Klaus Händl

Klaus Händl (born 1969 in Rum, Tyrol, Austria), also known as Händl Klaus, is an Austrian actor and writer.

Biography

Händl was born in Rum, near Innsbruck. He started his theater career as an actor in Vienna's Schauspielhaus. His first theatrical production, which he also directed, was premiered in the Styrian Autumn Festival Steirischer Herbst at Graz. He has also appeared in several movies.

Klaus Händl is a theater and film professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He lives in Vienna, Berlin, and Port am Bielersee, Switzerland.

Works

• 1994 Legenden. 35 Prosastücke. Droschl Literaturverlag Graz
• 1995 Satz Bäurin. Klagenfurter Texte. Piper Verlag
• 1996 Kleine Vogelkunde. Radio play. ORF
• 2001 Ich ersehne die Alpen; So entstehen die Seen. Play. Rowohlt Verlag
• 2002 Häftling von Mab. Libretto; music: Eduard Demetz, Theater of Tyrol
• 2006 Dunkel lockende Welt. Play. Kammerspiele of Munich, Theater Biel-Solothurn in Switzerland, Burgtheater of Vienna. Rowohlt Verlag
• 2006 Vom Mond. Libretto. State Theater of Tyrol
• 2006 Stücke. Theater plays. Droschl Literaturverlag Graz
• 2007 Wilde - Der Mann mit den traurigen Augen. Theater Basel Kleine Bühne
• 2008 Dunkel lockende Welt. State Theater of Tyrol
• 2008 März. Feature film

Awards

In 1996 he received an award for the Radio Play of the Year from the Austrian Broadcasting Service ORF. Other awards include the Rauriser Literaturpreis (Austria) and the Robert-Walser-Preis (Germany).

• 1995 Robert-Walser-Preis, Rauriser Literaturpreis
• 1996 ORF-Hörspielpreis "Radio Play of the Year"
• 2002 Subsidy of the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin
• 2002 Hermann-Lenz-Stipendium (subsidy)
• 2004 Nestroy-Theaterpreis nomination as best young playwright
• 2005 Theater prize of the Cultural Circle of the German Economy
• 2006 Playwright of the Year by the magazine Theater heute ("Theater Today")
• 2007 Literature subsidies of Tyrol, Welti Dramatikerpreis of the city of Bern for playwrights, Feldkircher Lyrikpreis
• 2008 Silver Leopard for the best debut feature at the Locarno International Film Festival, for the movie März
• 2008 Culture Award of the city of Biel
• 2008 Special Award of the Jury at the Sarajevo Film Festival for the movie März
• 2008 Berner Filmpreis for the movie März

External links

• Klaus Händl in the German National Library catalogue
• Klaus Händl at the Internet Movie Database
• Die Dinge, sind verschoben, essay by Alexander Kerlin
• Information on Klaus Händly by the Goethe Institut
• Biography in the online cultural magazine perlentaucher.de