My poetry often starts with a word, a sentence, a sensation I stumble upon in my everyday life. For instance, I'm listening to Laurie Anderson singing "Oh superman / oh judge / oh mom and dad...," thinking of a conversation I've had the day before about the difficult relationship someone I know has with his or her parents. "You raised us as / pale ghosts of your / measly dreams...," I'm thinking. Asking myself if it's not vital for all of us to "kill" our parents, in a symbolic, psychological, almost Freudian sense, if we want to be able to find happiness. And writing "Oh Mom and Dad." Or I'm...

To write poetry means to use words sparingly, to reduce stories to their essence in order to stir emotions. With keen observational skills, a good "ear" as well as kind instincts, Dieter Moitzi writes in a personal style that makes you see the world around you in many different, maybe even new ways. His poetry is visual, sometimes sensual, always sensuous: you feel things on your skin, you smell scents, you hear sounds. He presents you the lonesome wordsmith who sits at his laptop struggling with his fear ..". that I will end up lying in my flat, / lonely, unread, unwept, / a cat gnawing my...

..". and somewhere under the concrete and cement and asphalt and steel and glass, under the weary pavements and jaded streets, the wasted buildings, the throttled cars and trucks..." Extracted from the poem "and somewhere under," an ode to Mother Nature waiting patiently for her time to come... More than 50 poems, some of them previously published on the author's literary blog http: //dietermoitzi.blogspot.com, are assembled in this volume. Poems that speak of love and fear, pain and death and loss, happiness and hope; poems that describe the mountains and the sea; poems that sing of the Big...

Nous sommes dans les annees 1850, dans un coin perdu, presque isole, des Alpes autrichiennes. Le petit Peter, que tout le monde appelle Peterl ou petit Waldbauer, grandit dans la ferme familiale situee sur les hauteurs des montagnes. Il est l'aine d'une fratrie de huit enfants. Son pere, travailleur et taciturne, d'une nature silencieuse et grave, le traite avec une douce severite et lui confie bon nombre de taches des son plus jeune age. Sa mere, en revanche, n'a que de l'amour et appuie sa curiosite sans bornes et sa soif d'apprendre.

La vie du petit Peter se deroule comme...

Peter Rosegger (1843-1918) zahlt zu den bedeutendsten Osterreichischen Schriftstellern des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts (1913 wurde er z. B. fur den Literaturnobelpreis nominiert) und wird auch heute noch viel und gerne gelesen. Fast 100 Jahre nach seinem Tod erscheint nun sein Hauptwerk -Waldheimat- in einer neuen, kommentierten Fassung, von der hier der erste Band -Das Waldbauernbubel- vorliegt.

Wer die -Waldheimat- aufschlagt, begibt sich auf eine Entdeckungsreise in die waldige Mittelgebirgslandschaft im Herzen Osterreichs, in der Rosegger die ersten siebzehn Jahre seines Lebens in...

Le petit Peter a grandi; il est devenu un homme de cet age ou l'on se fait appeler 'jeune homme' par des gens eduques et 'petit dadais' par ceux qui aiment la verite, ou en d'autres termes: il est entre dans l'adolescence. Son horizon reste domine par ce paradis enchante et insouciant que constituent la ferme familiale, les immenses forets de sapins, melezes et epiceas, les alpages et les prairies, mais il s'elargit. Ce gamin curieux de tout veut tout simplement decouvrir la vie, decouvrir le monde.

En son for interieur, Peter est reste le meme garcon paisible, observateur...

"Kleine Portionen" ist eine Geschichte, die in ... kleinen Portionen serviert wird. In genau 111 kurzen Kapiteln - und einem Rezept. Um die vielfaltigen Facetten des modernen Lebens zu sondieren, hat der Autor die literarische Form der Vignette gewahlt; es handelt sich dabei um kurze, impressionistische Szenen, die sich auf eine Momentaufnahme oder die pointierte Beschreibung eines Charakters, einer Idee, einer Einstellung, eines Objekts konzentrieren. Dieter Moitzi erzahlt seine eigene Geschichte in ergreifenden Szenen, die sich von einem Schnappschuss seiner Taufe in den fruhen 70er Jahren...

"Small Portions" is a story that comes in... small portions. In precisely 111 little parts - AND a recipe. To explore the many facets of modern life, the author has chosen the literary form of vignettes, those short impressionistic scenes that focus on one moment or give a trenchant impression about a character, idea, setting, object. Dieter Moitzi tells his own story in poignant scenes that vary from a snapshot of his christening in the early 70s to his father's death in a skiing accident at the beginning of the 2000s. It's small things he talks about, those many small things that compose a...