Peter Waterhouse

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Peter Waterhouse

Peter Waterhouse (born March 24, 1956 in Berlin ) is an Austrian writer .

Life

Peter Waterhouse is the son of a British officer and an Austrian. He grew up bilingual and attended the cathedral grammar school in Verden (Aller) (Lower Saxony), where his father worked for several years as a British liaison officer. After graduating from high school in Winsen (Luhe) in 1975 , he studied German and English at the University of Vienna and in 1981/82 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles . In 1982 he passed the master's examination , in 1984 he received his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Vienna with a thesis on utopia in the poetry of Paul Celan .

Peter Waterhouse writes poetry, essays, short stories, plays, non-fiction and novels; he also translates from English and Italian. His texts have been translated into English, Italian, Swedish, Hungarian, Norwegian and Danish. In 2000 he founded the Wolfenbütteler Translators Talks . Waterhouse is a member of the interest group of Austrian authors . He lives in Vienna .

Awards

Awarded the Nicolas Born Prize 2011 by the Lower Saxony Minister for Science and Culture Johanna Wanka in the Künstlerhaus Hannover

Waterhouse received the following awards, among others:

Works

  • On the way to "art-free". Diss., Vienna 1984
  • Menz. Graz 1984
  • Disobedience, delay, silence, anarchy. Graz 1985
  • Passim. Reinbek near Hamburg 1986
  • The Klarfeld poem. Berlin 1988
  • This other side of the world. Graz et al. 1989 (together with Margit Ulama)
  • Language, death, night, outside. Reinbek near Hamburg 1989
  • Pebble plan for the invisible university. Berlin 1990
  • Flowers. Vienna et al. 1993
  • Lost with no salvation. Salzburg et al. 1993
  • The Swiss correction. Basel 1995 (together with Durs Grünbein and Brigitte Oleschinski )
  • E 71. Salzburg et al. 1996
  • The lack of secrecy. Salzburg et al. 1996
  • In the Genesis grounds. Basel et al. 1998
  • Eulogies for the poetic sentence. Göttingen 1998 (together with Robert Gernhardt and Anne Duden )
  • Prospero's land. Salzburg et al. 2001
  • A piece is played surrounded by autumn silence. Weil am Rhein et al. 2003
  • The non-intuition. Vienna et al. 2005
  • (War and world) . Jung und Jung, Salzburg / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-902497-13-0
  • The honey seller in the palace garden and the Auditorium Maximum. Jung and Jung, Salzburg / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902497-83-3 .
  • The emigrants . Illustrations Nanne Meyer , starfruit publications, Fürth 2016, ISBN 978-3-922895-28-2 .
  • Equus. As Kleist is not called . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95757-640-8 .

World premieres

  • Loudspeaker, tramp. Literaturhaus Berlin, June 16, 1989
  • The other side of the world. Schauspielhaus Graz, January 18, 1991
  • Lost with no salvation. City Theater Vienna, June 27, 1992
  • A piece is played surrounded by autumn silence. Old fire station Cologne, April 15, 1997

Editing

  • Inger Christensen : A chemical poem in honor of the earth. Salzburg et al. 1997
  • Half things. Wolfenbüttel 2004 (together with Olaf Kutzmutz)

Translations

  • Michael Hamburger :
    • From a diary of non-events. Vienna et al. 2004
    • Tree poems. Vienna et al. 1997
    • The earth in its long slow dream. Vienna et al. 1994
    • In a cold season. Vienna et al. 2000
    • Death poems. Vienna et al. 1998
    • Dream poems. Vienna et al. 1996
    • The survival of the earth. Vienna et al. 1999
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins : Journal. Salzburg et al. 2009
  • Norman Lewis : Naples '44. Vienna et al. 1996

as well as works by Andrea Zanzotto , Biagio Marin, Allen Ginsberg

literature

Web links

Commons : Peter Waterhouse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual references, sources

  1. ↑ Winsen High School 1959-1989. 30 years high school diploma. Anniversary publication of the Gymnasium Winsen May 1989
  2. ^ BM Schmied: Author Peter Waterhouse receives Grand Austrian State Prize 2012
  3. ↑ Heimrad-Bäcker-Prizes awarded. June 12, 2018, accessed April 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Waterhouse, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin