Norbert Kröll

Norbert Kröll (* 1981 in Villach in Carinthia ) is an Austrian writer.

Career

Kröll grew up in Bleiberg-Kreuth, a town in a Carinthian high valley known for mining and now a health resort, and went to high school in Villach . While still at school, he studied classical percussion for two years at the Klagenfurt Conservatory. He graduated from high school in Villach and then moved to Vienna. After a year of training as a sound engineer, he studied jazz drums at the former Gustav Mahler Conservatory for two years, then two semesters of philosophy at the University of Vienna .

With the band Sirupop he released the album Life Is a Longplayer on Capitol (EMI Austria) in 2005 and played among others as a supporting act for Wir sind Helden at Burg Clam and Duran Duran in the Wiener Stadthalle. From 2008 to 2010 he played drums with the indie band Giantree, which he co-founded, and from 2010 to 2014 percussions and cajón with the folk band DAWA , for which he was also responsible for management and booking as well as - together with the band members - for the production of the debut album This Should Work (Las Vegas Records) was responsible.

From autumn 2010 he studied language art with Robert Schindel and Ferdinand Schmatz at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, which he completed in 2014 with Esther Dischereit with a Bachelor of Arts. In 2017 he published his debut novel Gentle Asphalt in Löcker Verlag. It is about the one-day foray of a young protagonist through Vienna, written from the you perspective. Interspersed in the text are speech masks from various passers-by whom the stroller encounters, as well as several black and white photographs of the author. His second novel, Who We Were, was published in March 2020 by Edition Atelier and deals with a close friendship between two young men that threatens to break up due to the outbreak of a mental illness. Or as the culture journalist Katja Gasser said in an ORF report for Die Zeit : "With Who we were , Norbert Kröll presents a quiet but intense novel about the life-saving power of friendship and art." Katja Gasser also interviewed Norbert Kröll in As part of the exceptional talks initiated by the Main Association of the Austrian Book Trade , these and other videos with talks and readings by the author can be viewed on the website of the Edition Atelier publishing house. Excerpts from both novels were also broadcast on the radio on Ö1 and published in Austrian literary magazines such as LICHTUNGEN, Die Rampe and etcetera.

Norbert Kröll was co-editor of the literary magazine JENNY # 2 (De Gruyter). In 2013 the first edition of this magazine received the state award “Most Beautiful Book in Austria”.

Norbert Kröll is a member of the Graz Authors 'Assembly, the Carinthian Writers' Association and the IG Authors Authors.

He lives with his family in Vienna and Mödling .

Prizes and awards

Theodor Körner Prize 2020
Vienna Literature Scholarship 2020
3rd prize at the Feldkircher Poetry Prize 2019
Prize for Literature of the Province of Carinthia 2018
Anniversary Fund scholarship holder of the Literar Mechana 2018
Forum Land Literature Prize 2017
Vienna Literature Scholarship 2016
Work and travel grants from the Austrian Federal Chancellery

Works

Who we were . Novel. Edition Atelier, Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-99065-026-4 .
Gentle asphalt . Novel. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-85409-842-3 .

Editing

JENNY. Issue 02 (thinking, asserting, doing big) . Anthology, edited by Norbert Kröll, Johanna Kliem, Rick Reuther, Lena Ures, Johanna Wieser, series: Edition Angewandte, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-99043-675-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Kröll, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	1981
PLACE OF BIRTH	Villach , Carinthia

[1] Announcement of the concert

[2] Announcement of the concert on the band's website

[3] Information about the book on the publisher's website

[4] Information about the book on the publisher's website

[5] Literature in the time of Corona: video readings with Norbert Kröll

[6] Excerpt from the novel Sanfter Asphalt as part of the Ö1 radio stories - New Literature from Austria on August 11, 2017

[7] Information on issue # 157/2019

[8] Information on the publisher's website

[9] Information on the award of the state prize

[10] GAV website

[11] KSV website

[12] Internet presence of the IG authors authors

[13] Excellent work 2020 , information on the website of the Theodor Körner Fund

[14] Feldkircher Poetry Prize 2019 - The winners , information on the website of the organizer

[15] Culture report of the state of Carinthia , page 14

[16] Literature Prize 2017: The winners have been determined , overview on the Forum Land website