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{{Short description|Austrian poet, playwright and novelist (1946–2009)}}
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[[Image:Gert Jonke.jpg|thumb|Gert Jonke in 2008]]
'''Gert Friedrich Jonke''' (8 February 1946 – 4 January 2009) was an [[Austria]]n [[poet]], [[playwright]] and novelist.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Kling |first=Vincent |date=2005 |title=Gert Jonke |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A132193427/LitRC |journal=The Review of Contemporary Fiction |volume=25 |issue=1}}</ref>

==Life==
Jonke was born and educated in [[Klagenfurt]], Austria. He attended the [[Gymnasium (school)|Gymnasium]] (university preparatory school) and the [[College or university school of music|Conservatory]]. After he served his mandatory military service, he continued his studies at the College of Music and Representative Art in [[Vienna]] in the Film and Television Department. He did not, however, complete his studies there, nor his studies of [[History]], [[Philosophy]], [[Music Theory]], or [[German Studies]] at the [[University of Vienna]] which followed.

He became friends with the writers' circle of [[Graz]], a centre of the Austrian literary avant garde of the time. In 1969 he published his first novel, ''Geometrischer Heimatroman'' (''Geometric Regional Novel''), which met with some success. The book received a positive review by [[Peter Handke]] in ''[[Der Spiegel]]''.<ref name=":0" />

In 1971 he received a scholarship to study in [[West Berlin]], where he stayed for five years. He then lived for a year in London, followed by extensive travels throughout the [[Middle East]] and [[South America]]. In 1977, he moved with his partner to Argentina, where he met [[Jorge Luis Borges|Borges]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kling |first=Vincent |date=2012-06-22 |title=Inventing the Self: Gert Jonke's Fragments of a Great Confession |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&issn=02760045&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA326854581&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs |journal=The Review of Contemporary Fiction |language=English |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=11–29}}</ref> He returned to Austria in the 1980s.

Jonke died of cancer at the age of 62 on 4 January 2009, in Vienna. He was given a [[grave of honor]] ({{langx|de|Ehrengrab}}) in the [[Zentralfriedhof]], the central cemetery in Vienna.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.viennatouristguide.at/Friedhoefe/Zentralfriedhof/Index_33_G/z_index_33G_kl.htm | title = 33 G Ehrengräber Zentralfriedhof}}</ref>

==Works==

=== Prose ===

* ''Geometrischer Heimatroman'' (1969). ''Geometric Regional Novel'', trans. Johannes W. Vazulik (Dalkey Archive, 1994)
* ''Beginn einer Verzweiflung: Epiloge'' (1970, short stories). ''The Beginnings of a Despair: Epilogues''
* ''Musikgeschichte'' (1970, short stories). ''Music History''
* ''Glashausbesichtigung'' (1970). ''A Tour of Glass Houses''
* ''Die Vermehrung der Leuchttürme'' (1971). ''The Multiplication of the Lighthouses''
* ''Schule der Geläufigkeit: Erzählungen'' (1977). ''Homage to Czerny: Studies in Virtuoso Technique'', trans. Jean M. Snook (Dalkey Archive, 2008)
* ''Der ferne Klang'' (1979). ''The Distant Sound'', trans. Jean M. Snook (Dalkey Archive, 2010)
* ''Die erste Reise zum unerforschten Grund des stillen Horizonts'' (1980). Collection of revised versions of works written between 1965 and 1980: "Wiederholung des Festes"; ''Das System von Wien''; ''Geometrischer Heimatroman''; ''Glashausbesichtigung''; ''Die Hinterhältigkeit der Windmaschinen''; and ''Die Vermehrung der Leuchttürme''
* ''Erwachen zum großen Schlafkrieg'' (1982). ''Awakening to the Great Sleep War'', trans. Jean M. Snook (Dalkey Archive, 2012)
* ''Der Kopf des [[George Frideric Handel|Georg Friedrich Händel]]'' (1988). ''The Head of George Frederick Handel'', included in the English-language compilation ''Blinding Moment''
* ''Stoffgewitter'' (1996). ''Thunderbolts of Cloth''. Includes the novella ''Geblendeter Augenblick: [[Anton Webern]]s Tod'' (''Blinding Moment'') and the autobiographical essay "Individuum und Metamorphose".
* ''Himmelstraße – Erdbrustplatz oder Das System von Wien'' (1999). ''The System of Vienna: From Heaven Street to Earth Mound Square'', trans. Vincent Kling (Dalkey Archive, 2009)
** Reworked stories from ''Musikgeschichte'' (1970), ''Beginn einer Verzweiflung'' (1970) and ''Das System von Wien''

