Werner Kofler

Werner Kofler (born July 23, 1947 in Villach , Carinthia ; † December 8, 2011 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Werner Kofler was the son of a businessman. He broke off training as a teacher at the teacher training institute in Klagenfurt after four years and went on trips. He then carried out various activities. From 1963 he was active in literature; from 1968 he lived as a writer in his adopted home Vienna , but continued to interfere in the political events in Carinthia.

After early, decidedly poetic works, Kofler mainly switched to prose works in which he used the techniques of collage and montage as a means of criticizing language and society . The author was known not least for his insults reminiscent of Thomas Bernhard , which were often directed against the realism of fellow Austrian writers, which Kofler vehemently rejected .

Kofler was a member of the Graz authors 'meeting and the IG authors' authors .

Werner Kofler's grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery

Kofler was buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 40, No. 70).

Awards and honors

• 1976 Theodor Körner Prize
• 1978 Andreas Reischek Prize
• 1980 Award of the City of Vienna for Literature
• 1981 Literature Prize from the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
• 1983 Prix ​​Futura Berlin
• 1990 Austrian Prize for Literature
• 1991 Literature Prize of the City of Vienna
• 1992 Culture Prize of the City of Villach
• 1996 Arno Schmidt scholarship
• 2001 Peter Rosegger Literature Prize
• 2004 Book.Prize
• 2008 Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class

Works

• Analo , Vienna et al. 1973 (together with Friedrich Aigner)
• Local conditions , Berlin 1973
• Guggile , Berlin 1975
• Ida H. , Berlin 1978
• From the wild , Berlin 1980
• Competition , Vienna et al. 1984
• Amok and Harmonie , Berlin 1985
• At the desk , Reinbek near Hamburg 1988
• Hotel murder certificate , Reinbek near Hamburg 1989
• The shepherd on the rock , Reinbek near Hamburg 1991
• Herbst, Freiheit , Reinbek near Hamburg 1994
• How I suddenly and for no reason gave Roberto Cazzola three slaps in the face in Trieste , Vienna 1994
• Dopo Bernhard , Cologne 1996
• Defamation. Fear and unrest , Reinbek near Hamburg 1997
• Manker , Vienna et al. 1999. About Paulus Manker
• Stupid Kaffirs, dark continent , Vienna 1999 (with Antonio Fian )
• Destruction of the tailor's dummy , Cologne 1999
• Conjectures about the Queen of the Night , Klagenfurt 2000
• Tanzcafé Treblinka , Vienna ao 2001
• Kalte Herberge , Vienna et al. 2004
• In my prison I am the director myself. Reader , Klagenfurt 2007
• Too late - lowlands, obsession. Prose , Vienna 2010
• Annotated work edition by Werner Kofler. 3 vol. Ed. V. Claudia Dürr, Johann Sonnleitner, Wolfgang Straub. Vienna 2018.

Editing

• The big book from little Oliver , Vienna 1991 (together with Gerhard Haderer )

literature

• Klaus Amann (Ed.): Werner Kofler , Vienna 2000
• Marina Corrêa: Polyphonies in Werner Kofler's “The Shepherd on the Rock” , Vienna 2004

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Kofler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Werner Kofler: Commentary on the work edition. Edited by Wolfgang Straub and Claudia Dürr. www.wernerkofler.at
• Between reality and fiction Klaus Amann: Werner Kofler on his 60th birthday
• Tanzcafé Treblinka in Klagenfurt by Werner Kofler
• Andreas Ungerböck: Deux ou trois choses que je sais de lui . Encounters with Werner Kofler. In: kolik , magazine for literature
• ORF : Writer Werner Kofler died
• derStandard.at : Writer Werner Kofler dies
• Entry on Werner Kofler in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Archive recordings with Werner Kofler in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library (literature readings, interview)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Franz Haas: Too late and unreconciled. On the death of the Austrian writer Werner Kofler In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , 10 December 2011