Richard Schuberth

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Richard Alexander Schuberth (born March 12, 1968 in Ybbs an der Donau , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian writer , social critic and satirist .

biography

Richard Schuberth grew up in Emmersdorf an der Donau , at the entrance to the Wachau . He studied ethnology and a combination of philosophy , psychology and history in Vienna and completed his studies with a diploma thesis on nationalism , ethnicity and culturalism (which he published as a book 20 years later under the title Before the peoples knew that they are what ) . In addition to his artistic activities, he worked as a music journalist , author of promotional texts for musicians of the AustrianWorld music and jazz scene , designer of radio features and DJ . In 2004 he founded the music festival Balkan Fever , of which he was artistic director until the festival was closed in spring 2012.

Artistic creation

Richard Schuberth worked as a cabaret artist between 1990 and 1992 . Since 1995 he has written articles, essays , reviews , poems , aphorisms and polemics as well as prose , scripts and dramas. He also works as a cartoonist and actor . He writes songs for his wife Jelena Popržan .

In 2006/07 he wrote a 30-part essay series on Karl Kraus for the Viennese street newspaper Augustin (for which he made cartoons under the pseudonym Tricky Dicky ) , which was published as a book in 2008 by Turia + Kant and in an expanded new edition in 2016 by Klever Verlag . His collected essays, polemics, articles and glosses are gathered in the two anthologies Rust and Acid (2014) and Unrest before the Storm (2017). Based on Ambrose Bierce 's dictionary of aphorisms, The Devil's Dictionary from 1911, Schuberth published The New Dictionary of the Devil .

The feminist philosophical picaresque chronicle of a cheerful conspiracy , published in 2015 in the Paul Zsolnay Verlag , came up with the shortlist of aspects Literature Award of the ZDF for the best German-language prose debut and was for the Austrian Literature Prize Alpha nominated. Joseph Wälzholz judged in the literary world : “There is probably no contemporary novel that is so timely and at the same time so timeless. With a joke that is second to none (and will hardly be to be found), Schuberth incorporates the most profound reflections here. […] Which book! Richard Schuberth has already written the novel of the year. "

Schuberth's first drama Friday in Sarajevo (completed in 1998 and premiered in Bosnia by the Ars Vivendi ensemble), which Peter Handke called a “beautiful, evil, clear piece”, marks the first literary expression of his longstanding interest in the history and culture of Southeast Europe. Four more socially critical comedies followed . How Branka dressed up celebrated its premiere in 2011 under the direction of Aslı Kışlal (daskunst) in the 3raum anatomy theater .

Richard Schuberth won the Carl Mayer Screenplay Award three times (2003, 2004 and 2009) at the Grazer Diagonale . Only one of his scripts was made into a film ( Aquanitis , director: Peter Mahlknecht), incidentally the only one that had not received an award before he made his debut as a director himself in 2015, with an abridged version of his script The wondrous adventures of Nasreddin Kürtler . The 17-minute short film premiered at the Schikaneder Kino in Vienna .

Schuberth's affinity for world music is little known. His first book publication was the 500-page music lexicon CrossRoots , a critical introduction to Irish, Scottish, English and Breton folk and roots music. Since childhood Schuberth studied ethnic music from Europe, Asia and America. In his work as a music journalist, director of the Balkan Fever festival , DJ, promoter of musicians and discourse critic, he has always been against culturalising and conservative readings of world music and advocated atypical approaches.

Karl-Markus Gauß wrote about him: “As an essayist, critic and polemicist, Schuberth consistently asserts himself against the intellectual conformism that has known opinions about things known. As if that weren't enough, he knows what he has to say, to formulate it sharply and elegantly. ”And Armin Sattler ( ORF.at ) sums up the cover of Schuberth's text collection Unrest before the Storm :“ One of the last to provide the evidence that language composition does not mean a diligent task, but loyalty to the cause and humanity. But one of the first to alloy commitment with frivolous ease and wit. The comparison with Karl Kraus limps if you don't add Oscar Wilde as a second leg. "

Publications (selection)

