Michael Amerstorfer / Michael Melville

Author, Scriptwriter, Translator from English into German
Novelist, Playwright, Scriptwriter, Translator
Available for:
Translation

Education:

University of Kent, Canterbury (1992-95): Comparative Literature and German

University of Greenwich, London (1997-98): Postgraduate Certificate of Education

 

Publications:

The BBC (World Service) broadcast four of my contributions to the programmes APROPOS and BOOKSHOP.
The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) produced two of my television scripts,
” Schwester Martha verzichtet auf ihr Glück ” and “Lebensbilder von Adalbert Stifter”,
three radio plays,
” Besuch mich im Mondschein”, “Ferngespräch”, “Melodrama”, and the soundscapes
“Astins”, “I Ritmi Chioggioti”, “Bien-Bienvenue”, “Hausmusik” for KUNSTRADIO.

Stage plays:

”Besuch mich im Mondschein”, Theater am Landhausplatz, Innsbruck

”Die beste Medizin” (after Moliere’s Le Malade Imaginaire)

Theatergruppe Lendorf, Lendorf 2016
Stalltheater Königstetten 2017
Bogentheater Innsbruck 2018

”Medicine Man”, Playhouse  Theatre Whitstable, Kent, 15.-18.5 2024

Directing: “Scaramouche Jones”, by Justin Butcher, Playhouse Whitstable, Kent, 21.9. 2019

”Songs” from my Soul, by Ginger Bennett, Tower Theatre, Folkestone, Kent, 29. 10. 2021; Pizza Express Holborn Live, London 4. 4. 2022, Malthouse Theatre, as part of the Canterbury Festival, 24. 10. 2022.

”Medicine Man”, by Michael Melville, Playhouse Whitstable, Kent, 15. – 18. 5. 2024.

Print publications:
NEUES FORVM, LITERATUR UND KRITIK, Das Fenster, DER STANDARD, STAND Magazine (Newcastle 1995), CONNECTIONS (Whitstable), TIROLER TAGESZEITUNG, WIENER ZEITUNG und ÖSTERREICHISCHER BÜHNENVERLAG KAISER & Co.

Editing:

Founder and editor of STUDIO, Zeitschrift für Texte und Grafik 1979-1981

Coeditor of INN, Zeitschrift für Literatur 1984-1986

Translation:

Johann Michael Moscherosch. Satiriker und Moralist des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts. Kenneth Graham Knight. Akademischer Verlag Stuttgart 2000. (ISBN: 3-88099-379-3)