Pia Janke

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Pia Janke (born March 20, 1966 in Vienna ) is an Austrian literary and theater scholar and associate professor at the University of Vienna. She is the head of the Elfriede Jelinek Research Center .

Life

After graduating from high school and studying German and theater studies at the University of Vienna and completing the course in cultural management at the Vienna University of Music , Pia Janke initially worked as a dramaturgist at opera houses in Athens, Paris and Vienna, and at the Vienna State Opera with State Opera Director Claus Helmut Drese and at the Bonn Opera (chief dramaturge: Klaus-Peter Kehr ). In 1992 she received her doctorate with a thesis on Peter Handke and Botho Strauss . She completed her habilitation in 2006 at the University of Vienna with a thesis on political mass festivals in Austria between 1918 and 1938; since then she has been an associate professor at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Vienna.

In 1998 she founded pro arte with Ilija Dürhammer . Society for interdisciplinary explorations and was its managing director until 2004. In 2004 she founded the Elfriede Jelinek Research Center . From 2013 to 2019 she was head of the research platform Elfriede Jelinek: Texts - Contexts - Reception at the University of Vienna. Since 2020 she has been head of the Inter-University Research Network Elfriede Jelinek at the University of Vienna and the Music and Art Private University of the City of Vienna.

She had lectureships at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and organized conferences and gave lectures and the like. a. in Vienna, Salzburg, Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, Rome, Madrid, Warsaw, Bucharest, Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo, Brussels and Kiev.

As a juror she was u. a. worked for the Austrian Book Prize, the Gert Jonke Prize and the Prize for Literature.

Publications (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. Pia Janke: From absence to presence? Peter Handke and Botho Strauss , University of Vienna, dissertation 1992

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