Anna Mayrhauser

Anna Mayrhauser (2019)

Anna Mayrhauser (* 1983 in Linz ) is an Austrian journalist and author.

Career

Mayrhauser grew up in Linz and began studying comparative literature as well as theater, film and media studies at the University of Vienna in 2002 , which she - interrupted by an Erasmus semester at the University of Valenciennes - in 2009 with a diploma thesis on “The experience of traveling in pop literature - Between postcolonial tendencies, the search for freedom, nostalgia and utopia ”. This was followed by a master’s degree in cultural journalism at the Berlin University of the Arts , which she completed in 2012 with a master’s thesis on “ Culture of Remembrance in Radio - An Analysis of Selected Formats in DeutschlandRadio Kultur ”. Mayrhauser was awarded the Axel Springer Prize in 2013 for the journalistic work “The small town and the grave”, which is part of the master’s thesis . Mayrhauser has lived in Berlin since 2010, where she worked as a freelance journalist and film critic before becoming part of the editorial team of Missy Magazine and finally its editor-in-chief in early 2016 .

2013: Axel Springer Prize for young journalists (3rd prize in the "Radio" category) for the contribution "The small town and the grave"

Sonja Eismann , Anna Mayrhauser: Free pieces: Stories about self-determination . Edition Nautilus Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-96054-185-1 .