Walter Baco

Walter Baco, Vienna 2013; In the background, presenter Gerhard Jaschke.

Walter Baco (* 1952 in Vienna ) is a composer , writer , director , choreographer and performance artist .

Live and act

Walter Baco studied composition for audiovisual media at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna . After graduating in 1981, he completed a supplementary course in 1985/86 at the Institute for Basic Harmonic Research to acquire the mag.art . He composed pieces of music for TV and stage, wrote radio plays and scripts, designed TV documentaries and developed his own improvisation and cross-over concerts.

Baco founded a number of cultural initiatives and program series, including a. to the Leipzig Book Fair . He held readings, concerts and guest performances in all major cities in Austria as well as in Paris, Leipzig, Zurich, Frankfurt, Prague and Zagreb.

He is a member of the Graz Authors' Assembly , the Literature Circle Podium, the IGNM and the ÖKB . He is also a board member of the composition department in the art, media and liberal professions union, as well as artistic director of the Carousel Theater and managing director of Albatros Verlag. In 2007, Baco also founded the “Orchesterwelt” platform, which is intended to serve as an interface between composers and performers.

Awards

• Austrian cultural contribution to Europe Day in Cologne and Bonn
• Theodor Körner Prize for Literature
• Prize of the Edelhof Music Factory, Lower Austria
• 1st prize in the creative competition for the Year of Water (2003)
• Invitation to the Styrian Autumn (2004)
• Wiener Symphoniker Composition Grant (2005)
• Permanent installation of poems on Europe's largest alpine pasture (since 2005)
• Town clerk in Neumarkt / Wallersee
• Town clerk in Castelrotto / South Tyrol
• Composer in Residence in Bad Tatzmannsdorf

Works

Books System Success Guide to Downfall (1990) The Nirvana Connection (1994) "The pupils of gravity (1995) LITERAtalk - Words on Words (1996) (Ed.) Brainstorm (1998) May I invite you to a - feeling (2000) The Survey (2001) The definitive novel (2003) Doctrine Supreme (2005)

Anthologies Freedom - an Austrian anthology The poem of the present (2000) My Friday Murder (2003)

CDs Treasures of a Poet Sound world Timeless Solitaire The harmonious game Flames Christmas blues EuroPiano

Audiobook CDs The danced poem Lautbild-Wortklang (Ed.) charisma

Reviews

• "The Austrian Walter Baco is one of the really great writers of our time. The proof: his novel 'Die Nirwana Connection'. The exciting plot winds up at lightning speed, literally overturns. In almost every detail one can find the absurd and bizarre of today Civilization ... The great novel of our time? There's nothing to add to that. "
• "The story, which is divided into many small chapters, is not convincing; here an author squirms who is critical but does not want to criticize anyone and yet wants to fill a book. I assume that the Neumarkt library will get this book as a gift and the Seekirchen library will buy it that the people of Seekirchen - at the other end of the Wallersee - have something to criticize. The rest of Europe, with a focus on Austria's public libraries, can definitely do without. "

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Review: The Nirvana Connection, The Bookworm (No. 6/98)
2. ↑ Review: The survey, bn.bibliotheksnachrichten [1]

Web links

• Literature from and about in the catalog of the German National Library
• HP of the artist