Erika Wimmer Mazohl

Erika Wimmer Mazohl (born August 7, 1957 in Bozen ) is an Austrian writer and author of essayistic-documentary works.

Life

Erika Wimmer Mazohl was born and raised in Bolzano as the daughter of journalist and author Niklaus Mazohl. She lives and works as a freelance author and literary scholar in Innsbruck. In addition to essays on literature, she has published her own literary publications in prose , radio play , drama and poetry . From 1992 she was a research assistant at the Brenner Archive Research Institute at the University of Innsbruck , and from 1997 to 2003 head of the Literaturhaus am Inn in Innsbruck.

She is co-editor of the works of Norbert Conrad Kaser and Johannes E. Trojer ; Book publication about the cultural journalist and documentary filmmaker Krista Hauser , about the culture magazine Arunda (together with Christine Riccabona) and about the Austrian Youth Culture Weeks in Innsbruck (together with Milena Meller and Christine Riccabona). Long stays in Italy, France and India.

Erika Wimmer Mazohl is a member of the Graz Authors ' Assembly (GAV), the Literar Mechana and the SAAV - South Tyrolean Authors' Association.

Publications were made in anthologies, magazines and on Austrian radio.

Awards

• 1996 Art Prize of the City of Innsbruck 2nd Prize for Narrative Poetry
• 2000 Large literature scholarship from the state of Tyrol
• 2002 Art Prize of the City of Innsbruck 2nd Prize for Dramatic Poetry
• 2003 drama scholarship from bmukk
• 2004 State scholarship for literature from the bmukk
• 2006 drama scholarship from bmukk
• 2008 Art Prize of the City of Innsbruck 1st Prize for Narrative Poetry
• 2012 State scholarship for literature from the bmukk
• 2013 Finalist Wartholz Literature Prize
• 2014 Art Prize of the City of Innsbruck 1st Prize for Dramatic Poetry
• 2019 drama scholarship from the Austrian Federal Chancellery

Works

prose

• Feather, stone . Stories. TAK, Innsbruck 1996.
• Sometimes paradise . Narrative. Deuticke, Vienna 1999.
• In winter the heart thaws . Novel. Deuticke, Vienna 2002.
• The dark edges of the years . Novel. Folio, Vienna / Bozen 2009. ISBN 978-3-85256-495-1 .
• Nelly's version of the story . Novel. Limbus, Innsbruck 2014. ISBN 978-3-99039-000-9 .
• together with Nora Wimmer Money game without end. Hypo-Roman Verlag Library of the Province, Weitra 2014, ISBN 978-3-99028-371-4 .
• Merano off the beaten path . A somewhat different journey through the city of villas and promenades. Braumüller, Vienna 2017. ISBN 978-3-99100-207-9 .
• Lioness on one leg . Novel. Limbus, Innsbruck 2020. ISBN 978-3-99039-166-2 .

Drama

• The little hobbit . Children's play based on RJ Tolkien (WP Innsbruck) 1992.
• Unfortunately! or a perfectly normal disaster . Radio play (ORF-Studio Tirol) 1995.
• Deceptions . Radio play (ORF-Studio Tirol) 1997.
• The sun . Radio play (ORF-Studio Tirol) 1998.
• Olympe or The Last Words . Stage play (WP Innsbruck; guest performances Nenzing, Zagreb) 1998.
• On a knife edge . Stage play (WP Meran) 2003.
• On a knife edge . Radio play (RAI Bozen) 2004.
• (k) a carpet for the duce_ show your feet, show your shoes . Radio play (ORF-Studio Tirol) 2004.
• Trash . A Farce (Premiere Innsbruck) 2006.
• The mountain is coming . Stage play (WP Innsbruck) 2020.

Poetry

• Do I look over at you . Love poems. offizin S, Meran 2008.
• Places are . Poems. Edition Laurin, Innsbruck 2019. ISBN 978-3-902866-81-3 .

Installations / experiments

• 2004 (k) a carpet for the duce_ show your feet, show your shoes. Installation (Tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck, with Gitti Schneider and Anna Maria Mackowitz)
• 2007 travel into detail. Text & Photography (Literaturhaus am Inn, Innsbruck)
• 2008 colon. Text installation on Milena Meller “Blasser Schimmer” (Fotoforum West Innsbruck)
• 2009 12 poems on: READ SIGNS READ SIGNS. Photography texts sound. Performance and exhibition. Together with Monika Zanolin, Petra Nachbauer, Petra Maria Kraxner and musicians. Fotoforum West 14. 5.-16. 5th 2009.
• 2016 throw poems / body writing denkmalefix (together with Tom Zabel). As part of: flattersätze. text & visualization. Innsbruck: Gallery in the Taxispalais.
• 2018 ELSEWHERE ALTROVE. Text posters (with photo posters by Hanna Battisti, Andreas Bertagnoll, Peter Elvin, Georg Erlacher, Claudia Fritz, Nicolas Hafele, Werner Neururer, Margit Santer, Andrea Maria Trompedeller). Brenner Pass, public space (shop windows at St. Valentine Bridge).
• 2019 ANDERNORTS ALTROVE. Text posters for a photo exhibition (with photographers see above). Bolzano, Dominican Gallery.

Web links

• Erika Wimmer's website
• Homepage of Erika Wimmer on the website of the University of Innsbruck
• Literature by and about Erika Wimmer Mazohl in the catalog of the German National Library