Christoph Ransmayr
Christoph Ransmayr (born March 20, 1954 in Wels , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian writer .
Life
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
- 1986: Literature Prize of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft
- 1986–1988: Elias Canetti Fellowship
- 1988: Anton Wildgans Prize
- 1992: Great Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
- 1995: Franz Kafka Prize
- 1995: Franz Nabl Prize
- 1996: Prix Aristeion (together with Salman Rushdie)
- 1997: Solothurn Literature Prize
- 1997: Premio Letterario Internazionale Mondello
- 1997: Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria
- 1998: Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize of the city of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
- 2001: Nestroy Theater Prize
- 2004: Bertolt Brecht Literature Prize of the City of Augsburg
- 2004: Austrian Prize for Literature
- 2007: Heinrich Böll Prize of the City of Cologne
- 2009: Gold Medal of Merit of the State of Vienna
- 2009: Premio Grinzane Cavour
- 2009: Premio ITAS del Libro di Montagna for The Flying Mountain
- 2010: Premio Gambrinus "Giuseppe Mazzotti"
- 2013: Donauland Non-Fiction Book Prize
- 2013: Ernst Toller Prize
- 2013: Brothers Grimm Prize from the city of Hanau for atlas of an anxious man
- 2014: Fontane Prize for Literature from the city of Neuruppin for atlas of an anxious man
- 2015: Prix Jean Monnet de Littérature Européenne for Atlas of a Scared Man
- 2015: Prix du Meilleur livre étranger for Atlas of a Fearful Man (French translation by Bernard Kreiss)
- 2017: Marieluise Fleißer Prize
- 2018: Würth Prize for European Literature
- 2018: Kleist Prize
- 2018: Longlist of the Man Booker International Prize with The Flying Mountain (English translation Simon Pare)
- 2018: Prize of the City of Vienna for Literature
- 2018: Bavarian Book Prize - Honorary Prize from the Bavarian Prime Minister
- 2018: Nicolas Born Prize .
- 2020: Ludwig Börne Prize
factories
- Radiant downfall (together with Willy Puchner ). Brandstätter , Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-85447-006-1 . New edition: S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-10-062923-X .
- The horrors of ice and darkness . Brandstätter, Vienna / Munich 1984, ISBN 3-85447-043-6 .
- The last world . Greno, Nördlingen 1988, Die Other Bibliothek series , ISBN 3-89190-244-1 .
- Przemyśl. A Central European lesson. 1994
- Kitahara disease . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-10-062908-6 .
- The way to Surabaya. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-10-062916-7 .
- The third air, or a stage by the sea. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-10-062920-5 . Speech at the opening of the Salzburg Festival 1997
- The invisible. Tirade on three beaches. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-062924-8 .
- The unborn, or Anselm Kiefer's heavenly areas. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-10-062925-6 .
- The giant's bow. About telling. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-062926-4 .
- Confessions of a tourist. An interrogation. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-10-062927-2 .
- The flying mountain. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-10-062936-4 .
- Women and men under water (together with Manfred Wakolbinger ). S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-062937-1 .
- Odysseus, criminal. Drama of a homecoming. In: RUHR.2010, Uwe B. Carstensen , Stefanie von Lieven (Ed.): Theater Theater. Odyssey Europe. Current pieces 20/10. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-18540-5 . Pp. 337-428. / Single edition: S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-10-062945-6 .
- The wolf hunter. Three Polish duets (together with Martin Pollack ). S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-062950-0 .
- Atlas of a Scared Man. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-062951-7 .
- Talk: Eleven speeches. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-062952-4 .
- Cox or the passage of time. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-10-082951-1 .
- Remedy for mortality. Three thank you stories. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2019, ISBN 978-3-10-397478-2 .
- The case master. A brief history of killing. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2021, ISBN 978-3-10-002288-2 .
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
- James P. Martin : The crisis of cultural knowledge in Michael Koehlmeier 's “Telemach”, Christoph Ransmayr's “ Morbus Kitahara ” and WG Sebald 's “The Rings of Saturn”. Washington 2004, OCLC 177275147 ( Dissertation Georgetown University Washington DC 2004, 227 pages, English ).
- Timo Rouget: Ransmayr, Christoph. In: Lexicon of science fiction literature since 1900. With a look at Eastern Europe. Edited by Christoph F. Lorenz. Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-63167-236-5 , pp. 465-470.
- Insa Wilke (Ed.): Report on the fire. Conversations, emails and phone calls about Christoph Ransmayr's work. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-062953-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Christoph Ransmayr in the catalog of the German National Library
- Christoph Ransmayr in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Short biography and reviews of works by Christoph Ransmayr at perlentaucher.de
- Christoph Ransmayr in the literature archive of the Austrian National Library
- Works by and about Christoph Ransmayr at Open Library
- Christoph Ransmayr's website
- Author website by Christoph Ransmayr ( S. Fischer Verlag )
- Günter Kaindlstorfer: "I have something rooted in me". In: Falter . September 27, 2006 (interview with Christoph Ransmayr).
- Audio recording: Christoph Ransmayr reads on Lesungen.net from atlas of an anxious man (2013)
- Entry on Christoph Ransmayr by Bernhard Fetz for the Upper Austrian literary history of the StifterHaus
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christoph Ransmayr and Raoul Schrott. On the way to Babylon. Game forms of storytelling University of Tübingen, Philosophical Faculty. Retrieved January 5, 2013.
- ^ Literature Prize of the City of Graz / Franz Nabl Prize. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
- ↑ wien.at/Rathauskorrespondenz: Christoph Ransmayr received a gold award
- ^ Fontane Prize for Austrian author Christoph Ransmayr. In: Der Standard from June 4, 2014, accessed July 7, 2014.
- ↑ Christoph Ransmayr receives Prix Jean Monnet 2015. In: Salzburger Nachrichten of July 10, 2015, accessed October 14, 2015.
- ^ French book prize for Christoph Ransmayr. orf.at, article from October 31, 2015, accessed October 31, 2015.
- ↑ Kleist Prize goes to Christoph Ransmayr. orf.at, article from February 14, 2018, accessed on February 14, 2018.
- ↑ Christoph Ransmayr in the race for the Man Booker Prize. orf.at, article from March 12, 2018, accessed on March 12, 2018.
- ↑ Bavarian Book of Honor Prize for Christoph Ransmayr. Donaukurier from October 4, 2018, accessed on October 4, 2018.
- ↑ See also: Nicolas Born Awards 2018 to Christoph Ransmayr and Lisa Kreißler. Edited by Alexander Košenina. Hanover 2019.
- ^ Börne Prize for Christoph Ransmayr. In: faz.net , February 12, 2020 (accessed February 12, 2020).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ransmayr, Christoph |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
BIRTH DATE | March 20, 1954 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wels (city) |