Karin Ivancsics
Karin Ivancsics (born March 30, 1962 in Sankt Michael im Burgenland ) is an Austrian writer.
Life
Karin Ivancsics grew up in Deutsch Jahrndorf . She has lived in Vienna since graduating from high school in Neusiedl am See in 1980 . Ivancsics studied German and Romance studies at the University of Vienna and completed the course in advertising and sales at the Vienna University of Economics and Business . From 1986 to 1989 she was an editor at Wiener Frauenverlag and worked for cultural institutions, book and magazine publishers. She has been working as a freelance writer since 1994. Ivancsics writes prose and plays, she is a member of the interest group of Austrian authors , the Graz authors' meeting , the literature group Podium and a member of the executive committee of the Erich Fried Society . She has received several grants and awards, including the residency grant from the Berlin Senate at the Berlin Literary Colloquium , the Austrian State Grant and the Hertha Kräftner Prize together with Andreas Okopenko .
Quotes
“The landscape from a single line” is worthwhile, stimulating and aesthetically pleasing reading; they are texts that, starting from the landscape in the far east of Austria, deal without hurry and seemingly incidentally important questions of the recent past and the present and exemplify the political in the private sphere. "
“In a perfect picture even the infinite becomes imaginable through reduction, in a perfect essay a whole country is explained by one line. Burgenland has seldom been explained so briefly and “on the line” for outsiders as in the four essays by Karin Ivancsics, in which childhood, landscape, stone carving and the mystery of the borders are brought up. "
“Between the hotel and the plane, after departure, a small herd of all-inclusive tourists have an unexpected stay, the plane has been canceled and the group has to wait in a hotel at the airport for the onward journey. an ideal interim situation for the author, who she constructed so that she could present her ensemble of characters in complete calmness. very succinct and sarcastic, but not sarcastic, she and her people in the hotel create a puzzle of everyday tourist life that takes place all over the world between the tropics of cancer and capricorn. [...] "
“Karin Ivancsics tells exactly and mercilessly, the characters are spared nothing, everything that sounds hollow is tapped off and exposed as hollow. As a reader, one increasingly distrusts the happiness plans of family and motherhood. And the look from the stories to reality is getting shorter and shorter, because these stories are pure reality. "
“Karin Ivancsics' tale Sweet or Sharp reminds us once more of what has changed in the land that was once praised as the island of the blessed. Vienna as the setting for the action turns out to be a mirror and paradigm of a Europe in upheaval. Common emblems such as xenophobia, unemployment, digitization and self-presentation are cleverly used by the author to target the sensitivities of the Golf generation. "
“Very differentiated, never feeling feeble and yet full of laconic solidarity with her female figures, the author describes individual and very different, individual and yet also typological moments of biography," fates "as the rainbow press would call it, while always keeping a keen eye on the system , on superficial and hidden connections. [...] Ivancsics has presented an unsentimental, critical, emphatic book on more than one serious topic. "
“ In my play I let women have their say, in their anger, powerlessness and sadness in view of the (gender) struggles they have to endure. I plead for compassion and respect in your situation, for the inviolability of your freedom of choice and dignity "
“On hold” is an interweaving of inner monologues, a collection of thoughts and images on the subject of abortion. The plot is only partially told. Tension should build up in the staging through contrasting texts and hard, fast breaks. The situation of waiting is contrasted with the inner drama of the characters. A woman conjures up images of her inner life in lyrical and dreamlike sequences. The poetic texts stand in contrast to the medical-technical terminology that breaks into the waiting situation from outside. The play has a strong political dimension: the fate and stories of the women are repeatedly confronted with arguments from anti-abortionists. Public pressure adds to the personally tense situation and contributes to the escalation of the situation. "
"Of explosive emotional strength, sharp precision and modernity and at the same time the most graceful and highly fantastic poetry."
"" Wild rose "- that could also be a code name for the literary-floristic kleptomaniac who reports in a contemporary manner. (...) In her floral journey around the day in 80 worlds, Karin Ivancsics didn’t mince her words: She openly tells of touching experiences abroad, of intimate erotic events and does not shy away from the depths of the trivial. All of this is assembled in fragmentary descriptions and explanations, questions and statements, aphorisms and apercus, which are separated by hard cuts and connected to one another by two recurring leitmotifs: plants and relationships. (...) "The notes of a flower thief" are the complete opposite of a "cheerful herbarium" à la Waggerl: a highly idiosyncratic text collage in a free rhythm, a literary botanical drum that has collected impressions from life and brought them to the fore. "
"In a panic, Karin Ivancsics tries to think through the logical consequences of xenophobia, social Darwinism and religious fundamentalism. This succeeds with oppressive credibility and is skilfully told. "
"Very lively, amusing short stories."
Works (selection)
- The landscape from a single line , Edition lex liszt 12, 2015 ISBN 978-3-99016-089-3
- Remaining space exchange, Roman, Provincial Library , Weitra 2011, ISBN 978-3-99028-011-9
- Must it be nice to play dead man in the Dead Sea, prose. Provincial Library, Weitra 2009, ISBN 978-3-85252-325-5
- Anna has two days, stories. Provincial Library, Weitra 2008, ISBN 978-3-85252-884-7
- Sweet or hot - a day in the life of a good-for-nothing . Novella. Provincial Library, Weitra 2005 ISBN 3-85252-675-2
- Wanda is waiting - A triptych . Prose. Ritter Verlag , Klagenfurt - Vienna 1999 ISBN 3-85415-244-2
- Notes of a flower thief . Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt - Vienna 1996 ISBN 3-85415-196-9
- Idiot & Demons - Dancing through the Human Zoo . Miniature prose. Edition The happy living room , Vienna 1995 ISBN 3-900956-28-6
- Thirst! Short stories. Wiener Frauenverlag, Vienna 1995
- The crack in the sky . Science fiction by women. Edited by Karin Ivancsics. Suhrkamp Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1993. ISBN 3-518-38675-1
- Panic . Novella. Fama Verlag , Vienna 1990
- Breakfast, food stories . Wiener Frauenverlag, Vienna 1989
- Waiting loop , play, 2002, performed in kosmos.frauenraum , Vienna
Web links
- Literature by and about Karin Ivancsics in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of the author http://karinivancsics.at/
- http://www.literaturhaus.at/autoren/F/fried/gesellschaft/lösungen/ivancsics
Individual evidence
- ↑ Literaturhaus Vienna: Ivancsics. In: www.literaturhaus.at. Retrieved July 24, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ivancsics, Karin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint Michael in Burgenland |