Markus Jaroschka

Markus Jaroschka (born September 29, 1942 ) is an Austrian writer (especially poetry ) and was co-editor of the literary magazine Lichtungen until 2019 .

Life

Markus Jaroschka grew up in Graz , where he trained as a baker and cook. In his second education he studied philosophy and mathematics at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz ; here he obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1976. From 1972 to 1976 he was an assistant at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Graz , later for many years in adult education , e.g. B. in the educational center Schloss Retzhof and from 1986 to 1996 as director of the Austrian Urania for Styria . He writes poetry and prose.

Contributions

From 1990 to 2019 he was co-editor of the magazine Lichtungen - magazine for literature, art and contemporary criticism . He also worked on international projects, e.g. B. Graz 2003 - European Capital of Culture , City Clerk of Graz and The Poetics of the Border (with Dževad Karahasan ).

Awards

• 2007: Great Josef Krainer Prize

Works

Lyric:

• Language change . Leykam-Verlag, Graz 1980, ISBN 3-7011-7124-6 .
• The restlessness in the sentences . Bläschke, Sankt Michael 1983, ISBN 3-7053-1879-9 .
• Time silence . Poems (1980-84). Ed. Keiper, Graz 2013, ISBN 978-3-902901-29-3 . (New edition, unchanged. New edition of a selection of 7 vols.)

Stories:

• The limit of the face. News from the path to the center of life . Stories. Ed. Atelier, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-900379-48-3 .

Editing of text collections:

• with Gerhard Dienes and Alfred Kolleritsch : Graz . (= Select Europe. ). Wieser, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2002, ISBN 3-85129-391-6 . (German)
• with Gerhard Dienes and Alfred Kolleritsch : Graz . (= Select Europe. ). Wieser, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2003, ISBN 3-85129-394-0 . (English)
• with Dževad Karahasan (Ed.): Poetics of the Border. Talking about the borders - literary bridges for Europe . Steirische Verlagsgesellschaft, Graz 2003, ISBN 3-85489-084-2 .

literature

• Sead Muhamedagić: Markus Jaroschka - The struggle for your own language aesthetics. In: Johann Holzner, Dragutin Horvat (ed.): Inclusion and rejection of tradition. Zagreb 1996, p. 97ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Österreichische Urania für Steiermark ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. History of Urania from 1982 to today. 
2. ↑ Markus Jaroschka: The time of Peter Schall and Markus Jaroschka as directors of Urania . In: Hannes Galter et al. (Ed.): The Urania in Graz - 100 years of education and culture . Leykam, Graz 2019, ISBN 978-3-7011-8110-0 , pp. 219-256 .
3. ↑ KulturServerGraz short biography.
4. ↑ KulturServerGraz jury members 2008 and award winners from 1988.
5. ↑ Styrian memorial .

Web links

• Literature by and about Markus Jaroschka in the catalog of the German National Library