Oswald Egger was invited on numerous occasions by poet Thomas Kling to read from his works at Raketenstation Hombroich. In 2003, Karl-Heinrich Müller invited him and his wife, Katharina Hinsberg, to live and work there as well. In addition to founding his Das Böhmische Dorf publishing house here, he organised the Hombroich : Poesie and Hombroich : Philosophie series and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Stiftung Insel Hombroich.
Egger was born in South Tyrol in 1963 and studied German Language & Literature in Vienna. As well as organising the Kulturtage Lana festival between 1986 and 1995, he published a journal called Der Prokurist from 1989 to 1998. Following a guest professorship at Cornell University in New York, he has been Professor of Language and Form at Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel since 2011. Oswald Egger has received many awards for his literary work, which is published mainly by Suhrkamp Verlag, and has won numerous scholarships, including for the Villa Massimo in Rome. In 2024, he was presented with the Georg Büchner Prize by the German Academy for Language and Literature.
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