Wolfgang Maria Siegmund

Wolfgang Maria Siegmund (* 1956 in Graz ) is an Austrian writer .

Life

After studying law, Siegmund has been a freelance writer since 1985. He mainly writes poetry , plays and radio plays , occasionally also essays . Siegmund was a member of the "Nebelhorn" group in Graz. Today he lives in Pörtschach am Wörthersee and Villach in Carinthia .

Wolfgang Maria Siegmund received the “Austrian Dramatic Scholarship of the Federal Ministry” for five of his plays, as well as scholarships for Berlin, Trieste and Venice, as well as several prizes.

Sometimes he is also on stage with the blues harp .

Works

prose

• Men’s b (r) uch. Graz, Leykam 2009
• Shame on you, Europe. Graz, Styria 2013

Poetry

• The thinned Pacific. Poems. Graz, Leykam 1984
• Sketches for a bride of the wind. Poems. Graz, Leykam 1988
• There must still be fathers somewhere. Prose poems. Vienna, Zsolnay 1990
• The semi-sweet life. Poems from Trieste and Venice. Graz, Leykam 1993
• Adria is not by the sea. Poems. Graz, Leykam 1994

Dramas

• The Poet's Girl, world premiere at the Vienna Volkstheater in the Great House, 1995
• A love in war, first performance at the Villach studio stage in 1995
• Coco & Peggy, Ritz and Revolution (drama scholarship from the Federal Ministry in 2002)

Radio plays

• Pegasus wants a Borsalino (ORF 1985)
• Earth, broken shrub (ORF 1986)
• Late summer days on Kalliste (ORF 1987)
• Above the Poppy Bay (ORF 1989)
• The plump heart of the aeronauts (ORF 1991)
• The Poet's Girl (ORF 1994)
• Men at the end of the millennium (ORF 1999)
• The short life of the idealists (ORF 2001)

Prices

• Advancement award of the city of Graz
• Theodor Körner Prize
• State Prize for Popular Theater Plays from the State of Baden-Württemberg

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Maria Siegmund in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wolfgang Maria Siegmund (website)