Nikolaus Glattauer

Nikolaus Glattauer (2018)

Nikolaus (Niki) Glattauer (born January 1, 1959 in Zurich ) is a book author , columnist and school director in Vienna.

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Glattauer was born as the first son of Austrian parents who worked temporarily in Switzerland. After the birth of his brother Daniel , who works as a writer, the family moved to Vienna- Favoriten in 1960 , where Glattauer grew up. Like his father Herbert O. Glattauer, he was a journalist until the mid-1990s. As such, he worked, mostly in leading positions, for the Viennese media Die Presse , Kronen Zeitung , Kurier , Arbeiter-Zeitung and News , most recently in the position of deputy editor-in-chief.

As a career changer at the age of almost 40, Glattauer initially trained as a secondary school teacher (now a secondary school teacher), then part-time as a teacher for special needs education, and in 1998, after an interlude as editor-in-chief of krone.online, began teaching at Viennese schools. Since 2018 he has been the school director in the field of inclusion, diversity and special education.

Glattauer has published twelve books since 2002, including two novels and three children's books. Sleep well for his children's books , Susi! - Sleep well, sleep! (2010) and Flucht (2017) he was each awarded with the inclusion in the collection of the Austrian Children's and Youth Book Prize. Flucht was premiered in a stage version in 2017 as part of the Schäxpir theater festival at the Landestheater Linz.

Niki Glattauer's mostly narrative non-fiction books with a strong fiction character, which deal with school and education from personal perspectives, all achieved top positions in the Austrian bestseller lists, three of them also number 1, e.g. B. 2016 Best of School - funny to cry, sad to laugh. The book Mitteilungsheft: Unfortunately Lukas… , a satire on today's school under the motto “Parents against teachers - that's brutality!”, Was awarded the Austrian favorite in 2014 in the fiction category.

In February 2018, the End of the Cretaceous Period - A Little Bit of School and the Crazy Rest of Life , an autobiographical satire, was published in which Glattauer addresses the pitfalls and pitfalls of the digitized everyday world. This book also reached number 1 on the bestseller lists in Austria.

Niki Glattauer wrote the weekly column School - and the rest of life for the daily newspaper Kurier for eight years . Since 2019 Glattauer has been writing a column for the daily newspaper "Heute" under the logo "Glattauer gives notes".

From 2012 to spring 2015, Glattauer was a juror for the “Ohrenschmaus” literary prize for people with learning difficulties. Since 2016 he has been on the presidium of the Institute for Youth Literature. In 2019 he was on the jury for the international media art competition Prix Ars Electronica for the first time, which among other things honors projects by schoolchildren and young people under the motto "Create Your World"

Niki Glattauer is married and has two children.

Publications

• James, stepson of God . Jung und Jung, Salzburg 2002, ISBN 3-902144-45-9
• The Popes . Holzhausen, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85493-220-0
• In a bird's eye . Picus, Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-85452-490-8
• with Verena Hochleitner : Sleep well, Susi! Sleep well, sleep! Residenz Verlag, St. Pölten 2009, ISBN 978-3-7017-2050-7
• The committed teacher and his enemies . Ueberreuter, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-8000-7484-6
• with Verena Hochleitner: The star leaf tree . Residenz Verlag, St. Pölten 2011, ISBN 978-3-7017-2086-6
• The Pisa lie. How our school is really getting better , Ueberreuter, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-8000-7514-0
• Bulletin. Unfortunately Lukas… , with illustrations by Verena Hochleitner, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-218-00881-5
• Unfortunately Lukas has again ... ( and at the colored pencil Verena Hochleitner ), Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-218-00992-8
• Escape . Illustrated by Verena Hochleitner. Tyrolia , Innsbruck-Vienna 2016. ISBN 978-3-7022-3560-4
• Best of Schule - Sad to laugh, funny to cry, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 2016 ISBN 978-3-218-01041-2
• End of the Cretaceous Period: a bit of school - and the crazy rest of life , with 15 pictures by Verena Hochleitner , Christian Brandstätter Verlag , Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-7106-0154-5

Web links

Commons : Nikolaus Glattauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Nikolaus Glattauer in the catalog of the German National Library