Wolf Haas

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Wolf Haas at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018

Wolf Haas (born December 14, 1960 in Maria Alm am Steinernen Meer , Land Salzburg , Austria ) is an Austrian writer who lives in Vienna . He became known as the author of crime novels , three of which won the German Crime Prize .

life and work

Haas grew up in Maria Alm . Both parents worked as a waiter. In 1970 he went to the Catholic private high school Borromäum in the city of Salzburg as a boarding school student .

After passing his Matura , he first studied psychology at the University of Salzburg from 1979 , then German and linguistics from 1980 . He completed this subject with a dissertation on The Language Theoretical Foundations of Concrete Poetry . From 1988 to 1990 he worked as a university lecturer in Swansea , South Wales .

Back in Austria, he started working as a junior copywriter for advertising agencies in Vienna . He created the radio spots Lichtfahrer are more visible and heard Ö1 , which he also spoke himself. This was followed by the " Ö3-Wecker " casperliade Peda & Peda , which came about when Haas and his counterpart Herbert Haider offered their idea of ​​bizarre dialogues to the radio program Ö3 after the last season of a Mazda advertisement . He then quit the advertising agency Demner & Merlicek and became a freelance writer .

From 1996 to 2003 Haas wrote seven detective novels , six of them starring the detective Simon Brenner as the main character. Four parts of the Brenner cycle, Come on, sweet death , then Silentium! " The Bone Man" and " Eternal Life " were filmed. The thriller Braked Out (in which Brenner does not appear) is located on the edge of the Formula One circus.

Haas' detective novels are characterized by satirical social criticism, suspense and laconic wit. He received the German Crime Prize three times .

Wolf Haas has a special relationship with his editor Wolfram Hämmerling. In 1995, Hämmerling was in charge of the crime series at Rowohlt-Verlag and decided to publish the unsolicited manuscript "Resurrection of the Dead". In 2002 Wolf Haas followed Wolfram Hämmerling von Rowohlt to the Hoffmann und Campe publishing house.

Wolf Haas and Annemarie Mitterhofer came up with the idea for the successful ORF television series " Four Women and One Death ", which was created in 2004–2008 and has been continued since 2011.

In September 2006 Wolf Haas published the novel Das Wetter 15 years ago , a love story in the form of an interview between a literary critic and the (fictional) author Wolf Haas about his (fictional) new work. In the novel, the fictional character Wolf Haas announces that he will no longer write detective novels in the future. In 2006 Haas received the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize for Das Wetter 15 years ago .

With the work Der Brenner und der liebe Gott , published in August 2009 , he returned to the genre of crime against the announcement of the fictional Wolf Haas and on NZZ Podium.

In 2012 Haas published the novel Defense of the Missionary Position , a literary application of the intrinsic structure of the paisley pattern . For this he was awarded the Bremen Literature Prize. In 2014 he presented the crime thriller Brennerova (in Slavic languages ​​the feminine form of the surname Brenner). In 2015, Brennerova was awarded the German Audiobook Prize for “Best Entertainment”.

His twelfth novel, Young Man , published in 2018 , is about a boy in puberty who desperately wants to lose weight. The narrator has autobiographical traits.

Brenner crime novels

content

The eight novels, published from 1996 to 2014, take place in six different locations and are independent in terms of plot and character ensemble.

The burner figure

Haas with Der Brenner and the Dear God at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2009

The private detective Simon Brenner is 44 years old in the first volume of the series. He comes from the Graz district of Puntigam, is a bachelor, broad-shouldered, small, plump and has a square skull with a red nose and water-blue eyes. Since he quit smoking, he has had regular migraines. His fiancée Josefine, or Fini for short, left him twelve years ago. But Brenner quickly makes women acquaintances anyway.

