Stefan Soder

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Stefan Soder (* 1975 in Kirchberg in Tirol ) is an Austrian writer .

Life

Stefan Soder grew up in Brixen im Thale . He studied at the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck , where he graduated in 2000 with a degree in economics. In his diploma thesis he dealt with the future of the daily newspaper in the face of new media . After completing his studies, he worked for various industrial companies in various countries for over ten years (mostly as a freelancer).

In 2015 he published his debut novel Club at Braumüller . In it, two different characters are accompanied on their way to a fictional death club, in which the demise is celebrated as an event for wealthy customers. His second novel Simonhof was published in 2017 , also by Braumüller. This tells the story of a mountain farm in the Alps, which extends over four generations.

Stefan Soder is the father of a daughter. He lives as a freelance writer in Vienna .

Novels and short stories (selection)

  • On my drunken grandfather's shoulders , short story, literature and criticism # 489, 2014
  • Club , Roman, Braumüller, 2015
  • Simonhof , Roman, Braumüller, 2017
  • Turn the Game , Narrative, Against the Ball - When Authors Kick, Sisyphus, 2017
  • The tour . Novel. Braumüller, Vienna 2019. ISBN 978-3-99200-246-7 .

Reception, press

The weekly magazine Profil said about the novel Simonhof that Soder was writing straightforward, but not artificially short. He just tells a story - and it's interesting enough.

Anthon Thuswaldner wrote in the Salzburger Nachrichten that just as Stefan Soder puts contemporary history into the picture, she is the great human shaper. No one can not only get out of their own skin, no one can also escape the grasp of their immediate presence. It is quite possible that Soder is as defiant as the characters in his novel. The fact is that he falls completely out of what is currently trendy.

In literature and criticism, Timo Brandt described Simonhof as a successful narrative of the lack of stability that cannot be banished from existence and the distance that exists between all generations and often between two people who no longer understand each other at one point. open. Soder's book made a strong impression. Afterwards you feel as if you have visited the place, the Simonhof and the surrounding area, the village, and have suddenly been blown by the spirit of all the stories that have ever happened there.

Helmuth Schönauer wrote in the Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung about a poignant alpine saga full of emotional apps - contemporary and illuminating.

The Tiroler Tageszeitung said that Soder made it clear in his story that there are roots that anchor people in one place. He is making the term "home", far removed from German clutter, into a feeling that simply expresses: "I have arrived."

Soder's first novel Club caused less and more critical media feedback.

On December 10, 2015 , Stefan Schmitzer headlined the novel as 'Orgy with Heidegger' for the Literaturhaus Wien . He criticized it as annoying that Soder wrongly took account of an audience's attention span that was assumed to be too short. Whether Soder's novel functions as a meditation on the ethics of existentialism should be passed on to the reader as a question. As a suspense novel with an atypical non-trivial topic, the book works reasonably well - and that is something.

Asphaltspuren.de noted that Stefan Soder proves on 359 pages varied and captivating that there are stories that wonderfully combine social criticism, cynicism, philosophy of life and the desire for self-determination - especially with regard to the end of one's own life - without being instructive or even to be only partially one-sided.

buchrezensions.com found that the chiasmus, i.e. the crossover, of their developments knew how to convince: Einselber, a life-long thoroughbred neurotic who indulged in huge orgies in his last days, while Reiterer, his entire life so far convinced loser of control, who in the face of the wealthy and willing to die Escapists suddenly develop feelings of gratitude and responsibility - that is fantastically staged.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Braumüller literature publisher. Retrieved March 15, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Braumüller literature publisher. Retrieved March 15, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Literaturhaus Vienna: Soder_Club. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Literaturhaus Vienna: Soder_Simonhof. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .
  5. ↑ www.sisyphus.at | Against the Ball. Accessed May 17, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Profile, February 22, 2017
  7. ↑ Salzburger Nachrichten, May 13, 2017
  8. ↑ Literature and Criticism, # 513
  9. ^ Helmuth Schönauer, New South Tyrolean Daily Newspaper
  10. ↑ Tiroler Tageszeitung, June 17, 2017
  11. ^ Stefan Schmitzer: Orgy with Heidegger. Retrieved August 29, 2017 .
  12. ^ Asphaltspuren.de, reviews: Stefan Soder - Club ( Memento from August 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ); accessed November 20, 2018.
  13. ^ Review by Stefan Soder - Club. Retrieved August 29, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Soder, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchberg in Tyrol