Manfred Chobot

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Manfred Chobot (2008)

Manfred Chobot (born May 3, 1947 in Vienna ) is an Austrian writer and member of the Graz Authors' Assembly . In his books he mainly deals with topics of peripheral cultural perception. His texts can be read like annual rings on current affairs. The preoccupation with dialect literature , biographical fictions, everyday literature and essayism in marginal areas mark important positions in contemporary Austrian literature since 1970.

Life

Chobot as a dolphin (1965)

Manfred Chobot (pronunciation like Kobot) was a successful competitive swimmer in his youth. a. State youth champion over 200 m dolphin (1965). His sporting experiences were included in the volume of poems Sportgedichte (1989).

Shortly before graduation, he broke off his studies in cultural engineering and water management, as he had meanwhile become a freelancer for the ORF (including music box, feature editing, radio protocol, ex libris, the Donauwelle). From 1971 to 1975 member of the working group of Austrian literary producers and first book publication in the edition literary producers in the publishing house Jugend & Volk (with Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer and Thomas Losch ). Acquaintance with Elfriede Jelinek , Ernst Jandl , Friederike Mayröcker , Michael Scharang , Heidi Pataki , Elfriede Gerstl , Peter Henisch , Gustav Ernst , Friedrich Hahn , Reinhard Wegerth , Thomas Northoff , Reinhard Priessnitz , Wilhelm Pevny u. a. Founding of the literary magazine astma , which was closed after six issues due to problems with the authorities (fine because astma was not a registered association; charges for alleged pornography of a poem).

Founded Galerie Yppen with Dagmar Chobot in 1971, later renamed Galerie Chobot and moved to Domgasse in 1984.

Editor of the magazine of the Theater der Jugend, “neue wege”, from autumn 1977 to May 1982, for which he also wrote reviews of records. Manfred Chobot took over the Lyrik aus Österreich series from Alois Vogel in 1991 at Verlag Grasl, Baden near Vienna; he was the editor of volumes 51 to 100 until the publisher closed the series in 2004. Several photo exhibitions of my own picture poems. Long-term work as a book reviewer for the magazine Buchkultur . In 1982 he got involved in the “Artists for Peace” initiative. With Rolf Schwendter and others in 1990 co-founders of the “First Vienna Reading Theater and Second Impromptu Theater”. From 1984 to 2005 publisher of the annual leaflet for the "Tag der Lyrik", which was initiated by the Podium literary group and distributed free of charge in large numbers or sent to schools. From January 1994 to April 2005 chairman of the literature group “Podium”.

Between 1995 and 2002 he stayed regularly in Hawaii (Maui). This resulted in two books Maui Catches the Sun - Myths from Hawaii (2001) and Aloha - Letters from Hawaii (2008).

Manfred Chobot is a member of the Graz authors' assembly , the cog and the Podium literature association .

He has been married to the gallery owner Dagmar Chobot since 1968 .

Awards

  • 1972: Award of the Vienna Art Fund
  • 1974: Working grant from the municipality of Vienna
  • 1976: Award of the Theodor Körner Foundation Fund
  • 1977: State scholarship for young talents from the Federal Ministry for Education and Art
  • 1977: Award of the Vienna Art Fund
  • 1978: Working grant from the municipality of Vienna
  • 1979: Drama scholarship from the Federal Ministry
  • 1979: Grant for the production of television plays
  • 1979: Working grant from the state of Lower Austria
  • 1981: Prize of the Chamber of Labor Upper Austria
  • 1982: Working grant from the municipality of Vienna
  • 1982: Drama scholarship from the Federal Ministry
  • 1985: Drama scholarship from the municipality of Vienna
  • 1985: Book award for crocodiles have no tears
  • 1986: State grant
  • 1987: 2nd prize at the BEWAG literary competition
  • 1989: Book award for sports poems
  • 1991: Recognition award in the competition for the Max von der Grün award
  • 1991: Book award for me you and you me too
  • 1992: Promotion Prize of the Province of Lower Austria
  • 1996: State grant
  • 1998: Working grant from the Federal Chancellery
  • 2000: Book award for Roman elegies
  • 2006: Literature Prize of the Province of Burgenland
  • 2007: Project grant from the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture
  • 2007: 3rd prize at the BEWAG Literature Prize for Poetry
  • 2017: Kathak Literary Award (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
  • 2019: Gold Medal of Merit of the State of Vienna

