Lipu, Florjan Pseudonym B. Kostanek#
b. Lobnig (Carinthia), May 4, 1937, author of novels, stories and essays, dramatist. Broke off his studies of theology, trained to be a teacher and worked in various bilingual primary schools, from 1985 director of the primary school in St. Philippen (Carinthia); in 1960 founded the magazine "mladje" of which he was editor-in-chief until 1981, translated some German authors (such as P. Turrini, W. Borchert, B. C. Buenker) into Slovene.
Works#
Der Zoegling Tjaž, 1981; Die Verweigerung der Wehmut, 1989; Die Beseitigung meines Dorfes, 1997; Verdaechtiger Umgang mit dem Chaos, 1997. - Ed.: Das slowenische Wort in Kaernten (together with E. Prunc, P. Zablatnik, R. Vospernik), 1985.Literature#
J. Strutz (ed.), Von der Subversion des Aesthetischen, in: Profile der neueren slowenischen Literatur in Kaernten, 1989.