Andrea Wolfmayr

Andrea Wolfmayr (2011)

Andrea Wolfmayr (* 16 July 1953 as Andrea core in Gleisdorf / Styria ) is an Austrian writer .

Life

Andrea Wolfmayr attended elementary school and secondary school in Gleisdorf , where she passed her Matura in 1971 . 1979 to 1986 she completed her training as a bookseller. During this time she began to write. She studied music at the Graz University of Music as well as German and art history at the University of Graz , where she obtained her master's degree in 1994 and obtained her doctorate in philosophy in 1998 with a literary thesis . From 1995 to 1999 she worked as a bookseller again.

She has been publishing literary texts since the late 1970s ; In 1983 she took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt . From 1999 to 2006 she was a member of the ÖVP in the Austrian National Council . She has lived as a freelance writer in Gleisdorf since 2006 and worked from 2007 to 2013 in Graz in the cultural office of the Graz City Administration.

Andrea Wolfmayr is the author of novels , short stories , children's books and essays .

Andrea Wolfmayr was a member of the Graz Authors' Assembly and has been a member of the PEN Club since 2008 .

1980 Steinhausen Literature Prize
1982 and 1984 prize in the competition for Christian literature of the weekly newspaper "Die Furche" and the "Styria" publishing house
1982 and 1987 state scholarship from the Federal Ministry for Education and Art for Literature
1982 and 1985 recognition award of the promotion award for children's and youth literature of the state of Styria
1985 Theodor Körner Prize
1986 Third prize of the Paula Grogger Storytelling Prize of the Styrian Writers' Union
1986 and
1991 Book award from the Federal Ministry for Education and Art
1992 Otto Stoessl Prize
1994 Prize of the literature competition "Heimat - what is that" of the Styrian regional government's cultural department

Playrooms , Roman, Verlag Steinhausen, Munich 1981 (Rowohlt, Hamburg 1984)
1, 2, 3 we are there , children's book, Graz 1981 (together with Paul Mangold)
The colors of the seasons , Roman, Styria, Graz, Vienna, Cologne 1986
The Swallow or Minos on Crete , Gleisdorf 1987 (together with Micha Geyer)
Pechmarie , Roman, Styria, Graz, Vienna, Cologne 1989
Margot's Men , Roman, Edition S, Vienna 1990
Phoenix & Phoebe , Wies 1991
... so I need violence , detective novel, Aarchachne Verlag, Vienna 1995
Digitalis Purpurea , Roman, Styria, Graz, Vienna, Cologne 1998
Color symbolism with Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan , dissertation Graz 1998
The Grazganger , Weishaupt, Gnas 2000
Then, now and generally , stories, Steirische Verlagsgesellschaft, Graz 2003
About the change. The beginning of a new life (section) , Verlag 55PLUS Medien GMBH, Vienna 2005 (together with Johannes Huber)
In the train. A commuter's notes , edition keiper, Graz 2011
White mix. A novel from the provinces , edition keiper, Graz 2012
Jane and I or The Therapists . Roman, edition keiper, Graz 2014
Red splatter. The second novel from the provinces , edition keiper, Graz 2015
On the life and death of Mr Vattern, farmer, craftsman and count , Roman, edition keiper, Graz 2016
Disenchantment. A third novel from the provinces , edition keiper, Graz 2017
Jack & me. The Evil In Me , edition keiper, Graz 2018