Gudrun Seidenauer

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Gudrun Seidenauer (born July 19, 1965 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian writer . In 2005 her first novel “Der Kunstmann” was published by Residenz Verlag . The trained pedagogue has been teaching German , creative writing and literature at the Musisches Gymnasium in Salzburg since 2001 . Before that, she worked as an adult educator and managed creative writing projects for women and young people. Seidenauer lives with her husband, the writer Wolfgang Wenger , in the Tennengau community of Adnet . Since 1990 she has mainly written short prose and poetry , published in various literary magazines and received the 1995 Salzburg Poetry Prize.

Life

Gudrun Seidenauer grew up in the state capital Salzburg. She studied German and Romance languages .

After several publications in literary magazines such as "Manuscripts", "SALZ" and "Literature and Criticism", she first drew attention to herself in 1996 with her anagram collection, Apfel und Aug. In 1999 "Wüstenlieder" was published, in which she described the themes of life, love and death in nine poems, mostly over two or three pages long, which in turn consist of numerous small and tiny units.

Gudrun Seidenauer's prose debut "Der Kunstmann" (2005) about the unmasking of the then left-liberal professor of German studies and Aachen rector Hans Schwerte was the godfather of former SS Hauptsturmführer Hans Ernst Schneider in the mid-1990s. "Der Kunstmann" is not a roman a clef, however, explained Seidenauer, "Eisner in the novel is not swords in reality" . Rather, the novel explores the question, " To what extent a person can reinvent himself and to what extent pure language and desk work can mean complicity in crimes. In" Aufgetrennte Tage "(2009) the struggle and dignity and self-assertion of a person suffering from dementia is embedded in an exciting mother-daughter relationship, a possible criminal case and a network of memory fragments that make contemporary history tangible in personal experience. "Hausroman" (2012) describes in seven intertwined (love) stories of turning points in the lives of the residents of a town house, tells about the house itself.

Awards and grants

  • State grant from the Federal Ministry for Education and Art for Literature (1999)
  • State grant from the Federal Ministry for Education and Art for Literature (1996)
  • Poetry Prize of the State of Salzburg (1995)
  • Junior scholarship from the Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts (1993)
  • Junior scholarship from the Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts (1992)
  • Rauris Promotion Prize (1991)
  • Austrian State Scholarship for Literature 2000
  • Annual grant from the State of Salzburg 2002/03 for the novel "Der Kunstmann"
  • Residence grant Sardinia 2006 as part of the Sardegna-Salisburgo exchange program

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personal data
SURNAME Seidenauer, Gudrun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg , Austria