Josef Haslinger is an Austrian writer.

Haslinger was born in Zwettl

Zwettl

Zwettl is a town and district capital in Lower Austria. It is chiefly known as the location of Zwettl Abbey, first mentioned in October 1139.- Geography :...

, Lower Austria

Lower Austria

Lower Austria is the northeasternmost state of the nine states in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria since 1986 is Sankt Pölten, the most recently designated capital town in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria had formerly been Vienna, even though Vienna is not officially part of Lower Austria...

. He studied philosophy, drama and Germanic studies. He received his PhD in 1980.

In 1995 he was a lecturer at the University of Kassel

University of Kassel

The University of Kassel, founded in 1970, is one of the newer universities in the state of Hesse. The university is in Kassel, and as of September 2010 has about 18,113 students...

 and wrote parts of his political thriller novel, Opera Ball there.

Haslinger has taught since 1996 as a professor of literary aesthetics at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig

Leipzig

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Awards and honors

• 1980 Theodor-Körner-Preis
• 1982 Österreichisches Staatsstipendium für Literatur
• 1984 Förderungspreis der Stadt Wien
• 1985 Stipendium des Deutschen Literaturfonds
• 1988 Österreichisches Dramatikerstipendium
• 1989 erostepost-Literaturpreis
• 1993-94 Elias Canetti-Stipendium der Stadt Wien
• 1994 Stipendium des Deutschen Literaturfonds e.V.
• 1994 Förderungspreis des Landes Niederösterreich für Literatur
• 1996 New-York-Stipendium des Deutschen Literaturfonds e.V.
• 2000 Literaturpreis der Stadt Wien
• 2000 Ehrenpreis des österreichischen Buchhandels für Toleranz in Denken und Handeln
• 2010 Mainzer Stadtschreiber
• 2011 Rheingau Literatur Preis
  Rheingau Literatur Preis
  Rheingau Literatur Preis is a literary prize of Hesse. It is awarded annually since 1994 by the Rheingau Literatur Festival which follows the Rheingau Musik Festival...
  
  

Prose

• Der Konviktskaktus (Erzählungen) (1980)
• Der Rauch im Wald (1981)
• Hugo Sonnenschein (1984)
• Der Tod des Kleinhäuslers Ignaz Hajek (Novelle) (1985)
• Opernball (1995)
• Das Vaterspiel (2000)
• Zugvögel. Erzählungen. S. Fischer Verlag ISBN 3-10-030057-2 (2006)
• Phi Phi Island. Ein Bericht. S. 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
  S. Fischer Verlag
  The German publishing house S. Fischer Verlag was founded in 1886 by Samuel Fischer in Berlin and is a leading German address for literary publications and fiction.Originally, it was renowned for naturalism literature...
  
   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, 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