Barbara Neuwirth

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Barbara Neuwirth (born November 13, 1958 in Eggenburg , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian writer .

life and work

At the age of nine, Barbara Neuwirth moved from Drosendorf in the Waldviertel to Vienna. She studied history, political science and ethnology at the University of Vienna and completed her training as a documentary graduate. From 1984–1997 she was a publisher at Wiener Frauenverlag and built up the scientific book series Frauenforschung, which she also published. Since 1997 she has been working as a freelance editor for scientific texts. She writes prose and dramas. Barbara Neuwirth lives in Vienna and in Mitter-Retzbach / Weinviertel.

Prizes and awards

  • 1986 Promotion Prize for Literature from the Theodor Körner Foundation
  • 1987 recognition award for literature from the state of Lower Austria
  • 1990 Prize for literature from the Adolf Schärf Fund
  • 1994 Promotion Prize for Literature from the Province of Lower Austria and Promotion Prize for Literature from the Theodor-Körner-Stiftung
  • 1996 Max Kade Writer in Residence at Oberlin College, Ohio, USA
  • 1998 Promotion Prize for Literature from the City of Vienna.
  • 2001 Writer in Residence at the University of New Mexico, USA and residency scholarship in Schloss Wiepersdorf
  • 2003 Writer in Residence at the University of New Mexico, USA
  • 2005 Anton Wildgans Prize
  • 2009 Acknowledgment Prize for Literature from the State of Lower Austria
  • 2019 Badge of Merit of the Association of Austrian Adult Education Centers for the provision of special services for the Austrian Adult Education Center
  • 2019 Gold Medal for Services to the Federal State of Lower Austria
  • 2019 honorary citizen of Josefstadt

Honory Member of the Austrian Studies Association

Works (selection)

as an author
  • In the gardens of the night. Fantastic stories . In: Fantastic Library . 255, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1990, ISBN 3-518-38245-4 .
  • Dark river of life. Narratives . In: Fantastic Library. 318, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1995, ISBN 3-518-38899-1 .
  • Flowers of the periphery. Narration . Edition Thurnhof, Horn 1994, ISBN 3-900678-20-0 .
  • In the house of the Snow Queen. Novella . Wiener Frauenverlag, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85286-001-6 .
  • About the Thaya. Narration . Edition Koenigstein, Klosterneuburg 1994, ISBN 3-901495-26-6 .
  • Love is a green wash trough. One last attempt at men's honor . Wiener Frauenverlag, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85286-024-5 (together with Sylvia Treudl ).
  • The stolen heart. A romantic fairy tale . Edition Koenigstein, Klosterneuburg 1998, ISBN 3-901495-20-7 .
  • Vienna city pictures . Löcker Verlag, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85409-280-6 (photos by Bill Barrette ).
  • Empedocles' tower. Novella . Wiener Frauenverlag, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85286-054-7 .
  • Tarot Suite. An episode novel . Deuticke, Vienna 2001 (together with Harald Friedl, Margit Hahn, Heinz Janisch and Norbert Silberbauer).
  • Antigone. And who plays the wet nurse? Play . Together with Erhard Pauer, UA 2003.
  • Eurydice. Play . WP 2005.
  • Eurydice revisited. A monologue . WP 2006.
  • The stone ship. Stories from the land between the Danube and Thaya . Literature edition Lower Austria, St. Pölten 2008, ISBN 978-3-901117-97-8 .
  • Charing Cross Station, London . Edition Art @ Print, Brunn am Gebirge 2013, ISBN 978-3-9503475-4-8
  • Hero. Heroine. Superhero. Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2019, ISBN 978-3-7099-3435-7
as editor
  • Ice Fire. Erotic poems by women . Wiener Frauenverlag, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-900399-15-8 .
  • My face be pale. Vampire stories . Wiener Frauenverlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-900399-24-7 .
  • Women who do not want children. A loving approach to childlessness . Wiener Frauenverlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-900399-26-3 (Women's Research Series; Vol. 8).
  • Within a small circle of people. Crime stories by Austrian women authors . Wiener Frauenverlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-900399-19-0 .
  • "... looked like she knew the world ...". A literary almanac . Wiener Frauenverlag, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-900399-37-9 (anniversary almanac 10 years Wiener Frauenverlag).
  • The foreign lands my own life. Material volume 6 poetry cycles . Wiener Frauenverlag, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-900399-52-2 (6 parts: Petra Ganglbauer: the danced time, Hertha Kräftner: The cruel mornings, Dine Petrik: childhood, Dorothea Schafranek: Dearest, my senses change the jumping mat, Rita Seliger : Belonging nowhere, Sylvia Treudl: Heimat).
  • I carry the land. The women's book of the margins . Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 1996, ISBN 3-85129-148-4 .
  • Women writers see their country. Austria from the perspective of its authors . Wiener Frauenverlag, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85286-015-6 .
  • Frustration of lust. Men who refuse . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-13773-9 .
  • Writing fluency 1980-2000. A literary anthology and documentation by the working group "women authors" . Promedia Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85371-159-6 .
  • Women see Europe. The reader for World Book Day 2000 . Main Association of the Austrian Book Trade, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85103-137-7 (together with Marianne Gruber ).
  • Escaping expectations. Stories by Austrian Women Writers . Ariadne Press, Riverside, Calif. 2001, ISBN 1-57241-101-5 .
  • Female Science Faction. Selected from the Lise Meitner Literature Prize . Promedia Verlag, Vienna 2001, ISBN 978-3-85371-173-6 (together with El Awadalla, Helga Gartner and Angelika Volst).
  • Female science faction reloaded . Promedia Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85371-296-2 .
  • Promotion of women in science and research. Concepts, structures, practices. Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture (materials for the advancement of women in science; Vol. 19). Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85224-116-2 (together with Roberta Schaller Steidl).

literature

  • Kika Bomer: The labyrinth as the dark river of life . In: Helga Abret (Ed.): Between distance and proximity. A generation of authors in the 80s . Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. 1998, ISBN 3-906759-98-9 .
  • Marianne Gruber : Wildgan Prize for Barbara Neuwirth on June 29, 2006 . In: Quarber Merkur 103/104, Franz Rottensteiner's literary magazine for science fiction and fantasy, Passau 2006, pp. 145–150. ISBN 978-3-932621-91-8
  • Daniela Kahls: Subversive Writing? The specifics of the fantastic in Barbara Neuwirth in comparison with Barbara Frischmuth . In: Quarber Merkur 91/92, Franz Rottensteiner's literary magazine for science fiction and fantasy, Passau 2000, pp. 173–198. ISBN 978-3-932621-32-1 .
  • Sabine Treude: storytelling as a discovery of the mixture. On the poetological conception and on selected texts by Barbara Neuwirth . In: Hildegard Kernmayer, Petra Ganglbauer (Hrsg.): Ways of writing. Poetologies . Wiener Frauenverlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85286-109-8 .
  • Sylvia Treudl: On night shores . In: Elisabeth Reichart (Ed.): Female poets about female poets . Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1993, ISBN 3-7013-0863-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Neuwirth, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Eggenburg , Lower Austria