Lisa Witasek

Lisa Kishon-Witasek (2013)

Lisa Kishon-Witasek (born March 8, 1956 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian writer .

Life

Lisa Witasek studied music , German and linguistics at the universities in Salzburg , Munich and Vienna . 1981 doctorate them at the University of Salzburg with a thesis on Austrian contemporary literature for Doctor of Philosophy . From 1981 to 1986 she was press officer at the “Mozarteum” University of Music and Performing Arts in Salzburg , and from 1986 to 2003 she was press officer and public relations officer at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna . Since the 1980s she was also active in literature; In 1983 she took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt .

Witasek is the author of novels , short stories , essays , plays and radio plays . While her early narrative and dramatic works mostly portray the problems of disturbed, obsessive relationships from a woman's point of view, Witasek's relationship novels of the 1990s are stylistically lighter and downright ironic . In 1989 she received the Harder Literature Prize .

From February 2003 until his death in 2005 she was married to the author Ephraim Kishon . The couple lived in Switzerland , where Witasek is still based today.

Book publications

• Style references to donors in contemporary Austrian literature , dissertation, Salzburg 1981
• The Embrace or The White Room , Munich 1983
• Friedas Freund , Munich 1984
• Leibspeise (play), Cologne 1988
• Men are a matter of luck , Munich 1995
• In love, engaged, poisoned , Munich 1996
• Heaven sent me , Munich 1998
• Snow White's Sweet Revenge , Munich 2000
• Beloved Ephraim , Munich 2012 (as Lisa Kishon-Witasek)

Editing

• University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna , Vienna 1995
• Ephraim Kishon and Friedrich Torberg : Dear Pappi - my beloved Sargnagel: Letters of a Friendship (as Lisa Kishon, with David Axmann ), Munich 2008

Web links

• Literature by and about Lisa Witasek in the catalog of the German National Library