Rudolf Kraus (writer)

Rudolf Kraus (writer)

Rudolf Kraus (born September 25, 1961 in Wiener Neustadt , Austria) is an Austrian writer , poet and librarian .

Life

Kraus grew up in Bad Fischau-Brunn ( Lower Austria ) and lives as a writer and librarian in Vienna . He writes poetry ("Sprachminiaturen", Haiku, Senryu), but also narrative and non-narrative prose , essays , literary criticism (reviews for "Book Show", among other things media) and specialist literature. Since 1983 he has published articles in magazines, newspapers, anthologies, radio and television.

Kraus is a member of the Podium literary group , the Graz Authors' Assembly (GAV), the Austrian Writers' Association , the Association of Austrian Dialect Authors and Archives (Ö.DA) and the European authors' association Die Kogge .

Awards

Recognition award at the Bern poetry award 2003 (Switzerland).

Kraus and Mehrzad Hamzelo received the 2011 translation award from the BMUKK for “Nine Gardens of Love”.

Working grant for literature 2013 (BMUKK) and 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 (BKA) .

Publications

prose

• The lycanthrope of memory . Prose miniatures, short stories and essays. Aachen, 1995. ISBN 3-89514-044-9
• HOAMAT STRANGE HOMELAND . Local stories and strange prose. Vienna, 2001. ISBN 3-85273-124-0
• Words don't know any feeling . Prose & language miniatures. Gosau: Arovell-Verlag , 2010. ISBN 978-3-90254-702-6

Poetry

• word picture . Texts by Rudolf L. Kraus. Pictures by Kurt Giovanni Schönthaler. Bad Fischau-Brunn, 1983. ISBN 3-900716-01-3
• i am my loyal killer . Language miniatures. Vienna, 1999. ISBN 3-85273-069-4
• the senses run wild . Scattered miniatures from 24 years. Vienna, 2000. ISBN 3-85273-084-8
• the satanic heel . New language miniatures, word images and three-line lines. Linz, 2003. ISBN 978-3-85285-108-2
• of strange heroes and other soul thieves . Compiled texts from the scattered beginnings 1975 - 1988. Vienna, 2004. ISBN 3-85273-167-4
• burn from the soul . New language miniatures. Ma. Enzersdorf, 2005. ISBN 978-3-902300-21-8
• I carry your scent in me . Love poems. Leobersdorf, 2007.
• a thousand steps beside me . Love poems and other lyrical miniatures. Maria Enzersdorf: Edition Roesner, 2008. ISBN 978-3-902300-41-6
• my haiku tastes good . Japanese miniatures. Mödling: Edition Roesner , 2011. ISBN 978-3-902300-59-1
• there is no end in sight , language miniatures. Vienna: Verlagshaus Hernals , 2013. ISBN 978-3-902744-80-7
• I could die a thousand deaths , language miniatures about [life] and [death]. Vienna: Verlagshaus Hernals, 2014. ISBN 978-3-902975-07-2
• waiting for beckett . language thumbnails. Vienna: Verlagshaus Hernals, 2016. ISBN 978-3-902975-37-9
• alpha [ge] bet. language thumbnails. Vienna: Verlagshaus Hernals, 2017. ISBN 978-3-902975-31-7
• louder, noisier . verse cabaret and nonsense miniatures. Vienna: Verlagshaus Hernals, 2019. ISBN 978-3-902975-72-0
• the last question of humanity . seventeenth silver. Vienna: Verlagshaus Hernals, 2020. ISBN 978-3-902975-73-7

Editing

• People and libraries . Cosmos of an institution; Interdisciplinary and contemplative from literature, science and art. Selected and ed. by Edith Waclavicek and Erich Schirhuber. With the participation of Heimo Gruber, Rudolf Kraus and Gunther Laher. Vienna: Edition Atelier, 2007. ISBN 978-3-902498-12-0
• Nine gardens of love . Contemporary Persian love poems. Edited by Mehrzad Hamzelo, Rudolf Kraus and Gorji Marzban. Translated from Persian by Mehrzad Hamzelo. German adaptation by Rudolf Kraus. Mödling: Edition Roesner, 2011. ISBN 978-3-902300-61-4

Literary criticism

• Literature-Vade me cum. A literary-critical foray through the Austrian literary landscape from the 1990s to the present day. Maria Enzersdorf 2006, ISBN 978-3-902300-31-7 .

Translated

• mind game - lojë mendimesh. Poems / Poëzi. German / Albanian. Translated into Albanian by Ferdinand Laholli. Shqipëroi: Laholli, 2014. ISBN 978-9928-117-18-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Austrian Library Association: Inventory controlling for public libraries

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Kraus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Meeting of Marcus Neuert to my haiku tastes good literature Wien
• Short biography at the Austrian Society for Literature.
• Rudolf Kraus on literary port
• Rudolf Kraus on Levure littéraire
• Homepage Rudolf Kraus