Eva Rossmann

Just Bubbles, Vienna 2013.

Eva Rossmann (born January 1, 1962 in Graz ) is an Austrian writer , journalist , feminist , constitutional lawyer and cook .

Eva Rossmann at a reading in Ansfelden 2012

Life

Rossmann studied in Graz-to-last semester Jus . During a stay in Vienna during the semester break, she decided - "to the horror of my parents" - to break off her studies here and move to Vienna.

Lawyer and journalist

Rossmann began her career as a constitutional lawyer in the Federal Chancellery. According to her own statements, however, the bureaucratic and hierarchical processes were alien to her, whereupon she turned to political journalism and initially worked as a freelance journalist for ORF radio and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . From 1989 to 1994 she headed the Viennese editorial department of the Upper Austrian News , since then Eva Rossmann has been working as a freelance writer. Since 1994 she has been writing regularly in the magazine A la Carte on the subjects of cooking and gastronomy.

Feminism and Politics

In 1997 the feminist Rossmann was one of the initiators of the Austrian women's referendum. In 1998 she supported and coordinated the candidacy of the independent candidate Gertraud Knoll in the federal presidential election campaign , where she gained her first political experience. She describes herself as a very political person and does not belong to any political party, but she mostly sympathizes with the Greens and “thinks that politics shouldn't just be left to professional politicians”.

As an author, Rossmann wrote nonfiction books on women's issues and feminism from 1995.

Crime writer

Around 1998 she decided to write detective novels "after the many non-fiction books":

“I just wanted to allow myself to write a thriller in order to tell something in a different form that I like very much. It quickly became clear that I didn't want a professional detective as the main character. Since I was a journalist myself, and journalists could soon find their way into something, that too was quickly decided. "

- Eva Rossmann : Quoted from Krimi-Couch.de

1999 appeared with the election campaign her first crime novel about the lifestyle journalist and amateur detective Mira Valensky and her cleaning lady Vesna Krajner.

An essential element of her detective novels are extensive research by Rossmann in the locations of the action, mostly in Vienna and the surrounding area. For her novel Auskocht she worked at the restaurant "Zur Alten Schule" run by award- winning chef Manfred Buchinger . She enjoyed cooking so much that she completed her apprenticeship there and in 2004 completed her apprenticeship as a state-certified chef. For the Caribbean - all inclusive "[Rossmann] just 'had' to go to the Caribbean on vacation several times .... (well, and ask a little more specifically there)".

She wrote two scripts for the TV series SOKO Kitzbühel .

Private

In 1990 Eva Rossmann moved to the Weinviertel in Lower Austria. She is married to the ORF radio editor ( Ö1 ) Ernest Hauer, they live and work in Auersthal .

Works

Non-fiction

• Among men. Women in the Austrian Parliament. Folio, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85256-030-6 .
• Home to the stove? - Austerity package, job shortages, conservative trends and what women can do about it. Folio, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85256-051-9 .
• The Church's Fear of Women. Folio, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85256-052-7 .
• Women's affair - a guide. Folio, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85256-060-8 .
• Ordinary women - 14 women talk about their lives. Zsolnay, 1998, ISBN 3-552-04905-3 .
• Go media! Public relations and campaign planning. ÖGB-Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-7035-0788-8 .

Detective novels

• Election campaign. Folio, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85256-117-5 .
• Yodeled out. Folio, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85256-139-6 .
• Freudian crimes. Folio, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85256-163-9 .
• Cold meat. Folio, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85256-220-1 .
• Cooked out. Folio, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85256-251-1 .
• Caribbean - all inclusive. Folio, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85256-283-X .
• Wine & death. Folio, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85256-311-9 .
• Different. Folio, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85256-345-3 .
• Cooking millions. Folio, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85256-378-7 .
• Russians are coming. Folio, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85256-444-9 .
• Let live. Folio, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85256-496-8 .
• Evelyn's case. Folio, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85256-528-6 .
• Under the knife. Folio, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85256-575-0 .
• Under power. Folio, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85256-605-4 .
• Men traps. Folio, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-85256-629-0 .
• All red. Folio, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-85256-648-1 .
• Crosshair. A Mira Valensky thriller. Folio, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-85256-668-9 .
• Good, but dead. A Mira Valensky thriller. Folio, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-85256-698-6 .
• In the web. A Mira Valensky thriller. Folio, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-85256-752-5 .
• Hot time 51. A Mira Valensky thriller. Folio, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-85256-789-1 .

