Self-portrait
Dietmar Tauchner (born 1972, Neunkirchen, Austria), social worker, counselor, haiku poet, and pioneer of video haiga. His haiku have appeared in all important German- and English-language publications as well as in anthologies including Euro-haiku, Gesammelte Augenblicke (2013), A New Resonance 5, and the Red Moon Anthologies series. Haiku of Tauchner’s won Roadrunner’s Scorpion Prize (2005); top awards in seven International Kusamakura Haiku Competitions (2005–2016) and honors in the HIA Haiku Contest (2011) as well as in competitions in Poland, Croatia, Serbia, and Romania. His books include Steg zu den Sternen (2012), Noise of Our Origin / Rauschen unseres Ursprungs (2013), Invisible Tracks / Unsichtbare Spuren (2015), and Ikonen des Windlieds: Kurzgedichte / Icons of Windsong: Short Poems / पवन-गीत के प्रतीक: लघु कविताएँ (2019). Tauchner cofounded Chrysanthemum (2007) and coedited A Vast Sky (2015). Since 2013, he has served on the Red Moon Anthology editorial staff and was a selector for the Touchstone poem awards 2016–2018. He attended the 1st and 2nd European Haiku Congresses (2005 and 2007), the 5th World Haiku Association Conference (2009), and several Haiku North America gatherings. Dietmar Tauchner lives in Puchberg, Austria.
Note: This is an abstract of a longer biographical article to come.