Oswald Egger

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Oswald Egger reads at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2017

Oswald Egger (born March 7, 1963 in Tscherms , South Tyrol ) is a German-speaking writer.

life and work

In 1992 Oswald Egger completed his studies in literature and philosophy in Vienna . From 1986 to 1995 he was the organizer of the Lana Culture Days in South Tyrol , which he helped initiate . From 1989 to 1998 he published the magazine Der Prokurist in the edition per procura . Egger primarily writes poetry that appears in numerous anthologies, including a. The Great Conrady , and literary magazines was published. Egger's poems have been translated into French, English and other languages.

Oswald Egger lives in Vienna and on the former Hombroich rocket station near Neuss . The poet Thomas Kling was his predecessor there.

Since 2011 he has held the newly created professorship “Language and Shape” at the Muthesius Art College in Kiel , and in 2013 he took on the Thomas Kling Poetics Lecturer at the University of Bonn for two semesters.

Single title (selection)

  • The earth of speech . Poem, Kleinheinrich, 1993
  • Equal and equal . Edition Howeg 1995
  • Bluebeard's Loyalty Edition Howeg 1997
  • July, September, August . Edition Solitude 1997
  • Flock of speech . Poem, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1999
  • Nothing that is poetry. Suhrkamp, ​​2001
  • -broich . Homotopias of a poem. Edition Korrespondenzen, 2003
  • Prose, Proserpine, prose . Suhrkamp, ​​2005
  • Day and night are two years . Calendar poems. Ulrich Keicher, Warmbronn 2006
  • nihilum album . Songs & poems. Suhrkamp, ​​2007
  • Lustrations . On poetic activity. Suhrkamp, ​​2008
  • Discrete continuity . Poetry and math. Suhrkamp, ​​2008
  • Alinea. About singing the songs. In: Aris Fioretos (ed.): Babel. For Werner Hamacher . Urs Engeler, Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-938767-55-9 , pp. 126-133.
  • All the time . Suhrkamp, ​​2010
  • Your Lenz . Prose, Suhrkamp, ​​2013
  • Harlequin coats and other items . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95757-352-0 .
  • Val di Non . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-42582-4 .

Libretti / Word-and-Music-Projects

  • The Venus moon . Music: Burkhard Stangl . Premiere 1998 New York / Krems
  • A sea of ​​ptyx . Music: Michael Pisaro (* 1961). Premiere 2001 Los Angeles
  • Hanging garden . Music: With Michael Pisaro. WP 2002
  • Day and night are two years . Music: Michael Pisaro. WP 2003 Munich
  • word for word (space) . Music: Antoine Beuger . Premiere 2003 Donaueschinger Musiktage
  • tuning, mute . Literature as radio art on ORF-Kunstradio. WP July 18, 2004

Awards (selection)

Web links

Commons : Oswald Egger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oswald Egger on the page of Villa Aurora
  2. ↑ Oswald Egger. Brenner Archive Research Institute, accessed on May 9, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Press archive. Kunststiftung NRW, April 8, 2013, accessed on April 4, 2015 .
  4. ^ City of Vienna Presentation of the 2008 HC Artmann Prize to Oswald Egger, RK January 21, 2009.
  5. ^ Oskar Pastior Prize 2010 to Oswald Egger. ( Memento of March 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Literaturhaus Berlin, Oskar Pastior Foundation
  6. ↑ SWR2 award for Oswald Egger and Iris Drögekamp
  7. ↑ Homepage SWR 2 , accessed on October 20, 2013.
  8. ↑ Villa Massimo | Oswald Egger. Retrieved August 20, 2019 .
  9. ^ State Secretary Mayer: Long-term scholarships for literature. July 2, 2020, accessed July 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Egger, Oswald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian lyric poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Tscherms , South Tyrol