# Josef Haslinger

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{{Short description|Austrian writer (born 1955)}}
thumbnail|Josef Haslinger on Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2012
'''Josef Haslinger''' (born July 5, 1955) is an Austrian writer.

Haslinger was born in [Zwettl](/source/Zwettl), [Lower Austria](/source/Lower_Austria). He studied philosophy, drama and Germanic studies at the University of Vienna.<ref name="Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig">{{cite web | title=Prof. Dr. Josef Haslinger | website=Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig | url=https://www.deutsches-literaturinstitut.de/mitarbeiter-detail.html?name=prof-dr-josef-haslinger | language=de | access-date=7 July 2021}}</ref> He received his PhD in 1980.<ref name="Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig" /> Since then he has been working as a freelance writer.<ref name="Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig" /> 1976 to 1992 he was co-editor of the literary magazine "Wespennest".<ref name="Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig" />

In 1983/84 Haslinger had a teaching position at the [University of Kassel](/source/University_of_Kassel), 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".<ref name="Archiv für die Geschichte der Soziologie in Österreich">{{cite web | title=Josef Haslinger | website=Archiv für die Geschichte der Soziologie in Österreich | url=http://agso.uni-graz.at/marienthal/biografien/haslinger_josef.htm | language=de | access-date=7 July 2021}}</ref> In 1995 he was a lecturer at the University of Kassel and wrote parts of his political thriller novel, ''Opernball'' (Opera Ball) there.<ref name="Archiv für die Geschichte der Soziologie in Österreich" />

Haslinger has taught since 1996 as a professor of literary aesthetics at the German Literature Institute in [Leipzig](/source/Leipzig).<ref name="Value 2008" /> He lives between Vienna and Leipzig.<ref name="Value 2008">{{cite web | title=Josef Haslinger | website=S. Fischer Verlage | date=1 December 2008 | url=https://www.fischerverlage.de/autor/josef-haslinger-1000148 | language=de | access-date=7 July 2021}}</ref>

==Awards and honors==
* 1980 [Theodor Körner Prize](/source/Theodor_K%C3%B6rner_Prize)<ref name="Value 2008" />
* 1982 Österreichisches Staatsstipendium für Literatur<ref name="Value 2008" />
* 1984 Förderungspreis der Stadt Wien<ref name="Value 2008" />
* 1985 Stipendium des Deutschen Literaturfonds<ref name="Value 2008" />
* 1988 Österreichisches Dramatikerstipendium<ref name="Value 2008" />
* 1993–94 Elias Canetti-Stipendium der Stadt Wien<ref name="Value 2008" />
* 1994 Stipendium des Deutschen Literaturfonds<ref name="Value 2008" />
* 1994 Förderungspreis des Landes Niederösterreich für Literatur<ref name="Value 2008" />
* 1996 New-York-Stipendium des Deutschen Literaturfonds
* 2000 [Literaturpreis der Stadt Wien](/source/Literaturpreis_der_Stadt_Wien)<ref name="Value 2008" />
* 2000 Ehrenpreis des österreichischen Buchhandels für Toleranz in Denken und Handeln
* 2010 [Mainzer Stadtschreiber](/source/Mainzer_Stadtschreiber)<ref>[http://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/region/kultur/literatur/7837163.htm Josef Haslinger wird Mainzer Stadtschreiber 2010] in der Allgemeinen Zeitung Mainz vom 9. November 2009</ref><ref name="Value 2008" />
* 2011 [Rheingau Literatur Preis](/source/Rheingau_Literatur_Preis)<ref name="Value 2008" />

== Works ==

=== Prose ===
* ''Der Konviktskaktus'' (stories) (1980)
* ''Der Rauch im Wald'' (1981)
* ''Hugo Sonnenschein'' (1984)
* ''Der Tod des Kleinhäuslers Ignaz Hajek'' (short story) (1985)
* ''[Opernball](/source/Opernball_(novel))'' (1995)
* ''[Das Vaterspiel](/source/Das_Vaterspiel)'' (2000)
* ''Zugvögel'' (stories) S.&nbsp;Fischer Verlag {{ISBN|3-10-030057-2}} (2006)
* ''Phi Phi Island. Ein Bericht.'' S.&nbsp;Fischer Verlag {{ISBN|978-3-10-030059-1}} (2007)

=== Essays ===
* Die Ästhetik des Novalis (1981)
* Politik der Gefühle – Ein Essay über Österreich (1987). [Fischer-Verlag](/source/S._Fischer_Verlag) {{ISBN|3-596-12365-8}}
* 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](/source/Wiener_Karl_Kraus_Vorlesungen_zur_Kulturkritik), Band 1), {{ISBN|3-902416-01-7}} (2003)

=== Editor ===
* ''Wie werde ich ein verdammt guter Schriftsteller? Berichte aus der Werkstatt'', Hg. zus. mit Hans-Ulrich Treichel. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 2005. TB {{ISBN|978-3-518-12395-9}}
* ''Schreiben lernen – Schreiben lehren'', Hg. zus. mit Hans-Ulrich Treichel. Frankfurt/Main: Fischer, 2006. TB {{ISBN|978-3-596-16967-2}}

== See also ==

* [List of Austrian writers](/source/List_of_Austrian_writers)

== External links ==
*[http://ensemble.atlas.uiuc.edu/app/sites/JiIDkqbJTUSDLbRMr_eZAQ.aspx?destinationID=JiIDkqbJTUSDLbRMr_eZAQ&contentID=t4WnwmBWNUWY3nzqNFavWQ Josef Haslinger Lecture: Narrating Integration: One Story at a Time] – European Union Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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