Austria, Künste und Medien, 2020
Thomas
Raab
Thomas Raab was born on November 23, 1968 in Graz and lives today as the tallest author in the world (last measurement 2.02 m) and translator in Vienna. H was a basketball player in the Austrian national league from 1989 to 1994 and came to art and thinking via sporting ambition. He studied applied geosciences and slid into cognitive science via his interest in problems of geological data acquisition and processing. Since 1999 he has been working with Oswald Wiener, since 2009 an informal group dedicated to the method of comparative introspection, on empirical studies of the psychology of thought and emotion. Since 1998, in parallel, in various morphoses, work in the art world and preoccupation with Buddhist practice and philosophy.
In his literary and essayistic books he tries to implement scientific, philosophical and political ideas in a style-conscious way, but at the same time to make the writing process itself empirically fruitful and thus comprehensible. He has been a writing teacher since 2013, until 2018 at the Kunstuni Linz, since 2018 at the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, and in 2019 with Jan St. Werner at the class Dynamic Acoustic Research at the ADBK Nuremberg.
As a translator from English and American into German, Raab specializes in art theory, philosophy, (natural) science, and noble literature.
Decorations: State Scholarship and Project Scholarship for Literature of the BMUKK, Doctoral Scholarship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Erwin-Schrödinger-Scholarship of the FWF, Heimrad-Bäcker-Förderpreis, Literature Promotion Prize of the City of Graz, Literature Scholarship of the City of Graz and others.
