Birgit Müller-Wieland

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Birgit Müller-Wieland at the Schamrock Festival of Women Poets 2014

Birgit Müller-Wieland (* 13. September 1962 as Birgit Feusthuber in Schwanenstadt / Upper Austria ) is an Austrian writer.

Life

Birgit Müller-Wieland grew up in Upper Austria and Styria . From 1980 she studied German and psychology at the University of Salzburg . 1989 doctorate it with a thesis on Peter Weiss Doctor of Philosophy . She then worked as a literary scholar , journalist and, from 1991 to 1993, as managing director of the umbrella association Salzburg cultural sites . She also ran writing workshops and literature courses for young people. From 1996 to 2007 she lived as a freelance writer in Berlin , and since then in Munich. She is married to the composer and conductor Jan Müller-Wieland . In 2000 she took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt .

Müller-Wieland is the author of novels, short stories, poems, radio plays and libretti. She is a member of the Graz Authors ' Assembly , the Austrian IG Authors' Authors and the Association of German Writers . I.a. She received the following awards: 1996 the Rauris Promotion Prize, 1997 an annual scholarship from the State of Salzburg , 2000 the Harder Literature Prize , 2001 the Würth Literature Prize , 2002 the Adalbert Stifter Scholarship from the Province of Upper Austria, a scholarship from the Berlin Senate and the Reinhard-Priessnitz Price . In 2007/2008 and 2009/2010 she was awarded the Austrian State Scholarship. In 2015/16 she received the project grant for literature from the Austrian Federal Chancellery.

In 2017 she was nominated for the German Book Prize with “Flugschnee” .

Works

  • 1997 The Color Seeker . Prose. Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck.
  • 2000 The fairy tale of the 672nd night . Libretto after Hugo von Hofmannsthal, opera by Jan Müller-Wieland. First performance at the Vienna Chamber Opera, German first performance June 2000, Theater Nordhausen.
  • 2002 calm blood . Poems. Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck.
  • 2005 The Neapolitan bed . Novel. Wagenbach Verlag, Berlin.
  • 2005 division on the river . Text on the visualized Linz sound cloud. Music by Peter Valentin. Concept and implementation: lawine torrén.
  • 2008 Aventure Faust . Libretto for an opera with music by Ligeti / Müller-Wieland. World premiere Reaktorhalle Munich.
  • 2009 Wherever . Stories. Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck.
  • 2010 The little ring . Opera based on Richard Wagner's motifs. Music by Jan Müller-Wieland. World premiere at Theater Regensburg.
  • 2011 I promise, Frog Prince, I promise . Libretto by the Brothers Grimm. Music by Johannes X. Schachtner, Manuela Kerer, Gerhard Müller-Hornbach. World premiere Reaktorhalle Munich.
  • 2016 travel offense . Poems. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg
  • 2017 flying snow . Novel. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg, ISBN 978-3-7013-1248-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. orf.at: German Book Prize: Five Austrians on the longlist . Article dated August 15, 2017, accessed August 15, 2017.