Works

Poetry / prose

  • Around the world in 116 days . A logbook. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2019. ISBN 978-3-85409-953-6 .
  • Franz - a career . 13 stories. With a foreword by Ulf Birbaumer. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2017. ISBN 978-3-85409-846-1
  • only flying is more beautiful . Selected poems, ed. And with a foreword by Beppo Beyerl. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2017. ISBN 978-3-85409-847-8
  • Poems by Manfred Chobot . German / Bangla. Translation into Bangla by Aminur Rahman. Adorn Books, Dhaka 2017. ISBN 978-984-20-0526-8
  • The letters from the caretaker Leopoldine Kolecek . Illustrations by Alfred Hrdlicka. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2015. ISBN 978-3-85409-772-3 .
  • The killer phantom . 36 mini crime novels. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2015. ISBN 978-3-85409-768-6 .
  • Doctor Murder . 52 mini crime novels. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2015. ISBN 978-3-85409-749-5 .
  • Libůstka sí libuke (please like) . Poems in Czech translation (Překlad) Tereza Semotamová. Větrné mlýny, Brno 2015. ISBN 978-80-7443-121-0 .
  • Streets of Ephemeral Glory . Poet on the Vienna city map (with Beppo Beyerl). Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2014. ISBN 978-3-85409-709-9 .
  • An anteater pokes me . World stories. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2013. ISBN 978-3-85409-688-7 .
  • The Vienna Brunnenmarkt or how to travel in your own city. Photos by Petra Rainer. Metroverlag, Vienna 2012. ISBN 978-3-99300-079-0 .
  • Lifelong Wichtelgasse . Explorations from Vienna. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2012. ISBN 978-3-85409-633-7 .
  • please like . Poems. Art Science, St. Wolfgang 2012. ISBN 978-3-902864-08-6 .
  • Try to catch the lightning . Novel. Limbus Verlag, Innsbruck 2011. ISBN 978-3-902534-51-4 .
  • The day begins in the night . A story in dreams. Sonderzahl Verlag, Vienna 2011. ISBN 978-3-85449-346-4 .
  • The beard is off . SMS novel (approx. 700 SMS, downloadable as pdf). Limbus, Innsbruck 2010.
  • Journey to Unterkralowitz . Novel. Limbus, Hohenems 2009, ISBN 978-3-902534-29-3 .
  • Stowaway to Petersburg . Essays and interviews. Edition Lex Liszt, Oberwart 2009. ISBN 978-3-901757-90-7 .
  • Black lava / Lava noire . Poems, German and French, illustrated by Henri Michaux. Art & Print, Brunn am Gebirge 2009.
  • Aloha! Letters from Hawaii. Sonderzahl Verlag, Vienna 2008. ISBN 978-3-85449-289-4
  • Wolfgang Müller-Funk, Karin Zogmayer: Chobot stays . Portrait - pictures and texts. Provincial Library, Weitra 2007.
  • The gooseberry harvest . Text clips. Illustrations by Regina Hadraba. Edition Thurnhof (oxohyph 53), Horn 2007. ISBN 3-900678-88-X .
  • Revealing the memory . Poems. Pictures by Helga Cmelka. Art & Print, Brunn am Gebirge 2007.
  • Selected poems . Panel portrait, Vienna 29th 2007. ISBN 978-3-902054-49-4
  • to you there . Poems and picture poems. St. Pölten 2005. ISBN 978-3-901117-78-7 .
  • sólo volar es más hermoso / only flying is more beautiful . Poems. Brunn am Gebirge 2005
  • Travel stories . Stories. Weitra 2003
  • The Vienna Brunnenmarkt . Photo text book. Vienna 2003
  • Maui catches the sun . Myths from Hawaii. Vienna 2001
  • Kumm haam in my Gossn . Dialect poems. Weitra 2000. ISBN 978-3-85252-341-5 .
  • roman elegies - 69 and 6 attitudes to love . Poems. Vienna 2000
  • City stories . Stories. Weitra 1999
  • postcards. instead of / city-images . Poems. St. Pölten 1997
  • The drowned fish . Stories. Weitra 1996 ISBN 978-3-85252-125-1 .
  • The yard . Text photo book with Jindrich Streit. Weitra 1995
  • Brick shed or the leisurely effort of movement . Narrative. Weitra 1994. ISBN 978-3-85252-031-5 .
  • The close proximity . Stories. Wiener Neustadt 1994
  • Village stories . Prose. Weitra 1992
  • I you and you me too . Love poems. Baden near Vienna 1990
  • Sports poems . Vienna 1989
  • Explosive sentences . Satires and counter-sentences. Wiener Neustadt 1987
  • Chobot reading book Vienna 1987
  • Crocodiles don't have tears . Poems. Baden near Vienna 1985
  • 49 separate entries . Vienna 1980
  • reform projects . Satires. Vienna 1980
  • Waunst in Wean . Dialect poems. Munich 1978
  • The crypt spy . Prose. Wiener Neustadt 1978
  • projects . Illustrated prose. Gersthofen / Augsburg 1973
  • New authors I . Vienna 1972

