Wolfgang Bauer

Was born on the 18^th March 1941; he died on the 26^th August 2005. He was an Austrian writer popular as a playwright more in his younger days. He was seen an enfant terrible by the Austrian cultural establishment.

source of picture: austria-forum.org

Life and Career

Wolfgang Bauer was born in the city of Graz, Styria; his success play is called Magic After noon that was done in the year 1967.

After two successes in the Change of the year 1969 and the Gespenster of the year 1973, his plays’ surreal and experimental feature increased.

He was a heavy smoker and a drinker.

He died of heart failure in his native town, Graz after many cardiac operations.

Plays

Ø  Der Schweinetransport (1961)

Ø  Maler und Farbe (1961)

Ø  Batyscaphe 17-26 oder Die Hölle ist oben (1961)

Ø  Totu-wa-botu (1961)

Ø  Zwei Fliegen auf einem Gleis (1962)

Ø  Katharina Doppelkopf (1962)

Ø  Der Rüssel (1962)

Ø  Mikrodramen (1962/63, 21 very short "unplayable plays", engl. title: Microdramas)

Ø  Pfnacht (1963)

Ø  Die Menschenfresser (1963)

Ø  Party for Six (1964)

Ø  Ende sogar noch besser als alles gut! (1965)

Ø  Der Tod des Ingenieurs Leo Habernik aus Linz (1965)

Ø  Magic Afternoon (1967)

Ø  Change (1968/69)

Ø  Film und Frau (1971, engl. title: "Shakespeare the Sadist")

Ø  Silvester oder Das Massaker im Hotel Sacher (1971)

Ø  Gespenster (1973, engl. title: Ghosts)

Ø  Magnetküsse (1975, engl. title: Magnetic Kisses)

Ø  Memory Hotel (1979/80, UA + ED 1980)

Ø  Woher kommen wir? Was sind wir? Wohin gehen wir? (1981, engl. title: Singapore Sling)

Ø  Das kurze Leben der Schneewolken (1982)

Ø  Ein fröhlicher Morgen beim Friseur (1982, engl. title: A Wonderful Day at the Barbershop))

Ø  Ein schrecklicher Traum (1986, an adaption of Shakespeare's A Midsummernight's Dream)

Ø  Herr Faust spielt Roulette (1986)

Ø  Das Lächeln des Brian dePalma (1988)

Ø  Ach, armer Orpheus! (1989)

Ø  Insalata mista (1992, engl. title: Tadpoltigermosquitos at Mulligan's)

Ø  Die Kantine. Cappricio à la Habsburg. (1993)

Ø  Die Menschenfabrik (1996)

Ø  Skizzenbuch (1996)

Ø  Café Tamagotchi (1998)

Ø  Foyer (2004)

Libretti

Ø  Magnet (1978)

Ø  Café Museum - Die Erleuchtung. (1993)

Ø  Das gestohlene Herz (2004)

Novel

Ø  Der Fieberkopf (1967, engl. The Feverhead)

Poems

Ø  Das stille Schilf. Ein schlechtes Meisterwerk: schlechte Texte mit schlechten Zeichnungen und einer schlechten Schallplatte. (1969)

Ø  Das Herz (1981)

Radio Plays

Ø  Zisterne (1961)

Ø  Die Entfernung (1972, alt. title: 1431)

Ø  Dream Jockey (1998)

Screenplays

Ø  Die Edeggerfamilie (1970)

Ø  Häuptling der Alpen (1974)

Ø  Es war nicht die Nachtigall (1974)

Ø  Reise zum Gehirn (1975, adaption of Bauers novel Der Fieberkopf (The Feverhead))

Ø  In Zeiten wie diesen (1983)

Ø  22, schwarz... (1987)

Ø  Der Weihnachtstraum (1994)

Decorations and awards

Ø  Peter Rosegger prize (1970 and 2004)

Ø  Franz Theodor Csokor Award (1970)

Ø  Austrian Prize for Literature (1979)

Ø  Manuscripts Award (1987)

Ø  Kainz Medal (1989)

Ø  Golden Medal of Honour of Graz (1991)

Ø  Honorary Medal of Vienna in Gold (1991)

Ø  Drama prize of the Goethe Institute (1994)

Ø  Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature (1994; presented on 20 April 1995)

Ø  Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (2000)

Ø  Styrian cultural award (2004)