Gertraud Klemm

Gertraud Klemm at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2019

Gertraud Klemm (born July 6, 1971 in Vienna ) is an Austrian writer.

Life

Klemm grew up in Baden near Vienna. She completed a degree in biology at the University of Vienna , then worked as a civil servant for drinking water control at the city of Vienna until 2005, before turning to the writing profession in 2006. She has since made her living as a writer and provider of creative writing classes .

Her first book Höhlenfrauen with twelve short stories was published by Mille Tre Verlag in Vienna in 2006 . In her documentary essay Mother on Paper , published by Arovell in 2010 , she deals with the emotional and bureaucratic challenges of adoption . Your children are adopted. In 2010 she received the Literature Prize of the Graz Academy and in 2011 the Lise Meitner Literature Prize for her story Wasserweib .

In 2014, her first novel Herzmilch was published by the Graz literary publisher Droschl . He tells of the life of a woman who does not want to be satisfied with the roles she has been assigned. With the peeled tag. In the same year a dialogue came out an experimental book in which her diary texts interact with images by Uta Heinecke that were created at the same time.

In 2014, Klemm received a Vienna literary grant and a project grant from the Ministry of Art and Culture. In addition, she received the Irseer Pegasus literary prize in the same year . At the invitation of Hubert Winkels , she took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition 2014. For her text Ujjayi , a chapter from the second novel, which was not yet published at the time, she won the BKS Audience Award at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize endowed with 7,000 euros. The vast majority of internet readers voted for it. Her "refreshing, direct language" and her spirited, independent writing style were praised.

At the beginning of 2015 the corresponding novel Aberland was published by Droschl . In the case of an academically educated contemporary woman who shares some traits with the author, the social disadvantages of motherhood are similar to those of her mother, who was also not too happy with her housewife role. In a direct, quite conflicting generation comparison, the author vividly describes the feminist dilemma of her protagonists .

The novel “Aberland” was selected for “Books at Berlinale” in 2015 and was on the longlist for the 2015 German Book Prize. In 2015, the author was Klagenfurt city ​​clerk. Gertraud Klemm's work places the feminist analysis of the contemporary bourgeois role of women at the center of her stories.

Gertraud Klemm lives with her family in Pfaffstätten , Lower Austria .

Works

• The seven lives of Marie Schwarz , with Vea Kaiser , Eva Rossmann , Lydia Mischkulnig , Angelika Reitzer , Cornelia Travnicek and Doris Knecht , Molden / Styria, Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-222-15043-2 .
• Hippocampus. Novel. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-218-01177-8 .
• Pea counting. Novel. Literaturverlag Droschl , Graz / Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-99059-006-5
• Nut housing. Novel. Kremayr & Scheriau , Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-218-01023-8 .
• Aberland. Novel. Droschl, Graz 2015, ISBN 978-3-85420-963-8 .
• Heart milk. Novel. Droschl, Graz 2014, ISBN 978-3-85420-848-8 .
• the peeled day. a dialogue. Prose, with 29 pictures by Uta Heinecke, Literature Edition Niederösterreich, Sankt Pölten 2014
• Mother on paper. Essay. Arovell, Gosau 2010, ISBN 978-3-902547-18-7 .
• Cave women. 12 stories, illustrated. Mille Tre Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-900198-10-7 .

Awards

• 2010: Literature Prize of the Graz Academy , 2nd Prize.
• 2011: Lise Meitner Literature Prize for water woman .
• 2012: Harder Literature Prize for her short story on the subject of "Don't trust anyone over 30".
• 2014: Irseer Pegasus .
• 2014: BKS audience award at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for "Ujjayi".
• 2014: Author's award from the BKA for the particularly successful debut (for "Herzmilch")
• 2015: Shortlist of the European Union Prize for Literature 2015 ("Herzmilch")
• 2015: Longlist of the German Book Prize 2015 ("Aberland")
• 2020: Outstanding Artist Award for Literature

Web links

Commons : Gertraud Klemm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gertraud Klemm's website
• Short biography and information on the work of Gertraud Klemm at Literaturport

supporting documents

1. ↑ books de IT and Production: Hippocampus. Retrieved April 14, 2020 . 
2. ^ Author profile of G. Klemm at the Niederösterreich literary edition , accessed May 10, 2015
3. ^ Mille Tre Verlag Robert Schächter, Verlag für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Vienna
4. ↑ Video Interview , TAZ Studio, Leipzig, March 15, 2015, accessed May 10, 2015
5. ↑ Gertraud Klemm: Would it be different with biological children? , The November 30, 2014 standard
6. ↑ The internet readers voted for Gertraud Klemm's text "Ujjayi" , Bachmann Prize: Prize Winner 2014, with a clear margin
7. ↑ Captured in Muttiversum , review of Aberland on Deutschlandfunk from May 6, 2015.
8. ^ The novel "Aberland": Mama Drama und die Kinder , review by Carola Ebeling in Die Zeit on March 5, 2015, accessed May 10, 2015
9. ↑ http://www.deutscher-buchpreis.de/nominiert/ - accessed on September 2, 2015
10. ↑ Gertraud Klemms new novel "Aberland" selected for "Books at Berlinale" // Gertraud Klemm will be the new Klagenfurt city clerk ( Memento from July 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ Book description of the publisher
12. ↑ Outstanding Artist Award for Literature 2020. Accessed April 3, 2020 .