Thomas Glavinic

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Glavinic (2011)

Thomas Glavinic [ ˈglavinitʃ ] (born April 2, 1972 in Graz ) is an Austrian writer and essayist . Glavinic has published numerous novels , reports , columns and a collection of lectures. His work comprises different genres and varies stylistically. It has received multiple awards and has been translated into 18 languages.

Life

Thomas Glavinic's Bosnian father was a taxi driver. After his parents separated, he grew up with his mother in Graz until he was eighteen. Even when he was still at school, he had the desire to become a writer, which was not well received by his parents. He passed his Matura in Gleisdorf because he was referred to a school in Graz. He then worked as an advertising copywriter, interviewer for opinion research institutes, taxi driver, insurance agent and journalist until he wrote for Styrian regional newspapers in 1989 and began studying German in 1991 .

He has been writing novels, essays, stories, radio plays and reports since 1991 and has been a freelance writer since 1995. He writes his books on a mechanical typewriter, which, according to his own statements, suits his style of working: thinking carefully about the sentences before writing them down.

Glavinic has one son and lives in Vienna . He is a member of SK Rapid Vienna and an avowed fan of SK Sturm Graz . Glavinic is active on social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram and regularly creates media attention with provocative statements. Among other things, the satirical magazine Titanic picked up one of its Facebook entries and the media reactions to it in the article “A penis like an ax”.

plant

Thomas Glavinic (2014)

Glavinic often resorts to narrative patterns from entertainment or trivial literature in his work . The genres include crime fiction , coming-of-age novels , historical novels, and biographies . Stylistically, they vary greatly and are often based on a psychological thought experiment. Just as he treats a new topic with each novel, he also uses a different narrative style. Central motives are fear, violence, loneliness and existential insecurity.

In 1998 he published his first novel, Carl Haffner's Love for Draw . The novel describes the fight for the world chess championship between Emanuel Lasker and the fictional Carl Haffner. For the protagonist Haffner, the author chose the Viennese chess master Karl Schlechter as a model. The book has won several awards and has been translated into other languages. The novel has an autobiographical reference: Glavinic played his first game of chess at the age of five and in 1987, at the age of fifteen, reached second place in his age group on the Austrian chess rankings.

In 2000, the novel Mr. Susi followed , a statement written in hearty language with the football marketing business. This novel received a lot of negative reviews.

Glavinic's breakthrough came with his novel Der Kameramorder , published in 2001 , which was positively received by the feature pages, with media criticism being particularly emphasized. The book is set in Styria: two siblings are driven to their death in a cruel, sadistic way on a Good Friday. Recordings of the crime were made public on a German television station. The incidents are described in detailed protocol by an unnamed first-person narrator who spends the Easter weekend with his partner at a couple of friends in the neighboring town of the crime scene. The idyll of the four friends is disturbed by the media coverage and the intensive search for the perpetrator. Glavinic wanted to tell “a cruel, gruesome story that is broken by the shape”, according to his own statements. Glavinic received the Friedrich Glauser Prize for this novel .

The satirical development novel How one should live , which is consistently written from the “man's perspective”, was successful in 2004 with both readers (first place on Austria's bestseller list) and critics (first place on the best list of critics) of the ORF ). It served as a template for the film of the same name in 2010 .

In 2006 the novel Die Arbeit der Nacht was published , which in August 2006 was also on first place on the ORF best list. For this, Glavinic received the Austrian Prize for Literature in the same year. The novel stands stronger than its predecessors in the tradition of magical literature and is reminiscent of Herbert Rosendorfer's Great Solo for Anton or Marlen Haushofer's Die Wand . It marks the beginning of a three-part cycle ( The Life of Wishes and The Greater Miracle ) and is about a world in which all human and animal life has suddenly disappeared and only the protagonist Jonas is left. He goes across Austria and parts of Europe on a search for people, his great love Marie and ultimately for himself.

Glavinic's 2007 novel Das bin noch ich is about an author named “Thomas Glavinic” who has just finished his book Die Arbeit der Nacht , is looking for a publisher and is hoping for success, while his friend and colleague “ Daniel Kehlmann ” with Die Surveying the world writes high sales. The novel is an artist biography that has numerous similarities to the real author and at the same time a criticism of the literary scene . That's me , was nominated for the shortlist of the German Book Prize.

The novel The Life of Wishes was on the longlist for the German Book Prize in 2009.

During the Corona crisis in 2020, he started the car fictional serial novel The corona novel on Welt.de publish.

Glavinic's works have been translated into over 18 languages.

