Thomas Ballhausen

Thomas Ballhausen (Vienna 2016)

Thomas Ballhausen (* 1975 in Vienna ) is an Austrian writer, literary and film scholar, university lecturer, editor and translator.

life and work

Ballhausen teaches at the University of Vienna , the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University Mozarteum Salzburg . Ballhausen is the head of the literature department for the culture magazine skug , and he was also a co-founder of the authors' association die flut .

In Ballhausen's fiction publications, reflections on the impossibility of happy relationships and attempts to master life dominate. Both popular culture and high culture find their place in Ballhausen's essays. In 2010 Ballhausen was invited to the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize . In the Library of the Night series , Thomas Ballhausen publishes fantastic literature, for example novels by Paul Leppin or Furio Jesi .

Works

comics

• Mind the Bug , 1999
• The Anger Diaries 3/3: Inmates (Artwork: Jörg Vogeltanz ), comic edition prequel, 2006
• The Anger Diaries 2/4: Wired Worlds (Artwork: Jörg Vogeltanz), comic edition prequel, 2009

Essays

• The presence of Anglophone Caribbean authors in Viennese bookshops. In addition to a brief description of the structure of the Viennese retail book trade. Comparative study based on selected general Viennese retail bookshops , 2000
• Chipping. Raids through cultural landscapes . Essays and Articles, 2001
• The last summer before the ice age . Essays and Articles, 2003
• Delirium and ecstasy. The topicality of the monstrous , 2008
• Have I misread? Thoughts on Nick Cohen , in XING Magazine No. 21, 2011
• Signatures of memory. About the work on the archive , 2015

Poetry

• Descents. Three narrative poems , 2000
• With a disguised voice . A poem murder mystery from the early days. (= New poetry from Austria. Volume 17). Berger Verlag, Horn 2017. ISBN 978-3-85028-766-1 .

prose

• Physical education. Hundred Exercises Narrative, 2003
• Rubble prose, 2005
• The Unreconciled , prose, 2007
• Motion detector , prose, Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck / Vienna 2010 ISBN 978-3-85218-643-6
• Praise of the arsonist , narrative, 2013, Edition Atelier (Series: Textlicht)
• In Dark Areas , Stories, 2014, Edition Atelier

Editorships

• The facts of the soul . Arthur Schnitzler and the film, with Karin Moser, Barbara Eichinger and Frank Stern, Vienna: Verlag Filmarchiv Austria 2006.
• Rudolf Pöch , Collected Writings, Volume I / 1, Published Writings up to 1913, together with Maria Teschler-Nicola, Katarina Matiasek, 2006
• Cinematic memories . History-Archive-Riss, with Barbara Eichinger, Frank Stern, Julia B. Köhne, Karin Moser, Vienna: Mandelbaum ÖH-edition 2007.
• " exquisite corps - writings on aesthetics, intermediality and modernity ", in collaboration with Lorenz Aggermann (Bern) - Alexander Edelhofer (Vienna) - Thomas Edlinger (Vienna) - David Fine (San Francisco) - Günther Friesinger (Vienna) - Deborah Kindermann- Zeilinger (Bologna) - Günter Krenn (Vienna) - Kathrin Kuna (Berlin) - Helena Langewitz (Basel) - Tina Lorenz (Munich) - Maria Mair (Vienna) - Camille R. Meyer (New York) - Kerstin Ohler (Vienna) - Christian Stiegler (Vienna) - Jörg Vogeltanz (Graz) - Ines Wagner (Vienna) - Barbara Zeman (Vienna) for Milena Verlag
• Saturn. Wiener Filmerotik 1906–1910, with Michael Achenbach and Nikolaus Wostry, Filmarchiv Austria, 2009
• Protection violations - legitimation of media violence , editors: Günther Friesinger, Thomas Ballhausen and Johannes Grenzfurthner , Verbrecher Verlag , Berlin, 2010
• Urban Hacking: Cultural Jamming Strategies in the Risky Spaces of Modernity , editors: Günther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Thomas Ballhausen, Transcript, Bielefeld, 2010
• Mind in the machine. Media, processes and spaces of cybernetics , editors: Günther Friesinger, Thomas Ballhausen and Johannes Grenzfurthner, Verena Bauer, Turia & Kant, Vienna, 2010
• Mind and Matter: Comparative Approaches towards Complexity , editors: Günther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Thomas Ballhausen, Transcript, Bielefeld, 2011
• Paul Leppin : Severin's walk into the darkness . Library of the Night Volume 1, editor: Thomas Ballhausen, Edition Atelier, 2015
• Furio Jesi : The last night . Library of the Night Volume 2, translated from the Italian by Barbara Kleiner , editor: Thomas Ballhausen, Edition Atelier, 2015

translation

• Toby Barlow: Sharp Teeth (with Verena Bauer)

Awards

• 2003 Premio Selezione di Centro Ricerca Narrative Cinema
• 2005 Literature Prize of the City of Steyr , 2nd Prize
• 2006 Reinhard Priessnitz Prize
• 2008 Holfeld Tunzer Prize, together with Regina Hilber

literature

• Helmuth Schönauer : Diary of a librarian . Volume III, 2004-2008. Sisyphus-Verlag, Klagenfurt 2016. ISBN 978-3-901960-81-9 . Rubble. Prose (p. 361); The unreconciled. Story (p. 668).

Web links

• life and work
• Literature by and about Thomas Ballhausen in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence