Xaver Bayer

Xaver Bayer (Vienna 2008)

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

1. ↑ oe1.orf.at: Ö1 Art Sunday: Radio Art - Art Radio | SO | 20 05 2018 | 23:00. Retrieved March 3, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Michaela Fleck: Culture Awards 2019: 24 awards and lots of art from Lower Austria. In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten . November 5, 2019, accessed November 5, 2019 . 
3. ^ Xaver Bayer: The riddle called Reality , review by Cornelius Wüllenkemper on Deutschlandfunk from April 22, 2015, accessed May 6, 2015