Christoph Ransmayr

Christoph Ransmayr ( born March 20, 1954 in Wels, Upper Austria ) is an Austrian writer.

Life

Ransmayr grew up in Roitham up as the son of an elementary school teacher. He studied from 1972 to 1978 Philosophy and Ethnology in Vienna and worked as a cultural editor and writer for various magazines ( " special edition ", " Geo ", " Transatlantic ", " Merian "). Since 1982 he is a freelance writer. Christoph Ransmayr is one of the most important German representatives postmodern narrative, as it manages to combine realistic details with fantastic transformations and inter - textual references and enriching his works with his strong sense of pictorial representations. After the publication of the novel The Last World, he undertook extended trips to Asia and North and South America.

Ransmayr combines in his prose historical facts with fiction. Furthermore, characteristic of Ransmayr novels are the description of cross-border experience and the literary adaptation of historical events and their link or refraction with moments from the present.

1997 Ransmayr held the opening speech of the Salzburg Festival. He read the short story written for the occasion The third air or a stage on the sea. With its rewriting Ovidschen "Metamorphoses ", the novel The Last World (1988 ), Ransmayr achieved great international success ( last Bertolt Brecht Literature Prize of the city of Augsburg, 2004). The title of the novel 's disease Kitahara (1995 ) alludes to an eye disease of the same name, which has an increasing narrowing of the visual field result. It is a metaphor for a moral defect which the main characters, survivors of the Second World War in a devastated no man's land attacks.

His play Odysseus, criminals - Acting homecoming was listed in Dortmund during the events to RUHR.2010.

In 2012 he held the Tubingen poetry chair at Tübingen University together with Raoul Schrott.

Awards

Works

  • Radiant downfall. ( Along with Willy Puchner. ) Brandstätter, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-85447-006-1. Re: Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3- 10-062923 -X.
  • The Terrors of Ice and Darkness. Brandstätter, Vienna, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-85447-043-6.
  • The last world. Greno, Nördlingen, 1988, ISBN 3-89190-244-1.
  • Morbus Kitahara. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-10-062908-6.
  • The way to Surabaya. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-10-062916-7.
  • The third air, or a stage on the sea. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-10-062920-5. Speaking at the opening of the Salzburg Festival in 1997
  • The Invisible. Tirade at three beaches. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-062924-8.
  • The unborn child, or the parts of the sky of Anselm Kiefer. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-10-062925-6.
  • The bow of the giant. From the narration. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-062926-4.
  • Confessions of a tourist. An interrogation. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-10-062927-2.
  • The flying mountain. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-10-062936-4.
  • Men's & Women under water. ( Together with Manfred Wakolbinger. ) S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-062937-1.
  • Odysseus criminals. Spectacle of a homecoming. In: RUHR.2010, Uwe B. Carstensen, Stefanie von Lieven (ed.): theater theater. Odyssey Europe. Current pieces 20 / 10th Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-59618540-5.
  • The wolf hunters. Three Polish duets. ( Together with Martin Pollack. ) S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-062950-0.
  • Atlas of a frightened man S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-062951-7.
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