Occupation writer, musician Alma mater University of Marburg Role Writer Movies Requiem For Dominic Albums O wie lacht, Sagen Stmk. | Nationality Austrian Name Michael Kohlmeier Spouse Monika Helfer (m. 1981) Children Paula Kohlmeier | |
Born 15 October 1949 (age 75)
Hard, Austria ( 1949-10-15 ) Books Madalyn: Roman, Madalyn, Telemachos Similar People Monika Helfer, Reinhold Bilgeri, Paula Kohlmeier, Kurt Schwertsik, Robert Dornhelm | ||
“We Have to Call a Spade a Spade!”
Michael Kohlmeier (born 15 October 1949 in Hard, Austria) is a contemporary Austrian writer and musician.
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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. Recent acclaim hailed from his radio broadcasts of casually told antique myths (Telemachus and Calypso) and biblical stories (Moses), which were later issued as CDs and in book form.
Together with Reinhold Bilgeri he has composed cabaret programs and song lyrics, which both artists presented in public as the Duo Bilgeri & Kohlmeier. 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 Kohlmeier died in an accident in 2003, at the age of 21, and he dedicated his book Idylle mit ertrinkendem Hund (Idyll With Drowning Dog) as a memorial to her and his surviving family.
Other books include Abendland (Occident, Carl Hanser Verlag, August 2007, ISBN 978-3-446-20913-8), about the memoirs of a mathematics professor, telling the history of two families over the past 95 years. It has met with critical acclaim.
Michael Kohlmeier lives as a free-lance writer in Hohenems, Vorarlberg. In 1997 he received the Grimmelshausen Prize.