Robert Prosser

Vita

Robert Prosser, Writer and Performanceartist. Born in 1983 in Alpbach/Tyrol. During and after his studies in Comparative Literature and Anthropology he spent some time in England, the Arabic Word and in Asia.

Prosser writes Prose. Plus Performance, Recitation and Reportage. His work includes the novels THE LOOTED NEST (Jung und Jung, 2025) and LOST IN AVALANCHES (Jung und Jung, 2023).

Recipient of various Awards and Scholarships, e.g. Major Literary Scholarship of Tyrol 2023/2024, Writer-in-Residence One World Foundation in Sri Lanka 2021, Reinhard-Priessnitz-Award 2014. His novel PHANTOMS (Ullstein fünf, 2017) was nominated for the German Bookprize.

Publications

Das geplünderte Nest / The looted Nest
Novel. Jung und Jung, 2025

Verschwinden in Lawinen / Lost in Avalanches
Novel. Jung und Jung, 2023

Beirut im Sommer / Summer in Beirut. Journal
Essay. Klever, 2020

Gemma Habibi
Novel. Ullstein, 2019

Phantome / Phantoms 
Novel. Ullstein, 2017

Geister und Tattoos / Ghosts and Tattoos
Novel. Klever, 2013

Feuerwerk
Prose. Klever, 2011

Strom
Prose. Klever, 2009

Audio

DRUMBADOUR EP with Lan Sticker (Drums)
!Rufzeichen Records, Vienna 2021

Theater / Performance / Opera

Kchwant. A play about Alpbach
Premiere: Bögler Schafalm, Alpbach, 2025

Lorit (Libretto)
Premiere: Teatro SanbàPolis, Trento, 2024

Infight
Premiere: Ateliertheater Vienna, 2022

Konter / Counter
Premiere: European Forum Alpbach, 2019

Maximilian (Libretto)
Tiroler Festspiele Erl, 2019

Phantome / Phantoms
Premiere: BRUX Innsbruck, 2017

Dein Herz sei Stein / Your Heart be Stone 
w/ Fabian Faltin. Premiere: BRUX Innsbruck, 2017

Die riesige Sonne, ein entfesseltes Pferd / The great Sun, an unleashed Horse
Premiere: European Forum Alpbach, 2016

Malus 
w/ Fabian Faltin. Premiere: hoerGEREDE / Elevate Festival Graz, 2013

Love Jihad
Premiere: Freies Theater Innsbruck, 2013

As an Editor

Ein Anfang von Vielem: Nach Jugoslawien.
Dossier, in: Literatur und Kritik 557/558, 2021

Wo war‘n wir? Ach ja: Junge Österreichische Lyrik
With Christoph Szalay
Limbus, 2019

Lyrik von Jetzt 3: Babelsprech
With Max Czollek und Michael Fehr
Wallstein, 2015

As a Curator

Literaturfest Salzburg - Creative Director, 2020 - 2021

Kombo Kosmopolit - Reading Series in cooperation with Kultur Kontakt Austria and Literaturhaus Wien, 2016 - 2019

Babelsprech - Young germanspeaking Poetry, 2013 - 2018

Pressphotos

Photos © Yannic Steuerer
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