Thomas Hartl

Born 1965 smack in the center of Salzburg, Austria. Tortured early a.m. by bus tourists chanting Papageno's Song (from Mozart's Magic Flute) on their way to the city's places of interest (I still abhor Mozart's balls -- no pun where none intended). Grandfather 1 a Nazi, Grandfather 2 a Communist. Mostly playing truant (and bass guitar) in senior classes while reading Dostoevsky. Barely managing school leaving exam with the objective of enrolling in English and American Studies. Seriously infected by postmodernism and the F virus (no cure known). Master's thesis on the real fictitious discourses of French-American author Raymond Federman (published in 1995 by The Edwin Mellen Press, New York). Study visit at the State University of New York at Buffalo including a guest performance at the San Diego State University. And so on and so forth...