Margit Mössmer

Margit Mössmer, 2014

Margit Mössmer (* 1982 in Hollabrunn , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian author .

Life

Margit Mössmer studied theater, film and media studies as well as Hispanic studies in Vienna . She was editor and head of department at Freie Magazin FM5. Since 2007 she has been working in quartier21 in the MuseumsQuartier Wien, where she is responsible for communication and mediation.

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After numerous literary and journalistic publications in various magazines such as EIKON , corpus , VICE , schau Kunstmagazin or betonblumen, Margit Mössmer's debut novel The Speechlessness of Fish was published in spring 2015 . Parts of it were already awarded in 2010 at the literary competition WÖRTER.See of the Austrian radio station Ö1 and broadcast on Ö1 (spoken by castle actress Dorothee Hartinger , director : Nikolaus Scholz). At the center of the loosely connected episodes is the protagonist Gerda, who moves through time and space. For example, she works once as an au pair in London, while in another text she spends her old age in Ecuador. She is shown as the mayor of a Sicilian city as well as the mistress of a torero in Madrid. In a report on the Austrian radio station FM4, Irmi Wutscher described the novel as “magical realism made in Austria”.

In the summer of 2015, the novel reached the second edition , and an additional text was added. The book is now available in a third, expanded edition. Margit Mössmer, together with four other German-speaking authors, was nominated for the Franz Tumler Literature Prize, which was awarded in September.

In 2020 Margit Mössmer is a scholarship holder in the federal state studio for writers in Paliano near Rome and a scholarship holder in the Prague House of Literature.

Awards

• Ö1 literary competition Words.See 2010
• Starting scholarship for literature 2016, awarded by the Austrian Federal Chancellery
• Hans Weigel Literature Scholarship 2016

Works (selection)

• Palm hearts . Novel. Edition Atelier , 2019, ISBN 978-3-99065-004-2 .
• The speechlessness of the fish . Novel. Edition Atelier , 2015, ISBN 978-3-903005-05-1 .
• Run away or die trying. The chase in the film . VDM Verlag , 2010, ISBN 978-3-639-22726-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Margit Mössmer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Discussion “Give the water nymph your shoes” by Teresa Reiter, thegap , May 2015
• Review of “The Magical Journey” by Gunther Neumann, Wiener Zeitung , May 2015
• Discussion “The Speechlessness of Fish” by Juliane Fischer, Falter , 24/15
• Discussion “The Speechlessness of Fish” by Sophie Weigand, Literatures , March 2015
• Article in the picture on ORF , May 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ website of quartier21 ( page no longer available , search in web archives: quartier21.at )
2. ↑ Audio sample of Gerda in London
3. ↑ "Gerda is always and everywhere" , FM4, March 2015
4. ↑ Information about the book on the publisher's website
5. ↑ List of nominated authors on the website of the Franz Tumler Literature Prize ( Memento from November 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
6. ^ The results of the Ö1 literary competition WÖRTER.See ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Ö1, August 2010
7. ↑ "The chameleon of literature" , ORF Lower Austria, November 19, 2016