Christoph Ransmayr





Christoph Ransmayr

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born
March 20, 1954 in Austria

gender
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Born in Wels, Upper Austria Ransmayr grew up in Roitham near Gmunden and the Traunsee. From 1972 to 1978 he studied philosophy and ethnology in Vienna. He worked there as cultural editor for the newspaper Extrablatt from 1978 to 1982, also publishing articles and essays in GEO, TransAtlantik and Merian. After his novel Die letzte Welt was published in 1988 he did extensive traveling in Ireland, Asia, North and South America. In 1994 he moved to West Cork, Ireland, as a friend offered him to lease a splendid house at the Atlantic coast for a very affordable rent, and also because of the artists exemption in the Irish income taxation. In 1997 Ransmayr read his short story Die dritte Luft oder Eine Bühne am Meer, written for this occasion, as...more


Average rating: 3.81 · 297 ratings · 30 reviews · 16 distinct works
The Last World
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1988 — 18 editions
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Morbus Kitahara
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1995 — 9 editions
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The Terrors of Ice and Dark...
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3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1984 — 9 editions
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Der Fliegende Berg
4.39 of 5 stars 4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions
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Der Weg nach Surabaya
3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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Die ersten Jahre der Ewigkeit
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2001
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Die dritte Luft oder Eine B...
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Damen Und Herren Unter Wasser
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