Robert Schindel

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Robert Schindel
Schindel at the Vienna Book in 2023
Born (1944-04-04) 4 April 1944 (age 80)
NationalityAustrian
Occupations
  • Lyricist
  • Director
  • Author
Political partyCommunist Party of Austria (1961–1967)
AwardsSee Awards
WebsiteOfficial website (in German)

Robert Schindel (born 4 April 1944) is an Austrian lyricist, director and author.

Life and career

Robert Schindel was born on 4 April 1944 in Bad Hall, Upper Austria to Jewish communist parents.

From 1950 to 1954, he attended elementary school and then the Bundesrealgymnasium in Vienna. In 1959, Robert Schindel left the Gymnasium; he was "entlassen wegen schlechter Führung" ("dismissed because of poor conduct")[1] and began an apprenticeship as a bookseller at Globus-Verlag in Vienna, which he broke off. This was followed by trips to Paris and Sweden, where he made his way as a dishwasher among other things.

According to his own statement, he was a member of the Communist Party of Austria from 1961 to 1967.[1]

In 1967, Schindel caught up with his Matura, studied philosophy and law for two semesters and was involved in Maoist circles. However, he described Café Hawelka as his real university, where he met H. C. Artmann and Oskar Werner among others.[2]

He became one of the founders of the student movement "Kommune Wien", based on the Berlin model, and the literary magazine Hundsblume, in which he also published his lyrical texts. Other artists who became famous later, such as

Konstantin Kaiser and Leander Kaiser
, also belonged to his circle. In 1970 Schindel published the novel Kassandra.

Robert Schindel is a member of the

Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg and the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. He founded the first state literary institution in Austria to promote creative writing and has been teaching there as a university lecturer at the Institute for Linguistic Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
since 2009.

Awards

Works

Schindel (right) with Clarissa Stadler at o-töne in 2013
In anthology

Theatre

Literature

External links

References

  1. ^ a b "Schindel.at". www.schindel.at. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Wörtlich – Robert Schindel". cba – cultural broadcasting archive (in German). Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  3. ^ Eintrag zu Schindel, Robert beim Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD.
  4. ^ Robert Schindel erhielt Auszeichnung der Stadt Wien Rathauskorrespondenz 12 October 2005 (Retrieved 11 June 2010)
  5. ^ "www.buecher.at – Hauptverband österreichischer Buchhandel – HVB – News – Johann-Beer-Preis 2013 für Robert Schindel". 2 December 2013. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  6. Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
    , 17 March 2013, S. 43
  7. ^ Rezension von Michaela Schmitz zu Scharlachnatter im Deutschlandfunk, 8 December 2015. Komplettes Interview
  8. ^ Ken Babstock, Claude Beausoleil, Nico Bleutge, Marc A. Brouillette, Suzanne Buffam, Denise Desautels, Stéphane Despatie, Hélène Dorion, Louise Dupré, Tim Lilburn, Orsolya Kalasz, Erín Moure, Robert Schindel, Sabine Scho, Lutz Seiler, Karen Solie, Paul Vermeersch, Jan Wagner