Gudrun Lerchbaum

Gudrun Lerchbaum (2016)

Gudrun Lerchbaum (* 13. April 1965 in Vienna as Gudrun Hepperle ) is an Austrian writer .

Live and act

Gudrun Lerchbaum grew up in Vienna, Paris and Düsseldorf . She began to study philosophy in Düsseldorf , but then returned to Vienna in 1986 to study architecture at the Vienna University of Technology . She graduated with a diploma and then worked for several years as an architect . In addition, she designed art in architecture and textile art .

She started writing in 2007 and published short prose pieces and aphorisms in numerous anthologies from 2009 onwards . Her first novel, Die Venetianerin und der Baumeister , was published in 2015 , which has since been followed by two more.

Gudrun Lerchbaum is a member of the authors' associations Herland , Das Syndikat , Murderous Sisters and Austrian crime writers . She is the mother of a daughter and a stepdaughter, and today she lives as a freelance writer with her husband in Vienna.

Publications

Novels

• The Venetian woman and the builder. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-74663093-9 .
• Lies land. Pendragon Verlag, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-86532550-1 .
• Where there is smoke. Argument Verlag with Ariadne, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86754233-3 .

Awards

• 2011: Shortlist at the Walter Kempowski Literature Prize of the Hamburg Authors' Association
• 2013: Shortlist and fourth place in the FM4 wording competition

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Gudrun Lerchbaum , website of the syndicate with short vita and reading appointments, online at das-syndikat.com
2. ↑ g: textet - Leben , short vita on the author's website, online at gudrunlerchbaum.com
3. ↑ g: textet - books , section short stories on the author's website, online at gudrunlerchbaum.com

Web links

• Literature by Gudrun Lerchbaum in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by Gudrun Lerchbaum in the catalog of the Austrian National Library
• Website of Gudrun Lerchbaum