Brigitte Schwens-Harrant

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Brigitte Schwens-Harrant at the literature festival O-Töne 2015

Brigitte Schwens-Harrant (* 1967 in Wels as Brigitte Harrant ) is an Austrian Germanist , literary critic and journalist .

Life

Brigitte Harrant studied German Philology and Theology at the University of Vienna , graduating in 1990 with a Magistra. 1995 doctorate it at Vienna University with a dissertation on the subject experienced world - erschriebene worlds: Theology in an interview with Austrian narrative literature of the present to the doctor .

Since 1992 she has worked as an editor for various media in the literature sector. In 1992 she was awarded the Federal Ministry for Education and Art . From 2000 to 2002 she headed the Literary Forum in Vienna and was editor-in-chief of the magazine SCHRIFT /zeichen for literature, art, religion.

Since 2002 she has been head of the literature department and since 2013 head of the features section of the weekly newspaper Die Furche . She is the editor of the websites www.literatur-religion.net and www.literaturkritik.at as well as lecturer at the University of Innsbruck , the University of Salzburg and the University of Vienna. In 2015 she was awarded the State Prize for Literary Criticism , and since 2015 she has moderated the series WERK.GÄNGE of the Austrian Society for Literature .

In 2016 she was a member of the jury for the Austrian Book Prize and has been a member of the jury for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize since 2020 .

Publications (selection)

  • 1995: Experienced World - Written Worlds: Theology in Conversation with Austrian Narrative Literature of the Present , Tyrolia-Verlag, Vienna / Innsbruck 1997, Dissertation, ISBN 978-3-7022-2095-2
  • 2008: Literary criticism: a search , StudienVerlag, Bozen / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-7065-4642-3
  • 2010: Dispersed voices: People - Topics - Books , Mueller-Speiser-Verlag, Anif / Salzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-902537-18-8
  • 2012: The looted temple: a dialogue , together with Jörg Seip , Klever-Verlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-902665-43-0
  • 2013: Font ahoy! Literature as seafaring. A lexicon , together with Jörg Seip, Klever-Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-902665-66-9
  • 2014: Arriving: Conversations with Dimitré Dinev, Anna Kim, Radek Knapp, Julyia Rabinowich, Michael Stavarič , Styria, Vienna / Graz / Klagenfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-222-13467-8
  • 2019: Mind the gap. Seven traces about the creation of identities , together with Jörg Seip, Klever-Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-903110-46-5

Awards (selection)

Web links

Commons : Brigitte Schwens-Harrant  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Brigitte Schwens-Harrant newly 2020. Jury In: ORF.at . December 19, 2019, accessed May 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Brigitte Harrant: Childhood and religion: religious childhood experiences in the autobiographical literature of Josef Winkler and Brigitte Schwaiger. In: obvsg.at. Retrieved May 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Brigitte Harrant: Experienced world - written worlds: Theology in conversation with Austrian narrative literature of the present. In: obvsg.at. Retrieved May 8, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e Brigitte Schwens-Harrant receives the Austrian State Prize for Literary Criticism 2015. November 13, 2015, accessed on May 8, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schwens-Harrant, Brigitte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harrant, Brigitte (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Germanist, literary critic and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH catfish