At the Kripo, because of his unconventional approach, Brenner never got above the rank of inspector . He has difficulties with his new manager, Nemec, and therefore quits. Since then he has been with the Meierling detective agency. His last case as a detective in Zell am See, where two frozen corpses are found, is also his first as a detective. Then he investigates in Styria where human bones have appeared under the chicken bones in the Klöcher grill chicken station. Then he quits the detective profession and goes to the rescue so that he no longer has to deal with murder and manslaughter. But even there he is involved in murder cases. Later he investigated again as a private detective in the boarding school of a Salzburg monastery school and in Vienna's Augarten. Finally, Brenner returned to Graz, where he was confronted with the sins of his youth and his life was in danger. Thereupon he ends his detective life again and becomes a private chauffeur, only to be involved in a kidnapping story in his last case so far.

Wolf Haas wanted to give Brenner the typical male characteristics and make him appear likeable with a slight irony. It is also no coincidence that Brenner is about ten years older than Haas himself. Haas says: "Because that's alien to me, and that's why I'm interested."

At the end of 2010 it became known that an undercover investigator from the Baden-Württemberg State Criminal Police Office under the code name Simon Brenner was spying on the left scene in Heidelberg.

Film adaptations

Wolf Haas, Josef Hader and Wolfgang Murnberger at the premiere of Das Ewige Leben (2015)

Although Haas once said that his Brenner novels could not be filmed, he was still involved in the realization of the film adaptations of Come, Sweet Death and Silentium! with: Together with the Brenner actor Josef Hader and director Wolfgang Murnberger , he wrote the scripts and also appears in tiny supporting roles on the fringes of the first two films. This collaboration continued with The Bone Man and The Eternal Life . All films are among the 15 most successful Austrian cinema productions at the box office.

Radio plays

Radio play versions of the Brenner crime thrillers were edited and directed by Götz Fritsch in 1999 and 2000 respectively of Resurrection of the Dead and The Bone Man . You were voted radio play of the year by the listeners of ORF . In 2002, ORF produced Komm, Süßer Tod as a radio play in two episodes. In 2005 followed (again produced by ORF) Silentium! . In 2006, Eternal Life was voted radio play of the year by ORF listeners.

Theater versions

At the Schauspielhaus Graz were previously three theater adaptations to see:

  • October 13, 2007: Premiere of Das Wetter 15 years ago (Director: Sandra Schüddekopf)
  • October 22, 2009: Premiere of Eternal Life in a dramatization by Pia Hierzegger (Director: Christine Eder)
  • December 12, 2014: Premiere of Defense of the Missionary Position (Director: Susanne Lietzow)

A theater adaptation of Come, Sweet Death was created in 2009 at the Schauspiel Frankfurt in the form of a live film performance (director: Klaus Gehre, drama: Torben Kessler, music / sound: Michael Lohmann). An adaptation of Silentium was created in 2010 - also at the Schauspiel Frankfurt - with the same cast and in the same format ! .

Works

Novels

Radio plays

  • The weather 15 years ago . Director: Oliver Sturm . dlfk 2018. Original broadcast on August 12, 2018

Non-fiction

  • Theoretical linguistic foundations of Concrete Poetry. Akademischer Verlag Heinz, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-88099-237-1 .
  • Love in the times of the cola intoxication. Verlag Tauschzentrale, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-901352-01-5 .

