Angelika Hager

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Angelika Hager (* 1963 in Baden near Vienna ; pseudonym Polly Adler ) is an Austrian journalist and author.

Life

Angelika Hager has headed the corporate department of the news magazine profil since 1997, where she publishes weekly socio-political articles and is responsible for many cover stories on the topics of psychology, feminism, sexuality and psychiatry. In 2014 she published the book “Snow White Fever - Why Feminism fell on the face and gave us the retro female”, which sparked a heated discourse in Austria and also met with great media coverage in Germany. In 2011 she invented and founded the literary festival “Swimming Salon” in the Vöslau thermal baths, which has been under her artistic directorship ever since. Artists such as Claus Peymann, Michael Heltau, Maria Happel and Harald Schmidt performed in the “floating salon”. In November 2017, edited by Angelika Hager celebrated stage adaptation of Welcome to Hartmann's onWiener Akademietheater premiere. The play differs from the film in that it has a harder view of refugee policy and a strong reference to Austria.

Polly Adler

In 1996, Hager invented the fictional Polly Adler for the Kurier magazine Freizeit, which appears on Saturdays , under whose name she has since written the humorous column Chaos de Luxe .

In addition to the weekly column, nine books and two audio CDs have now been published under the pseudonym Polly Adler. The TV movie Polly Adler - A Woman Sees Pink was released in 2005; the four-part series Polly Adler was broadcast from May 2008. The role of Polly Adler is played in the film and series by Petra Morzé . Angelika Hager wrote the scripts, and Uli Brée took part in the series . On the occasion of her 20th column anniversary as Polly Adler, she tours regularly with her friends, the castle actresses Maria Happel and Petra Morzé, as well as the cabaret artist Andrea Händler on Austrian stages such as the Vienna Rabenhoftheater with the program “Amourhatscher”. On October 6th, the new Polly Adler program “Nymphs in Need” will celebrate its premiere in the Rabenhof.

In the novel The Jonah Complex of Thomas Glavinic Hager is presented by the narrator as "old friend".

Publications

  • Polly Adler: Chaos de Luxe. NP-Verlag (hardcover) and Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-423-20625-X
  • Polly Adler: Pollywood. And other stories from the chaos of love. Amalthea Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85002-537-3 .
  • Polly Adler: Babes need love too. Chaos de Luxe - new columns and recipes. , NP Buchverlag 2003, ISBN 3-85326-081-0 .
  • Polly Adler: Amour pfuh. Amalthea, Vienna 2008.
  • Polly Adler: Only idiots are happy. Short stories Amalthea, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85002-692-5 .
  • Polly Adler: Venus in a coma. , Roman, Amalthea, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85002-757-1 .
  • Polly Adler: "If you want to stay young ..." Roman, Amalthea, Vienna 2011.
  • Polly Adler: Adieu, procreation! - How to really fail as a mother. Columns, Amalthea, Vienna 2013.
  • Angelika Hager: Snow White Fever. Why feminism fell on the face and gave us the retro female . K&S, 2014.
  • Polly Adler: Amour hatscher. Best of Chaos de Luxe . 250 columns from 20 years. Amalthea Signum, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-99050-047-7 .
  • Angelika Hager: Guys! A safari through the male psyche , Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-218-01126-6

Audio books

  • Polly Adler: Adieu, procreation. How to really fail as a mother. Speaker: Maria Happel , Mono Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-902727-36-7 .
  • Polly Adler: Chaos de luxe , spoken by Petra von Morzé.

Movie

  • Polly Adler - a woman looks pink. TV movie, 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Welcome to the Hartmanns" in the Akademietheater cheered . Article dated November 19, 2017, accessed March 8, 2020.
  2. ↑ Polly Adler series on orf.at. Retrieved July 27, 2015
  3. ↑ The Jonas Complex. Frankfurt a. M. 2016. p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Hager, Angelica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Polly Adler (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden near Vienna