Christine Haidegger
Christine Haidegger (born February 27, 1942 in Dortmund - Barop as Ingeborg-Christine Haidegger ) is an Austrian writer .
Life
Christine Haidegger spent her youth in Upper Austria. After attending high school and graduating from high school , she spent several years in the United Kingdom, France and Italy. She has lived as a freelance writer in Salzburg since 1964 . From her marriage to Eberhard Haidegger in 1965 the daughter Christina Maria († 1989) emerged, who also worked as a writer under the pseudonym Meta Merz and whose estate Christine Haidegger looks after. In 1974 Christine Haidegger was one of the founders of the group of authors " projekt-IL ", from 1975 to 1981 she published the literary magazine of the same name . In 1978 she took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt.
Since 1989 Christine Haidegger has been taking reading and study trips to the south and southwest of the USA; In 1991 she was writer-in-residence at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia.
Christine Haidegger was co-founder of the Salzburg Literaturhaus and is currently a member of the Grazer Autorenversammlung , the IG authors authors and the Salzburg group of authors whose chairwoman , she was for many years. She also launched the Meta Merz Literature Prize, which is advertised at irregular intervals as a sponsorship prize for young women authors.
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Fonts
Christine Haidegger is the author of novels , short stories , travelogues , poems , plays and radio plays . The most important publications are:
- Disenchanted faces , Darmstadt 1976
- Out of the window , Reinbek near Hamburg 1979
- Adam, Adam , Vienna 1985
- American amazement , Vienna 1993
- Breath, Stille , Baden near Vienna 1993
- Beautiful landscape , Salzburg 1993
- Cajuns, Cola, Cadillac , Vienna 1997
- White Nights , Baden near Vienna 2002
- Mama Dear (English translation of "Out of the window"), Riverside / Ca. 2002
- Stranger mother , Salzburg a. a. 2006
- Heart.Landscape.Light. , Salzburg / Vienna 2009
- Texas Travels , Vienna 2010
- Out of the window , new edition, Salzburg 2016
- After the festival , Salzburg 2018
- On the tenderness of words , Salzburg 2019
Sound carrier
- Herzland , CD, 2013
Editing
- Meta Merz: Eroticism of Distance , Vienna 1990
- Meta Merz: Metaphysics of Desire , Vienna 1996
Awards
Christine Haidegger received the following prizes and awards, among others:
- 1984 Culture Prize of the City of Salzburg
- 1984 Georg-Rendl-Literature Prize of the Chamber for Workers and Employees in Salzburg
- 1990 Culture Prize of the State of Salzburg
- 1997 Literature Prize of the Salzburg Culture Fund
- 2002 Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the State of Salzburg
- 2005 Poetry Prize of the State of Salzburg
- 2012 city seal in silver of the city of Salzburg
Web links
- Literature by and about Christine Haidegger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ingeborg-Christine Haidegger in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
- Entry to Christine Haidegger on the website of the Linzer Stifterhaus
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haidegger, Christine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haidegger, Ingeborg-Christine (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dortmund - Barop |