Peter Gruber (writer)

Peter Gruber (* 1955 in Rottenmann , Styria ) is an Austrian writer .

Life

Gruber grew up on his parents' mountain farm in Kunagrünberg near Aich in the upper Ennstal . He completed his training as a marketing specialist and worked as such until the mid-1990s. In addition, the first literary works were created (poetry, natural features, sagas, fairy tales, essays, contributions to anthologies and photo books and literary magazines, theater projects with amateur theater ensembles).

Gruber has lived as a shepherd on an alpine pasture in the Dachstein Mountains since 1996 , where he is writing his novels , which mainly deal with his home environment and are mainly devoted to the history of the Dachstein Mountains. Gruber has lived as a freelance writer and occasional copywriter in Vienna since 2005. Since 2013 several cultural dialogue trips in the countries of the Orient at the invitation of the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs.

Works

• The Gamshuber (outdoor poaching game). Theater project with amateur theater ensemble, Pruggern, 1992
• Thanksgiving (peasant game). Theater project with amateur theater ensemble, Pruggern, 1992
• Notgasse. Roman, 1998, ISBN 3-85252-196-3 .
• Shadow cross. Roman, 2001, ISBN 3-85252-402-4 .
• Text in the documentation "drama [aal] pine arch lab". The center of Radstadt, 2003
• The Heilbronn Dachstein accident in 1954. Documentation by the Heilbronn City Archives , 2004 (co-author)
• Death on stone. Roman, 2006, ISBN 3-85252-729-5 .
• Summer snow. Portrait of an alpine life, with photographs by Kurt Hörbst, 2008, ISBN 978-3-85252-963-9 .
• The Prukkarer (open-air Advent game). Theater project with amateur play ensemble, Pruggern, 2009
• Text contribution in the catalog for the exhibition "Der Schaffende Mensch". Trautenfels Castle / Universalmuseum Joanneum, 2010
• On Christmas night the animals talk in the stable. Advent / Christmas book, 2011
• Remake of the novel "Notgasse". 2012, ISBN 978-3-200-02667-4
• The diary of Kenneth Thomas Cichowicz. Novel, 2014, ISBN 978-3-200-03636-9
• Text in the Styria book "Each vote counts". Editor Franz Steinmann, Gleisdorf, 2015 (co-author) ISBN 978-3-200-04032-8
• The Gamshuber - Legends / Truths / Myth. The book for the game, 2016
• Text in the documentation "Heilbronner Wissenspause 2016". Heilbronn City Archives, 2017
• My four trips to the Orient - Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran. Travel memories, 2018
• Tornado - a trace of today. Memory of the "Tornado of Wiener Neustadt on July 10, 1916", 2018 (co-author)
• Do not be afraid (Holzknechtspiel). Theater project with amateur play ensemble, Ennstaler Advent Gröbming, 2018
• Lashed and rust-leaved. Reader, 2019, ISBN 978-3-200-06477-5

as well as numerous poems, fairy tales, legends, text contributions for specialist conferences, symposia and specialist journals.

Web links

• http://www.peter-gruber.com/
• http://www.weltbildung.com/notgasse-dachstein.htm
• Literature by and about Peter Gruber in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Gruber. Entry in bibliothekderprovinz.at.