Andrea Winkler (author)

Andrea Winkler (2009)

Andrea Winkler (* 1972 in Freistadt ) is an Austrian author .

Life

Andrea Winkler studied German and theater studies in Vienna . She was professionally involved in youth work and adult education as well as in a German research project at the University of Salzburg .

She made her prose debut in 2006 with Arme Närrchen. Self-talk . The self-talk as the last consequence of confirmed communication and language skepticism forms the connecting stylistic element of the 19 short texts.

The novel König, Hofnarr und Volk (2013) is a "reckoning with literary life and its vanities as well as with the humanities that have destroyed all spirit through schematic thinking and replaced it with striving for a career and validity."

In The Woman on My Shoulder from 2018, a woman describes in diary-like notes that extend over half a year, her temporary departure from the usual. “What prompted you to withdraw into the house of the late Mr. Friedrich remains in the vague. Your stay in the country has neither a program nor a goal. Presumably she is looking for distance from her usual life. Martha spontaneously follows her impulses, goes on hikes and walks, on which she perceives her surroundings with almost Stifter's accuracy ”.

reception

Winkler's debut volume honored “the highly talented author's fine instinct for the flimsy, who is driven with clichés everywhere, and her own mindfulness to avoid them in writing, but [...] was the reading of the solitary monologues I-figures are sometimes quite laborious. "

The critics certified that she wrote “extraordinary narrative texts, eccentric content, profoundly humorous, stylistically beautiful and flawless”. She cultivates "a language that gives things an almost magical life of their own, and uses absurd humor in her bizarre dialogues in an almost Beckettian way".

Works

• Shadow (games): Poetological ways of thinking about Friederike Mayröcker . In: brütt or The Sighing Gardens . - Hamburg 2004. ISBN 978-3-8300-1647-2
• Poor fools . Self-talk. - Graz / Vienna 2006. ISBN 978-3-85420-706-1
• Hanna and me . Prose. - Graz / Vienna 2008. ISBN 978-3-85420-738-2
• Three or four tones, nothing more . Eleven calls. - Vienna 2010. ISBN 978-3-552-05500-1
• King, jester and people . Imaginary novel. - Vienna 2013. ISBN 978-3-552-05600-8
• I know where I am - reflections on literature. - Vienna 2013. ISBN 978-3-902665-676
• The woman on my shoulder . Novel. - Vienna 2018. ISBN 978-3-552-05904-7

Awards

• Hermann Lenz grant (2005)
• Theodor Körner Prize (2005)
• Abraham Woursell Award (2006)
• Adalbert Stifter Scholarship from the Province of Upper Austria (2006)
• Promotion Prize for Literature of the City of Vienna (2007)
• Wartholz Literature Prize (2008)
• Austrian Prize for Literature (2008)
• Nomination for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (2009)
• Reinhard Priessnitz Prize (2010)
• Sponsorship award for the Heimrad Bäcker Award (2014)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Web presence of the Droschl literature publisher
2. ↑ Unsullied Sciences . Neue Zürcher Zeitung, August 10, 2013
3. ↑ ^{a b} Three women and a country stay on the border of the surreal. Upper Austrian News, August 23, 2018
4. ↑ Review note on Neue Zürcher Zeitung, October 2nd, 2006 . perlentaucher.de, accessed January 13, 2019
5. ↑ Wolfgang Popp, ORF Ö1 Kulturjournal, July 31, 2018
6. ^ Website of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
7. ↑ in: Online Standard from May 13, 2014

Web links

Commons : Andrea Winkler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Andrea Winkler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Andrea Winkler at the Droschl publishing house
• Short biography and information on the work of Andrea Winkler (author) at Literaturport
• Entry on Andrea Winkler by Nicole Streitler for the Upper Austrian literary history of the StifterHaus