Reinhard Kleindl

Reinhard Kleindl (* 1980 in Graz ) is an Austrian author and athlete.

Life

Reinhard Kleindl was born in Graz and studied theoretical physics at the Karl Franzens University . The first literary publications were made during school and university studies. In 2004 he completed his studies with a diploma.

He then worked as a sports climbing trainer at the City Adventure Center Graz and began writing as a freelance journalist on science topics in 2006. At around the same time he came into contact with the trend sport slackline . This was followed by intensive occupation with all variants of slacklining. In 2009 he took part in his first international competition, the Natural Games Millau , and took second place. This was followed by a second and a third place in the overall ranking of the Austrian Slackline Open (2011, 2012). Between 2004 and 2012 Kleindl published short stories from the fields of science fiction and fantasy in various magazines, one of them in Polish.

Kleindl's highline inspections on the Three Peaks , together with Armin Holzer, attracted international attention , with the two of them spanning and committing a highline on each pinnacle near the summit. During this time, Kleindl was under contract with Adidas Outdoor and earned his living by slacklining. In 2013 Kleindl realized a highline on the 4000 m high Mt. Kinabalu on Borneo .

In 2014, Kleindl published his first crime novel “Geanned” with Haymon Verlag . In autumn 2014 Kleindl and Lukas Irmler from Freising succeeded in crossing the Victoria Falls for the first time on a slackline. In 2015 his second crime novel "Baumgartner und die Brandstifter" was published. In the same year Kleindl started an alpine highline between the dirndls on the Dachstein together with the Viennese slackliner Igor Scotland . In 2016, Kleindl's third detective novel "Baumgartner can not forget" was published.

In October 2017, Kleindl started freediving , which he is now doing competitively.

On March 13, 2020, Kleindl received the Fine Crime Award endowed with 5,000 euros as part of the Fine Crime Festival in Graz - for a new case by investigator Anja Grabner.

Novels

• Drawn. Haymon, Innsbruck 2014, ISBN 978-3-85218-957-4 .
• Baumgartner and the arsonists. Haymon, Innsbruck 2015, ISBN 978-3-7099-7823-8 .
• Baumgartner cannot forget. Haymon, Innsbruck 2016, ISBN 978-3-7099-7852-8 .
• Stone. Goldmann, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-442-48798-1 .
• The gorge. Goldmann, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-442-48940-4 .

Sporting successes

• Highlines on the Three Peaks
• Highline on Tower 185 in Frankfurt
• Highline at Mt. Kinabalu in Borneo
• Highline over Victoria Falls
• Highline on the " Dirndln " on the Dachstein

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ I'm a suspense writer with an unusual lifestyle. Reinhard Kleindl's website. Accessed May 31, 2018.
2. ^ My Students. Graduates from Christian Lang at the University of Graz. Accessed May 31, 2018.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Profi-Slackliner Kleindl. Balancing act on the tape. Spiegel Online . September 20, 2012, accessed May 31, 2018.
4. ↑ Winner of the Austrian Slackline Open 2012 in Vienna. slackliner-berlin.de. May 29, 2012, accessed May 31, 2018.
5. ^ The magazine Nova Science Fiction. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
6. ↑ All editions of Exodus - Science Fiction Stories & fantastic graphics. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
7. ↑ fantastic! Vintage 2004 fantastic! - News from other worlds. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
8. ↑ Jacek Rzeszotnik: Polish science-fiction publications German authors. The science fiction homepage of Ivo Gross. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
9. ↑ ^{a b} Reinhard Kleindl: On the highest highlines in the world: Slackline experience report from Malaysia. Men's Health . May 1, 2014, accessed May 31, 2018.
10. ↑ Drawn at Haymon Verlag . Accessed May 31, 2018.
11. ↑ ^{a b} High wire artists take Zimbabwe's Victoria Falls in their stride. BBC News . November 10, 2014, accessed May 31, 2018.
12. ^ Baumgartner and the arsonists at Haymon Verlag . Accessed May 31, 2018.
13. ↑ ^{a b} Daring slackliners on the Dachstein.  ( 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. ORF Styria . July 12, 2015, accessed May 31, 2018.  
14. ↑ Baumgartner cannot forget at Haymon Verlag . Accessed May 31, 2018.
15. ↑ Robert Preis: The highliner goes underground. Little newspaper . May 22, 2018, accessed May 31, 2018.
16. ↑ Graz Fine Crime Award went to Reinhard Kleindl orf.at, March 14, 2020, accessed March 14, 2020.
17. ↑ Elena Müller: Skyscraper Festival Slackliner Kleindl. "I'm a little afraid of heights". Frankfurter Rundschau . May 27, 2013, accessed May 31, 2018.