Novels

• Crooks. Limbus, Innsbruck 2013, ISBN 978-3-902534-72-9 .
• Patrioten , Folio, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-85256-725-9 .

Audio books

• Under power. Speaker: Eva Rossmann. Mono Verlag , Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-902727-23-7 .
• Silvia Vas reads Eva Rossmann: "Wein & Tod." A Mira Valensky thriller. Director: Kati Schaefer. Lübbe audio, Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-7857-3437-7 .

Others

• Mira kocht , Folio, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85256-358-9 . (Cookbook containing recipes used in crime novels.)

Eva Rossmann contributed to the following books in the form of short articles and stories:

• Let it snow. Ed. Gisa Klönne. Ullstein 2003, ISBN 3-548-25787-9 . (Contribution: Jingle Bells - Christmas under Caribbean palm trees and with a lot of styrofoam. )
• Youth seeks meaning. Edited by BAWAG. Ueberreuther 2004, ISBN 3-8000-7069-3 . (Contribution: The heroic deed - an almost completely normal apprentice story. )
• Crime scene Vienna. Edith Kneifl. Milena-Verlag 2004, ISBN 3-85286-124-1 . (Contribution: Wiener Kugel, right into the heart. )
• From the depths of the dream! Published by Literaturhäuser.net. Luchterhand 2006, ISBN 3-630-62090-6 . (Contribution: In the underground. )
• From Bijeljina to Eibesthal. A study on the situation of the Roma in the Lower Austrian Weinviertel. Edited by Ines Kälin Schreiblehner. Herwig Schinnerl, AVM 2010, ISBN 978-3-89975376-9 . (Post: Foreword )
• The seven lives of Marie Schwarz , with Vea Kaiser , Gertraud Klemm , Lydia Mischkulnig , Angelika Reitzer , Cornelia Travnicek and Doris Knecht , Molden / Styria 2020, ISBN 978-3-222-15043-2 .

literature

• Katrin Giritzhofer: Murderous and culinary: Eva Rossmann's female duo Mira and Vesna between Vienna, wine and Veneto. Diploma thesis at the University of Vienna , Vienna 2008 (with brief portrait, p. 11; full text as PDF.)
• Killer hunt. Detective novels are flourishing. In: Tiroler Tageszeitung , No. 449, Magazine section , April 21, 2001, p. 6. (Quoted in Giritzhofer, 2008, p. 125 ff.)
• Heike Henderson: Eva Rossmann's mystery novel “Russians Are Coming” The Russians Are Coming: New Crimes, Old Fears, and Intercultural Alliances. In: Studia austriaca , 20 (2012) pp. 25–32. Full text as PDF.
• Heike Henderson: "Eva Rossmann's Culinary Mysteries." Tatort Germany: The Curious Case of German-Language Crime Fiction. Ed. Lynn M. Kutch and Todd Herzog. Rochester: Camden House, 2014. 223-238.

Awards

• 2000: Communicator of the Year , awarded by the Public Relations Association Austria
• 2013: Great Josef Krainer Prize
• 2014: Leo Perutz Prize for men's traps

Web links

Commons : Eva Rossmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Eva Rossmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of Eva Rossmann
• What is a power woman? Interview with Eva Rossmann, conducted by Wolfgang Weninger, October 2005.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Quoted from Tiroler Tageszeitung , 2001.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Eva Rossmann. ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Entry in the online library of the culture network Niederösterreich, undated. Retrieved August 20, 2012.  
3. ↑ Eva Rossmann. Entry in Krimi-Couch.de, without date. Retrieved August 20, 2012.
4. ↑ See interview with Eva Rossmann in Krimi-Couch.de.