Walter Pilar

Walter Pilar (born August 1, 1948 in Ebensee am Traunsee ; † January 1, 2018 in Linz ) was an Austrian writer , draftsman and visual artist.

Life

Walter Pilar completed his training as a teacher at elementary and secondary schools. Since 1968 he has appeared with performances , actions, exhibitions and publications. He lived in Linz . In 1990 he received the Upper Austrian State Prize for Literature.

Characteristic stylistic features of Pilar are collage techniques and word creations, in which high-level language and dialectal elements are brought into a contrasting tension.

The books of poetry klupperln & duesenjaeger , Anyland , On soft Saturdays and Pickled Kalkeier were at the beginning of his writing career . The first larger and independently published prose work followed in 1996 under the title Lebenssee - a bizarre developmental novel (an "auto-autopsy biographical weakness"). From the multi-volume autobiographical project, the second volume, Lebenssee - just rainbows , was published in 2002 and the third volume in 2015 under the title Lebenssee - Wandelalter .

In WP in Krumau & elsewhere: Axes of the Moment , Pilar processes travel experiences in Bohemia , Lithuania and Slovenia as well as in Mediterranean and native landscapes ( Crete and Salzkammergut ).

On January 1, 2018, Pilar had a fatal accident when he fell down stairs in his house in Linz.

Works

• Imaginations & exemptions for mental re-convention . Bild-Manufaktur Traunsee, Traunkirchen 1981.
• Klupperln & Duesenjaeger . Herbstpresse, Vienna 1982.
• Walter Pilar, Sigurd Paul Scheichl: Every country . Herbstpresse, Vienna 1983, ISBN 978-3900476045
• On gentle Saturdays . Poems. Herbstpresse, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-900476-08-X
• pOÖsie . Workshop printing U'berg, 1988.
• The moss week 7th & 8th day . Edition Mohs, Vienna 1989.
• Eyes on Linz (with Herbert Vorbach). Landesverlag, Linz 1990.
• Pickled lime eggs . Dieter Scherr Collection, Vienna 1993.
• Life lake - a bizarre development novel . Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt 1996, ISBN 3-85415-189-6
• The lake of life - straight rainbows . Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt 2002, ISBN 3-85415-327-9
• Special stage in Krumau & elsewhere: axes of the moment . Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-85415-374-0
• Life lake - changing age . Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt, 2nd corr. and exp. Edition 2015, ISBN 978-3-85415-526-3

Awards

• 1990: Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria for Literature
• 2003: Adalbert Stifter grant
• 2016: Art Prize for Literature from the City of Linz

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Pilar in the catalog of the German National Library
• Walter Pilar reads from Lebenssee III Wandelalter , Sprachsalz Literature Festival 2015 (YouTube video, 15:29 min)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nicole Streitler: Walter Pilar . ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Adalbert Stifter Institute of the State of Upper Austria / StifterHaus - Literature and Language in Upper Austria, November 3, 2015, accessed on January 2, 2018. 
2. ↑ Hans Promberger: Ebenser language experimenter and super poet Walter Pilar died after falling down stairs . Tips , January 2, 2018, accessed January 2, 2018.
3. ↑ Walter Pilar. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2016/2017. Volume II: P-Z. Walter De Gruyter , 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045397-3 , pp. 754-755.
4. ↑ Walter Pilar: Lake of Life: Straight rainbows. Review note . Neue Zürcher Zeitung , June 7, 2003, from perlentaucher.de , accessed on January 2, 2018.
5. ↑ Ebenseer language experimenter and "super poet" Walter Pilar dies after falling down stairs , accessed on January 3, 2018