Wolfgang Kauer
Wolfgang Kauer (born February 20, 1957) is an Austrian writer living in Salzburg. He writes novels, short stories, audio plays and poems in German.
He grew up in Linz and finished Adalbert-Stifter-Gymnasium in 1975. He studied German philology, geography and the arts at the University of Art and Industrial Design Linz and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. In 1999 he moved to Salzburg after working as a freelance journalist and a teacher in Linz. He teaches at the Humanistisches Gymnasium in Salzburg and is a Professor of German Literature and Philology at the Linz Private Art University. He also writes as a freelance author.
Kauer creates lyric poetry, prose, short stories, novels and audio plays. In 2010, Julian Schutting named him the best author in Salzburg in a competition by the Salzburger Autorengruppe, praising his work on contemporary history. He has won prizes from Sabine Gruber and Bettina Balàka. Linguist Eberhard Riedel compared his style to Jean Paul Richter. Professors Karl Müller and Erwin Streitfeld noted influences of music in his poetry and landscapes in his prose. Dr. Brita Steinwendtner highlighted the historical dimension in his texts. He received the Salzburg Scholarship of Literature in 2013. He is interested in archaeology, especially the ancient Celtic beak flagon of Salzburg, the Dürrnberger Schnabelkanne, which is in the Celtic Museum in Hallein. He wrote three novels about this object.
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