Anna-Elisabeth Mayer

Anna-Elisabeth Mayer, 2016

Anna-Elisabeth Mayer (* 1977 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian writer .

Career

Mayer studied philosophy and art history at the University of Vienna and completed a second degree at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig . Since 2008 she has initially published smaller articles, e.g. B. in the anthology squeaky days. She received literary grants, including a residency grant from the Literary Colloquium Berlin in 2011 . In 2010 her first book project, flyweight , was published, a parody of the trivial doctor novel. In 2011 she was awarded the Austrian Alpha Literature Prize, endowed with 10,000 euros . Anna-Elisabeth Mayer lives in Vienna .

In the novel Am Himmel she processed the life story of Johann Carl von Sothen , who was shot by his forester. The sources used were, among other things, Viennese newspaper reports on the trial of 18/19. July 1881. In addition to the course of the trial, the prehistory of the crime is told.

Works

Flyweight. Novel. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-89561-135-3 .
The dogs of Montpellier. Novel. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-89561-136-0 .
In the sky , Roman. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-7317-6129-7 .

Awards

Alpha 2011 literature prize for flyweight

Reinhard Priessnitz Prize 2015

Web links

Literature by and about Anna-Elisabeth Mayer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Continuation . In: Katharina Bendixen (Ed.): Squeaky days, mirror-smooth nights. Big city stories. Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-940691-01-9 , pp. 131-137. Source: German Literature Archive Marbach.
^ LCB: Residence grants . Retrieved June 30, 2015.
^ Anna-Elisabeth Mayer: Short biography. Literaturhaus Vienna . Retrieved June 30, 2015.
↑ Anna-Elisabeth Mayer: In the sky. In: Literaturhaus Wien . September 12, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
↑ http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20111104_OTS0238/literaturpreis-alpha-2011- geht-an-anna-elisabeth-mayer- bild
↑ Reinhard Priessnitz Prize to Anna-Elisabeth Mayer. In: derStandard.at. June 11, 2015, accessed December 17, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Mayer, Anna-Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	1977
PLACE OF BIRTH	Salzburg

[1] Continuation . In: Katharina Bendixen (Ed.): Squeaky days, mirror-smooth nights. Big city stories. Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-940691-01-9 , pp. 131-137. Source: German Literature Archive Marbach.

[2] LCB: Residence grants . Retrieved June 30, 2015.

[3] Anna-Elisabeth Mayer: Short biography. Literaturhaus Vienna . Retrieved June 30, 2015.

[4] Anna-Elisabeth Mayer: In the sky. In: Literaturhaus Wien . September 12, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .

[5] ttp://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20111104_OTS0238/literaturpreis-alpha-2011- geht-an-anna-elisabeth-mayer- bild

[6] Reinhard Priessnitz Prize to Anna-Elisabeth Mayer. In: derStandard.at. June 11, 2015, accessed December 17, 2017 .