Monika Wogrolly

Monika Wogrolly in the Literaturhaus Graz (2003)

Monika Wogrolly (born August 11, 1967 in Graz ) is an Austrian philologist and writer .

After graduating from the Academic Gymnasium in Graz in July 1985, Wogrolly worked as an author and editor at the Leykam publishing house in Graz. 1992 - 1997 she studied philosophy and German philology at the Karl Franzens University in Graz . She wrote a thesis on Martin Heidegger's van Gogh interpretation. Since 1998 she has been a member of the International Society for Philosophical Practice.

From 1998 she completed an apprenticeship as a psychotherapist and worked for a PR agency on the side. 2000–2003 she was involved in an interdisciplinary research project of the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research on Brain Death Problems . She has been a member of the Graz Authors' Assembly since 2001. In 2003 she received her doctorate from the Karl-Franzens-University Graz. phil.

Works

• Dive into the air. Short prose. Leykam, Graz 1987, ISBN 3-7011-7179-3 .
• Find my killer. Novel. Deuticke, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-216-30073-0 .
• Into the fire. Novel. Deuticke, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-216-30127-3 .
• The ogre. Novel. Deuticke, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-216-30545-7 .
• Heartless. Novel. Deuticke, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-216-30662-3 .
• Raven roast. Deuticke, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-216-30733-6 .

Scientific publications (selection)

• Brain death: on the practice of the mind-body problem. In: Contribution of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. Metaphysics. Volume VII (2). Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Kirchberg / Wechsel 1999.
• Bioethics and the problem of absolute values. In: Wittgenstein and the future of philosophy. A reassessment after 50 years. Volume IX (2), Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Kirchberg / Wechsel 2001, pp. 391–398.
• People in a vegetative state: people or not? In: Volume X (2), Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Kirchberg / Wechsel 2002.
• Brain death and surroundings. Aspects of power and violence in medicine. In: John D. Pattillo-Hess, Mario R. Smole (Ed.): Power and violence. Löcker-Verlag, Vienna 2003.
• Bioethical dimensions in alpine and altitude medicine . In: Alpine medicine circular. August 29, 2003, p. 22.
• Images of God. Dementia, comatose and brain dead. In: Peter Strasser (ed.): Library of restlessness and preservation. Styria / Pichler-Verlag, Vienna 2004.

Awards

• Literature Promotion Prize of the City of Graz
• Literature grant from the State of Styria
• Promotion Prize of the City of Vienna
• Josef Krainer Scholarship from the State of Styria
• Rome grant from the Federal Chancellery
• Austrian State Scholarship for Literature
• Ridge Walk Prize 1997.
• women.art.preis 2004

Web links

• Homepage
• Literature by and about Monika Wogrolly in the catalog of the German National Library