Philipp Hager
Philipp Hager (born July 25, 1982 in Scheibbs ) is an Austrian writer .
life and work
Hager grew up in Lunz am See , Lower Austria. In 2000 he graduated from Scheibbs' upper secondary school and moved to Vienna to study history and ethnology. After the demolition, he worked as a dog sitter, telephone operator , receptionist , referee , bouncer and proofreader, among other things . Between 2003 and 2007 he worked as a reporter and columnist for the German FightMagazine .
In his books, the author says, "who prefers the true, uncomfortable, uncompromising and loud (er) life to the pop ideal". Stories of life, "in a casual, boyish style that skilfully integrates colloquial expressions and formulations into an aesthetic total work of art".
His latest novel, Wolkenjagd, was published in March 2018.
He currently lives and works in Lower Austria.
Works
- The spectrum of the blade of grass (novel, 2008) ( ISBN 978-3-902547-56-9 )
- On the sandbag (poems, 2010) ( ISBN 978-3-902547-09-5 )
- With a laughing and a black eye (Poems, 2013) ( ISBN 978-3-902808-38-7 )
- Streuner unter Sternen (Poems, 2013) ( ISBN 978-3-990280-81-2 )
- In the belly of the steel whale (Roman, 2013) ( ISBN 978-3-902498-82-3 )
- Why does it smell like gasoline here and what is the match doing in your hand? (Episodes, 2014) ( ISBN 978-3-902498-88-5 )
- Handbook of Heart Surgery (Poems, 2015) ( ISBN 978-3-901960-94-9 )
- Love among protozoa (Roman, 2016) ( ISBN 978-3-992001-56-9 )
- Sextant Sonatas (Poems, 2017) ( ISBN 978-3-903125-15-5 )
- Wolkenjagd (Roman, 2018) ( ISBN 978-3-99200-205-4 )
- Los . Poems. Sisyphus, Klagenfurt 2019. ISBN 978-3-903125-38-4 .
reception
"In contrast to not a few Bachmann Prize candidates, Hager does not write calculated unconventional, chicly puzzled half-experiments, but goes literary as much as he probably stormed into martial arts encounters in his early twenties [...]." - Julia Schröder, SWR2 Worth reading magazine
Web links
- Literature by and about Philipp Hager in the catalog of the German National Library
- Review of "Handbuch der Herzoperation" on book culture
- Official homepage of the author
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://admin.mobil.noen.at/lokales/noe-uebersicht/erlauftal/kultur/Intensive-Erlebnisse-in-Gedichte-verpackt;art2545,449615 ( 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.
- ↑ http://www.kultur-online.net/?q=node/10842
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hager, Philipp |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Scheibbs |