Thomas Brunnsteiner

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Thomas Ernst Brunnsteiner (* 1974 in Leoben ) is an Austrian journalist and writer who is best known for his literary travel reports .

Life

Thomas Brunnsteiner was born as the son of the Austrian writer, television and radio presenter Christine Brunnsteiner and grew up in Eisenerz and Graz , where he began his journalistic career with the daily newspaper Neue Zeit . After studying in Rome and Moscow , Brunnsteiner moved to Lapland , where he has lived in a village near the Finnish city of Kolari since 2001 .

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Brunnsteiner became known through his travel reports, which have been published in newspapers such as Süddeutsche Zeitung , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Taz , Frankfurter Rundschau , Standard , der Presse , and magazines and journals such as mare , the manuscripts , reports and many more since the late 1990s others appeared. Brunnsteiner collected twelve of these reports in his first book, the Bis ins Eismeer collection , which was published by Wieser Verlag in 2007 . In 2010, Kyrene Verlag published his first novel entitled Taten . Brunnsteiner's reports, which can be assigned to the genre of New Journalism , are characterized by a "consistent subjectivity", as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung found. Because of this high degree of individuality, the FAZ continues, his reports read like short stories. Another distinctive feature of his reports is the fact that Brunnsteiner prefers from the peripheral areas, e.g. B. remote villages, the far north, or from Azerbaijan reported, as well as people who are on the edge of society, z. B. by the Koltta-Sami people in Lapland or by Serbian dissidents in the Moscow underground. Werner Schandor, editor of the magazine Schreibkraft , compared Brunnsteiner's more recent works, which he describes as “stylistically perfect prose gems”, with the postmodern key texts of Jorge Luis Borges . In March 2013 Brunnsteiner read excerpts from his second novel, which is in progress, on Radio Helsinki . Another collection of reports in book form, so Brunnsteiner in the program, is also in preparation.

Plagiarism affair

In August 2014 it turned out that the Swiss author Urs Mannhart had taken over sentences, personal names, ideas etc. from several reports Brunnsteiner without his consent and without his knowledge for his novel Bergstieg im Flachland . According to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the Swiss author did not cover up the takeovers and confirmed that he had taken over individual elements from Brunnsteiner's reports in his novel. Nonetheless, he apologized for not making the source clear. Mannhart's publishing house "Secession" took the position in a statement that although it was a matter of collegial misconduct, in view of the nature and scope of the takeovers it was not a violation of copyright. Brunnsteiner then filed a lawsuit against the publisher and the author. Because of this, the Commercial Court of the Canton of Zurich issued a preliminary injunction in October 2014 “forbidden Urs Mannhart to read the novel in public; His publisher was also prohibited from further selling the book and advertising the novel. ”In a settlement hearing on July 22, 2015 before the Commercial Court of Zurich, in which copyright experts dealt with the case for the first time, Brunnsteiner was advised to withdraw his lawsuit due to hopelessness . Urs Mannhart did not violate copyright in any way. Brunnsteiner then withdrew his lawsuit and undertook to pay the publisher 20,000 Swiss francs in damages. Since then, the novel mountain climbing in the flatlands has been on the market again in unchanged form.

Publications (selection)

Literature on Thomas Brunnsteiner

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, August 5, 2007, No. 31 / page V2.
  2. ↑ Two writers' souls rage in his chest , accessed on October 28, 2014
  3. ^ Roman Bucheli: Allegations against Urs Mannhart's novel. Piracy as a service of love. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from August 2, 2014
  4. ↑ http://www.literaturport.de/Urs.Mannhart/
  5. ↑ Roman Bucheli: Where does the right to inspiration end? In: nzz.ch. October 13, 2014, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  6. ↑ http://www.journal-b.ch/de/082013/kultur/2068/Urs-Mannharts-Roman-ist-wieder-im-Verkauf.htm
personal data
SURNAME Brunnsteiner, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brunnsteiner, Thomas Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Leoben