  • CrossRoots. Lexicon of Irish, Scottish, English and Breton World, Folk and Traditional Music . Lamuv Verlag, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-88977-701-5 .
  • Friday in Sarajevo . Drava Verlag, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2003, ISBN 3-85435-402-9 . (Drama)
  • Just wait for Captain Flint to come . Literature edition Lower Austria, St. Pölten 2007, ISBN 978-3-901117-88-6 . (Drama)
  • 30 incitements to rediscover Karl Kraus . Turia + Kant, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85132-531-7 . (Essays)
  • Balkans select. (Ed .: Doris Grießer), Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2009, ISBN 978-3-85129-824-6 . (Reader with three essays by Richard Schuberth)
  • How Branka cleaned herself up . Drava Verlag, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2012, ISBN 978-3-85435-684-4 . (Drama)
  • Drumming from the other bank of the great river. Drava Verlag, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2013, ISBN 978-3-85435-699-8 (Drama)
  • Rust and acid (3 vols.). Drava Verlag, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2013, ISBN 978-3-85435-718-6 (essays, polemics, satires)
  • The Devil's New Dictionary. Klever Verlag, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-902665-75-1 (aphorisms, essays)
  • Frontex - Nobody gets in here alive. Drava Verlag, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2014, ISBN 978-3-85435-744-5 (Drama)
  • Chronicle of a happy conspiracy. Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-552-05714-2 (novel)
  • Before the peoples knew they were. Promedia Verlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-85371-397-6 (non-fiction book, essays)
  • Karl Kraus - 30 and three incitements. Klever Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-903110-11-3 (essays)
  • Unrest before the storm (2 vols.). Drava Verlag, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2017, ISBN 978-3-85435-822-0 (essays, polemics, sermons)
  • Narcissism and Compliance. Self-love as an illusion and liberation. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95757-634-7 (essay)

Awards

  • 2003 First prize in the short story competition of the Lower Austrian Forum
  • 2003 Main prize of the Diagonale in the context of the Carl Mayer script competition for the film treatment "Not even on the moon"
  • 2003 Award of the arts section of the Federal Chancellery for the film treatment "The wondrous adventures of Kemal Kürtler"
  • 2004 Main prize of the Diagonale in the context of the Carl Mayer script competition for the film treatment " Handygeschichten "
  • 2005 Theodor-Körner-Fonds sponsorship award for "Just wait until Captain Flint comes"
  • 2005 drama scholarship from the Federal Chancellery
  • 2008 Hans Weigel grant from the state of Lower Austria
  • 2009 Diagonale's main prize in the Carl Mayer screenplay competition
  • 2011 scholarship from the anniversary fund of the Literar Mechana
  • 2012 State scholarship for literature
  • 2017 Lower Austrian Culture Prize - Recognition Prize in the Literature category

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://mediashop.at/buecher/bevor-die-voelker-wauten-dass-sie-welche-sind/
  2. ↑ http://www.balkanfever.at:80/de/ueber-uns ( Memento from June 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ https://www.jelenapoprzan.com/
  4. ↑ http://www.augustin.or.at/zeitung/artistin/mir-bleibt-auch-nichts-erspart.html
  5. ↑ http://derstandard.at/2000022211514/Richard-Schuberths-Romandebuet-fuer-aspekte-Literaturpreis-nominiert
  6. ↑ https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20150911_OTS0015/literaturpreis-alpha-2015-die-shortlist-haben-fest
  7. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.richard-schuberth.com
  8. ↑ http://www.megaphon.at/de/strassenmagazin/archiv/megaphon_2005/april/122/
  9. ↑ https://www.drava.at/buch/freitag-in-sarajevo/
  10. ↑ https://www.kulturwoche.at/buehne/2710-premierenkritik-wie-branka-sich-nach-oben-pracht
  11. ↑ https://derstandard.at/1255937/Carl-Mayer-Drehbuchpreis-fuer-Barbara-Grascher-und-Richard-Schuberth
  12. ↑ http://derstandard.at/1592076/Preisverleihung-shorts-on-screen-und-Carl-Mayer-Drehbuchwettbewerb
  13. ↑ http://static.kulturserver-graz.at/kultur/pdfs/carl_mayer/pressemitteilung_2009.pdf
  14. ↑ http://www.dapalmerfilm.com/databasesystem/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=13
  15. ↑ http://www.newgroundproductions.nl/inprogress/nasreddinkurtler/
  16. ↑ http://www.schikaneder.at/jart/prj3/schikaneder/main.jart?rel=de&reserve-mode=active&content-id=1217328196747&show_produktion=1440850915250
  17. ↑ Richard Schuberth: Cross Roots . Ludwig, 2002, ISBN 978-3-935-94300-0 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  18. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / richard-schuberth.com
  19. ^ Richard Schuberth: ways out of the Migrantenstadl. In: Unrest before the storm. Klagenfurt / Celovec 2017, pp. 87–96
  20. ↑ https://www.drava.at/buch/rost-und-saure-1%E2%80%933/
  21. ↑ Unrest before the storm (2 vols.). Drava Verlag, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2017, ISBN 978-3-85435-822-0
  22. ↑ Culture Prize Gala in the Festspielhaus St. Pölten . OTS notification dated November 4, 2017, accessed November 4, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Schuberth, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schuberth, Richard Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, playwright, cartoonist and proofreader
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Ybbs on the Danube , Austria