Sabine M. Gruber

This article deals with the Austrian writer; for the Italian writer see Sabine Gruber .

Sabine M. Gruber (born February 9, 1960 in Linz ) is an Austrian writer and music journalist .

Life

Sabine M. Gruber studied French and Russian at the University of Vienna . She also studied harpsichord at the Vienna University of Music and completed a vocal training course . From 1980 to July 2012 she was a member of the Arnold Schoenberg Choir . Gruber first worked as a literary translator and from 1988 to 1993 as a copywriter . Today she lives as a freelance writer and music journalist in Klosterneuburg near Vienna.

Sabine M. Gruber's debut novel The Butterfly Catcher was published in 1999. The novel describes the problem of the possessive love of a young man ( pianist and accompanist ) for his underage piano student; The author uses Die Schöne Müllerin by Franz Schubert in the form of a recital in New York's Carnegie Hall as a musical framework . In 2002 Sabine M. Gruber published the music book Impossibilities are the most beautiful possibilities. Nikolaus Harnoncourt's world of language images . Quotations from rehearsals are also contained in Gruber's 2009 music book Mit one Fuß in der Frühlingwiese about Joseph Haydn's oratorio The Seasons . In 2003, Michaels Verführung followed , a novel that exposes the inner mechanisms of the advertising world. It is not the consumers who are seduced here, but the advertisers themselves.

After the concept story volume Kurzparkzone (2010), the novel Relationship Journey was published in 2012 . It is a reverse and mirror novel. Gruber tells a failed relationship exclusively in travel and achronologically, from the violent end to the beginning. The chapters can, however, be read in reverse order if the tension is similar.

The author also writes music essays for magazines, concert and opera programs and CD booklets.

Works

• The butterfly catcher. Novel. Oerindur Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-9500580-3-6 .
• Impossibilities are the most beautiful possibilities. The world of language images of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, music non-fiction book. 2002, ISBN 3-7017-1345-6 .
• Michael's seduction, novel. 2003, ISBN 3-901117-63-6 .
• With one foot in the spring meadow. A walk through Haydn's “Seasons”. Music non-fiction. 2009, ISBN 3-7017-1517-3 .
• Short-stay parking zone, stories. 2010, ISBN 978-3-85452-666-7 .
• Relationship journey, novel. 2012, ISBN 978-3-85452-685-8 .
• Choir rehearsal, novel. 2014, ISBN 978-3-71172-013-9 .
• 111 places of music in Vienna that you have to experience . Emons 2018, ISBN 978-3-7408-0348-3 .
• 111 places in the Vienna Woods that you have to see . Emons 2020, ISBN 978-3-7408-0844-0

Memberships

• PEN Club Austria
• Literature circle podium
• IG authors authors
• Austrian Writers' Association
• Austrian Franz Kafka Society

Appreciation

• 2002: Acknowledgment Prize for Literature from the Province of Lower Austria
• 2013/2014: Jubilee fund grant from the Literar Mechana
• 2016: Work grant from the Federal Chancellery (Art & Culture)

Web links

• Literature by and about Sabine M. Gruber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official homepage of Sabine M. Gruber
• Short biography