Stefan Slupetzky

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Stefan Slupetzky (* 1962 in Vienna ) is an Austrian writer , crime novelist , children's book author , illustrator and musician.

Life

Stefan Slupetzky studied from 1981 to 1990 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. At the same time he was also active as a saxophonist in various jazz bands and as an actor . After completing his studies , he taught art and craft education at a Viennese high school for a year.

Since 1991 he has been working as a freelance author and illustrator in Vienna and since 2005 he has dramatized novels and short stories of Austrian classics (including Stefan Zweig and Arthur Schnitzler ) for the Reichenau Festival .

In 2005 he was awarded the Friedrich Glauser Prize for his novel The Fall of Lemming , and in 2006 the Burgdorf Crime Prize for Lemmings Himmelfahrt . In 2007, The Silence of the Lemming was voted one of their hundred favorite books by the Viennese. At the end of June 2009, Slupetzky was awarded the Radio Bremen crime prize for his Lemming novels , which was presented to him on September 16, 2009 as part of the PrimeTimeCrimeTime crime festival in Bremen .

From 2006 to 2009 he was responsible for the literary corner of Willi Resetarits ' Sunday radio program “Trost und Rat” on Radio Wien .

His novel Der Fall des Lemming was filmed in 2008 with Fritz Karl in the title role - Der Fall des Lemming . In 2010 his novel Lemmings Zorn was nominated for the Friedrich Glauser Prize as well as for the Leo Perutz Prize of the City of Vienna, which was awarded for the first time , and was awarded the Leo Perutz Prize.

Slupetzky is a co-founder of the association for the utilization of excess thoughts and contributed to the invention and development of indispensable objects such as the "Transzebra Portable", a zebra crossing that can be rolled out.

In addition to regular readings by the author, Stefan Slupetzky is also active as a lyricist and singer of the Wienerlied combo Trio Lepschi (with Tomas Slupetzky and Martin Zrost ).

His daughter was born in 1989 and his son in 2007.

Works

Books

  • 1985 "Missing Links - Inventions We Don't Need" (editor)
  • 1994 "O, my golf!"
  • 1994 "The dream pots"
  • 1994 "Tales of the Klöchen" (translation & illustration)
  • 1995 "The Cucumber Frog"
  • 1995 "Nurmi, the bear"
  • 1995 "The way to the Amazon is far" (illustration)
  • 1996 "Nurmi and Nick"
  • 1997 "O, Berta!"
  • 1997 "Nurmi, the Christmas bear"
  • 1998 "The musical rhinoceros" (illustration)
  • 1998 "Mr. Novak and the mouse woman"
  • 1999 "An egg in the grain"
  • 1999 "Pechlein's Luck"
  • 1999 "Die Geigenkatze" (extended new edition of "Der Gurkenfrosch")
  • 2000 "Counting Sheep"
  • 2004 "The Fall of the Lemming - A Viennese Murder Story"
  • 2004 "Absurd happiness - bittersweet stories"
  • 2005 "Lemmings Ascension - Lemmings Second Fall"
  • 2005 "The Sega Dance under the Flame Tree - Surveys in Mauritius"
  • 2006 "The silence of the lemming - Lemming's third case"
  • 2008 "Visit from Glorf - a parable from the future"
  • 2009 "Lemmings Wrath: Lemmings Fourth Case"
  • 2011 "neck cracker"
  • 2013 "Polivka has a dream", Kindler, Reinbek near Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-463-40080-8 .
  • 2016 "The last great consolation", Rowohlt-Verlag, Reinbek 2016, ISBN 978-3-498-06152-4
  • 2017 "The Return of the Lemming", Rowohlt-Verlag, Reinbek 2017, ISBN 978-3-499-29097-8
  • 2020 “Im Netz des Lemming”, Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2020, ISBN 978-3-7099-3497-5

Plays

  • 2000 "Pig-bear and pig-hedgehog"
  • 2001 "Parzival"
  • 2002 "Little Doctor Jakobi"
  • 2003 "Pandoras Bag"
  • 2003 "In the name of ping"
  • 2006 "The Rush of Metamorphosis" (based on the novel by Stefan Zweig )
  • 2008 "24 hours from the life of a woman" (based on the novella by Stefan Zweig )
  • 2009 "Game at Dawn" (based on the novella by Arthur Schnitzler )
  • 2010 "The way into the open" (based on the novel by Arthur Schnitzler )
  • 2011 "Fräulein Else" (based on the novella by Arthur Schnitzler )
  • 2012 "Impatience" (based on the novel "Impatience of the Heart" by Stefan Zweig )

Awards

  • 1994 The twelve most beautiful books in Austria and
  • 1995 Styrian reading owl for The Dream Pots
  • 1995 Prize of the City of Vienna and
  • 1996 Spring Hare Award for Nurmi the Bear
  • 1996 The twelve most beautiful books in Austria for Nurmi and Nick
  • 1997 The twelve most beautiful books in Austria for Nurmi the Christmas bear
  • 1998 Honor list for the Austrian Children's and Young People's Book Prize for 0 Berta
  • 1999 Austrian children's and youth book award for Mr. Novak and the mouse woman
  • 2005 Friedrich-Glauser-Preis - debut of the “authors' group of German-language crime literature” - The Syndicate for The Fall of Lemming
  • 2006 Burgdorfer Krimipreis for Lemmings Himmelfahrt
  • 2007 The Silence of the Lemming is chosen as one of the hundred favorite books of the Viennese
  • 2009 Radio Bremen crime prize for his Lemming novels
  • 2010 Leo Perutz Prize for Lemmings Zorn
  • 2020 Book Prize of the Viennese Economy

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Radio Bremen Crime Prize goes to Austria.  ( 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. At radiobremen.de, June 25, 2009 (accessed July 1, 2009)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.radiobremen.de  
  2. ↑ Stefan Slupetzky receives book prize from the Vienna economy. March 3, 2020, accessed March 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Slupetzky, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria