Michael Köhlmeier

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Michael Köhlmeier (b. 15 October 1949 in Hard, Austria) is a contemporary Austrian writer.

He studied Politics and German (1970-1978) at the University of Marburg, Germany, and Mathematics and Philosophy at the universities in Giessen and Frankfurt, Germany. Together with Reinhold Bilgeri he has composed cabaret programs and song lyrics, which both artists presented in public as the Duo Bilgeri & Köhlmeier. Recent acclaim haled from his radio broadcasts of casually told antique myths and biblical stories, which were later issued as CDs and in book form. With the group Schellinski he has been writing song texts in Vorarlberg dialect since 2004.

In 1981 he married the writer Monika Helfer. Their daughter Paula Köhlmeier died in an accident in 2003, at the age of 21 years.

Michael Köhlmeier lives as a free-lance writer in Hohenems, Vorarlberg. In 1997 he received the Grimmelshausen Prize.