Robert Klement

Robert Klement (born January 10, 1949 in St. Pölten ) is an Austrian writer .

Robert Klement was a secondary school teacher for German, history and lecturer for reading education. He lives as a freelance writer in St. Pölten.

He started with reports for newspapers and magazines ("Profil"). After a leaflet campaign for the charter founder and later President Václav Havel , he was imprisoned in Prague in 1989.

Klement writes socially critical books for young people that are also noticed by adults. In his first novel “Through the River” in 1986, he denounced human rights violations in what was then the ČSSR and pointed to the imminent end of the “ Iron Curtain ”. In Brazil he mingles with street children who are threatened by death squads ("The Panthers of Rio").

His novels about the attack on the Roma in Oberwart, about the boat refugees from Africa (“70 miles to paradise”) and about young people who are seduced to terrorize the “ Islamic State ” (“Crescent moon over Raqqa ”) also attracted particular attention .

He also writes radio plays and plays.

Works

• Three on the wire . 1986
• By the river . 1987
• Help! TV vampires . 1987
• Time stream of an epoch . 1989
• In one fell swoop . 1989
• The children of Leninakan . 1990
• Literature worksheets . 1992
• The panthers of Rio . 1994
• You don't kiss video sharks . 1996
• Save the Titanic . 1998
• 7 days in February . 1998
• Adventure journey history . 2001
• Reading booklet Lower Austria . 2001
• A castle in Scotland . 2002
• The trail of the snow leopard . 2003
• The revenge of the video monsters . 2006
• 70 miles to paradise . 2006
• The death reef . 2008
• The ruin of horror . 2009
• Wait till night falls . 2013
• Alice - voice from the fire . 2014
• Kidnapped - Alone with Fear . 2015
• Crescent moon over Raqqa - seduction jihad . 2016
• Voice in the dark . 2018
• Without a trace - the gloomy valley . 2020

Plays

• Help! Computer St. Pölten 1996
• 70 miles to paradise - longing for Lampedusa Vienna 2013

Awards

• 1991: Jakob Prandtauer Prize for Science and Art from the City of St. Pölten
• 1991: Austrian magazine award
• 2007: Recognition diploma at the Children's Book Prize of the City of Vienna
• 2007: Austrian State Prize for Children's and Young People's Literature
• 2008: Shortlist for the youth literature award

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Klement in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage Robert Klement