=== Plays and poems ===
* ''Damals vor Graz'', Forum Stadtpark Graz 1989
* ''Die Hinterhältigkeit der Windmaschinen: Tragodie in drei Akten'' (1971). ''The Deviousness of the Wind Machines''
* ''Im Inland und im Ausland auch'' (1974). ''At Home as Well as Abroad: Poems, Radio Plays, Theatrical Plays''
* ''Sanftwut oder Der Ohrenmaschinist: Eine Theatersonate'' (''Gentle Rage, or The Ear Machinist''), Styriarte Graz 1990
** First performance in [[Sign Language]] with the deaf actor Werner Mössler by [[ARBOS - Company for Music and Theatre]] Vienna 2006<ref>{{YouTube|U1Zm4buHcVc|Werner Mössler performs}} the character of the deaf [[Beethoven]] in the Theatre Sonata of Gert Jonke in Austrian Sign Language</ref>
* ''Opus 111: Ein Klavierstuck'', Volkstheater Vienna 1993
* ''Gegenwart der Erinnerung'' (''Memory at Present''), Volkstheater Vienna 1995
* ''Es singen die Steine: ein Stück Naturtheater'' (''The Stones Are Singing: A Piece of Nature Theater''), Stadttheater Klagenfurt 1998
* ''Insektarium'', Volkstheater Vienna 1999, published 2001
* ''Die Vögel'', UA Volkstheater Wien 2002
* ''Chorphantasie: Konzert fur Dirigent auf der Suche nach dem Orchester'', Schauspielhaus Graz, 2003
* ''Redner rund um die Uhr: Eine Sprechsonate'' (''Orator Around the Clock: A Spoken Sonata''), Semper-Depot Vienna, 2004
* ''Seltsame Sache: Ein Melodram für [[Lorenzo Da Ponte|Lorenzo da Ponte]]'', Ruhrtriennale, 2005
* ''Die versunkene Kathedrale'', [[Burgtheater]] Vienna 2005
* ''Freier Fall'', UA Akademietheater Vienna 2008 <ref>[http://diepresse.com/home/kultur/news/385922/index.do 24.5.2008] Review of the performance </ref>
* ''Bursting Suddenly'', aktionstheater ensemble at the [[Festspielhaus (Bregenz)|Festspielhaus]] [[Bregenz]] and Semper Depot Vienna 2008
* ''Alle Stücke'' (2008)
* ''Alle Gedichte'' (2010)

=== Other works ===

* ''Schwarzbuch'' (1984). Photos by Sepp Schmölzer, text by Jonke.
* ''Das Verhalten auf sinkenden Schiffen'' (1997). Text of a speech by [[Ilse Aichinger]] with response from Jonke.
* ''Klagenfurt: Ansichten in klassischen Schwarzweiß-Fotografien'' (2004). Photos by Siegfried Gutzelnig, text by Jonke.

=== Compilations in English ===
* ''Blinding Moment: Four Pieces About Composers'', trans. Vincent Kling (Ariadne Press, 2009). Includes:
** ''The Head of George Frederick Handel''
** "Catalogue d'oiseaux"
** ''Gentle Rage, or The Ear Machinist''
** ''Blinding Moment''

== Awards and honors ==
* 1977 [[Ingeborg Bachmann Prize]]
* 1980 [[Literature Prize of the University City of Marburg]]
* 1984 Manuscripts prize of Styria
* 1987 [[Austrian Prize for Literature]]
* 1988 [[Prize of the Frankfurt Authors Foundation]]
* 1990–1993 Robert Musil scholarship
* 1991 [[International Bodensee-Culture Prize]]
* 1993 Merit Award of the City of Vienna
* 1994 [[Anton Wildgans Prize]]
* 1997 [[Erich Fried Prize]]
* 1997 [[Franz Kafka Literature Prize]] of the city of [[Klosterneuburg]]
* 1998 [[Berlin Literature Prize]]
* 2001 [[Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature]]
* 2003 [[Nestroy Theatre Prize]] Best Author for ''Chorphantasie''
* 2005 [[Kleist Prize]]
* 2006 [[Arthur Schnitzler Prize]]
* 2006 Nestroy Theatre Prize Best Author for ''Die versunkene Kathedrale'' (The Sunken Cathedral)
* 2008 Nestroy Theatre Prize Best Author for ''Free Fall''

==References==
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[[Category:Ingeborg Bachmann Prize winners]]
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