Irene Diwiak

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Irene Diwiak at the Wortspiele 2018 in Munich

Irene Diwiak (born December 10, 1991 in Graz ) is an Austrian writer . Her debut novel Liebwies was published in 2017 .

Life

Diwiak grew up in Deutschlandsberg in Styria . After graduation , she moved to Vienna , where she first studied Slavic and Jewish Studies and then comparative literature .

She wrote short radio plays, plays and short stories. Her texts have appeared in magazines and anthologies. Her plays were u. a. played in the youth theater Dschungel Wien . At the age of ten she won her first literary prize at the Graz Youth Literature Workshop. Numerous other awards and prizes followed, including in 2013 the first place of the FM4 wording literary award for her text Glück ist ein Warmewehr and in 2015 the Theodor-Körner-Preis . Her play Die Isländerin received the jury award in the 2015 authors' competition at the Nibelungen Festival in Worms and was premiered in 2016 as part of the festival. In March 2017 she completed an ORF III young literature support program with the writer Thomas Raab as a mentor.

In 2017, Deuticke Verlag published her debut novel Liebwies , which was shortlisted for the debut prize of the Austrian Book Prize . It takes us to Vienna in the 1920s and 30s and tells of a completely untalented singer who is built up to become a star. Andrea Gerk called the novel "wonderfully mischievous". Irene Diwiak tells "confident, stylish and almost classically Austrian - namely with subtle irony and lovable malice". Karin S. Wozonig said: "In her novel, Irene Diwiak combines the sometimes bizarre characters and storylines with the rise of the Nazis. The author presents her panopticon light-footed, not always flawless, but catchy. A remarkable debut that is about a rare joy in telling stories testifies. " Liebwies functions as a moral image of gender inequality, wrote Sebastian Fasthuber in Falter . "You don't have to hope for a happy ending, but the coldness of the great finale makes your breath freeze." In 2019 Liebwies was also published as a paperback by Diogenes Verlag .

Diwiak is married and lives with her husband in Vienna.

Publications

  • Happiness is a warm gun or How I shot Paul McCartney (short story), in: Zita Bereuter, Martina Bauer (ed.): Click. Wording FM4 2013 , Luftschaftverlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-902844-28-6 , pp. 11-27
  • Steel and glass. Two stories about communism and John Lennon , Buchhandlung Beim Augarten, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-9503323-0-8
  • The Icelander (play, 2015)
  • Liebwies (Roman), Deuticke Verlag, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-552-06359-4
  • Liebwies (Roman), Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-257-24441-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irene Diwiak , klischeeanstalt.net (online literary magazine), Vienna 2015
  2. ↑ Mirror cabinet of unfulfilled wishes , Irene Diwiak in conversation with Andrea Gerk, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, July 28, 2017
  3. ↑ Irene Dwiak: Happiness is a warm gun , Der Standard, October 4, 2013
  4. ↑ Happiness is a Warm Gun - fm4.ORF.at. Retrieved October 18, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Award in Vienna: Nice price for young West Styrian . In: www.kleinezeitung.at . ( kleinezeitung.at [accessed on October 18, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Nibelungen Festival. Much applause for “Die Isländerin” in Worms , Wormser Zeitung, July 19, 2016
  7. ↑ "Writer in Residence": Irene Diwiak is completing the ORF III young literature support program with mentor Thomas Raab
  8. ↑ lovers meadow - Books - Hanser literature publishers. Retrieved October 18, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Shortlist Debut 2017 «Austrian Book Prize. Retrieved October 18, 2017 .
  10. ^ Die Presse, September 5, 2017
  11. ↑ Andrea Gerk: The randomness of fame , NDR Kultur, September 14, 2017
  12. ↑ Karin S. Wozonig: A fable about blindness and opportunism , Literaturkritik.de, October 2017
  13. ↑ Sebastian Fasthuber: When men were still real chauvis , FALTER 40/2017, online October 4th, 2017
  14. ↑ lovers Wies - Irene Diwiak - Diogenes Verlag. Retrieved January 24, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Diwiak, Irene / The Icelandic woman . Theater texts, Association of German Stage and Media Publishers Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Diwiak, Irene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz