Robert Schindel

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Robert Schindel at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2015

Robert Schindel (born April 4, 1944 in Bad Hall in Upper Austria ) is an Austrian poet , director and author .

Life

Robert Schindel, Vienna 2013.

Robert Schindel was born in Bad Hall in 1944 as a child of Jewish communists. He survived after the arrest of his parents, who had disguised themselves as Alsatian foreign workers in order to build a resistance group in Linz under the name of Robert Soel on behalf of the KPÖ in exile . He was housed in the Jewish children's hospital in Vienna's Tempelgasse (then Mohaplgasse). The Jewish welfare worker Franzi Löw and the Jewish nurse Mignon Langnas prevented his deportation to the concentration camps in Auschwitz and Theresienstadt . His father, René Hajek, was murdered on March 28, 1945 in the Dachau concentration camp , his mother, Gerty Schindel survived the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps and returned to Vienna in 1945, where she found her son.

1950 to 1954 he attended elementary school and then the Bundesrealgymnasium in Vienna. In 1959 Robert Schindel left high school, he was “dismissed because of poor leadership” and began an apprenticeship as a bookseller at Globus Verlag in Vienna, which he broke off. This was followed by trips to Paris and Sweden, where he made a living as a dishwasher.

According to his own statements, Schindel was an active member of the KPÖ between 1961 and 1967.

1967 brought on a shingle Maturaschule the Matura after, studied philosophy and two semesters of Law and engaged in Maoist circles. However, he described Café Hawelka as his real university, where he met HC Artmann and Oskar Werner, among others . He became one of the founders of the student movement “Kommune Wien”, based on the Berlin model, and the literary magazine “Hundsblume”, in which he also published his lyrical texts. Other artists who became famous later, such as Elfriede Jelinek and the twin couple Konstantin Kaiser and Leander Kaiser , also belonged to his circle . In 1970 Schindel published the novel Kassandra .

In 1986 Robert Schindel became a freelance writer. Before that, he had made a living with numerous jobs, including at the post office and railroad, as a librarian in the Vienna main library (1975–1980), night editor at Agence France-Presse (1981–1983) and as a group trainer for the unemployed (1983–1986). In addition, he also worked for film, television and radio.

The Shoah and his ambivalent relationship to Vienna, the city he also calls the “capital of forgetting”, and the anti-Semitism that still exists there, play a central role in his works . This topic took up more space in his work in the 1980s, in that decade Austria's unresolved Nazi past through the Waldheim affair penetrated the public consciousness.

In 1992 Robert Schindel published the novel Gebürtig , which he filmed together with Lukas Stepanik in 2001 due to its success . From 1998 to 2002 he was a member of the jury of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize , from 1999 as its chairman. Robert Schindel supports young writers and has held various writing workshops for young authors since 2003 .

In 2004 Schindel became co-editor of “ Landvergabe. Austrian library after 1945 . Forgotten, permanent, future. Formerly Austrokoffer ”, which was issued due to the Austrian anniversary year 2005 (50 years of the State Treaty , 60 years of the Republic, 10 years of joining the EU).

In 2006 he founded the literature festival Literatur im Nebel in Heidenreichstein together with Rudolf Scholten . Every year a world-famous writer is invited to the festival there. So far these have been Salman Rushdie (2006), Amos Oz (2007), Jorge Semprún (2008), Margaret Atwood (2009), Hans Magnus Enzensberger (2010), Nuruddin Farah (2011), Ljudmila Ulitzkaja (2012), Louis Begley (2013 ) and Ian McEwan (2014).

Robert Schindel is a member of the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg and the German Academy for Language and Poetry . He founded the first state literary institution in Austria to promote creative writing and has been teaching there as a university lecturer at the Institute for Linguistic Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna since 2009 .

Works

Robert Schindel in conversation with Clarissa Stadler about the novel "Der Kalte" ( o-töne 2013)

theatre

Prizes, awards

literature

  • Martin A. Hainz : "Death fugue - death organ". To Paul Celan and Robert Schindel. In: Journal for German Philology . 124 (2005), pp. 227-242.
  • Béatrice Gonzalés-Vangell: Kaddisch et Renaissance. La Shoah dans les romans viennois (1991-2001) by Robert Schindel, Robert Menasse and Doron Rabinovici. Septentrion, Valenciennes 2005, ISBN 2-85939-900-3 .
  • Matthias Beilein: 86 and the consequences. Robert Schindel, Robert Menasse and Doron Rabinovici in the literary field of Austria. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-503-09855-2 .
  • Iris Hermann: At table with Robert Schindel in Vienna. Beef and dumplings, red wine and mocha. In: Claudia Lillge, Anne-Rose Meyer (Ed.): Intercultural meals. Culinary encounters and communication in literature. Transcript, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-881-0 , pp. 105-123.
  • Iris Hermann: I want to be a swimming scribe. About the "word addiction" in Robert Schindel's book of poems "Wundwurzel". In: Journal for German Philology. Volume 127 (2008), pp. 269-284.
  • Iris Hermann, Meinolf Schumacher : There I am and that's it. “Strichpunktexistent” and “Whispering”: Robert Schindel's poem “Amfortas” (2007). In: Sprachkunst. Volume 39/1 (2008), pp. 59-75 ( PDF ).
  • Andrea Kunne: “Disappear. Between the words ". Language as a home in Robert Schindel's work. Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2009, ISBN 978-3-7065-4695-9 .
  • Iris Hermann (Ed.): To be a ferryman. Robert Schindel's Poetics of Translation. Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1062-9 .

Web links

Commons : Robert Schindel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Schindel: Biogram
  2. ^ Robert Schindel: Biogram
  3. ↑ Robert Schindel: Biogram  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.schindel.at  
  4. ↑ Literally - Robert Schindel at the Cultural Broadcasting Archive, October 19, 2015.
  5. ^ Institute for Linguistic Art, University of Applied Arts Vienna
  6. ↑ Unter Wölfen in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung of March 17, 2013, p. 43.
  7. ↑ Review by Michaela Schmitz about the scarlet snake on Deutschlandfunk on December 8, 2015. Complete interview.
  8. ^ Entry on Schindel, Robert in the DAAD's Berlin artist program.
  9. ^ Robert Schindel received an award from the City of Vienna Rathauskorrespondenz dated October 12, 2005 (accessed on June 11, 2010)
  10. ↑ Hauptverband des Österreichischen Buchhandels, press release from November 26, 2013 ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 / www.buecher.at
  11. ↑ Heinrich Mann Prize to Austrian author Robert Schindel On: Berlin.de, online, accessed on March 27, 2014  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.berlin.de  
personal data
SURNAME Schindel, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, poet and director
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Hall