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OP Zier , Othmar Peter Zier, (born October 20, 1954 in Schwarzach im Pongau , Salzburg as Othmar Peter Zierlinger ) is an Austrian writer .
Life
Growing up in Lend , he now lives as a freelance writer in St. Johann im Pongau and Eschenau im Pinzgau . He wrote numerous works for radio (radio plays, features, radio essays, etc.) and television (feature films and documentaries) for Austrian and German broadcasters. He published in newspapers ( Die Zeit , Hamburg; Die Presse , Vienna; Salzburger Nachrichten , Der Standard etc.) and magazines ( profil , Vienna; literature and criticism , Salzburg etc.). His youthful hometown Lend is repeatedly the setting in his stories and novels, for example in Sturmfrei and Himmelfahrt .
OP Zier is married to the professor of philosophy, psychology and history, Annemarie Zierlinger. Their son, Rainer Zierlinger, has been a sports editor for the private television broadcaster Servus TV since 2010.
Awards
- 1976 Award of the literary working group of the University of Klagenfurt
- ORF television play award
- 1977 Theodor-Körner-Förderungspreis
- 1981 1st Culture Prize of the City of St. Johann im Pongau
- Georg Rendl Prize for Sturmfrei
- 2000 Book Price for Ascension
Works
- Traumlos, Stories, Verlag Alfred Winter, Salzburg 1977
- Menschen am Land, Residenz Verlag , Salzburg 1981; including an autobiographical representation of his homeland in the chapter Lendliche Idylle - Pictures without an exhibition .
- The saving jump on the sinking ship, poems, epigrams, afterword by Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler , Edition Freeboard, Vienna 1988
- Hints. A reading book, Edition Prolit, Salzburg 1994
- Schonzeit, Roman, Otto Müller Verlag, 1996
- Ascension, Roman, Otto Müller Verlag, 1998
- Sturmfrei, Roman, Otto Müller Verlag, 2001: autobiographical novel about his home town Lend in Pinzgau
- Lend No. 26 in Small Local History, Anthology, 2003
- From this side of the wishes to the beyond of their fulfillment, poems, Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg-Vienna, 2005
- Dead season . Novel. Residenz Verlag, St. Pölten - Salzburg 2007
- Murder sonata . Novel. Residenz Verlag, St. Pölten - Salzburg 2010 ISBN 978-3-7017-1554-1
- Accomplices of happiness . Novel. Residenz Verlag, St. Pölten - Salzburg - Vienna 2015. ISBN 978-3-7017-1642-5
TV films (feature films and documentaries)
- Rien ne va plus, Maria, ORF 1978
- A threat that has become pictorial, ORF 1979
- Rural idyll - an illusion ?, ORF 1983
- ... about the daily bread of small ideas, ORF 1987; 3 sat
- Faistauer's heirs, ORF 1988
- When everyday life is not everyday ..., ORF 1992
- Cheers !, ORF 1994
- When guests are working ..., ORF 1995
- On the mountain and yet at home, ORF 1996; 3 sat
- From another world, ORF 1998
- In the dark of the day, ORF 2000; 3 sat
Motion picture
- Guest role of "Odradek" in Kafka, Kiffer und Chaoten by Kurt Palm
Radio plays
- The Growing of the Shadows, ORF 1982
- The saving jump on the sinking ship, ORF 1987
- The double bottom of the simple truth, ORF 1988
- Complete evidence, Radio Bremen 1992; Bavarian radio
Stage play
- The interrogation, mini drama , world premiere of the Tiroler Landestheater , 1992
CDs
- Listening views, radio miniatures, Elisabethbühne , Salzburg 1994
- Recording at Best of Literaturhaus Salzburg, Edition Eizenbergerhof, Salzburg 2001
Web links
- Literature by and about OP Zier in the catalog of the German National Library
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personal data | |
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SURNAME | Zier, OP |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zierlinger, Othmar Peter; Zier Othmar Peter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1954 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwarzach im Pongau , Salzburg |