Magdalena Schrefel

Magdalena Schrefel (* 1984 in Korneuburg near Vienna ) is an Austrian playwright . She lives alternately in Vienna and Berlin .

Youth and education

Magdalena Schrefel worked after school through the European Voluntary Service in Vukovar ( Croatia ). From 2006 to 2007 she went to Gothenburg ( Sweden ) to complete an apprenticeship in International Project Management in NGOs and Social Movements .

Schrefel then studied European ethnology at the University of Vienna . From 2011 to 2015 she studied literary writing at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig , which she completed with a bachelor's degree.

Writer

With the play Die Bergung der Landschaft , Magdalena Schrefel was invited to the Heidelberg Stückemarkt in 2014 and placed on the shortlist of the Stückemarkt at the Berlin Theatertreffen in 2017 . The Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) in co-production with the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) produced the piece in 2019 as a radio play .

Schrefel wins the Kleist Prize with the piece Ein Berg, many . After the award ceremony at the opening of the Kleist Festival in Frankfurt (Oder) on September 1, 2020, the play is to be premiered at the Leipzig Theater.

In 2017 Magdalena Schrefel received the AK Literature Prize. In 2019 she was already on the jury of experts to vote on winners.

Publications

Anthologies and prose

• Markus Gottschall, Sandra Gugic (Eds.): Tippgemeinschaft 2013. Anthology . Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-937799-68-1 , p. 248 .
• The rush of the world. Narration . Hochroth, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-902871-44-2 , pp. 24 .
• Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees for Upper Austria: Leben verARBEITET: selected texts for the 2017 AK Literature Prize . Publishing house of the Austrian Trade Union Federation (ÖGB-Verlag), Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-99046-303-1 , p. 95 .

Plays

Salvage the landscape

• Salvaging the world. Play . Rowohlt Theaterverlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2014.
• The recovery of the landscape. Radio play. BR / ORF, Munich / Vienna 2019.
• French translation: Le repli du paysage: théâtrel; traduit de l'allemand (Autriche) by Katharina Stalder . Editions Espaces 34, Les Matelles (Hérault) 2019, ISBN 978-2-84705-192-6 .

Other plays

• Wild wet fantasies or: when Lana del Rey met Karl May . 2012.
• Explosive ballad (world premiere March 21, 2017 at the Schauspiel Köln (director: Andrea Imler))
• One mountain, many (world premiere September 26, 2020 at the Schauspiel Leipzig (director: Pia Richter))

Awards

• 2012 Sponsorship and Audience Award at the Long Night of Drama at the Munich Kammerspiele
• 2013 scholarship holder of the artist village Schöppingen
• 2014 Invitation to the authors' competition of the Heidelberger Stückemarkt with the piece Salvaging the Landscape
• 2016 scholarship at the Writer's House in Stuttgart
• 2017 Shortlist of the play market of the Berliner Theatertreffen with the play Salvation of the Landscape
• 2017 AK Literature Prize (Literature Prize of the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labor) and the Linz Brucknerhaus
• 2018 Literature Prize of the Graz Academy
• 2019 Vienna Dramatic Scholarship for the play One Mountain, Many
• 2019 Invitation to the authors' competition of the Heidelberger Stückemarkt with the play One Mountain, Many
• 2020 Kleist Prize for Young Dramatists for the play Ein Berg, many
• 2020 Third Else Lasker Schüler Play Prize for the play Ein Berg, many (awarded by the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern on behalf of the Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation for Culture )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Stuttgarter Schriftstellerhaus: Scholarship holders 2016. Accessed on August 16, 2020 (German). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} rowohlt-Theaterverlag: Schrefel, Magdalena. Retrieved August 16, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Heidelberg Stückemarkt. Night review: Magdalena Schrefel. 2014, accessed August 16, 2020 . 
4. ^ ^{A b} Janis El-Bira: Kleist Prize to Magdalena Schrefel. January 30, 2020, accessed on August 16, 2020 (German). 
5. ↑ Chamber of Labor Upper Austria: AK Literature Prize 2019. Accessed on August 17, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Tippgemeinschaft 2013. Markus Gottschall, Sandra Gugic, 2013, accessed on August 16, 2020 . 
7. ^ Künstlerdorf Schöppingen: Scholarship holders 2013. In: Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen. Retrieved on August 17, 2020 (German). 
8. ↑ Heidelberger Stückemarkt. Night review : piece portrait. 2014, accessed August 16, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Video. 2014, accessed August 16, 2020 . 
10. ^ City of Vienna: Wiener Dramatik Stipendium - Vienna History Wiki. 2019, accessed August 17, 2020 . 
11. ↑ nachtkritik.de - Heidelberger Stückemarkt 2019. Retrieved on August 17, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Heidelberger Stückemarkt 2019. Night review: Magdalena Schrefel. Retrieved August 17, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Michael Wolf: piece portrait. April 2019, accessed August 17, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Heidelberger Stückemarkt 2019. Video - Author portrait: Video. Retrieved August 17, 2020 . 
15. ^ State Chancellery Rhineland-Palatinate: Felicia Zeller receives Else Lasker Schüler Dramatist Prize 2020. Accessed on August 17, 2020 .