Lilly Axster

Lilly Axster (* 1963 in Düsseldorf ) is a German playwright and theater director who lives in Austria .

Life

Lilly Axster studied theater studies , philosophy and women's studies in Munich and Vienna . Leben Eben is her first youth play, premiered in 1991 at the Theater der Jugend in Vienna, where she worked as an assistant director , director and in-house author between 1989 and 1996 . Since 1991 she has been running the FOXFIRE Theater in Vienna together with Corinne Eckenstein, which puts out one to three productions a year. Axster also staged on other German-speaking stages. Her first prose text, Dorn , was published in 2012 .

Axster has been an employee at SELBST-LAUT, an association for the prevention of child sexual abuse in Vienna, since 1995.

In 1988 Axster received the Kathrin-Türks-Prize for youth theater, in 1990 the "Baden-Wuerttemberg Author Prize" and in 1997 the "Artist Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia" and in 2005 the Mira Lobe scholarship . Your books, illustrated by the Swiss painter Christine Aebi , when I grow up, I want WOMEN ; Jenny, seven ; All good and do THAT? were each awarded an Austrian children's and youth book prize.

For Atalanta runner , Lilly Axster was awarded the Children's and Youth Book Prize of the City of Vienna in 2015. For the book Die Stadt was never awake , she received an appreciation award from the City of Vienna for young people's literature and the Austrian Children's and Young People's Book Prize in 2018. In 2018 she also received the Outstanding Artist Award for children's and youth literature.

Make that? is staged as a play by Theater Blau and premiered in Zurich in January 2019.

Friedemann Schmidt-Mechau created stage music for the basset horn in F and a tape installation for Axster's play “Schattenriß” .

Writings / pieces (selection)

• A little like you / A little like you together with Christine Aebi, Henrie Dennis, Jaray Fofana, 2018
• The city was never awake in 2017
• Atalanta runner , 2014
• Make that? , 2012
• Dorn , 2012
• All good , 2007
• Jenny, seven , 2006 ( daughter's day )
• Divorce hurts , 2001
• Queens , 2000
• Silhouette , 2000
• School free , 1996
• When I grow up, I want to be lazy , 1996
• But I didn't see a butterfly here , in 1994
• Stolen Sea , 1994
• Violin, cello, bass , 1992
• I'm sick of it , 1992
• Alone at last , 1992
• Just life , 1991

Web links

• Literature by and about Lilly Axster in the catalog of the German National Library
• TheaterFOXFIRE homepage
• Marianne Vejtisek: Girls conquer the stage with relish . A portrait of the author and director Lilly Axster in: “1000 and 1 book. The magazine for children's and youth literature ”, 4/2002
• Lilly Axster at the State of North Rhine-Westphalia Artist Prize

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Foxfire: naming after FOXFIRE. The story of a gang of girls. By Joyce Carol Oates , see also: Foxfire (film)
2. ↑ Christine Aebi and Lilly Axster in conversation. Interview 2008 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at readable 
3. ↑ m07dob: Honor Roll - Children's Book Prices of Vienna. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 18, 2018 ; accessed on November 18, 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.  
4. ↑ m07gra: winners and laureates - Children's Book Prices of Vienna. Retrieved November 18, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Prize winners - Reading Festival. Retrieved November 18, 2018 (Austrian German). 
6. ↑ Art Minister Gernot Blümel gives outstanding artist awards . OTS announcement of November 20, 2018, accessed November 20, 2018.
7. ↑ TheaterBlau-DAS do and other suspicious words. Retrieved November 18, 2018 (German). 
8. ↑ "Ms. Lenzen" is a word created by F. Luise Pusch