Karin Peschka

Karin Peschka (2015)

Karin Peschka (* 1967 in Linz ) is an Austrian author .

Life

Karin Peschka grew up in Eferding in Upper Austria and has lived in Vienna since 2000 . After attending the Social Academy in Linz , she worked with the unemployed and alcoholics, among other things. She also worked for several years in the area of online editing and project organization, for example writing columns for the Ö1 website .

In 2013 she published her debut novel “Watschenmann”, which was awarded the Wartholz 2013 Literature Prize, endowed with 10,000 euros , the Floriana Literature Prize 2014 and the Alpha 2015 literary prize, also endowed with 10,000 euros . In 2015 and 2016 she received the Elias Canetti Scholarship from the City of Vienna for her second novel FanniPold , and in 2017 she was awarded the Adalbert Stifter Scholarship from the Province of Upper Austria for the short prose project Autolyse Vienna .

Peschka was invited to the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in 2017 , where she was awarded the audience prize for her text Wiener Kindl and, coupled with it, the city writer's scholarship from the city of Klagenfurt. Autolyse Wien was published in autumn 2017 and the novel was listed in second place on the ORF best list in October 2017 . On January 31, 2019, a stage version of the novel Watschenmann was premiered at the Vienna Volkstheater (Volx / Margareten) directed by Bérénice Hebenstreit with Rainer Galke , Katharina Klar and Birgit Stöger . Your novel Clean Up, Dance, Laughs was listed in third place on the ORF best list in April 2020.

Awards

2013: Wartholz literature prize for Watschenmann
2014: Floriana Literature Prize for Watschenmann
2015: Alpha Literature Prize for Watschenmann
2015 and 2016: Elias Canetti Scholarship from the City of Vienna for FanniPold
2017: Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2017 - Audience award and city clerk grant from the City of Klagenfurt for Viennese children
2017: Nomination for the Austrian Book Prize with Autolyse Vienna
2020: Robert Musil grant from the Federal Ministry for Art, Culture, Public Service and Sport

Publications (selection)

2003: Flatline , together with Hubert Neuper , Ibera-Verlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 978-3-85052-176-5
2014: Watschenmann , Roman, Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7013-1220-7
2017: FanniPold , Roman, Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7013-1244-3
2017: Autolyse Vienna: Stories from the End , Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7013-1253-5
2020: Clean up, dance, laugh , Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-7013-1274-0

Web links

Commons : Karin Peschka - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website
Short biography on the website of the Literaturhaus Wien

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Peschka, Karin - Authors - Otto Müller Verlag Salzburg . Retrieved February 21, 2017.
↑ orf.at: Bachmann Prize - Karin Peschka . Retrieved August 18, 2017.
^ Province of Upper Austria: Governor Pühringer presented Adalbert Stifter scholarships from the state. . State correspondence of January 20, 2017, accessed on February 21, 2017.
↑ orf.at - authors of the Bachmann Prize 2017 presented . Article dated May 24, 2017, accessed May 25, 2017.
↑ orf.at: Schmalz wins Bachmann Prize . Article dated July 9, 2017, accessed July 9, 2017.
↑ orf.at: The best 10 in October 2017 . Retrieved September 27, 2017.
↑ Volkstheater 2018/19 "contradicting, combative" ( Memento from May 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Article dated May 3, 2018, accessed May 3, 2018.
↑ Kurier: Anna Badora: “Right goes from the people” . Article dated May 3, 2018, accessed May 3, 2018.
↑ Watschenmann - Bérénice Hebenstreit adapted the novel by Karin Peschka at the Volkstheater Wien , nachtkritik.de of January 31, 2019, accessed on February 1, 2019.
↑ Top 10 in April 2020. In: ORF.at . Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
↑ orf.at - Karin Peschka wins Alpha Literature Prize . Article dated November 17, 2015, accessed February 21, 2017.
↑ derStandard: Canetti scholarships to Rabinowich, Petricek, Peschka and Wisser . Article dated February 6, 2015, accessed February 21, 2017.
^ State Secretary Mayer: Long-term scholarships for literature. July 2, 2020, accessed July 2, 2020 .
↑ Musil grant for Eferdinger author. In: ORF.at . July 3, 2020, accessed July 3, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Peschka, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian author
DATE OF BIRTH	1967
PLACE OF BIRTH	Linz

[omvs-1] Peschka, Karin - Authors - Otto Müller Verlag Salzburg . Retrieved February 21, 2017.

[2] orf.at: Bachmann Prize - Karin Peschka . Retrieved August 18, 2017.

[3] Province of Upper Austria: Governor Pühringer presented Adalbert Stifter scholarships from the state. . State correspondence of January 20, 2017, accessed on February 21, 2017.

[orf2845200-4] orf.at - authors of the Bachmann Prize 2017 presented . Article dated May 24, 2017, accessed May 25, 2017.

[5] orf.at: Schmalz wins Bachmann Prize . Article dated July 9, 2017, accessed July 9, 2017.

[6] orf.at: The best 10 in October 2017 . Retrieved September 27, 2017.

[7] Volkstheater 2018/19 "contradicting, combative" ( Memento from May 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Article dated May 3, 2018, accessed May 3, 2018.

[8] Kurier: Anna Badora: “Right goes from the people” . Article dated May 3, 2018, accessed May 3, 2018.

[9] Watschenmann - Bérénice Hebenstreit adapted the novel by Karin Peschka at the Volkstheater Wien , nachtkritik.de of January 31, 2019, accessed on February 1, 2019.

[10] Top 10 in April 2020. In: ORF.at . Retrieved April 1, 2020 .

[11] orf.at - Karin Peschka wins Alpha Literature Prize . Article dated November 17, 2015, accessed February 21, 2017.

[12] derStandard: Canetti scholarships to Rabinowich, Petricek, Peschka and Wisser . Article dated February 6, 2015, accessed February 21, 2017.

[OTS_20200702_OTS0060-13] State Secretary Mayer: Long-term scholarships for literature. July 2, 2020, accessed July 2, 2020 .

[or3056255-14] Musil grant for Eferdinger author. In: ORF.at . July 3, 2020, accessed July 3, 2020 .