Luis Stefan Stecher

Luis Stefan Stecher (born June 7, 1937 in Laas , South Tyrol ) is a German-speaking poet and visual artist from South Tyrol. He lives in Marling .

Life

Luis Stefan Stecher grew up in Innsbruck and Laas in Vinschgau . After attending secondary school in Innsbruck, he completed an apprenticeship in lithography; he then studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at the Academy of Fine Arts . He is a member of the PEN-Club Liechtenstein , a center of the international writers' association PEN

In 2001 he painted a dance of death cycle on the wall of the St. Ulrich in Plaus church , with rhymes in South Tyrolean dialect.

Corrnrliadr. Poems in Vintschger dialect . Tyrolia, Bozen 1978. ISBN 88-7014-401-1
Almost near [poems]. Ill .: Luis Stefan Stecher. Athesia, Bozen 1980. ISBN 88-7014-168-3
The scent of color. Studio poems . Haymon, Innsbruck 1988. ISBN 3-85218-049-X
The blue pavilion. Children's picture rhymes . Folio, Vienna / Bozen 2004. ISBN 3-85256-288-0
Almost far away. Variations over near and far; Aphorisms and drawings . Folio, Vienna / Bozen 2005. ISBN 3-85256-313-5
Gert Ammann: Luis Stefan Stecher - the painter-poet . Folio, Vienna / Bozen 2007. ISBN 978-3-85256-382-4

In 1968 Luis Stefan Stecher received the Walther-von-der-Vogelweide sponsorship award from the Munich Cultural Center for South Tyrol. In 1977 he won the literature prize of the city of Feldkirch and the Vorarlberg PEN Club. In 1990 he was honored with the Tyrolean Cross of Merit . On February 20, 2019, he was awarded the Decoration of Honor of the State of Tyrol .

Johann Holzner : Luis Stefan Stecher's "Korrnr-Lullaby" , in: Gunda Mairbäurl u. a. (Ed.): Childhood, childhood literature, children's literature: studies on the history of Austrian literature; Festschrift for Ernst Seibert . Vienna: Praesens, 2010 ISBN 978-3-7069-0644-9 , pp. 203-205