Klaus Ebner

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Klaus Ebner (2008)

Klaus Ebner (August 8, 1964 in Vienna) is an Austrian writer of short stories, essays and poetry, and a translator of French and Catalan literature into German. While publishing books on software topics since the early 1990s, and literary fiction in magazines, his first collection of short stories was printed in 2007. Ebner writes poetry in German and in Catalan.

Biography

In the 1980s, Klaus Ebner studied Romance languages, German philology and Translation at the University of Vienna. At that time, he was working for a literary circle and a Viennese magazine for literature[1]. Eventually he concentrated on various professional careers, such as translation[2], foreign language teaching and the engagement in IT projects[3]. In the 1990s, he published articles and books on software and networking topics; while these books were written in German[4], he also wrote some articles in English[5]. In 2001, while studying European economy at a Viennese University of Applied Sciences, he authored a paper in politics about islamism in Europe, which was published eventually in Germany[6].

Since graduation from school, Klaus Ebner has written short prose, poetry and radio plays. Usually he published them in literary and cultural magazines. After the year 2004, literary publishing became much more frequent[7]. Today, Klaus Ebner is an author of narrative fiction (novel, short story, short prose), essays and poems. He writes poetry in German and Catalan. Supported by a subsidy for literature from the Austrian government, he went to Andorra in 2007 and put down an essay about the country in the Pyrenees[8].

Ebner's works reflect the awareness of multicultural societies, the togetherness of different mentalities, languages, ethnicities and faiths.[9] Tolerance plays an eminent role, which becomes even more visible within the second collection of prose, Auf der Kippe (On the Brink)[10]. At the International Poetry Prize Nosside, he was mentioned with a poem in German, accompanied by its English translation. The jury referred to the "metropolitan tristesse" in the poem which describes a paperman whose "meal consists of loneliness".[11] The English translation[12] of the poem goes as follows:

a paperman and sick
 forlorn in drunkenness
 the wheels are blocking
 clumsily
 his meal consists of loneliness
 its garnish
 is the yearning for the past
 beguiled by shouts of thunder
 hope
 that long ago
 has died

In 2008 Klaus Ebner was awarded the Wiener Werkstattpreis of 2007. The winning short story Der Flügel Last (The Wings' Burden) describes a seven year old girl who suffers from cancer. The narrative style evokes the child's perspective. The winning essay Was blieb vom Weißen Ritter? (What Remains of the White Knight?) gives some insight into the medieval novel Tirant lo Blanch by Joanot Martorell from Valencia. The author intermingled his own reading experience with philological and historical information.[13]

Klaus Ebner is living and working in Vienna. He is a member of the Austrian Writers' Associations Grazer Autorenversammlung (GAV)[14] and Österreichischer Schriftstellerverband (ÖSV).

Awards and Literary Prizes

  • 2008 Subsidy for Literature by the Austrian Government
  • 2007 Wiener Werkstattpreis 2007, Vienna
  • 2007 Travel Subsidy by the Austrian Government
  • 2007 "Menzione" at the Premio Internazionale di Poesia Nosside, Reggio Calabria
  • 2005 Feldkircher Lyrikpreis (4th)
  • 2004 La Catalana de Lletres 2004 Mention and publication in the anthology, (Barcelona)
  • 1988 Erster Österreichischer Jugendpreis for the novel Nils
  • 1984 Radio Play Award by the literary magazine Texte (3rd)
  • 1982 Erster Österreichischer Jugendpreis for the novella Das Brandmal/The Stigma

Books

  • Auf der Kippe/On the brink; prose (in German), Arovell Verlag, Gosau 2008, ISBN 978-3902547675
  • Lose/Destinies; short stories (in German), Edition Nove, Neckenmarkt 2007, ISBN 978-3852511979

Contributions to anthologies (examples)

