Ditha Brickwell

Ditha Brickwell at Buch Wien (2019)

Ditha Brickwell (born July 28, 1941 in Vienna ) is an Austrian writer . She lives in Berlin and writes novels and essays .

life and work

Ditha Brickwell grew up in Vienna. After studying architecture, regional planning and economics of education in Vienna, Berlin and New York, she worked in Paris, Tel-Aviv and Helsinki. In 1970 she chose Berlin as her permanent residence. In 1977 she did her doctorate at the Technical University of Berlin on planning and organization in higher education: a study of the efficiency of universities.

The big city was her theme: She taught at the Technical University of Berlin and at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen , with the aim of bringing economic dynamism to impoverished city districts. She worked in the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and Environmental Protection and in the Investitionsbank Berlin in a leading position and participated in international committees and working groups; As a consultant and evaluator for the EU Commission , she has traveled widely in Europe. She has been writing and publishing literature since 1988, and has lived as a freelance writer in Berlin and Vienna since 2005.

Ditha Brickwell writes novels, short stories and essays and publishes mainly in Austrian publishers, magazines and anthologies. So far there are nine books on the market. Three of them are artist books , designed with painters and book artists Linda Wolfsgruber , Monika Sieveking and Albrecht von Bodecker .

In workshop discussions “Politics and Poetry” and “History in Stories”, Ditha Brickwell regularly invites fellow writers to Vienna or Berlin to use their texts to talk about writing in a political context.

Ditha Brickwell is a member of the Graz Authors' Assembly (GAV), the Literar-Mechana , the IG Authors Vienna and the international PEN Center Germany .

Works (selection)

• Angstsommer , Roman, Mandelbaum, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85476-026-4 .
• The child thief , Roman, Deuticke, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-216-30584-8 .
• Complete security , with Linda Wolfsgruber : two-tone lithographs. Mandelbaum, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85476-104-X ; as well as in the Edition Mariannenpresse , Berlin 2003. ISBN 3-926433-31-0 .
• 7 Leben , Frauenbiographien, Freimut & Selbst, Berlin 2005; 2nd edition 2010, ISBN 3-937378-07-3 .
• The Europe files - a utopia is lost , essay novel, Wieser, Klagenfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-85129-688-4 .
• Injured paradises , novella, Mandelbaum, Vienna, 2009, ISBN 978385476-289-8
• Every hour of Silent Night , narrative with graphics by Monika Sieveking , Die Quetsche Verlag für Buchkunst, Witzwort, ISBN 3-925899-86-3
• Perfect security , narrative, with graphics by Linda Wolfsgruber , Mariannenpresse, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3926433310
• Numbers! , Essay, graphic by Albrecht von Bodecker, Mariannenpresse, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3926433361
• Fedjas Flucht , Roman, Drava, Klagenfurt 2018, ISBN 978-3-85435-868-8
• The world under my toes - stories from 100 years , Drava, Klagenfurt 2019, ISBN 978-3-85435-921-0

Awards

• 2007 Recognition Prize of the Bruno Kreisky Prize for the novel essay, The Europe Files - A Utopia Is Lost '

swell

• Personal website
• Literaturport.de Ditha Brickwell
• IG authors profile
• Biography at the publishing house Mandelbaum
• Author profile at Wieser Verlag

Web links

• Literature by and about Ditha Brickwell in the catalog of the German National Library
• Deutschlandfunk '' nuances. Music and questions about the person. The writer Ditha Brickwell '. In conversation with Joachim Scholl, December 1, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Drava. Retrieved November 26, 2019 (German). 
2. ↑ Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book: Prize winners 1993-2018 , renner-institut.at, accessed December 1, 2019