Peter Wagner (Author)

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Peter Wagner (born June 7, 1956 in Wolfau ) is an Austrian writer and director . Many of his works have been translated into several languages.

life and work

Peter Wagner was born in Wolfau in southern Burgenland. For the first few years of his life he lived in the bilingual community of Unterwart , so for Peter Wagner there was not only German but also Hungarian as his mother tongue. In 1962 the family moved to Oberwart . Even during his school days, he was fascinated by the close border with Hungary . He often stood at the so-called Iron Curtain to look over into the neighboring state of Hungary. He attended Oberschützen grammar school and briefly studied theater and German. At the age of eighteen he made the writer Jan Rys his teacher, who taught him to write radio plays. At the age of nineteen he was the youngest recipient of the Austrian State Scholarship for Literature.

First he wrote radio plays and stories . Then he began to work with jazz and rock musicians and although Wagner had no special training in composition, he also began to compose. Works such as B. 1981 the "chainsaw symphony". He soon developed into an enfant terrible of the Burgenland art scene. For example, in 1981, in a commemorative publication published by the Burgenland state government, Peter Wagner's " rewording of the Burgenland state anthem, understood as a corruption " was published, which led to public excitement and some advertisements.

Later he wrote and directed plays and devoted himself to his own film production . His first play "Die Mühle" was created in 1988 and is set in southern Burgenland. Peter Wagner describes his stage philosophy with “Theater am Ort”. His homeland regularly plays an important role in his work. It includes around thirty plays, twelve radio plays, six books, three LPs and five CDs . The fate of the Burgenland Roma plays a special role in Wagner's work . He even referred to the Oberwart Holocaust survivor Rome Stefan Horvath, to whom he dedicated his first full-length radio play "Purdy Pista says, the cymbal is dead" in 1974 , as his artistic forefather. Two decades later he portrayed Rome, born in 1949, and writer Stefan Horvath in the film "Stefan Horvath, Zigeuner aus Oberwart" (2004). In 2005 he shot the Roma "Video Comedy" "Charlie & Pepi-Show" in Romani with German subtitles.

In 1989, Peter Wagner was one of the founders of the OHO ( Open House Oberwart ) event center . He continues to work closely with the OHO, of which Peter Wagner was the chairman for a long time.

Awards and honors

Works (excerpts)

  • Die Mühle , 1988, play premiered at the Schauspielhaus Kiel
  • Lafnitz, one piece. O piesa , stage play premiered at the Ensemble Theater Vienna on April 4, 1990, publisher: edition lex liszt 12, Oberwart 1992, ISBN 978-3-9500185-0-9
  • Oberwart. Mon amour , play for the stage
  • Once we're angels , stage piece, publisher: edition lex liszt 12, Oberwart 2002, ISBN 978-3-901757-25-9
  • Requiem. The secretive. An experiment on resistance. , Book with radio play CD, publisher: edition lex liszt 12, Oberwart 2003, ISBN 3-901757-27-9
  • The black empress: I Kali Tschasarkija. Roma fairy tale. , Roman (audio CD), publisher: edition lex liszt 12, Oberwart 1998, ISBN 978-3-901757-06-8
  • The fairy tale of music 2006: Calendar 2006 , calendar, publisher: edition lex liszt 12, Oberwart 2005, ISBN 978-3-901757-45-7
  • Tetralogy of nudity , 4 pieces, publisher: edition lex liszt 12, Oberwart 1995, ISBN 978-3-9500185-9-2
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  • Gott Kabel the chair and the clarity , stage play premiered at the Theater des Moment Vienna on November 26, 1993
  • Die Nackten , stage play premiered at Theater mbH Vienna on February 11, 1995,
  • March. The 24th , stage play premiered in the Theater am Ort Oberwart on March 24, 1995
  • Monologue with a shadow , stage piece with music by Wolfgang R. Kubizek premiered in the Theater am Ort Oberwart in spring 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Wagner in the online edition of the BVZ ( Memento from April 22, 2007 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ Burgenland national anthem ( memento of the original from October 16, 2007 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. (based on Ernst J. Görlich. Music: Peter Zauner ) on Peter Wagner's homepage, accessed on March 26, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.peterwagner.at
  3. ↑ Peter Wagner puts OHO functions back on burgenland.orf.at, accessed on July 14, 2015
  4. ^ Burgenland Foundation - Theodor Kery, award winner accessed on April 1, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and director
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfau