Prof. Dr. Raoul Schrott, (born 17. January 1964 in Landeck

Landeck

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, Tyrol

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) is an Austrian poet

Poet

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, writer

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, literary critic, translator and broadcast

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 personality.

Schrott was deeply influenced by the rich cultural atmosphere of his hometown, Landeck

Landeck

Landeck is a city in Tyrol, Austria with approximately 7,633 inhabitants. It is located at an elevation of about 820 m in the west of Tyrol, on the rivers Sanna and Inn...

 in Tyrol. Hot spots like Landeck Castle, the old movie theatre, the city hall and the vibrant inner city of Landeck were early influences to Schrott’s poetic imagination. Schrott was raised in Tunis

Tunis

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 where his father served as an Austrian sales representative. Raoul attended the universities of Norwich

Norwich

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, Paris

Paris

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, Berlin

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 and Innsbruck

Innsbruck

- Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus...

. He completed a thesis on „Dada 1921 - 1922 in Tyrol“. He translated Homer's

Homer

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 wrtitings into colloquial German. In 2008 he was appointed Visiting professor by the Free University Berlin. He lives in Austria.

Awards

• Award of the Country of Carinthia
  Carinthia (state)
  Carinthia is the southernmost Austrian state or Land. Situated within the Eastern Alps it is chiefly noted for its mountains and lakes.The main language is German. Its regional dialects belong to the Southern Austro-Bavarian group...
  
   at the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Competition
  Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
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  , 1994
• Leonce-and-Lena-Prize 1995
• Literary Prize of the City of Rauris, 1996
• Sponsorship award of the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize 1996
• Berlin Literary Award, 1996
• Peter-Huchel-Prie, 1999
• City Writer of the city of Mainz, 2004
• Joseph-Breitbach-Prize, 2004
• Prize of the Guntram and Irene Rinke Foundation, 2007

Works (all in German)

• Dada 1921 - 1922 in Tirol. University of Innsbruck, Dissertation 1988.
• Finis Terrae. Ein Nachlass. Haymon Publishers, Innsbruck 1995. ISBN 3-85218-197-6
• Hotels. Haymon Publishers, Innsbruck 1995. ISBN 3-85218-193-3
• Bakchen, nach Euripides. Hanser, Munich 1999. ISBN 3-446-19811-3
• Die Musen. Unabridged, revised edition. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2000. ISBN 3-423-12788-0
• Die Wüste Lop Nor. Novelle. Hanser, Munich 2000. ISBN 3-446-19921-7
• Homers Heimat. Der Kampf um Troia und seine realen Hintergründe. Hanser, München 2008. ISBN 978-3-446-23023-1
• Ilias. Neu übertragen von Raoul Schrott. Hanser, München 2008. ISBN 978-3-446-23046-0

As Editor

• Jahrbuch der Lyrik. Ed. with Christoph Buchwald. Fischer, Frankfurt o. M. 1999ff.

Trivia

• »Schrott« means scrap, but this has no influence on Schrott's poetic production.
• Dr. Schrott is particularly acknowledged for his foreign language skills.
• Between 1988 and 2008 Schrott has published 22 books.
• Schrott has translated Homer's Iliad into a contemporary German idiom with many colloquialisms.