Lydia Mischkulnig

Lydia Mischkulnig (born August 2, 1963 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian writer and lives in Vienna.

Life

Mischkulnig studied stage design and film at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz from 1981 and then from 1985 to 1990 screenwriting and production at the Vienna Film Academy , University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna .

Mischkulnig has been a writer since 1991 and in 1994 published her debut “Halbes Leben”. In 1996 she took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition and won the Bertelsmann Literature Prize. She has been writing novels , short stories and radio plays since 1996 .

Mischkulnig has been writing column articles (Federspiel, Die Furche) and essays on culture since 2015. She is the editor of the series Nadelstiche at Theodor Kramer Verlag and conceptionist and leader of series of discussions in the literary quarter (eg: Werk / Leben, Textlupe), Alte Schmiede , in Vienna. "

With the author Sabine Scholl she wrote the five-volume work Bohemian Bible . The composer Renald Deppe set a libretto (2014) by her to music.

Mischkulnig held visiting professorships and teaching positions at various universities, in 2008 and 2010/11 and 2014/2015 in Japan and at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 2009 to 2016. She teaches literary writing e.g. B. at the Leondingen Literature Academy.

reception

The criticism of Mischkulnig's work emphasizes its cool and surrealistic, socio-politically relevant language, which is carried by tension and precision.

“Lydia Mischkulnig is devoted to the effects of capitalism, invisible and all the more effective dependencies, fateful entanglements with the economy. … 'I dread what moves the masses.' Mischkulnig has nothing to do with service prose. Art throws rules around, creates something that points beyond itself…. Once quieter then again with clear irony, she twists and turns the words. " ( Brigitte Schwens-Harrant , from the laudation for the Veza Canetti Prize 2017)

Karin Fleischanderl sums up in her laudation for the Johann Beer Literature Prize: “'No one else writes like Mischkulnig,' said the critic Anton Thuswaldner . For her own peculiar style, which succeeds in breaking up reality and bringing out the ambigue and ambiguity, she receives the Johann Beer Prize today . "

“Again and again it is not just interpersonal relationships, but also those between the big, wide (commodity) world and the intimist, which Mischkulnig microscopes with her art of language, here essayistic and closer to reality, there more eccentric, more associative. The fact that the illusion bursts in the end may be less important than the way in which the masterly Mischkulnig lets the temperatures fluctuate in this very contemporary setting, ” says Roman Gerold in the Standard .

Works

• Half a life. Roman, Droschl Verlag, Graz 1994, ISBN 3-85420-381-0 .
• Hollywood in winter. Roman, Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 1996, ISBN 3-85218-219-0 .
• Seven temptations. Stories, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-421-05117-8 .
• Hug. Roman, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-421-05182-8 .
• with Sabine Scholl : Bohemian Bible - Unholy Scripture for Dolls. in four volumes, 1st book FIONA, 2nd book LIBUSE, 3rd book HERMINATOR, 4th book SALAM. Wieser Verlag, Celovec / Klagenfurt 2008/2009.
• Do not worry. Nine Visions, Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-85218-583-5 .
• Sisters of fear. Roman, Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2010, ISBN 3-85218-642-0 .
• Esperanza, ship of the Alps! in "SchmutzkübelK ...", published by FreiraumK, Drava Verlag -Založba Drava Klagenfurt / Celovec 2013, ISBN 978-3-85435-710-0 .
• On the use of desires. Roman, Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2014, ISBN 978-3-7099-7028-7 .
• The paradise machine. Stories, Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2016, ISBN 978-3-7099-7258-8 .
• The seven lives of Marie Schwarz , with Vea Kaiser , Eva Rossmann , Gertraud Klemm , Angelika Reitzer , Cornelia Travnicek and Doris Knecht , Molden / Styria, Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-222-15043-2 .
• The judge. Roman, Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2020, ISBN 978-3-7099-8110-8 .

Awards

• 1993 Literature Prize from the magazine manuskripte
• 1996 Bertelsmann Literature Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition
• 1996 Large Austrian State Scholarship for Literature
• 1997 Literature Prize of the Province of Carinthia
• 2002 Manuscript Prize
• 2007 Elias Canetti Scholarship from the City of Vienna
• 2009 Austrian Promotion Prize for Literature
• 2017 Veza Canetti Prize of the City of Vienna
• 2017 Johann Beer Literature Prize

Web links

• Literature by and about Lydia Mischkulnig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by Lydia Mischkulnig
• Tinternational text company Sabine Scholl and Lydia Mischkulnig
• Archive recordings with Lydia Mischkulnig in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library (interview)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Austrian Society for Literature ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Short biography of Lydia Mischkulnig 
2. ↑ Veza Canetti Prize 2017: Lydia Mischkulnig awarded - Haymon Verlag . In: Haymon Verlag . October 6, 2017 ( haymonverlag.at [accessed August 6, 2018]).
3. ↑ Karin Fleischhanderl: Laudation on the award of the Johann Beer Literature Prize to Lydia Mischkulnig . In: Gustav Ernst and Karin Fleischhanderl (eds.): Kolik. magazine for literature . tape 75 . Association for New Literature, Vienna 2018.
4. ^ Roman Gerold: "The Paradise Machine": Myth, Power and Media Market. In: derstandard.at. Standard Verlagsgesellschaft mbH; Oscar Bronner, August 27, 2017, accessed August 6, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Literaturhaus Salzburg ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 1996: Bertelsmann Literature Prize