Martin G. Wanko

Martin G. Wanko (with wig) at the GAV Revue in the Literaturhaus Graz (2003)

Martin G. Wanko (born February 16, 1970 in Graz ) is an Austrian writer (especially a playwright) and journalist who is currently living in Graz again after long stays in Bregenz and Vienna . Wanko has been the regional delegate of the Graz Authors' Assembly since 2001 . Wanko writes the regular literary column “Readable” in the Vorarlberger Nachrichten , reviews for the Austrian news magazine profil , for the Austria Press Agency in Styria, for the Austrian pop magazine The Gap and for the sports magazine “Sport Aktiv”.

Works

Plays (selection)

• Meal (first performance 1996)
• Heavy current (UA 1999)
• Lipstick Brachial (1999)
• Who Killed Arnie? (WP 2000)
• The Slime (WP 2001)
• Hour 0 (2002)
• Trainer, King, General. A monologue (WP 2003)
• Hormonie ( WP 2007, Theater im Keller, A. Haidacher)
• The desert is alive (UA 2008, Vorarlberger Landestheater D: C. Himmelbauer)
• Penner family Family comedy in 6 parts 2008-2011 (Theater im Keller, D: A. Haidacher)
• Third League (UA 2011 RW Halbedl Design Month Graz.)
• House party, not everyone survived (UA 2012 RS Moser, Das Podium, TTZ / Graz.)
• The day the euro died (UA 2012 RW Halbedl Designmonat, Graz)
• Romeo & Julia 2.0 (RS Moser, Das Podium, TTZ / Graz)

(Individual) publications

• Meal (together with Jörg Vogeltanz , Sterz Verlag 1996)
• Lipstick Brute. Heavy current. Two pieces (edition selene 1999, ISBN 3-85266-110-2 )
• Ken, a crime story (novel, Edition kürbis 2002 ISBN 978-3-900965-23-5 )
• Pieces. (contains Trainer, König, General and Hour 0 , with accompanying texts by Thomas Ballhausen , Ernst M. Binder , Günter Eichberger , Gerhard Jaschke , Hubsi Kramar . = Issue No. 122 (4/2002) of the literary magazine Freibord )
• Soul jungle An Erich Glamser novel (Edition kürbis 2006, ISBN 978-3-90096528-0 )
• The desert is alive! - A monologue in 18 scenes - an 18-hole golf course plus the satire: The day on which Niki Lauda died ( Edition Keiper 2008 ISBN 978-3-9502516-0-9 )
• Bregenz Blood Games - An Erich Glamser Novel (Edition Keiper 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502516-3-0 )
• Heaven, is it all beautiful, joint novel with Christof Huemer (Edition Keiper 2012, ISBN 978-3-9503337-8-7 )

Radio plays

• Now comes Fred! (2004) ORF
• Hormonie (2007) ORF
• The boxes of Wolfgang Bauer (2010) ORF

Others

2008: Artist in Residence (Theater im Keller (TIK) Graz)

Web links

• Martin G. Wanko's homepage
• Wanko's blog
• Literature by and about Martin G. Wanko in the catalog of the German National Library