Publications

Awards

literature

  • David-Christopher Assmann: I'm not. Thomas Glavinics literary scene. In: Thomas Wegmann, Norbert Christian Wolf (eds.): “High” and “low”. On the interference between high and popular culture in contemporary literature. ( Studies and texts on the social history of literature; 130 ). de Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2011, pp. 121–140.
  • Marta Famula: Parables of epistemological failure. Thomas Glavinics novel 'Die Arbeit der Nacht' in the tradition of labyrinthine storytelling by Franz Kafka and Friedrich Dürrenmatt. In: Andrea Bartl (ed.): Transitträume. Contributions to contemporary German literature. Interviews with Raoul Schrott u. a. , with the collaboration of Hanna Viktoria Becker (= German and contemporary literature ; 5), Wißner, Augsburg 2009, pp. 103–122.
  • Goran Lovrić: On the move in the name of the narrator. Factualization of the fictional in Thomas Glavinics “Unterwegs im Name der Herr”. In: Jan Standke (ed.): The novels of Thomas Glavinics. Literary studies and German didactic perspectives. Peter Lang, Bern etc. 2014, pp. 229–243 (= contributions to literature and media didactics : 25)
  • Stefan Hofer-Krucker Valderrama: Death of the author and satire on the literary business. Thomas Glavinic's novel “That's me” in literature lessons at secondary level II . In: Jan Standke (ed.): The novels of Thomas Glavinics. Literary studies and German didactic perspectives. Peter Lang, Bern etc. 2014, pp. 403–423 (= contributions to literature and media didactics ; 25)
  • Birgit Holzner: Thomas Glavinics end time novel 'Die Arbeit der Nacht'. In: Evi Zemanek, Susanne Krones (ed.): Literature of the turn of the millennium. Topics, writing methods and book market around 2000. Transcript, Bielefeld 2008, pp. 215–224.
  • Anja K. Johannsen : In an attack of reluctance to operate literature. Thomas Glavinic's novels in the network of the literary business. In: Paul Brodowsky, Thomas Klupp (ed.): How to speak about the present? Thoughts on the methods of contemporary literature science. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2010, pp. 105-118.
  • Sascha Löwenstein: "And like everyone else, he left no trace" - On the mystery of the self and the world in Thomas Glavinic's 'Die Arbeit der Nacht'. In: Thomas Maier, Sascha Löwenstein (ed.): More beautiful dying. Lectures on literature at Heinrich von Veldeke Kreis. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Berlin 2013, pp. 228–262.
  • Eberhard Sauermann: Thomas Glavinic '"Cameraman" - but not a scandal? In: Stefan Neuhaus , Johann Holzner (Hrsg.): Literature as a scandal. Cases - functions - consequences. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, pp. 666–677.
  • Jan Standke (Ed.): The novels Thomas Glavinics. Literary studies and German didactic perspectives . Peter Lang, Bern etc. 2014 (= contributions to literature and media didactics ; 25).

Web links

Commons : Thomas Glavinic  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Philipp Wilhelmer: Thomas Glavinic, the FPÖ and the "Urhure". Retrieved May 2, 2017 .
  2. ↑ E. Hirschmann-Altzinger: A life between drugs and women. Retrieved May 2, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Ingo Irsigler: Glavinic, Thomas . In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon. Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. tape 5 . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-022048-3 , pp. 247 ( degruyter.com ).
  4. ^ I. Schinnerl: Glavinic, Thomas. In: Austria Forum. Retrieved February 3, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Thomas Schaefer: Thomas Glavinic - Essay. In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (ed.): Critical lexicon for contemporary German literature. edition text + kritik, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-86916-626-1 ( nachschlage.net ).
  6. ↑ Stefan Gmünder: Show the unspeakable. In: The Standard . February 21, 2001, p. 14 .
  7. ↑ Dorit Weinstein: That's me. In: SIMsKultur . No. 7 , 2007, p. 70-71 .
  8. ↑ "Rapid quarter hour" of November 7, 2014
  9. ↑ Titanic: A penis like an ax - Review of Thomas Glavinic's newest creation | TITANIC - The definitive satirical magazine. Retrieved March 15, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Sandra Kegel: Glavinic vs. Coffin nail: Viennese mop spikes with insult . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 16, 2016, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 15, 2017]).
  11. ↑ Ingo Irsigler: Glavinic, Thomas . In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon. Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. tape 5 . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-022048-3 , pp. 247 ( degruyter.com ).
  12. ↑ Thomas Schaefer: Thomas Glavinic - Essay. In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (ed.): Critical lexicon for contemporary German literature. edition text + kritik, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-86916-626-1 ( nachschlage.net ).
  13. ↑ I was young and needed the money. Der Standard , February 9, 2011, accessed February 11, 2020 .
  14. ↑ # 88 - Interview with Thomas Glavinic (Uncut Podcast). In: Youtube. March 26, 2010, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Kristina Werndl: Thomas Glavinic: The work of the night. In: LiteraturhausWien. November 6, 2006, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Thomas Glavinic: Thomas Glavinic: The Corona-Roman, Part 1 . In: THE WORLD . March 19, 2020 ( welt.de [accessed March 19, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Glavinic, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz