Michael Scharang

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Michael Scharang (born February 3, 1941 in Kapfenberg , Styria ) is an Austrian narrator, essayist, screenplay and radio play author.

Life

Michael Scharang was born into a working-class family in Kapfenberg. After attending grammar school, he studied theater studies, philosophy and art history at the University of Vienna from 1960 and received his doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on the dramas by Robert Musil . In 1969 his daughter Elisabeth Scharang was born, who works as a director and presenter for the radio station FM4 . Michael Scharang lives and works in Vienna and New York .

Scharang began to publish literary and essayistic works while still a student, and he also published manuscripts several times in the Austrian literary journal . He was a member of the Graz artists 'association “ Forum Stadtpark ”, initiator and from 1970 to 1973 a member of the “Working Group of Austrian Literature Producers” and a founding member of the Graz Authors' Assembly, from which he resigned in 1989 - after 16 years of membership. From 1973 to 1978 he was a member of the KPÖ and in 1976 he passed half of the Austrian State Prize for Cinematic Art on to establish the Vienna Cultural Center .

Michael Scharang is a permanent contributor and guest author of Austrian and German newspapers and magazines (including " Die Presse ", " Profil ", " Der Standard ", " Wespennest ", " Beton ") and is considered an advocate for better working and living conditions for writers. It often takes a special position in political discussions. He criticizes capitalism (he believes that “capitalism is worthless and should be abolished”) and bourgeois democracy (“bourgeois democracy, product of the nation state ... must go”). He is particularly interested in social change as an aesthetic idea.

Awards

In March 2016 Michael Scharang refused the award of the Golden Merit Award of the State of Vienna with the words: “From childhood on I felt it was unfair that physical work was less valued than intellectual work. For me, good street lighting is just as valuable as a good literary text. ”If Vienna was“ still the Red Vienna ”, this would meet with understanding, he wrote in a letter that was available to the APA .

Works

Books

  • Robert Musil (dissertation). Vienna 1965.
  • Procedure of a procedure . Neuwied et al. 1969.
  • No more storytelling and other stories . Neuwied et al. 1970.
  • For the emancipation of art . Neuwied et al. 1971.
  • One must always parry . Darmstadt et al. 1973.
  • Charly tractor . Darmstadt et al. 1973.
  • Report to the district committee . Darmstadt et al. 1974.
  • The son of a farm laborer . Darmstadt et al. 1975 ( filmed in the same year by Axel Corti under the title "Dead spots" ).
  • The bon vivant . Munich 1979.
  • The father's profession . Stuttgart 1981.
  • Double life . Salzburg et al. 1981.
  • Harry . Darmstadt et al. 1984.
  • The ruse of art . Darmstadt et al. 1986.
  • The miracle of Austria or how things get better and worse in a country . Vienna et al. 1989.
  • Off to America . Hamburg et al. 1992.
  • Peymann remains in Vienna or Come communism again . Hamburg 1993.
  • The Last Judgment of Michelangelo Sparrow . Reinbek near Hamburg 1998.
  • Comedy of Aging. A novel , Suhrkamp-Verlag, Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-518-42135-2
  • Aufruhr: Ein Roman , Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-518-42928-0

Editing

  • About Peter Handke . Frankfurt am Main 1972.
  • Stories from the history of Austria 1945 - 1983 . Darmstadt et al. 1984.

Radio plays

  • Addressing a determined man to his indecision . Director: Dieter Carls . HR, NDR, SDR, 1971.
  • A story to watch - about a radio play to watch . SDR, 1971.
  • Report from the employment office . NDR, 1972.
  • Happiness is a bird . WDR, 1972.
  • Question time . Cologne: WDR, 1972.
  • Stop . Director: Claus Villinger . SDR, 1973.
  • One must always parry . WDR, 1973.
  • Why the clever Else, the clever Gretel and Katerlieschen want to be lesbians for the time being . Director: Hans Rosenbauer . NDR, SFB, 1973.
  • What I think about when I hear this WDR, 1973.
  • What is there to talk about . 1974.
  • The father's profession . Director: Otto Düben . SDR, WDR, 1975.
  • What can happen when you bring Prince Eugene to life . ORF Burgenland, 1975.
  • Some are in a prosperous age - others in prosperous business . Director: Otto Düben. NDR, 1977.
  • Harry. A settlement . Director: Michael Scharang. ORF Vienna, 1988.

Movies

  • A responsible person dismisses an irresponsible person . TV movie. ORF, 1972.
  • Dead spots - The son of a farm laborer becomes a construction worker and builds a house . Cinema and TV film. Script: Michael Scharang. Director: Axel Corti . ORF, Schönbrunn Film, WDR, 1974.
  • The bon vivant . TV movie. Screenplay (based on his novel of the same name): Michael Scharang. Director: Axel Corti. ORF, WDR, 1979.
  • Double life . TV movie. Script: Michael Scharang. Director: Georg Lhotsky . ORF, WDR, 1981.
  • Koloman Wallisch's comrades . TV film from the series "The Best of Europe". Screenplay, director: Michael Scharang. ORF, ZDF, 1984.
  • A homecoming story . TV movie. Screenplay, director: Michael Scharang. ORF, WDR, 1985.
  • Parallel . TV movie. Script: Aleksander Marodic , Michael Scharang. ORF, Slovenian TV, 1988.
  • My killer . TV movie. Script: Michael Scharang, Elisabeth Scharang, 2005

Secondary literature

  • Cegienas de Groot: Poor people. On the representation of the existential and social position of the human being with the Austrian authors Gerhard Roth, Michael Scharang and Gernot Wolfgruber. Olms, Hildesheim et al. 1988. (= German texts and studies; 28) ISBN 3-487-09085-6
  • Michael Scharang . Edited by Gerhard Fuchs u. Paul Pechmann. Literature publ. Droschl, Graz et al. 2002. (= Dossier; 19) ISBN 3-85420-612-7

Movie

  • 1973: Michael Scharang. A production by Südwestfunk / TV / Baden-Baden (14 minutes). Script and direction: Klaus Peter Dencker

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Scharang: On the State of the Nation , in: Die Presse from June 18, 2016.
  2. ^ Author Michael Scharang refuses to honor the State of Vienna. In: DiePresse.com. March 15, 2016, accessed March 16, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Review by Kristina Maidt-Zinke in Die Zeit from July 31, 2010: Where Rescue Grows - Michael Scharang's youthful novel about old age and friendship
personal data
SURNAME Scharang, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Kapfenberg , Styria , Austria