Irena Habalik

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Irena Habalik (born January 13, 1955 in Libiąż , Poland ) is an Austrian writer.

life and work

Irena Habalik grew up near Krakow . Dissatisfied with the communist regime , she left Poland in 1974 and went to Switzerland , but was deported by the immigration police . It was more by chance that she ended up in Vienna, where she was granted the right to stay. After years of laboriously building up her own existence and learning the German language, she studied interpreting and journalism at the University of Vienna and worked for Amnesty International for many years .

Irena Habalik writes poetry, short prose and aphorisms . She published poems in newspapers (including NZZ , Falter ), literary magazines (e.g. literature and criticism , Lichtungen , Bawülon ) and anthologies ( Versnetze, etc.). In 1999 the first book of poems was published, Überall ist ein Land , the central theme of which is life abroad.

The poems often sound humorous, relaxed, ironic. […] The word itself has a special meaning in the poetry of Irena Habalik. She can use it playfully, incorporate it into provocative phrases, incorporate it into special, combinatorial, sometimes ironically twisted connections.

Irena Habalik lives in Vienna.

Single track

Release

  • Men's stories, women's stories about love and eroticism. Verlag Winfried Richter, Munich 1985, ISBN 978-3-88855-011-9 .

Anthologies (selection)

  • Axel Kutsch (Ed.): Versnetze. German-language poetry of the present. Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2011–2019.
  • Werner Bucher and Jolanda Fäh (eds.): Poetry Agenda. orte Verlag, Schwellbrunn 2008–2019.
  • Shafiq Naz (ed.): The German poetry calendar . Alhambra Publishing, Bertem 2009-2011.
  • Helmuth A. Niederle (ed.): The stranger in me . Poetry and prose of the Austrian ethnic groups and immigrants . Hermagoras Verlag, Klagenfurt 1999.
  • Roland Vetter (Ed.): Joke, satire, irony and deeper meaning . FDA Hessen, Bamberg 1993.
  • Ferdinand Laholli (Ed.): Literarischer Dialog. Bilingual online anthology. Albanian / German. Bückeburg 2016. [1]
  • Roswitha Schieb and Rosemarie Zens (eds.): Moved. Flight and displacement - memories of the second generation. Verlag Ferdinand Schoeningh , Paderborn 2016.
  • Literature magazines: Bawülon , Freeboard , Krautgarten , orte , new poetry album , Signum and many more

Awards

  • 1985: 3rd prize in the literary competition for authors whose mother tongue is not German by the Robert Bosch Foundation
  • 1987: Theodor Körner Prize
  • 2002: Poetry Prize Writing Between Cultures (Vienna)
  • 2006: Poetry Prize Christine Busta Poetry Competition (Vienna)

literature

  • Alfred Strasser: The poetic universe of Irena Habalik . In: Krautgarten, 67th edition, Sankt Vith 2015.
  • Heinz Weißflog : Words like position lights . In: Signum . Dresden 2016.
  • Lev Detela : The poetic word as contrast and symbol . In: LOG. Journal for international literature , 143rd edition, Vienna 2014.
  • Lev Detela: Ironic twisting of the realities of life . In: LOG. Journal for international literature, 147th edition, Vienna 2015.
  • Lev Detela: Pesnishki Svet Irene Habalik . In: Revija SRP , edition 125/26, Ljubljana 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irena Habalik: Vita. In: Free Pen Verlag Bonn. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Lev Detela: The poetic word as contrast and sign. In: Fixpoetry. May 9, 2017. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Habalik, Irena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Libiąż , Poland