Rainer Nikowitz

Rainer Nikowitz at Buch Wien 18

Rainer Nikowitz (* 1964 in Tulln ) is an Austrian journalist and author .

Life

Rainer Nikowitz was born in Tulln in Lower Austria in 1964 . After graduating from high school in Gänserndorf and dropping out of law , journalism and political science studies , he got a job at the daily newspaper Kurier in the “Leben” editorial office . From there he switched to the courier's weekend magazine “Freizeit”. Nikowitz has worked as a freelance journalist since 1995, and from 1998 as a columnist specializing in political satire for the news magazine profil . Since 2005, he has been voted “Columnist of the Year” six times by the Austrian trade magazine Der Österreichische Journalist . Since 2002 he has published several books, including column collections and the crime novel Volksfest . His second novel, The Supper , was published in 2014 .

Hello Westi? . Deutike im Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 978-3-85223-467-0
Who if not he ?: New political satires . Hoanzl, Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-90062-500-9
There can only be one . Hoanzl, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-90062-569-6
A llama for mom: diary of a trip around the world . Ueberreuter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-80007-387-0
Nothing but the truth! . Czernin, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-70760-301-9
Folk festival . Rowohlt, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-49925-911-1
Supper . Rowohlt, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-49926-766-6
Altteil , Rowohlt, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-499-26834-2