Raoul Biltgen

Raoul Biltgen (2017)

Raoul Biltgen (born July 1, 1974 in Esch-sur-Alzette ) is a Luxembourg actor and writer.

Life

Raoul Biltgen completed an acting training at the Conservatory of the City of Vienna (now Music and Art Private University of the City of Vienna ). Then he was a member of the ensemble at the Bregenz State Theater for several years . Since his return to Vienna in 2002 he has been working as a freelance writer and theater maker and in 2008 he founded his own theater association Plaisiranstalt . He is the author of almost 50 plays ( Nachspiel , I will survive , Aloha !, Robinson - my island is mine, Hot Jobs and others, all at Thomas Sessler Verlag, Vienna), many short stories in various anthologies and several books. He has already been nominated three times for the Friedrich Glauser Prize in the "Short Crime" category (2014, 2017, 2020) and once in the "Best Detective Novel" category (2018). For his youth play Robinson - my island belongs to me , he is the winner of the Dutch-German Children's and Youth Dramatist Prize 2017, awarded on the occasion of the Kaas and Kappes Festival. His play The Free Fall was in the 2018 German-speaking EURODRAM shortlist. His play Wolf made it into the so-called play pool (shortlist) of the Dutch-German Children's and Youth Dramatist Award 2020. Raoul Biltgen has been writing a weekly love and sex column since 2010 under the title “Adam speaks - about everything that women don't ask and Men don't dare to say ”.

For some time now, Raoul Biltgen has also been a psychotherapist specializing in logotherapy & existential analysis and works for the men's counseling service in Vienna and the Sonnberg prison .

Works (selection)

Adam speaks - 69 insights into the love and sex life of men , Kyrene Literaturverlag, Vienna 2019. ISBN 978-3-902873-65-1

Men without work - insights into men BBE , Men's Advice Center Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-200-06564-2

Schmidt is dead , Roman, Verlag Wortreich, Vienna 2017. ISBN 978-3-903091-31-3

Century Summer , Roman , Verlag Wortreich, Vienna 2015. ISBN 978-3-9503991-5-8

And thanks for the apple: A Brief History of Humanity. Amalthea, Vienna 2013. ISBN 978-3-85002-860-8

one speaks: monologues. Op der Lay, Esch-sur-Sûre 2007. ISBN 978-2-87967-150-5

perfect murder: Roman. Molden, Vienna 2005. ISBN 3-85485-143-X

Way home: trilogies. Op der Lay, Esch-sur-Sûre 2000. ISBN 2-87967-078-0

Sometimes I pronounce them: poems. Op der Lay, Esch-sur-Sûre 1999. ISBN 2-87967-069-1

Web links

supporting documents

↑ Home. Retrieved May 5, 2020 .
↑ GLAUSER prizes - Das Syndikat - Association for the promotion of German-language crime literature. Retrieved May 5, 2020 .
↑ 2017 winners , accessed on December 22, 2018.
↑ author city nomad: Raoul Biltgen: FREE FALL. In: eurodram. September 28, 2018, accessed on April 2, 2019 (German).
↑ Prize winners 2020. Accessed on May 5, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Biltgen, Raoul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Luxembourg actor, writer, theater maker and psychotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 1, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH	Esch-sur-Alzette , Luxembourg

[1] Home. Retrieved May 5, 2020 .

[2] GLAUSER prizes - Das Syndikat - Association for the promotion of German-language crime literature. Retrieved May 5, 2020 .

[3] 2017 winners , accessed on December 22, 2018.

[4] uthor city nomad: Raoul Biltgen: FREE FALL. In: eurodram. September 28, 2018, accessed on April 2, 2019 (German).

[5] Prize winners 2020. Accessed on May 5, 2020 .