Michael Beisteiner

Michael Beisteiner (born April 29, 1977 in Lower Austria , Pitten , Bucklige Welt ) is an Austrian writer . He lives and works in Vienna and Kladovo (Serbia).

Life

Michael Beisteiner attended the Catholic elementary school in Sta. From 1983 to 1987 . Christiana in Frohsdorf . From 1987 to 1991 he was taught at the Redemptorist high school in Katzelsdorf . In 1996 he graduated from the higher education institute for business professions in Wiener Neustadt . This was followed by community service. He then studied philosophy and cultural and social anthropology at the University of Vienna . He broke off his studies and began to travel through Europe , South America and Africa . He keeps the diaries for these trips under lock and key.  

Michael Beisteiner has been a freelance writer since 2008. He wrote for 25magazine and publishes books in prose, poetry and children's books.

From 2005 to 2015 he was the singer and lyricist of the hardcore punk band SPORT

Michael Beisteiner has been running a part-time farm in Kladovo, Serbia since 2017 .

He is in a relationship with a Serbian woman and has two children together.

Participation in a literature prize is not proven. There are also no works by him in literary magazines.

Some of his texts have been translated into Greek.

Works

• Life, death, a dance , poetry, Edition Garamond, Vienna, 1998, ISBN 3-85306-002-1
• Distributed in Dream , Poetry, Edition Garamond, Vienna, 2000, ISBN 3-85306-016-1
• Roter Zucker , Roman, Kaugummi Verlag, 2007
• The circular journey of Ika Wendou , children's novel, Ibera, 2015, ISBN 978-3-85052-340-0
• Stopovers , Poetry, Arovell, 2018, ISBN 978-3903189270
• The Tomato Rebel, children's book, wordwide, 2020, ISBN 978-3-903326-02-6

Contributions to anthologies (selection)

• the golden roof and its enigmatic inscription, eds. Felix Mitterer , Christian Ide Hintze and Lukas Morscher, Haymon, 2012, ISBN 978-3-85218-674-0
• wiener waagen, from the poetry of the expiry date, texts on photos by Andreas Urban, ed. school for poetry in wien and Fritz Ostermayer , special number, 2017, ISBN 978-3-85449-485-0
• FUNKHAUS anthology, special publication on the occasion of the 50th birthday of Ö1 , published by IG Authors , Gerhard Ruiss and Ulrike Stecher, Verlag Autorensolidarität, 2017
• Anthology of young Austrian poets, Greek-German edition, eds. Nestoras Poulakos and Helmuth A. Niederle, Vakxikon, 2019, ISBN 9789606380662

Awards

• 2017 working grant from the Austrian Federal Chancellery

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Beisteiner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Review of children's book Österreichisches Bibliothekswerk
• Interview with Michael Beisteiner in the magazine biber

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cultural Networking Lower Austria: Cultural Networking Lower Austria. In: Cultural Networking Lower Austria. Cultural Networking Lower Austria, accessed on January 7, 2019 . 
2. ↑ E_klad: Michael Beisteiner. In: http://www.literaturport.de/ . Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, December 22, 2018, accessed on December 22, 2018 (German). 
3. ↑ fixpoetry. In: https://www.fixpoetry.com/autoren/literatur/feuilleton/michael-beisteiner . Julietta Fix, December 22, 2018, accessed January 7, 2019 . 
4. ↑ E_klad: Beaver magazine . Ed .: Biber Verlagsgesellschaft. No. 3/2016 . Biber Verlagsgesellschaft, Vienna March 2016, p. 60 .
5. ↑ youngpoets. In: youngpoets.eu. Vakxikon, Greece, Athens, accessed November 8, 2019 . 
6. ^ Literaturhaus Wien: Literaturhaus. In: literaturhaus.at. IG authors, accessed on January 7, 2019 .