Evelyn blow

Evelyn Schlag (born December 22, 1952 in Waidhofen an der Ybbs ) is an Austrian writer . In addition to her writing activities, she also works as a literary critic and translator. Her literary repertoire includes short stories as well as poems and essays. Evelyn Schlag also published manuscripts in the literary magazine, among others .

Life

Evelyn Schlag is the daughter of a doctor. She grew up in Waidhofen an der Ybbs, a small town in the Lower Austrian Alpine foothills. After graduation she took in 1971 at the University of Vienna , a study of German and English studies on which it with the master's degree completed. From 1978 to 1981 she worked as a secondary school teacher in Vienna . Since 1981 she has been teaching German and English at the Federal Trade Academy in Waidhofen, where she lives with her husband.

In addition to her teaching profession, Evelyn Schlag has been a writer since the early 1980s. She writes short stories , novels and poetry . The predominant themes in her works are gender relations, the emancipation of women, as well as coping with isolation situations and experiences of illness.

Evelyn Schlag is a member of the Graz Authors' Assembly . Schlag has been writer-in-residence at Dickinson College in Carlisle , USA, since 2001 .

Topics and references

Schlag uses many different references in her works. Some of these topics can be found in different presentations in several texts. In her works, Evelyn Schlag deals, among other things, with gender relations, the fate of women and diseases. Identity problems are also often dealt with. Among other things, the “disappearance of women's identities” becomes an essential point in her works.

Isolation from society and the loss of one's own identity are also addressed in several of Evelyn Schlag's works, including tutoring and The Guardian of Shadows . In many of Schlag's texts, language is used to encode various roles. The orderliness or disorder of the language is here an indication of various identity traits that appear in the characters.

Awards and honors

• 1979 Prize of the State of Lower Austria
• 1986/87 Austrian State Scholarship for Literature
• 1988 Bremen Literature Prize
• 1990 Austrian Prize for Literature
• 1993/94 Austrian State Scholarship for Literature
• 1994 Big Culture Prize of the Province of Lower Austria
• 1997 Anton Wildgans Prize
• 1998 Otto Stoessl Prize
• 2015 Austrian Art Prize for Literature

Works

• Tuition , Vienna ao 1981
• At the Guardian of Shadows , Frankfurt am Main 1984
• Whispering near his ear , Vienna 1984
• Brandstetter's journey , Frankfurt am Main 1985
• The hurt , Frankfurt am Main 1987
• Change of location of the heart , Frankfurt am Main 1989
• The Schnabelberg , Frankfurt am Main 1992
• Nobody ever asks me why I need this disease , Graz et al 1993
• Touché , Frankfurt am Main 1994
• Invisible women , Salzburg et al. 1995
• The divine order of desires , Salzburg et al. 1998
• My wife's talent , Salzburg et al. 1999
• Do you need sleep tonight , Munich 2002
• The L in Laura , Munich 2003
• Architecture of a love , Munich 2006
• Language from Another Wood , Munich 2008
• The great freedom of Ferenc Puskás , Munich 2011
• slowed frenzy , Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2014
• Yemen Café , Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2016

Translations

• Douglas Dunn : Elegien , Frankfurt am Main 1991

literature

• Alois Halbmayr: God in the dark. Religion in the late modern worlds. Conversations with Evelyn Schlag, Bettina Bäumer and Peter Strasser . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck et al. 2003, ISBN 3-7022-2509-9 .
• Riccarda Novello: Life in words, words in life. A symptomatic reading as literature and life research on Evelyn Schlag, Marianne Fritz, Marlene Streeruwitz . CUEM, Milan 2003, ISBN 88-7090-539-7 , ( Studia austriaca - Volumi speciali ).
• Beverley Driver Eddy (Ed.): Evelyn Schlag. Readings of Text . Lang, New York NY et al. 2004, ISBN 0-8204-7426-6 , ( Austrian culture 35).
• Ralf Georg Czapla: Evelyn Schlag. Critical lexicon of contemporary German-language literature. URL: [1] [As of June 1, 2010]

Web links

• Literature by and about Evelyn Schlag in the catalog of the German National Library
• Archive recordings with Evelyn Schlag in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library (interview, literature reading)
• Article on Evelyn Schlag in the Critical Lexicon of Contemporary German Literature (KLG)
• List of contributors to the journal manuscripts

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Evelyn Schlag - Critical Lexicon of German Contemporary Literature (KLG). Retrieved September 28, 2019 . 
2. ↑ World Book Day: Federal Minister Ostermayer awards literary prizes 2015. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved April 30, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.