Nils Jensen (writer)

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Nils Jensen (born June 20, 1947 in St. Pölten ) is an Austrian author and publisher .

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Jensen grew up in Rabenstein an der Pielach . After graduating from high school, he studied journalism at the University of Vienna and passed the teaching examination for German and history. Until 1983 he received several work grants from the City of Vienna .

The first texts appeared in the 1970s in literary magazines such as Freeboard and the literary magazine Frischfleisch (later Frischfleisch & Löwenmaul ), which he founded in 1971 together with Reinhard Wegerth and others . He also worked as a text author - among others for the music group Milestones - and in the meantime also worked as a final editor for magazines such as HörZu Österreich, Basta , Rennbahn-Express and Gault-Millau .

He has published works in various styles such as prose, poetry, children's books and plays, contributed to anthologies and is also active as an editor and translator.

Jensen was co-founder in 1989 and has since been co-editor of the international book magazine Buchkultur . He has been a member of the board of directors of the IG authors authors and since 2005 of the literary group Podium Schloss Neulengbach and was a jury member for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in the 1990s .

Jensen lives in Vienna and Aigen in the Mühlkreis .

Awards and grants (selection)

  • 1975: Art Promotion Prize of the City of Vienna (prose)
  • 1978: Theodor Körner Prize (poetry)
  • 1979/80: State grant for literature from the BMfUuK (prose)
  • 1980/81: Drama scholarship from the BMfUuK
  • 2018: Hans Weigel Literature Fellowship

Publications (selection)

  • with Reinhard Wegerth : The culture brakes. Conservative cultural policy in Austria. A black book . Karl Renner Institute, Contemporary Documents 17, Vienna 1978
  • What hands can do. Poems to history . Linocuts by Josef Heer Frischfleisch & Löwenmaul, Vienna 1979
  • The daily death . Play, Fresh Meat & Snapdragon, Vienna 1980
  • Bixi, Stoppel and the robbers . Youth book, Breitschopf Verlag, Vienna 1984, ISBN 978-3-7004-1155-0
  • as editor: Fascination comics. The official comic special of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2000 , Buchkultur Verlagsgesellschaft, Vienna 2000
  • Everyday sketches . Poems. Grasl, Baden near Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-85098-271-9
  • with Gerhard Trumler : Austria s most beautiful churches , Styria, Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-222-13189-9
  • Selected poems . Verlag Podium, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902054-50-0
  • Without with everything - Lürük Kebap . Autumn press, Vienna 2007
  • as publisher: Celebrate festivals, Verlag Podium Wien, 2010, ISBN 978-3-902054-82-1
  • Time of the slow nights. Selected poems, Ed .: Katarzyna Novakowska, Neisse Verlag, Dresden 2015, ISBN 978-3-86276-170-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Literaturhaus Wien: Jensen Nils. Accessed December 31, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Literature Port : Nils Jensen - Author Lexicon. Accessed December 31, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Main Association of the Austrian Book Trade: Hans Weigel literary scholarship to Nils Jensen and Mario Schlembach. November 29, 2017, accessed December 31, 2019 .
  4. ^ Literaturhaus Wien: Jensen Nils. Accessed December 31, 2019 .
  5. ^ A b Main Association of the Austrian Book Trade: Hans Weigel Literature Scholarship to Nils Jensen and Mario Schlembach. November 29, 2017, accessed December 31, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b Podium Literature: Nils Jensen. Accessed December 31, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Jensen, Nils
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian publisher, writer and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Polten