Christoph Ransmayr

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Christoph Ransmayr at the Leipzig Book Fair , 2018

Christoph Ransmayr (born March 20, 1954 in Wels , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian writer .

Life

Ransmayr reading from a fearful man's atlas , 2013

Ransmayr grew up in Roitham am Traunfall as the son of an elementary school teacher. He attended the Benedictine high school in Lambach and studied philosophy and ethnology in Vienna from 1972 to 1978 . He then worked as a culture editor and author for various magazines such as the Extrablatt , Geo , Transatlantik and Merian . He has been a freelance writer since 1982. He lives alternately in Vienna and West Cork in the south-west of Ireland . He describes himself as a "semi-nomad" because of his many travels.

After the publication of the novel The Last World , Ransmayr undertook extensive trips to Asia and North and South America . In his works, too, he tells of his attitude to life as a tourist and counts ignorance, speechlessness, light luggage, curiosity or at least the willingness not just to judge the world, but to experience it, to the prerequisites of writing.

In his prose, Ransmayr combines historical facts with fictions. Further characteristic of his novels are the portrayal of border-crossing experiences as well as the literary treatment of historical events and their connection or break with moments from the present. The combination of exciting plots and demanding forms in his first two novels earned him a lot of praise, which resulted in a great deal of attention in literary studies and numerous literary prizes.

Ransmayr achieved great international success with his rewriting of Ovid's Metamorphoses , the novel The Last World (1988). The title of his novel Morbus Kitahara (1995) alludes to an eye disease of the same name, which leads to an increasing narrowing of the field of vision. It is a metaphor for a moral defect that afflicts the main characters, survivors of World War II, in a devastated no man's land.

In 1997, Ransmayr read the short story The Third Air or A Stage by the Sea , written for the occasion, as the opening speech of the Salzburg Festival .

His play Odysseus, criminal - drama of a homecoming was performed in Dortmund as part of the RUHR.2010 events.

In 2012 he held the Tübingen Poetics Lecturer at the University of Tübingen together with Raoul Schrott .

Awards

factories

The following audio books , read by the author, have been published so far: Atlas of a fearful man , The flying mountain , The last world , The horrors of ice and darkness and Cox or the passage of time .

literature

Web links

Commons : Christoph Ransmayr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Christoph Ransmayr and Raoul Schrott. On the way to Babylon. Game forms of storytelling University of Tübingen, Philosophical Faculty. Retrieved January 5, 2013.
  2. ^ Literature Prize of the City of Graz / Franz Nabl Prize. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
  3. wien.at/Rathauskorrespondenz: Christoph Ransmayr received a gold award
  4. ^ Fontane Prize for Austrian author Christoph Ransmayr. In: Der Standard from June 4, 2014, accessed July 7, 2014.
  5. Christoph Ransmayr receives Prix Jean Monnet 2015. In: Salzburger Nachrichten of July 10, 2015, accessed October 14, 2015.
  6. ^ French book prize for Christoph Ransmayr. orf.at, article from October 31, 2015, accessed October 31, 2015.
  7. Kleist Prize goes to Christoph Ransmayr. orf.at, article from February 14, 2018, accessed on February 14, 2018.
  8. Christoph Ransmayr in the race for the Man Booker Prize. orf.at, article from March 12, 2018, accessed on March 12, 2018.
  9. Bavarian Book of Honor Prize for Christoph Ransmayr. Donaukurier from October 4, 2018, accessed on October 4, 2018.
  10. See also: Nicolas Born Awards 2018 to Christoph Ransmayr and Lisa Kreißler. Edited by Alexander Košenina. Hanover 2019.
  11. ^ Börne Prize for Christoph Ransmayr. In: faz.net , February 12, 2020 (accessed February 12, 2020).