Peter Rosei

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Peter Rosei (2009)

Peter Rosei (born June 17, 1946 in Vienna ) is an Austrian novelist and essayist .

Life

Peter Rosei is the son of a railroad clerk and a shopkeeper. He grew up in Vienna , where he attended grammar school and passed his matriculation examination with distinction. Then studied it at the University of Vienna Jus . 1968 doctorate he there for the Doctor of Law. From 1969 to 1971 he was secretary and manager of the Viennese painter Ernst Fuchs . After that he headed a school book publisher for a short time. Since 1972 he has lived as a freelance writer in Vienna, from 1975 to 1981 in Bergheim near Salzburg , then back in Vienna. His close friendship with HC Artmann dates from the Salzburg period and lasted until his death. Further included Gerhard Amanshauser and Helmut Eisendle to Salzburg friends. Rosei undertook and continues to travel extensively, yes, he is considered the traveler par excellence. Among other things, he was Writer in Residence at American universities, taught in Japan, most recently at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at the University of Vienna. He is married and has a son. He lived in Italy with his wife Christiana and translated from Italian. The sculptor Franz Rosei is a brother of Peter Roseis.

Peter Rosei has created one of the most extensive works in recent German language literature. In addition to Bernhard , Handke and Jelinek , his work is quite representative of the literature of the time. Rosei made his literary debut in 1972 with the volume of stories Landstriche , his first great success in 1977 with the novel Wer war Edgar Allan? In the seventies, with authors such as Barbara Frischmuth , Alois Brandstetter , Franz Innerhofer , Gernot Wolfgruber and Gert Jonke, he was part of a kind of “ residence culture”, in a sense the Austrian counterpart to the German “ Suhrkamp culture”. From 1990 to 2005 his major prose projects were published by the renowned Stuttgart publisher Klett-Cotta . The publisher also presented a multi-volume edition of the early work. Rosei later returned to Residenz Verlag. In addition, Rosei wrote poems, numerous radio plays and film scripts, including the film Wer war Edgar Allan? , directed by Michael Haneke . Although it clearly shows stylistic and motivic continuity, clear breaks structure Peter Rosei's work. While a sober, protocol-like tone dominated in the early publications, which portrayed society and nature with radical pessimism - the draft for a world without people (1975) should be mentioned as an example - it later gave way to a more melancholy or sarcastic approach. At the same time, the books were designed to provide greater scope for action. What was new about the later approach was in particular the attempt to create a totality of social reality through multi-perspective narration. “In the work of art written in this way, the narrator steps back, creating free space for the reader to judge.” Rosei's later books are often organized in cycles, such as the 15,000-souls project from the 1980s or, most recently, the Vienna files , starting with the Roman Vienna Metropolis (2005). In it Rosei tries to exemplify the Austrian sensitivities in a globalized world. Rosei has concretized his philosophy as an artist in numerous essays. Above all, here are his contributions to a poetry of the future (1995) and Brown vs. Calder: Thoughts on Poetry (2015). In addition, as a committed contemporary, he has repeatedly commented on the social, political and economic conditions in Austria and the world.

Peter Rosei was a member of the Graz Authors' Assembly from 1973 to 1978 until he left .

Awards

Works

Peter Rosei reads from The Great Killing (2009)
  • Landstriche , Salzburg 1972
  • In pending proceedings , Salzburg 1973
  • Weg , Salzburg 1974
  • Design for a world without people. Draft for a journey without a destination , Salzburg 1975
  • Klotz speaks to his lawyer , Munich 1975
  • The flow of thoughts through the head , Salzburg 1976
  • Who was Edgar Allan? , Salzburg 1977 (made into a film by Michael Haneke in 1984 , with Paulus Manker and Rolf Hoppe )
  • Call me Tommy , Munich 1978
  • From here to there , Salzburg / Vienna 1978
  • Albums , Erlangen 1979
  • Chronicle of attempts to become a storyteller , Weinheim 1979
  • Inner courtyard , St. Pölten 1979 (together with Johann Kräftner)
  • The boy's smile , Salzburg / Vienna 1979
  • Rainy day theory , Salzburg / Vienna 1979
  • The quick luck , Salzburg / Vienna 1980
  • Early prose , Salzburg / Vienna 1981
  • The Milky Way , Salzburg / Vienna 1981
  • Days of the King , Frankfurt am Main 1982
  • Attempt to criticize nature , Salzburg / Vienna 1982
  • Endless journey , Frankfurt am Main 1983
  • Comedy , Salzburg / Vienna 1984
  • Lands, ways, scattered , Reinbek near Hamburg 1984
  • Husband & Wife , Salzburg / Vienna 1984
  • Franz and I , Stuttgart 1985
  • 15,000 souls , Salzburg / Vienna 1985
  • The clouds , Salzburg / Vienna 1986
  • The uprising , Salzburg / Vienna 1987
  • Our landscape report , Salzburg / Vienna 1988
  • The innocent , Frankfurt am Main 1990
  • Rebus , Stuttgart 1990
  • From the recording books , Stuttgart 1991
  • The man who wanted to die with a story from the past , Stuttgart 1991
  • Days of the King , world premiere, director: Martin Kušej , Schauspielhaus Graz
  • Flying arrows , Stuttgart 1993
  • Contributions to a Poetry in the Future , Graz 1995
  • Persona , Stuttgart 1995
  • Short rainy day , Vienna / Bozen 1997
  • Enchantment , Frankfurt am Main 1997
  • Naturally entangled , Vienna 1998
  • Much earlier , Graz 1998
  • Love & Death , Vienna 2000
  • St. Petersburg, Paris, Tokyo ... , Vienna 2000
  • Album of the sad and radiant journey , Graz 2002
  • Love / art / nature , world premiere as part of the Danube Festival , direction and equipment: Eva Hosemann - Stephan Bruckmeier
  • Dramatic I , Vienna 2002
  • Dramatic II , Vienna 2004
  • Vienna Metropolis , Stuttgart 2005
  • The so-called immortality , Vienna 2006
  • Austria's greatness, Austria's pride. Theater of ideas, Vienna 2008
  • The great killing , St. Pölten / Salzburg, 2009
  • Money! , St. Pölten / Salzburg, 2011
  • Madame Stern , St. Pölten / Salzburg / Vienna 2013
  • The Globalists , St. Pölten / Salzburg / Vienna 2014
  • What to do? , Vienna 2016
  • Vienna files , Salzburg / Vienna 2016
  • Karst: Roman , Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7017-1690-6
  • The big road: travel records , Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7017-1717-0

Editing

Translations

Literature / selection

  • Wilhelm Schwarz (Ed.): Talks in Canada , Frankfurt am Main 1992
  • Gerhard Fuchs, Günther A. Höfler (Eds.): "Dossier Peter Rosei", Graz 1994
  • Walter Vogl (Ed.): "Basic Rosei", Vienna 2000
  • Clemens K. Stepina (Ed.): Advanced Rosei , Vienna 2011

archive

The majority of Peter Roseis manuscripts, letters and other materials located since 2010 as a premature legacy in the manuscript collection of the Vienna City Library . Smaller bundles are kept in the literature archive of the Austrian National Library and in other collections.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Rosei, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna