Klaus Händl

Klaus Händl was born in the year 1969 in Rum, Tyrol, Austria; he is an Austrian writer and an actor.

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Biography

Klaus Händl was born in Rum near Innsbruck. He began his career in the theatre of the country as an actor in Vienna’s Schauspielhaus.

He is a film and theatre professor at the University of Applied Art in the city of Vienna. He is currently living in Vienna, Berlin and Port am Bielersee in Switzerland.

 Works

• Legenden. 35 Prosastücke, 1994.
• Satz Bäurin, 1995. Klagenfurter Texte.
• Kleine Vogelkunde, 1996. Radio play.
• Ich ersehne die Alpen; So entstehen die Seen, 2001. Play.
• Häftling von Mab, 2002. Libretto; music.
• Dunkel lockende Welt, 2006. Play.
• Vom Mond, 2006. Libretto.
• Stücke, 2006. Theater plays.
• Wilde - Der Mann mit den traurigen Augen, 2007.
• Dunkel lockende Welt, 2008.
• März, 2008. Feature film

Awards

• Robert-Walser-Preis, Rauriser Literaturpreis in the year 1995
• ORF-Hörspielpreis Radio Play of the Year 1996
• Subsidy of the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin in the year 2002
• Hermann-Lenz-Stipendium (subsidy) in the year 2002
• Nestroy-Theaterpreis nomination as best young playwright in 2004
• Theater prize of the Cultural Circle of the German Economy in 2005
• Playwright of the Year by the magazine Theater heute ("Theater Today") in the year 2006
• Literature subsidies of Tyrol, Welti Dramatikerpreis of the city of Bern for playwrights, Feldkircher Lyrikpreis in the year 2007
• Silver Leopard for the best debut feature at the Locarno International Film Festival, for the movie called März in 2008
• Culture Award of the city of Biel in the year 2008
• Special Award of the Jury at the Sarajevo Film Festival for the movie März in the year 2008
• Berner Filmpreis for the movie März in the year 2008