Children's books

Awards

literature

  • David-Christopher Assmann: Autonomy or Corruption? Literature business (in) the Austrian literature after 2000. In: Michael Boehringer, Susanne Hochreiter (Hrsg.): Zeitwende. Austrian literature since the millennium. 2000-2010. Praesens, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-7069-0621-0 , pp. 82-101 (including on Wolf Haas: The weather 15 years ago. ).
  • David-Christopher Assmann: Exhibiting yourself. Literature mediation and author interview with Wolf Haas . In: Katerina Kroucheva and Barbara Schaff (eds.): Kafkas Gabel. Considerations for Exhibiting Literature . Transcript, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-2258-4 , pp. 297–322.
  • Angelika Baier: Border / Relationships in Wolf Haas' novel Das Wetter 15 years ago. In: Michael Boehringer, Susanne Hochreiter (eds.): Turn of time. Austrian literature since the millennium. 2000-2010. Praesens, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-7069-0621-0 , pp. 173-193.
  • Andreas Böhn: Metafictionality, memory and mediality in novels by Michael Kleeberg, Thomas Lehr and Wolf Haas . In: Bareis, J. Alexander, Grub, Frank Thomas (Ed.): Metafiktion. Analyzes of contemporary German-language literature (= kaleidograms 57), Kadmos, Berlin 2010, pp. 11–33.
  • Heinz J. Drügh: “Because with hindsight it's always easy.” The Haas brand on the ridge of modernity. In: Thomas Wegmann , Norbert Christian Wolf (eds.): “High” and “low”. On the interference of high and popular culture in contemporary literature (= studies and texts on the social history of literature. Vol. 130). de Gruyter Berlin et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-025560-7 , pp. 155-169.
  • Franz Haas: Enlightenment in Austria. The enlightening crime novels by Wolf Haas. In: Sandro M. Moraldo (Ed.): Murder as a creative process. On the detective novel of the present in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (= contributions to modern literary history. Volume 3, Vol. 22). Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5060-6 , pp. 127-134.
  • Michael Jaumann: “But that's exactly the theme of the story!” Dialogue and metafiction in Wolf Haas' Das Wetter 15 years ago. In: J. Alexander Bareis, Frank Thomas Grub (Ed.): Metafiktion. Analyzes of contemporary German-language literature (= kaleidograms 57). Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86599-102-7 , pp. 203-225.
  • Gunther Martens: “But when you jump off a mountain, it's the other way around.” On narrator profiling in the meta-thriller by Wolf Haas. In: Modern Austrian Literature. Journal of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association. Vol. 39, No. 1, 2006, ISSN  0026-7503 , pp. 65-80.
  • Eike Muny: Telling without eternity. Strategies of recess at Wolf Haas. In: Jan Broch, Markus Rassiller (Hrsg.): Schrift-Zeiten. Poetological constellations from the early modern period to the postmodern period (= Small Writings of the University and City Library. Vol. 19). University and City Library Cologne, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-931596-35-4 , pp. 223-237.
  • Sigrid Nindl: Wolf Haas and his criminal literary language experiment (= philological studies and sources. H. 219). Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-503-09888-0 (also: Salzburg, University dissertation, 2008).
  • Hubert Winkels (Ed.): Wolf Haas meets Wilhelm Raabe. The Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize - the event and the consequences. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0195-5 .

Web links

Commons : Wolf Haas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Driving into the face of the reader with the Oasch, without further ado" at krimi-couch.de, accessed on September 6, 2014.
  2. ↑ The man behind ... Wolf Haas
  3. ↑ Wolf Haas: The weather 15 years ago. Roman, Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2006, p. 6
  4. ↑ Wolf Haas on the website of the artist agency Tom Produkt
  5. ↑ https://www.kulturradio.de/programm/schema/sendung/kulturradio_am_nachsprache/archiv/20181106_1505/zu_gast_1610.html
  6. ^ Sigrid Nindl: Wolf Haas and his criminal literary language experiment , Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-503-09888-0 , p. 193
  7. ↑ Simon from the police. Frankfurter Rundschau , December 21, 2010.
  8. ↑ Bernhard Flieher: Mr. Haas and hot love , in: Salzburger Nachrichten , September 15, 2018, supplement, p. 5
  9. ↑ orf.at - Wolf Haas receives literary prize for grotesque humor . Article dated July 6, 2015, accessed July 6, 2015.
  10. ↑ Jonathan Swift Prize for Wolf Haas , hoffmann-und-campe.de, accessed on September 7, 2016.
  11. ↑ orf.at: State Prize for European Literature to Karl Ove Knausgard . Article dated April 23, 2017, accessed April 23, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Haas, wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Maria Alm , Austria