Katja Gasser

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Katja Gasser (born 1975 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian editor for ORF and winner of the State Prize for Literary Criticism .

Life

Gasser attended the federal high school for Slovenes and worked as a university lecturer in Oxford between 1999 and 2001, after which she worked as a freelance journalist in Vienna. There she produced radio features for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ( Ö1 ) - including about Ezra Pound , Juli Zeh , Ivan Cankar , Helga Michie .

Gasser completed her dissertation on Helga Michie's twin sister Ilse Aichinger and her husband Günter Eich in 2003 at the University of Vienna . She also wrote her diploma thesis on Ilse Aichinger in 1999.

Since 2008 she has been head of the ORF's literature department and reported on Marica Bodrožić , Friederike Mayröcker , Peter Handke , Margaret Atwood , Salman Rushdie and Florjan Lipuš , among others . Gasser is a member of several literary juries.

In 2007 Gasser received the Prelate Leopold Ungar Journalist Prize for the audio- visual broadcast Svete Table. The boards in our heads on Ö1 . In 2019 she received the Austrian State Prize for Literary Criticism .

Publications (selection)

  • “A search for traces with Helga Michie, Ilse Aichinger's twin sister”, Ö1 broadcast on CD, published in Helga Michie: Concord. Poems and Pictures , Vienna: Ed. Correspondence 2001
  • "I write to save myself: a portrait of Florjan Lipuš" (2018)

Web links

Commons : Katja Gasser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Prize for Literary Criticism to Carinthian Katja Gasser. In: Province of Carinthia . April 5, 2019, accessed March 14, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Katja Gasser: Fight cautiously - gently and defiantly . Ilse Aichinger and Günter Eich: A poetological comparison with special consideration of the thought figure of silence. University of Vienna 2004 (dissertation).
  3. ↑ Katja Gasser: Farewell and silence as central terms of the early poetics of Ilse Aichinger . University of Vienna 1999 (diploma thesis).
  4. ↑ moderators. Katja Gasser. In: The Blue Sofa . Retrieved March 14, 2020 .
  5. ^ Hungarian Prize for STANDARD journalist Irene Brickner. In: derstandard.at . March 12, 2008, accessed on March 14, 2020 (print edition November 29, 2007).
  6. ↑ "Check whether they are not lying". State Prize for Literary Criticism. In: orf.at . November 13, 2019, accessed March 14, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gasser, Katja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian culture editor
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt