Xaver Bayer
Xaver Bayer (born May 5, 1977 in Vienna ) is an Austrian writer .
life and work
Xaver Bayer has lived as a freelance writer in Vienna since studying philosophy and German . In 2000 he founded the Internet platform Die Flut (Internet platform) , one of the first digital literary collectives. In addition to his novels, short stories and plays, he has written various texts on artistic work, for example for Martha Jungwirth , GRAM and David Schnell ; He was also co-author of the screenplay for the film The Shine of the Day by Rainer Frimmel and Tizza Covi , which was awarded the Max Ophüls Prize , among others . In 2012, his text “When the children throw stones into the water”, a prose that runs in a single sentence and is based on a never-ending stream of thoughts , was adapted for the theater in the Schauspielhaus Wien . His text “At this moment” served the composer Alexander Stankovski as the basis for a concert-staged audio piece that premiered at Wien Modern 2017 and was first broadcast in a radiophonic version by Ö1 Kunstradio - Radiokunst 2018.
Awards
- 2002: Hermann Lenz scholarship
- 2004: Reinhard Priessnitz Prize
- 2005: Austrian Promotion Prize for Literature
- 2008: Hermann Lenz Prize
- 2011: Austrian Promotion Prize of the City of Vienna
- 2014: Literar Mechana Scholarship
- 2019: Lower Austrian Culture Prize - Recognition Prize in the Literature category
Works
- Today could be a happy day (Roman, 2001) (TB 2003 ISBN 3-518-45522-2 )
- The Alaskastrasse (novel, 2003) (TB 2005 ISBN 3-518-45707-1 )
- When I woke up today, got up and washed, it suddenly seemed to me that everything in this world was clear to me and that I knew how to live (play, 2004) ISBN 978-3902113276
- Next (Roman, 2006) ISBN 978-3-902497-12-3
- The book of rain and snow (prose, 2007, with lithographs by Martha Jungwirth) ISBN 3-900-678-90-1
- The transparent hands (short stories, 2008) ISBN 978-3-902497-42-0
- When the children throw stones into the water (short story, 2011) ISBN 978-3-902497-87-1
- From the next room (prose, poems, 2014) ISBN 978-3-902951-07-6
- Mysterious crackling from the magic realm (Prose, 2014) ISBN 978-3-99027-055-4
- Atlas (narration, 2017) ISBN 978-3-7099-3406-7
- Wildlife Park (prose, 2019) ISBN 978-3-902951-36-6
- Stories with Marianne , Jung and Jung, Salzburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-99027-240-4
Editing
- Austropilot. Prose and poetry from Austrian literary magazines of the 1970s (Eds. By Xaver Bayer and Hanno Millesi, 2016) ISBN 978-3-903005-20-4
literature
- Martin Brinkmann : Uncomfortable worlds. Reality experiences in the new German-language literature, presented on the basis of Christian Kracht's “Fiberland” (1995), Elke Naters “Königinnen” (1998), Xaver Bayer's “Today could be a happy day” (2001) and Wolfgang Schömel's “Die Schnecke. Mostly Neurotic Stories ”(2002) . In: Weimar Contributions 53 (2007), no. 1, pp. 17–46
Web links
- Literature by and about Xaver Bayer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website dieflut.at
- Video reading “The transparent hands” on tenseiten.de
- Interview on ZEIT-online
supporting documents
- ↑ oe1.orf.at: Ö1 Art Sunday: Radio Art - Art Radio | SO | 20 05 2018 | 23:00. Retrieved March 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Michaela Fleck: Culture Awards 2019: 24 awards and lots of art from Lower Austria. In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten . November 5, 2019, accessed November 5, 2019 .
- ^ Xaver Bayer: The riddle called Reality , review by Cornelius Wüllenkemper on Deutschlandfunk from April 22, 2015, accessed May 6, 2015
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bayer, Xaver |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 5th 1977 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |