Barbara Aschenwald

Barbara Aschenwald ( soundtrack 2013)

Barbara Aschenwald (* 1982 in Schwaz , Tyrol ) is an Austrian author of poetry, prose and radio plays.

Life

Barbara Aschenwald grew up in the Zillertal . Her father is the poet Hans Aschenwald , her mother Margit Aschenwald a painter. She has been writing poetry and prose since she was 15. She attended the Episcopal High School Paulinum in Schwaz. Aschenwald studied comparative literature at the University of Innsbruck . As an assistant director and in public relations, she worked on various theater projects, including a. at the Tyrolean folk theater in Telfs .

Aschenwald was awarded the Jürgen Ponto Literature Prize for Leichten Herzens , her collection of 13 stories published in 2010 . In 2013 her novel Omka was published , which she presented at the Leipzig Book Fair and at the o-tönen in Vienna.

Awards

2002 Audience Award of the Rimbaud Prize
2008 Art Prize of the City of Innsbruck 3rd Prize for Narrative Poetry
2010 Literature Prize from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation for a Light Heart.
2011 Large literary scholarship for prose from the state of Tyrol
2013 finalist for the Franz Tumler Literature Prize

Radio plays

Sometimes I fear the meat I'm made of. ORF Tyrol 2005.

Publications

votes on the banks of tomorrow. Poems and prose (anthology), Neue Turmbundreihe, Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 978-3-851-8502-15 .
Cognac & Biskotten - female lyrics. A literary exploration of the Tyrolean communities of Galtür, Hopfgarten im Brixental and Lienz from female perspectives through female perspectives. Barbara Aschenwald, Petra Maria Kraxner, Esther Strauss. Edited by Thomas Schafferer . Edition Pajamaguerilleros. Innsbruck 2006. ISBN 978-3-9501923-5-3
With a light heart. Stories, Skarabaeus, Innsbruck 2010, ISBN 978-3-7082-3282-9 .
Omka. Roman, Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-455-40432-6 .