Gabriele Petricek
Gabriele Petricek (* 1957 in Krems an der Donau ) is an Austrian author .
Life
Gabriele Petricek completed an apprenticeship as a fashion designer and ladies' dress maker at the fashion school Hetzendorf in Vienna and worked first as a fashion designer, later as a marketing assistant and freelance journalist for fashion, architecture and visual arts, especially for Jardin des Modes (Zurich), Wochenpresse (Vienna) and jazzzeit (Vienna).
She published literary works in international newspapers, literary magazines and on the radio ( ORF ), among others , and she also wrote articles for anthologies . She was several times Writer in Residence in the USA, Great Britain, Bulgaria and Italy, is co-founder of the biennial literary symposium Austrian-American Podium Dialog in Easton , Pennsylvania at the Max Kade Center of Lafayette College (together with Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger), as well Founder of the annual reading festival Literatur am Steg on the Old Danube in Vienna . Burkhard Spinnen invited her to the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in 2005 , but she withdrew from her participation because parts of her contribution had been published in advance against the competition's statutes.
Her book The Unreachability of Innsbruck, Persecution Rituals made it onto the ORF best list in November 2018 .
Gabriele Petricek is a member of the Graz Authors' Assembly , the Literature Circle Podium, Neulengbach Castle, and the Friday Lunch Society . She lives in Vienna and retires to the USA, Upper Austria and Italy for longer periods of writing.
Awards
- 1995: Theodor Körner Promotion Prize for Literature
- 1999/2000: Hans Weigel Literature Scholarship from the State of Lower Austria
- 2002/2003 and 2003/2004: State scholarships for literature from the Federal Chancellery
- 2005: Prize for a literary debut from the State Secretariat for Art
- 2009: Project grant and book award from the BMUKK
- 2011: State grant from the BMUKK
- 2013: Lower Austrian Culture Prize - Recognition Prize
- 2014–2016: Elias Canetti Scholarship
Publications (selection)
- 2005: Suites: Stories , Literature Edition Lower Austria, St. Pölten 2005, ISBN 978-3-901117-76-3
- 2009: From the Heavens: Triptychon , special number , Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85449-323-5
- 2011: Joyce's Choice or: A dog came into the kitchen , special number, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85449-363-1
- 2018: The inaccessibility of Innsbruck: Persecution rituals , special number, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-85449-492-8
Web links
- Official website
- Short biography on the website of the Literaturhaus Wien
- Gabriele Petricek on the website of Sonderzahl Verlag
- Gabriele Petricek on the website of the Lower Austria Literature Edition
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Surprising exit shortly before the start . APA notification dated June 24, 2005, accessed August 6, 2018.
- ↑ a b c Gabriele Petricek: Biography . Retrieved August 6, 2018.
- ^ Max Kade Center for German Studies · Lafayette College. Retrieved September 1, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ a b c Graz authors' assembly . Retrieved August 6, 2018.
- ↑ orf.at: The best 10 in November 2018 . Retrieved November 1, 2018.
- ↑ 2013 cultural awards presented by the State of Lower Austria . OTS notification dated November 9, 2013, accessed August 6, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petricek, Gabriele |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krems at the Donau |