Christian Mähr

Christian Mähr ( born February 6, 1952 in Feldkirch / Vorarlberg) is an Austrian chemist, science editor and writer.

Life

Mähr attended a high school in Feldkirch, studied after high school from 1970 Chemistry at the University of Innsbruck. He finished his studies in 1982 with a doctorate. He then worked as a science editor at the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1999 he took part in Klagenfurt at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition. Mähr now lives in Dornbirn district of hazel shrubs in Vorarlberg.

He is the author of novels and radio plays which are attributed to the fantastic literature. 1985 is going to be radio play " chlorophyll " in the ORF on the air. It covers almost 10 years earlier the same problem as Steven Spielberg's epochal film "Jurassic Park" the derailment of nature, but at Mähr of horsetails, overgrow the entire United States of America. Open, however, remains at Mähr the cause and the further course. The following year produced the ORF Vorarlberg Mährs radio play " The trans- Plutonian plague". In addition, Christian Mähr translated from English. In 1992 he won the two most important German science fiction with his novel Prices Fatous dust. The book is about an author who makes contact to a parallel world in which there has been neither WWII nor the murder of the Jews in the sense of an alternative world history. Although the Wilhelmine era lives on, but it seems more human and more peaceful than our present.

Similarly fanciful is Mähr in Simon flies before: As a card authorizes the protagonists for levitation. In the last island Mähr leaves a visible only for some people island in the waters of a vacation paradise emerge, and matching people who are not perceived by most people. In the non-fiction book The Lost Inventions, the author of reality holds a mirror in front of other construction: He confronts the reader with quite meaningful innovations that there was indeed, but never got to the breakthrough, and questioned as mocking the idea of ​​progress.

Awards

Works

Novels

• Master mandrel. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich, 1987. ISBN 3-453-31367-4
• Fatous dust. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich, 1991. ISBN 3-453-05374-5
• Simon flies. DuMont Verlag, Cologne, 1998. ISBN 3-7701-4579-8
• The last island. DuMont Verlag, Cologne, 2001. ISBN 3-7701-5551-3
• Semmler deal. Deuticke Verlag, Vienna, 2008. ISBN 978-3-552-06077-7
• All flesh is grass. Deuticke Verlag, Vienna, 2010. ISBN 978-3-552-06127-9
• Karlitos Empire. Limbus Verlag, Hohemems 2010. ISBN 978-3-902534-38-5
• The unspeakably good. Deuticke Verlag, Wien 2011, ISBN 978-3-552-06170-5

Non-fiction

• For the synthesis of Azabicycloheptanen having substituents in the 1-position. Innsbruck 1981 ( dissertation)
• Town of Feldkirch. Photographs by Nicholas Walter, Feldkirch 1993
• Ski Club Arlberg. A century report. St. Anton am Arlberg 2000. ISBN 3-9501375-0-5
• Forgotten inventions. Why Natronlok no longer travels? DuMont Literature and Art Publishing House, Köln 2002. ISBN 3-8321-7816-3
• From alcohol to sugar - Twelve substances that changed the world. DuMont Verlag, Cologne, 2010. ISBN 978-3-8321-8518-3
• Nature Conservation in Vorarlberg. An approach. Limbus Verlag, Innsbruck, 2012. ISBN 978-3-902534-57-6

Radio plays

• Futurum Exactum, ORF 1983 ( Director: Wolfgang Stendar )
• The black hole, ORF 1984 ( Director: Frederik Ribell )
• Chrlorophyll, ORF 1985 ( Director: Augustin Jagg )
• The trans- Plutonian Plage, ORF 1986 ( Director: Augustin Jagg )

Translations

• James Morrow: The only daughter. Munich 1992
• Storm Constantine: Hermetech. Munich 1993
• Storm Constantine: Shadow graves. Munich 1995
• Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky: The Turing Option. Munich 1997.
• Michael Bishop: The heart of a hero. Munich 1998

Criticism

"The reality is after Mähr only one of several possibilities, the existence or non-existence, its chances to become reality, depends on the reader and his decisions. What really wants to be in the future to have a say in his own decisions is called a reader. In this respect, the imaginative sparkling novel returns to his hunts through love and madness but then back to reality. "