Children's and young people's literature

  • Florian Flea . Children's book. Illustrations by Ernst Zdrahal. Edition Lex Liszt, Oberwart 2014. ISBN 978-3-99016-069-5 .
  • Atlantis - state of children . Children's book. Vienna 1992

Editing

  • Bernhard C. Bünker : Wos ibableibt. Dialect poems. Edited and with accompanying texts by Manfred Chobot and Axel Karner . Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2018. ISBN 978-3-7084-0620-6 .
  • About dealing with Viennese . Viennese satire and humor. Edited with Gerald Jatzek: Edition Mokka, Vienna 2012. ISBN 978-3-902693-34-1 .
  • The dog is dead . Graetzel stories from 24 districts of Vienna. Edited with Beppo Beyerl, Gerald Jatzek. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2012. ISBN 978-3-85409-617-7 .
  • The wonder world that I floated through . Literary dreams. Edited with Dieter Bandhauer. Special number publisher, Vienna 2011.
  • Vile without, but real , Viennese satire and humor from 100 years, ed. by Gerald Jatzek and Manfred Chobot, Edition Mokka, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-902693-27-3 .
  • Deed word . Crime stories and murder poems, ed. by Paul Eisenkircher, Horst Hahn and Maximilian Huber. Everyday life association, Vienna 2011. ISBN 978-3-902282-51-4 .
  • The jaguar in the mirror . A cog anthology. Edited with Charlotte Ueckert, Pop Verlag, 2010.
  • Genius & Asshole . Light and dark sides of famous personalities. Vienna 2009. ISBN 978-3-85485-234-6 .
  • Karl Anton Fleck. god hides behind every face . Poems, recipes, film montages. art & print, Brunn am Gebirge 2005.
  • Poetry from Austria . Volume 51-100. Grasl, Baden near Vienna 1991–2004.
  • Selection . Poems from 100 volumes of poetry from Austria . Grasl, Baden near Vienna 2004.
  • Murder on the spot . Crime stories. (with Sylvia Unterrader). Illustrations by Ernst Zdrahal. Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1994.
  • Relief in showing the tongue . Poetry against frustration, ed. by Gerald Jatzek and Manfred Chobot, Jugend & Volk, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-224-11446-0
  • To eat and drink. Cultural Yearbook No. 7 . (with Hubert Christian Ehalt and Rolf Schwendter ). Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1988.
  • The Vienna Danube Book . (with Hubert Christian Ehalt and Gero Fischer). Vienna, Edition S, Vienna 1987.
  • Shameful without . 100 years of satire and humor. (with Gerald Jatzek). Photos by Peter Dressler. Verlag Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1987.
  • Peace march of the 70,000 . Documentation. (Co-editor) .Löcker Verlag, Vienna 1982.
  • Dialect anthology 1970–1980 . (with Bernhard C. Bünker). International Dialect Institute, Vienna 1982.
  • Cara Compagna - Dear colleague . Songs from South Tyrol. (With Hans Haid and Bernhard C. Bünker). International Dialect Institute (IDI-TON 4), Vienna 1980.
  • Mit'm Schmäh . Songbook. With illustrations by Tone Fink. davids-prints (Singable Texts 3), Göttingen 1980.
  • Multiple friction surfaces . Alfred Hrdlicka and the public. Documentation. Galerie Yppen, Vienna 1977.
  • Finally something new. Yearbook for New Poetry . Documentation of a literary process. (With Jochen Gerz and Rolf Nörtemann). edition finally something new, Giessen 1972.

cabaret

  • Somersault morale . Free stage in Wieden. Vienna 1980.

Television and radio

Sound carrier

  • I don't know how alaane is . Cassette with songs and text book. Vienna 1983.
  • I am sorry . Dialect poems. Music: Marwan Abado . CD. Extraplatte, Vienna 2003.

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personal data
SURNAME Chobot, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna