Paulus Hochgatterer

Paulus Hochgatterer (2010)

Paulus Hochgatterer (born July 16, 1961 in Amstetten , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian child and youth psychiatrist and author . Since 2007 he has been Primarius of the Clinical Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Tulln University Hospital .

Life

Hochgatterer grew up in Amstetten and Blindenmarkt in the Lower Austrian Mostviertel . After taking his school leaving examination in 1979 , he studied medicine and psychology at the University of Vienna . 1985 doctorate he there as a doctor of medicine.

From 1992, he was a specialist in psychiatry and neurology for children and adolescents and held a position as senior physician at the Rosenhügel Neurological Hospital in Vienna. Later he headed the Institute for Educational Aid in Vienna-Floridsdorf.

Since 2007, Hochgatterer has headed the Clinical Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Tulln University Hospital as Primarius. From November 2017 to October 2018, Hochgatterer used a one-year sabbatical.

Hochgatterer is the author of narrative works that are based on the professional experience of the author as a psychiatrist and whose protagonists are often mentally ill and outsiders.

Hochgatterer is a member of the Austrian IG Authors Authors .

Awards

• 1991 Max von der Grün Prize
• 1994 Otto Stoessl Prize
• 1995 Hans Weigel scholarship
• 1995 Hard Literature Prize
• 1998 Austrian Promotion Prize for Literature
• 2000 Austrian State Prize for Children's and Youth Literature
• 2001 Elias Canetti Scholarship from the City of Vienna
• 2007 German Crime Prize (2nd place national) for the sweetness of life
• 2007 Best crime novel of 2006 (4th place) in the KrimiWelt best list for The Sweetness of Life
• 2009 European Union Prize for Literature
• 2010 Johann Beer Literature Prize from Deutsche Bank and the Medical Association for Upper Austria for Das Matratzenhaus
• 2010 Austrian Art Prize for Literature
• 2010 Prize of the Stuttgart Crime Nights

Works

prose

• Review points. Lower Austrian Press House, St. Pölten 1983, ISBN 3-85326-665-7 .
• The stay. Stories. Müller, Salzburg 1990, ISBN 3-7013-0795-4 .
• About surgery. Novel. Deuticke, Vienna / Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-216-30048-X ; 2nd edition, Zsolnay, Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-552-06003-6 .
• Nysten's rule. Deuticke, Vienna / Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-216-30137-0 .
• Wild Water. Narrative. Deuticke, Vienna / Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-216-30323-3 ; as paperback: dtv, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-423-20629-7 .
• Caretta Caretta. Novel. Deuticke, Vienna / Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-216-30484-1 ; as paperback: Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-499-22917-6 .
• About ravens. Novel. Deuticke, Wien / Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-216-30629-1 , as paperback: Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-499-23467-5 .
• A brief history of fly fishing. Narrative. Deuticke, Vienna / Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-216-30676-3 ; as paperback: dtv, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-21072-0 .
• The sweetness of life. Novel. Zsolnay, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-552-06027-8 ; as paperback: dtv, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-25310-9 .
• The mattress house. Novel. Zsolnay, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-552-06112-5 ; as paperback: dtv, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-423-21335-6 .
• Cats, bodies, war of buttons. A poetics of childhood, speeches, essays, lectures. Essays. Deuticke, Vienna / Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-552-06182-8 .
• The day my grandfather was a hero. Narrative. Deuticke in Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-552-06349-5 .
• Fly away, fly away. Novel. Deuticke in Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-552-06403-4 .

stage

• CASANOVA or Giacomo is on fire , Melk Summer Games 2008
• Paper waste , Schauspielhaus (Vienna) 2012
• Böhm , Schauspielhaus Graz 2018

Editing

• To dissolve the large institutions , documentation of inpatients in a psychiatric department in a general hospital, evaluation of inpatient data from the psychiatric department of the Vienna Kaiser Franz Joseph Hospital , 1987–1991. Facultas, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85076-373-0 .

literature

• Heidi Lexe: Passage and Passion. Transitional rituals in Paulus Hochgatterer's adolescent novel “Wildwasser” , in: Gunda Mairbäurl u. a. (Ed.): Childhood, childhood literature, children's literature: studies on the history of Austrian literature; Festschrift for Ernst Seibert . Vienna: Praesens, 2010 ISBN 978-3-7069-0644-9 , pp. 216–224

Web links

• Literature by and about Paulus Hochgatterer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Paulus Hochgatterer at perlentaucher.de
• “You can expect everything from the reader”: Paulus Hochgatterer , Interview by Christine Dobretsberger, Wiener Zeitung , 23 September 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Doris Simhofer: "Trust in the Child".  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Gesund + Leben in Niederösterreich. Edition 6/2007, accessed on July 15, 2012.  
2. ^ Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy , website of the Tulln State Hospital, accessed on July 15, 2012.
3. ^ Outpatient department for child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy. Retrieved December 30, 2017 . 
4. ^ Child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy. Retrieved October 3, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Two discussions on Über Raben ( memento of the original from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Franz Haas in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on June 5, 2002 and by Anton Thuswaldner in the Frankfurter Rundschau on February 12, 2003 at lyrikwelt.de 
6. ↑ Summer Games Melk Paulus Hochgatterer: commissioned work CASANOVA or Giacomo burns. 2008