Cornelia Travnicek
Cornelia Travnicek (born January 22, 1987 in St. Pölten ) is an Austrian writer.
Life
Since her school days, Cornelia Travnicek has appeared in various literary competitions as well as through publications in literary magazines and anthologies. In January 2008 her prose debut “Aurora Borealis” was published, the short story “The Ashes of My Sister” followed half a year later. She studied Sinology and Computer Science at the University of Vienna . In spring 2008 she was awarded the Theodor Körner Prize for her work on her third book . At the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in 2012 she won the audience award. In addition to her writing activities, she works part-time as a researcher in a center for virtual reality and visualization in Vienna .
Her novel Chucks was in 2015 by Sabine Hiebler and Gerhard Ertl with Anna Posch as Mae filmed , the author has in two Cameoauftritte . The film won the Audience Award at the Montreal World Film Festival 2015.
Her third novel, Feenstaub, is based on the story of Peter Pan in a magical and poetic way and interweaves real events. Three boys fall into the clutches of a child trafficker who mistreats them and exploits them as pickpockets. Fairy dust is used to disappear in the city, so to get from no man's land to the other bank of the river, taken as a drug it means that you can fly with it. Finally, Petru / Pierre actually flies back in the plane from where he came from, by deportation flight, is interpreted.
Works
- Aurora Borealis. Prose. Edition Linz, Linz 2008. ISBN 3-852-52875-5
- My sister's ashes . Narrative. Literature edition Lower Austria, St. Pölten 2008. ISBN 978-3-901117-98-5
- suspense game and chocolate . Body text. Edition Thurnhof, Horn 2008. ISBN 3-900-678-96-0
- Feed me . Prose. Skarabaeus Verlag, Innsbruck 2009. ISBN 978-3-7082-3272-0
- Chucks . Novel. DVA, Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-421-04526-3
- We live in the northern lights . Stories. DVA E-Book, Munich 2014. ISBN 978-3-641-13334-4
- at least one of the white whales. Poems. Berger, Horn 2015. ISBN 978-3-85028-686-2
- Young dogs. Novel. DVA, Munich 2015. ISBN 978-3-421-04628-4
- At maximum cruising speed. Prose. Literature Quickie, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3945453186
- Parablow. Monologues with Sylvia. Poems. Limbus Verlag, Innsbruck 2017, ISBN 978-3-99039-101-3
- Two of them. Children's book. Picture book. Illustrations by Birgitta Heiskel , Picus Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-7117-4013-7
- The seven lives of Marie Schwarz , with Vea Kaiser , Eva Rossmann , Gertraud Klemm , Lydia Mischkulnig , Angelika Reitzer and Doris Knecht , Molden / Styria, Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-222-15043-2
- Feenstaub , Roman, Picus Verlag, Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-7117-2090-0
Film adaptations
- 2015: Chucks , directors: Sabine Hiebler , Gerhard Ertl
Editor
- How I fucked Jamal , Milena (2010) (together with Mieze Medusa )
Awards
- 2004: Scholarship holder of the Wolfenbüttel Literature Laboratory
- 2004: Audience Award at the Hattinger Literature Prize
- 2005: Marianne von Willemer Prize (recognition prize)
- 2005: Prize for young authors in "Writing Between Cultures" (Verein Exil)
- 2006: Second of the "Big Three" at the FM4 Wortlaut literature competition
- 2006: “Youngster of Arts” recognition award from the city of St. Pölten
- 2007: Hans Weigel Literature Scholarship from Lower Austria
- 2007: Literature Prize of the City of Steyr Recognition Prize
- 2008: Theodor Körner Prize
- 2008: BMUKK author's award for My Sister's Ashes
- 2009: Lise Meitner Literature Prize with My chives are a swamp plant
- 2012: Audience award at the Ingeborg Bachmann competition for young dogs
- 2012: Recognition award from the state of Lower Austria (literature section) for Chucks
- 2013: Kranichsteiner youth literature scholarship
Web links
- Literature by and about Cornelia Travnicek in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official web presence of Travnicek
- Short biography and information on the work of Cornelia Travnicek at Literaturport
- "Unscrew, take a look" , Die Presse Interview from December 17, 2015, accessed January 15, 2016
- Cornelia Travnicek in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual references, sources
- ↑ a b Travnicek's novel "Chucks" Late happiness and early suffering , review by Karl-Markus Gauss in the NZZ on July 11, 2012, accessed on July 19, 2012
- ↑ Cornelia Travnicek's own website , accessed on November 1, 2015
- ↑ orf.at - "Chucks" goes film . Article dated September 25, 2015, accessed September 11, 2016.
- ↑ Cornelia Travnicek's poetic “Feenstaub” orf.at, April 7, 2020, accessed April 7, 2020.
- ↑ “Aurora Borealis” , review, literaturhaus.at, May 29, 2008, accessed August 6, 2014
- ↑ Die Zeit dpa Newsticker Literature from July 31, 2013: Kranichsteiner Literature Prize for Marica Bodrožić ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 31, 2013
- ↑ The State of Lower Austria: 2012 Culture Prize Winners , accessed on March 26, 2014
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Travnicek, Cornelia |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1987 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Poelten , Austria |