Vladimir Vertlib

Vladimir Vertlib
Photo: Wolfgang Kubizek

Vladimir Vertlib (born July 2, 1966 in Leningrad ) is an Austrian writer of Russian-Jewish origin.

Life

Vertlib emigrated from Russia with his family in 1971. Stations on the odyssey that finally brought him to Austria in 1981 were Israel , the Netherlands , the USA and Italy . He studied in Vienna Economics and received in 1986 the Austrian citizenship .

Vertlib initially published in literary magazines before publishing his first book in 1995. In his first two books, Deportation and Interim Stations, he processes experiences from his migrant life. Deportation describes the failed attempt by an immigrant family to gain a foothold in the USA. Intermediate stations describes the temporary stays in various places around the world. In The Special Memory of Rosa Masur , he tells the life story of a woman over 90 years old: from childhood in the Jewish shtetl to the Leningrad blockade and repression by representatives of the Soviet state to emigration to Germany in the 90s. The question of Jewish identity is the central theme of Last Wish .

Vertlib is addicted to realistic storytelling. In clear, unpretentious language, he tells general information about the history of Russian Jews in the 20th century based on individual fates. In addition to terrible or unpleasant events, his novels also contain a good portion of irony and the colorful decoration of individual episodes.

Vertlib lives in Salzburg and Vienna.

Honors

1999: Austrian Promotion Prize for Literature
2001: Sponsorship award for the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize
2002: Anton Wildgans Prize , Vienna
2006: Chamisso Poetics Lecturer at the Central Europe Center of the Technical University of Dresden and the Saxon Academy of the Arts with the support of the Robert Bosch Foundation

Works

Deportation . Narrative. 1995, ISBN 3-7013-0902-7 .
Intermediate stations . Novel. 1999, ISBN 3-216-30455-8 .
The special memory of Rosa Masur . Novel. 2001, ISBN 3-423-13035-0 .
- Translated by Carole Fily: L'étrange mémoire de Rosa Masur. (= Bibliothèque Allemande). Métailié, 2016, ISBN 979-10-226-0172-6 .
Last wish . Novel. 2003, ISBN 3-216-30678-X .
My first killer. Life stories. Deuticke, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-552-06031-6 .
Mirror in the foreign word. The invention of life as literature. (= Dresden Chamisso poetics lectures). 2006. Afterword by Annette Teufel & Walter Schmitz. Thelem, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-939888-28-4 .
... and all the dead died peacefully ... Libretto to an oratorio. Composition: Wolfgang R. Kubizek
On the morning of the twelfth day . Novel. Deuticke, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-552-06097-5 .
Shimon's silence . Novel. Deuticke, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-552-06184-2 .
Günter Grass , Israel and stupidity. In: Zwischenwelt. Literature, resistance, exile. 28th vol., H. 1–2, May 2012 ISSN 1606-4321 p. 73. (There are also essays by VV in earlier issues)
Konstantin Kaiser : The emphatic critic. In: Zwischenwelt. Literature, resistance, exile. Volume 26, H. 3/4, December 2009, pp. 30–33.
Me and the natives. Essays and essays. Ed. & Preface by Annette Teufel. Thelem, Dresden 2012, ISBN 978-3-939888-82-6 .
Lucia Binar and the Russian soul. Novel. Deuticke, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-552-06282-5 .
Viktor helps. Novel. Deuticke, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-552-06383-9 .

(Co-) editor

since 2014: Zwischenwelt. Journal of the Culture of Exile and Resistance. Quarterly publication of the Theodor Kramer Society in Vienna

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Dresden Chamisso Poetics Lecturer at the Central Europe Center for Political, Economic and Cultural Studies

personal data
SURNAME	Vertlib, Vladimir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Вертлиб, Владимир (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	2nd July 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leningrad

[1] Dresden Chamisso Poetics Lecturer at the Central Europe Center for Political, Economic and Cultural Studies