Michael Ziegelwagner

Michael Ziegelwagner (born January 8, 1983 in St. Pölten ) is an Austrian writer and satirist .

Life

Michael Ziegelwagner graduated from St. Pölten in 2001 and then studied journalism at the Vienna University of Applied Sciences . After graduating in 2008, he initially worked as an author for the satirical magazine Titanic , and from 2009 to 2015 as editor. Since 2014 he has been head of the humor criticism department . He also published in Standard , Wiener Zeitung and taz . His debut novel The Inflatable Kaiser was nominated for the German Book Prize. Michael Ziegelwagner lives in Vienna and Edinburgh .

Awards

• 2002 Literature Prize of the Graz Academy , 2nd prize, satirical competition
• 2014 longlist at the German Book Prize with The inflatable Kaiser

Works

• Café connection. Atrium, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-85535-826-7 .
  • New edition as: Unknown in Germany are cafés and sausage stands. Blanvalet, Munich 2013. ISBN 978-3-442-38000-8
• The inflatable emperor. Rowohlt, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-87134-767-2 .
• Sebastian - Holidays in the Chancellery . Milena, 2018, ISBN 978-3-903184-25-1 .

theatre

• Siegfried or The General Mobilization. Commissioned for the Lower Austria State Theater, April 29, 2016, as part of Citizen Production 4.0, director: Renate Aichinger

Editions

• with Leo Fischer and Tim Wolff (eds.): The Titanic Bible: Blessings, Sins, Filths - the world's bestseller uncensored for the first time! Rowohlt, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-87134-766-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Ziegelwagner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ziegelwagners comment on his nomination for the German Book Prize 2014 in the FAZ