Marianne Sula

Marianne Sula (born June 1, 1954 in Vienna ) is an Austrian writer .

Life

Marianne Sula studied theater studies , German literature and philosophy at the University of Vienna . In 1972/73 the first poetry was published in the monthly magazine for literature Die Pestsäule (Ed. Reinhard Federmann ). Sula was a freelance journalist in the 1980s and 90s and has been a member of the Graz Authors' Assembly since 1981 .

In 1993 the novel Orangen und Chorgitter was published by Otto Müller Verlag Salzburg . In the same year the author received the Salzburg Dramenwerkstattpreis for her play Golem Ein Winterstück . In 1995 she received the first ever Lise Meitner Literature Prize of the Vienna University of Technology for her essay La machine .

Since 2002, the author has devoted herself to publications on contemporary art viewing, especially radio plays and theater. In 2004/2005 she took over the editing at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna , lecturing on gender studies. She is married to her third marriage and lives in Vienna.

Individual works

• The green, Madame thematizes a timeless bachelorette situation in three stations: the gardens, the dreams, the travels. Tristram, the gardener & hyacinth of the dyers and dancers, conjure up the feminine they lack: Blancheflor becomes an imagined woman who disappears when the imagination of the men no longer evokes her. But Hyacinth breaks with Tristram's imperious narcissism & Blancheflor is tired of its instrumentalization & disappears from the male dream world. (Radio play NDR / DLR Berlin 1998, realization: Ulrike Brinkmann, composition: Peter Michael Hamel)
• The hour in Venice / afternoon focuses on the marriage between the famous English art critic, private scholar and supporter of the Pre-Raphaelites, John Ruskin (1819–1900) and his wife Effie. The radio play is a fictional dialogue between the very young Effie Ruskin in 1851 and the seriously ill and deathly marked Austrian officer Paulizza in Venice, who had the Serenissima, besieged by the Austrians, bombed in 1848. (Radio play, NDR / ORF 2005, director: Renate Pittroff)
• Portrait of an Infanta From the shadow of the Alhambren, the secret patios, surrounded by their maids, their dwarfs and dogs, trapped in the iron corset of courtly life and religious orthodoxy, the very young Infanta Margarita Teresa appears in the famous painting Las Meninas ("The Maid of Honor") ) by the court painter Diego Velázquez . And the question arises: what has changed in the game of the sexes since then? What has stayed the same? (Radio play, ORF 2007, director: Renate Pittroff)
• La machine La machine is a poetic essay about the eros of the machine world / woman and its disappearance (essay, awarded the Lise-Meitner Prize of the TU Vienna 1995, in: Female Science Faction , Promedia-Verlag 2001).
• Oranges and choir grids The theme is a journey back to childhood in the 50s-70s, a boat trip on the Danube. The loneliness of childhood comes up as well as the zany about love.

Works (selection)

• Metternich or the seduction of power - Part 1: Days of Triumph radio play (ORF 2014)
• Metternich or the seduction of power - Part 2: Days of Wrath radio play (ORF 2014)
• Sade or the shine of crime radio play (ORF 2012)
• Lord Byron or the metaphysical impossibility of happiness radio play (ORF 2008)
• Portrait of an Infanta radio play (ORF 2007)
• Hour in Venice / afternoon radio play (NDR / ORF 2005)
• Das Grün, Madame radio play (NDR / DLR Berlin 1998)
• La machine essay. In: Female Science Faction , Vienna, Promedia-Verlag 2001, ISBN 3-85371-173-1
• Dream border crossers In: Women writers see their country. Wiener Frauenverlag, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85286-0156
• We Marienkinder In: The better half , Otto-Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1995, ISBN 3-7013-0906-X
• Oranges and Choir Grid Roman. Otto-Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1993, ISBN 3-7013-0850-0
• Winter meridian poems and stories. Alekto- Verlag, Klagenfurt 1988, ISBN 3-900743-40-1

Awards and grants

• 2014 Literar Mechana anniversary fund grant
• 2007 drama scholarship from the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture
• 1999 drama scholarship from the Federal Chancellery
• 1995 Lise Meitner Prize from the Vienna University of Technology
• 1994 Federal Chancellery scholarship for dramatists
• 1993 Salzburg Drama Workshop Prize
• 1993/94 Austrian State Scholarship for Literature
• 1987/88 Austrian State Scholarship for Literature

Web links

• Literature by and about Marianne Sula in the catalog of the German National Library