Manfred Mixner

Manfred Mixner (* 1947 in Graz ) is an Austrian writer living in southern Sweden and a former culture editor and radio editor specializing in literature and media studies.

Life

In 1970/71 Manfred Mixner was the cultural editor of the Graz daily newspaper Neue Zeit and in 1972 he worked at the Graz Schauspielhaus . From 1973 to 1979 he worked as a freelance journalist and from 1979 to 1983 he was department head for literature and radio drama at ORF Graz. From 1984 to 1986 he was department head of Austria 1 radio literature in Vienna and then from 1987 to 2002 he was head of the radio play and radio art department at Sender Freies Berlin . He also taught in Salzburg, Klagenfurt, Berlin and Jena.

Retired in 2002, he writes essays , short stories and novels . Since 2012 he has published his literary works in Edition Keiper .

Book publications

• Peter Handke. Athenaeum , Königstein im Taunus 1977, ISBN 3-7610-2131-3 .
• Hellish noise and dead silence . Brandstätter, Vienna / Munich 2001, ISBN 3-85498-104-X .
• Entangled in stories . Attempts, speeches, miscarriages. edition keiper, Graz 2012, ISBN 978-3-9503343-0-2 .
• The goat head . Detective novel. edition keiper, Graz 2013, ISBN 978-3-902901-24-8 .
• Trip to Abydos . Novel. edition keiper, Graz 2014, ISBN 978-3-902901-52-1 .
• Dead music and other stories. Edition keiper, Graz 2015, ISBN 978-3-902901-78-1 .
• Stories from Others . Features about authors. edition keiper, Graz 2016, ISBN 978-3-903144-01-9 .
• The general . Novel. edition keiper, Graz 2017, ISBN 978-3-903144-35-4 .
• Try to understand stories. Work interpretations. edition keiper, Graz 2018, ISBN 978-3-903144-59-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Mixner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography on the Edition Keiper website
• Author page on the website of the Literaturhaus Graz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography on the Edition Keiper homepage: http://www.editionkeiper.at/shop/mixner-manfred/