His works have been awarded with the Prize of the Academy of Graz (2001), with the Reinhard-Priessnitz-Prize (2001) and the Prize for Lyricism by the city Innsbruck (2002). Furthermore, he won the 2002 Audience Award of the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Competition in Klagenfurt. Christoph W. Bauer was also chief editor of the literary journal Wagnis.
Christoph W. Bauer explains his work as a continuation of existing traditions. He identifies himself with a poeta legens, who finds, changes, renews and continues topics from the world literature.
Publications
wege verzweigt, poems, Haymon, 1999
die mobilität des wassers müßte man mieten können, poems, Haymon, 2001
fontanalia.fragmente, poems and prose, Haymon Verlag, 2003, ISBN3-85218-437-1
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