Josef Haslinger (born July 5, 1955) is an Austrian writer.
Haslinger was born in
Zwettl
Zwettl (; Central Bavarian: ''Zwedl''; Czech: ''Světlá'') is a town and district capital of the Austrian state of Lower Austria. It is chiefly known as the location of Zwettl Abbey, first mentioned in October 1139.
History
The name origina ...
,
Lower Austria
Lower Austria ( , , abbreviated LA or NÖ) is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Major cities are Amstetten, Lower Austria, Amstetten, Krems an der Donau, Wiener Neustadt and Sankt Pölten, which ...
. He studied philosophy, drama and Germanic studies at the University of Vienna.
He received his PhD in 1980.
Since then he has been working as a freelance writer.
1976 to 1992 he was co-editor of the literary magazine "Wespennest".
In 1983/84 Haslinger had a teaching position at the
University of Kassel
The University of Kassel () is a university founded in 1971 located in Kassel, Hessen, in central Germany. As of February 2022 it had about 25,000 students and about 3300 staff, including more than 300 professors.
A special unit (Studienkoll ...
, was Secretary General of the Graz Authors' Assembly from 1986 to 1989, and from 1986 to 1994 co-organizer of the "Vienna Lectures on Literature".
In 1995 he was a lecturer at the University of Kassel and wrote parts of his political thriller novel, ''Opernball'' (Opera Ball) there.
Haslinger has taught since 1996 as a professor of literary aesthetics at the German Literature Institute in
Leipzig
Leipzig (, ; ; Upper Saxon: ; ) is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, eighth-largest city in Ge ...
.
He lives between Vienna and Leipzig.
Awards and honors
* 1980
Theodor Körner Prize
* 1982 Österreichisches Staatsstipendium für Literatur
* 1984 Förderungspreis der Stadt Wien
* 1985 Stipendium des Deutschen Literaturfonds
* 1988 Österreichisches Dramatikerstipendium
* 1993–94 Elias Canetti-Stipendium der Stadt Wien
* 1994 Stipendium des Deutschen Literaturfonds
* 1994 Förderungspreis des Landes Niederösterreich für Literatur
* 1996 New-York-Stipendium des Deutschen Literaturfonds
* 2000
Literaturpreis der Stadt Wien
* 2000 Ehrenpreis des österreichischen Buchhandels für Toleranz in Denken und Handeln
* 2010
Mainzer StadtschreiberJosef Haslinger wird Mainzer Stadtschreiber 2010
in der Allgemeinen Zeitung Mainz vom 9. November 2009
Works
Prose
* Der Konviktskaktus (Erzählungen) (1980)
* Der Rauch im Wald (1981)
* Hugo Sonnenschein (1984)
* Der Tod des Kleinhäuslers Ignaz Hajek (Novelle) (1985)
* Opernball (1995)
* Das Vaterspiel (2000)
* Zugvögel. Erzählungen. S. Fischer Verlag (2006)
* Phi Phi Island. Ein Bericht. S. Fischer Verlag (2007)
Essays
* Die Ästhetik des Novalis (1981)
* Politik der Gefühle – Ein Essay über Österreich (1987). Fischer-Verlag
* Wozu brauchen wir Atlantis (1990)
* Das Elend Amerikas. 11 Versuche über ein gelobtes Land (1992)
* Hausdurchsuchungen im Elfenbeinturm (1996)
* Klasse Burschen (2001)
* Am Ende der Sprachkultur? Über das Schicksal von Schreiben, Sprechen und Lesen. ( Wiener Karl Kraus Vorlesungen zur Kulturkritik, Band 1), (2003)
Editor
* ''Wie werde ich ein verdammt guter Schriftsteller? Berichte aus der Werkstatt'', Hg. zus. mit Hans-Ulrich Treichel. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 2005. TB
* ''Schreiben lernen – Schreiben lehren'', Hg. zus. mit Hans-Ulrich Treichel. Frankfurt/Main: Fischer, 2006. TB
External links
Josef Haslinger Lecture: Narrating Integration: One Story at a Time
– European Union Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Haslinger, Josef
1955 births
Living people
20th-century Austrian novelists
21st-century Austrian novelists
20th-century Austrian male writers
21st-century Austrian male writers
People from Zwettl
Academic staff of the University of Kassel
Austrian male novelists
Austrian male essayists
International Writing Program alumni
20th-century Austrian essayists
21st-century essayists
21st-century male writers