, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-1876-2 .
• Where only the cradle stood: on the attraction of places of birth abandoned early , Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-7013-1265-8 .

as editor or translator

• Hans Reichenfeld (author), Ludwig Laher (ed. & Translator); Katharina Laher (translator): Moving Exile. Memories of an uncertain future. Autobiography from diary entries. Series: Remember differently , 4th Theodor Kramer Society , Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-90160240-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludwig Laher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Webpage on Ludwig Laher
• Entry on Ludwig Laher by Günther Stocker for the Upper Austrian literary history of the StifterHaus

notes

1. ↑ Reichenfeld, b. February 26, 1923, 1938 with Kindertransport to GB, interned as Enemy Alien on the Isle of Man in May 1940 , deportation to Canada , 1941 back to GB, 1944 Royal Air Force , activist from Young Austria , doctor and psychiatrist for gerontology in Canada, died March 5, 2016 in Ottawa .