  • Träume/Dreams; short prose (in German), in: Junge Literatur aus Österreich 85/86, Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-215-06096-5
  • Heimfahrt/Coming Home; short story (in German), in: Ohnmacht Kind, Boesskraut & Bernardi, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7004-0660-6
  • Island/Iceland; poem (in German), in: Vom Wort zum Buch, Edition Doppelpunkt, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85273-056-2
  • Abflug/Departure; short story (in German), in: Gedanken-Brücken, Edition Doppelpunkt, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85273-102-X
  • El perquè de tot plegat/The Reason of All This; poem (in Catalan), in: La Catalana de Lletres 2004, Cossetània Edicions, Barcelona 2005, ISBN 84-9791-098-2
  • Das Begräbnis/The Funeral; short story (in German), in: Kaleidoskop, Edition Atelier, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-902498-01-3
  • Weinprobe/Wine degustation; short story (in German), in: Das Mädchen aus dem Wald, Lerato-Verlag, Oschersleben (FRG) 2006, ISBN 3-938882-14-X
  • Routiniert/Routined; short story (in German), in: Sexlibris, Schreiblust Verlag, Dortmund (FRG) 2007, ISBN 978-3-9808-2781-2
  • Die Stadt und das Meer/The City and the Sea; essay (in German), in: Reisenotizen, FAZ Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3950229943

Additional sources

  • Author's handbook "Literarisches Leben in Österreich" (Literature in Austria) Nr. 5 from the IG Autorinnen Autoren in Austria, Editor Gerhard Ruiss, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-900419-29-9, p. 730
  • Anthology "Kaleidoskop", Editor Eleonore Zuzak, Edition Atelier, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-902498-01-3, biography on p. 368
  • Literary Magazine "Lichtungen" Nr. 109/2007, Graz (Austria) 2007, ISSN 1012-4705, biography on p. 114
  • Literary Magazine "Podium" Nr. 143/144, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-902054-48-7, story on p. 77, biography on p. 83
  • Literary Magazine "Literatur und Kritik" Nr. 397/398, Salzburg (Austria) 2005, essay on p. 19, biography on p. 111
  • Author's biography, literary magazine DUM (Austria)
  • Literary Magazine "Neue Sirene" Nr. 21, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-020358-9, ISSN 0945-9995, biography on p. 131

Notes

  1. ^ Austrian National Library; cf. entries about the magazine Texte, Vienna 1983-1986.
  2. ^ Cf. Ebner, Klaus and Dieter Lorenz: DNS-Implementierung im Windows-Netzwerk/Implementing DNS on Windows Networks; Microsoft Press, Unterschleißheim 2004, p. 427.
  3. ^ Cf. idem and Credle, Rufus, Klaus Ebner, John Greco and Massimo Re Ferrè: Migrating IBM Netfinity Servers to Microsoft Windows 2000; ITSO Redbook, Research Triangle Park NC 1999, p. X.
  4. ^ The books were published by Data Becker, Markt & Technik, IWT, TEWI and Microsoft Press between 1989 and 2004.
  5. ^ NT Update, issues 9, 10, 14ff., xephon, London 1999-2002.
  6. ^ Ebner, Klaus: Islamischer Fundamentalismus in der EU/Islamic Fundamentalism in the EU; essay (in German), GRIN Verlag, Munich 2001/2007, ISBN 978-3638696982
  7. ^ Cf. to the anthology publication list on the author's official home page www.klausebner.eu, which indicates the respective publishing year.
  8. ^ Cf. Ebner, Auf der Kippe, p. 139 (author's biography).
  9. ^ Cf. e.g. to the stories Notruf (Emergency Call), Momentaufnahme (Snapshot) and Der Pflegling (The Foster Son) in: Ebner, Klaus: Lose, Neckenmarkt 2007.
  10. ^ E.g. dämonisch/demoniac describes the encounter of two men personalizing islamism and evangelicalism, hanebüchen/preposterous questions fatalism, grotesk/grotesque and xenophil/xenophile attack xenophobism.
  11. ^ Cf. Amoroso, Giuseppe: L'immaginario dei poeti del Nosside 2007 e il loro potere di esprimere il mondo, Città del Sole Edizioni ISBN 978-8873511847, Reggio Calabria 2007; p. 41 (Italian version), p. 49f. (Spanish version), p. 58 (Portuguese version).
  12. ^ Ebner, Klaus: a paperman and sick, in: Amato, Pasquale and Mariela Johnson Salfrán: Nosside 2007, Città del Sole Edizioni, Reggio Calabria 2007, p. 113.
  13. ^ Both texts have been published in the Prize Brochure: Schaden, Peter (Ed.): wordshop x, FZA Verlag, Vienna 2008.
  14. ^ Cf. to the members' list of GAV, entry about Klaus Ebner.

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