Walter Kappacher
Walter Kappacher ( born October 24, 1938 in Salzburg) is an Austrian writer.
Life
He grew up in Salzburg, Kappacher graduated after attending the elementary and secondary school teachers and journeyman years as a motorcycle mechanic. He was excited for a few years from motorcycle racing. After his military years, he developed an increasing interest for theater and began training in a drama school in Munich, which he broke off again. When determining interest became more and more reading and writing in the foreground. As a day job, he chose the work of a travel office businessman.
Kappacher has been writing since 1964. He first published in 1967 some short stories in the Stuttgarter Zeitung. 1978, after his fortieth birthday, he decided - with a screenwriting job in hand - to terminate and to live from writing. He wrote a series of stories and novels, as well as radio plays and television screenplays. Gero von Wilpert characterized Kappacher in his encyclopedia of world literature as " realistic narrator from the everyday working life of workers and employees in plain language." Erwin Chargaff recognizes the style of Walter Kappacher with the words: "He writes a kind of high swelling prose. Infinity lot of work goes into a style that is not at first perceive. "Within the largely influenced by author groupings contemporary Austrian literature takes a Kappacher one of the few maverick positions.
Kappacher lives in the upper strand. He is a member of the Austrian P.E.N. Clubs, the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt and support of high-level prices and an honorary doctorate.
Works
- Only flying is more beautiful. Salzburg 1973.
- Morning. Salzburg 1975.
- The workshop. Salzburg 1975.
- Rosina. Stuttgart in 1978, with an afterword by Armin Ayren, Deuticke, Vienna, 2010. ISBN 978-3-552-06147-7.
- The earthly love. Stuttgart 1979.
- With Peter Keglevic: The years pass. Screenplay, Salzburg 1980.
- The long letter. Stuttgart 1982.
- Plaster head. Graz 1984.
- Cerreto. Records from Tuscany. With drawings by the author, Salzburg 1989.
- Touristomania or the fiction of the upright. Vienna 1990.
- An amateur. Vienna 1993.
- He who laughs first. Vienna 1997.
- Silver Arrows. Vienna 2000.
- Selina or the other life. Vienna 2005.
- Clairvoyant are often alarmist. Memories to Erwin Chargaff. Publisher Ulrich Keicher, Warmbronn 2007, ISBN 978-3-938743-52-2.
- The Flying Palace. St. Pölten Salzburg 2009.
- Beauty of the offense. Photo book, Salzburg 2009.
- Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses. Notes, findings and thirteen photographs. Afterword by Matthias Bormuth. Publisher Ulrich Keicher, Warmbronn 2010, ISBN 978-3-938743-86-7.
- Land of red rocks. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-23861-9. March 2012: ORF -best list
- The Blackbirds of Parsch and other prose, Müry Salzmann, Salzburg - Vienna, 2013, ISBN 978-3-99014-073-4.