Josef Haslinger

Josef Haslinger ( born July 5, 1955 in Zwettl, Lower Austria ) is an Austrian writer and since May 2013 President of the PEN center of Germany.

Life

Haslinger was born in Lower Austria's Waldviertel and grew up in Great Meinharts for large Gerungs. In Vienna he studied philosophy, theater studies and German literature and received his PhD in 1980 on the aesthetics of Novalis. With Gustav Ernst Haslinger was from 1977, the literary journal wasps nest out. In the 1980s, he was for many years Secretary of the Graz Authors ' Meeting, the largest association of writers in Austria.

In his work Haslinger exerts social criticism and focuses on dealing with the history of the country Austria. His socially critical analysis he carried in a differentiated and concise narrative style. Josef Haslinger founded in 1992 with the human rights organization SOS fellow human being, its first chairman, he was together with Willi Resetarits to 1993. In 1995 he was a lecturer at the University of Kassel and wrote there parts of his novel Opera Ball. As 1983-1984, where he was first a lecturer at the University of Kassel, he explored in detail the natural surroundings of Kassel, which can be evidenced by the literary mention of the North Hessian village Obervorschütz.

His political thriller Opera Ball, in which a terrorist attack is described on the Vienna Opera Ball from different views, made him known beyond the borders of Austria. 1998 originated from the book a three -hour TV movie with an international cast: Opera Ball - Victims / Perpetrators.

Haslinger has taught since 1996 as a professor of literary aesthetics at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. As a member of senior management, he was repeatedly Director of the Institute of the University of Leipzig.

Haslinger is a member of PEN Center Germany and, since May of 2013 two years its president.

In his work published in 2007 Phi Phi Iceland Haslinger recorded his experiences during the Thailand - holiday his family over Christmas 2004. Haslinger, his wife Edith and the children Sophie and Elijah experienced first hand on Phi Phi Iceland the tsunami. Only with luck survived all family members to the natural disaster.

Awards and honors

Works

Prose

• The Konviktskaktus. Narratives. 1980
• The smoke in the woods. 1981
• Hugo Sonnenschein. 1984
• The death of the small cottager Ignaz Hajek. Amendment. 1985
• Opera Ball. 1995
• The Father game. 2000
• Migratory birds. Narratives. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-10-030057-2.
• Phi Phi Iceland. A report. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-030059-1.
• Jáchymov. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-030061-4. ( Fictional Biography of Hockey goalkeeper Bohumil Modrý )

Performance, radio play, rap

America. an epic journey. ( Story also in: migratory birds ). Haslinger reads and rap accompanied by the trombonist Bertl mothers and Werner Puntigam. Record in 1993, and later as a CD. Produced by hr2.

Literature, Essays

• The aesthetics of Novalis. (1981)
• Politics of Emotions - An essay on Austria. ( Rev. edition, 1995), Fischer- Verlag, ISBN 3-596-12365-8
• Why do we need Atlantis? (1990)
• The misery of America. 11 attempts over a promised land. (1992)
• House searches in an ivory tower. (1996)
• Class boys. (2001)
• At the end of the language culture? The fate of writing, speaking and reading. ( St. Charles Kraus lectures on cultural criticism, Volume 1 ), ISBN 3-902416-01-7 (2003)

Publishing activities

• ROTWEISSBUCH. Austrian authors to connect 1938. Gangan, Graz / Vienna, 1988, ISBN 3-900530-13-0.
• How do I become a damn good writer? Reports from the workshop. Edited by Hans-Ulrich Treichel together with a couple, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / Main 2005, TB: ISBN 978-3-518-12395-9.
• Writing to learn - teach writing. Edited by Hans-Ulrich Treichel together with a couple, Fischer, Frankfurt / Main 2006, TB: ISBN 978-3-596-16967-2.