Robert Prosser was born in 1983 in Alpbach in Tyrol, and studied comparative literature and cultural and social anthropology. Prosser writes Prose. Plus Performance, Recitation and Reportage.
A writer and a performance artist, 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.
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
DRUMBADOUR EP with Lan Sticker (Drums)
!Rufzeichen Records, Vienna 2021
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
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
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
Photos © Yannic Steuerer
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