Kirstin Breitenfellner

Kirstin Breitenfellner (born September 26, 1966 in Vienna ) is an Austrian - German author , journalist and literary critic.

life and work

Kirstin Breitenfellner grew up in Vienna, Kufstein in Tyrol and, since 1972, in Bensheim an der Bergstrasse . After studying German , philosophy and Slavic studies at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Vienna , she initially worked as an editor and proofreader for magazines and at Falter Buchverlag.

In 1994 she started publishing poetry in magazines. In 2004 her first novel was published, The Lover's Reflex , which was invited to the European festival of the debut novel in Salzau / Schleswig-Holstein . Her novels are always based on philosophical questions. In The Lover reflex is about the hope in Wrong Questions (2006) for freedom and Overcoming the possible u (2012). a. about taking pictures.

Since 2012 she has also been writing children's books. In 2013 her first popular non-fiction book, We Victims, was published. Why the scapegoat determines our culture , a philosophical, cultural-historical and media-critical contribution to the debate.

In addition to her writing activities, she has been working as a yoga teacher since 1993 and also in yoga teacher training since 2007.

Kirstin Breitenfellner is married and has two children; she lives and works in Vienna.

Publications

Fiction

• Before the world ended. Novel. Picus Verlag , Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-7117-2053-5 .
• lively. Poems, Passagen Verlag , Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-7092-0249-4 .
• Overcoming the possible. Roman, Edition Voss / Horlemann Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-89502-336-1 .
• Wrong questions. Roman, Skarabaeus Verlag, Innsbruck 2006, ISBN 978-3-7082-3210-2 .
• the ear only sounds from listening. Poems, Skarabaeus Verlag, Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 3-7082-3182-1 .
• The lover's reflex. Roman, Skarabaeus Verlag, Innsbruck 2004, ISBN 3-7082-3150-3 .

Children's books

• The secret of the snowy owl (illustrations by Bianca Tschaikner), Picus Verlag , Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-7117-4004-5 .
• Lisa and Lila are allowed to stay (illustrations by Mathias Nemec), Picus Verlag , Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-85452-184-6 .
• Seal Emma runs away (illustrations by Mats Bergen), Edition Atelier , Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-902498-62-5 .
• The echo of the fish is called the ship (illustrations by Raoul Krischanitz), Picus Verlag , Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85452-165-5 .

Non-fiction

• What is yoga , Falter Verlag , Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-85439-663-5 .
• How can we talk about victims? , Passagen Verlag , Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-7092-0335-4 .
• We victims. Why the scapegoat determines our culture. Diederichs Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-424-35085-2 .
• Lavater's shadow. Physiognomy and character in Ganghofer , Fontane and Döblin . With an excursus on the criminal as a literary figure. Dresden University Press, Dresden / Munich 2000, ISBN 3-931828-51-4 .

Release

• How a monster is made. On the construction of the other in racism and anti-Semitism , together with Charlotte Kohn-Ley. Philo Verlag, Bodenheim 1998

translation

• Vera Zubareva, About Angels. Poems, bilingual edition, Pano Verlag, Zurich 2003

Awards

• 2003: Authors 'grant from the City of Vienna for the novel The Lovers' Reflex
• 2004: Award in the category of Best Foreign Book / Best Translation at the Odessa Book Fair for the translation of Vera Zubareva's poetry cycle About Angels from Russian
• 2004: Author's premium from the Federal Chancellery for particularly successful debuts and particularly talented young Austrian authors in the field of fiction
• 2005: Book award from the Federal Chancellery for the volume of poems the ear sounds only from listening
• 2006: Austrian State Scholarship for Literature

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Schacherreiter: It just doesn't work between men and women. (No longer available online.) In: Contemporary literature, literature lessons and gender studies (PDF file; 56 kB) In: Education and teaching, November-December 9-10 / 06. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013 ; accessed on February 24, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Kirstin Breitenfellner's website
• Kirstin Breitenfellner on the website of the Literaturhaus Wien
• Kirstin Breitenfellner on lyrikwelt
• Article by Kirstin Breitenfellner in the folder