Robert Prosser (writer)

Robert Prosser (2019)

Robert Prosser (born December 9, 1983 in Alpbach , Tyrol ) is an Austrian author .

Life

Robert Prosser studied comparative literature and cultural and social anthropology at the universities of Innsbruck and Vienna from 2005 , graduating in 2012 with a master's degree with a thesis on poetry in action: literary performance using the example of Thomas Kling .

Prosser initially worked in the graffiti scene. From 2007 to 2015 he organized the Innsbruck reading stage Text ohne Reiter with Stefan Abermann, Martin Fritz and Markus Kozuh . He appears with performances, for example with Malus in 2013 at the Elevate Festival in Graz and in 2014 at the Beijing Fringe Festival and at the Haikou International Youth Experimental Art Festival in China, in 2016 with The great Sun, an unleashed horse at European Forum Alpbach and at the Center for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Tel Aviv and together with Fabian Faltin in 2017 at the Free Theater Innsbruck with Your Heart Be Stone . Together with Max Czollek , he was one of the co-founders of the “Babelsprech” or “Babelsprech.International” project to promote young poetry in 2013, and was an Austrian curator until the end of 2018.

In August 2017 he was nominated for the German Book Prize with “Phantome” , the novel made it onto the ORF best list in October and November 2017 . In 2018 he was invited to the Solothurn Literature Days and the New Literature Festival in New York City . For the Renaissance allegory Maximilian about Maximilian I (HRR) , premiered in January 2019 at the Tyrolean Festival Erl , Prosser wrote the lyrics to the music of Stefano Teani and Beomseok Yi. His novel Gemma Habibi , based in the boxer milieu, landed on the ORF best list in August 2019. The performance based on the novel counter attack was u. a. in the reactor, Vienna.

At the Salzburg Literature Festival, he followed in November 2019 together with Josef Kirchner co-founder Christa Gürtler as program director.

Awards (selection)

• 2009: 2nd prize at the Graz Academy of Literature Prize
• 2010: Floriana Literature Prize for excerpts from the novel Geister und Tattoos
• 2011: Residence grant at the Literaturhaus Prague
• 2012: Vienna writer's grant for ghosts and tattoos
• 2014: Reinhard Priessnitz Prize
• 2014: Cross-border commuter scholarship from the Robert Bosch Foundation
• 2016: Wartholz Literature Prize - Audience Prize and State of Lower Austria Literature Prize
• 2020: Writer-in-Residence of the One World Foundation in Sri Lanka

Publications (selection)

author

• 2009: Electricity: excessive prose , Klever-Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-902665-13-3
• 2011: Fireworks: Prosa , Klever-Verlag, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-902665-29-4
• 2013: Geister und Tattoos , Roman, Klever-Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-902665-65-2
• 2017: Phantome , Ullstein-Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-96101-009-7
• 2019: Gemma Habibi , Ullstein-Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-96101-014-1

editor

• 2015: Poetry from Jetzt 3: Babelsprech , together with Max Czollek and Michael Fehr , Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1739-0
• 2019: where were we? oh yes: Young Austrian poetry , together with Christoph Szalay, Limbus Verlag, Innsbruck 2019, ISBN 978-3-99039-133-4

literature

• Helmuth Schönauer : lightning and coma . Materials on contemporary Tyrolean literature 2000–2014. Kyrene, Innsbruck-Vienna 2014. ISBN 978-3-902873-52-1 . [Robert Prosser, pp. 394-396].

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Prosser - Authors' Lexicon - Literaturport.de . Retrieved August 15, 2017.
2. ^ Robert Prosser's curriculum vitae . Retrieved August 15, 2017.
3. ^ Poetry in action: the literary performance using the example of Thomas Kling . Diploma thesis 2012, University of Innsbruck.
4. ^ Forum Alpbach: Robert Prosser . Retrieved August 15, 2017.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Literaturhaus Wien: Robert Prosser . Retrieved August 1, 2017.
6. ^ Robert Prosser: Performances . Retrieved August 15, 2017.
7. ↑ Babelsprech: curators . Retrieved August 15, 2017.
8. ↑ orf.at: German Book Prize: Five Austrians on the longlist . Article dated August 15, 2017, accessed August 15, 2017.
9. ↑ orf.at: The best 10 in October 2017 . Retrieved September 27, 2017.
10. ^ Festival New Literature in New York: German Authors in the Big Apple . Article dated March 6, 2018, accessed March 7, 2018.
11. ↑ Literature Days announce participants . Article dated March 1, 2018, accessed March 2, 2018.
12. ^ Tyrolean Festival Erl: Maximilian: World premiere . Retrieved on January 12, 2019.
13. ↑ The best 10 in August 2019. August 1, 2019, accessed on August 1, 2019 . 
14. ↑ New program management at the Salzburg Literature Festival. In: literaturfest-salzburg.at. November 20, 2019, accessed November 26, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Lisa Gold: New program director at the Salzburg Literature Festival. November 25, 2019, accessed November 26, 2019 .