Bodo Hell

{{short description|Austrian writer (born 1943)}}

{{BLP sources|date=September 2011}}

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Bodo Hell (born 15 March 1943 in Salzburg, missing since 11 August 2024) is an Austrian writer.{{cite book|last1=Stewart|first1=Janet|last2=Ward|first2=Simon|title=Blueprints for no-man's land: connections in contemporary Austrian culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VQSA1-5CEwIC&pg=PA148|accessdate=27 September 2011|year=2005|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=978-3-03910-265-5|pages=148–}} He studied the organ with the Mozarteum, Salzburg, and in Vienna he studied Film and Television, Philosophy, German Studies and History. He lives in Vienna and Dachstein, Styria.{{Cite book|last=Hell|first=Bodo|title=Parallelprosa mit Insel Werd|publisher=Edition Thanhauser|year=2017|isbn=9783900986889|location=Ottensheim/Donau}} He has worked with, among others, Friederike Mayröcker, Ernst Jandl, Liesl Ujvary and Hil de Gard.

Bodo Hell used to spend summers guarding sheep in the Austrian mountains. The 81 year old was reported as missing on 11 August 2024, a large search operation for him was abandoned three days later without result. In September 2024, he was officially declared a missing person.{{Cite web |last=deutschlandfunkkultur.de |date=2024-09-10 |title=Schriftsteller Bodo Hell offiziell als verschollen gemeldet |url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/schriftsteller-bodo-hell-offiziell-als-verschollen-gemeldet-100.html |access-date=2025-02-05 |website=Deutschlandfunk Kultur |language=de}}