Sissi Tax

Sissi Tax (born September 19, 1954 in Köflach / Styria ) is an Austrian writer .

Life

Sissi Tax grew up in Köflach, Styria. She studied German language and literature and education at the universities in Graz and Berlin . Until 1980 she was a member of the editorial team of the literary magazine manuskripte . 1982 doctorate it at Graz University with a thesis on Marie Fleißer for Doctor of Philosophy . She then settled in Berlin , where she works as a publishing editor and editor . From 1986 to 1988 she was deputy director of the Berliner Literaturhaus .

Sissi Tax is mainly a writer of prose works .

Sissi Tax is a member of the Graz Authors' Assembly . In 1992 and 1993 he received a working grant from the Berlin Senate , in 1995 the sponsorship award from the magazine manuskripte and in 2001 the Holfeld-Tunzer Award . In 1996 she took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt .

Works

• Marieluise Fleißer , Basel a. a. 1984
• Sometimes always , Graz u. a. 1995
• Of different tastes , Berlin 2000 (together with Reinald Nohal)
• Depending on it , Graz 2001
• And so on , Graz u. a. 2007

Editing

• Manuscripts 1960–1980 , Basel [u. a.] 1980 (edited together with Alfred Kolleritsch ).
• Wolfgang Bauer : Nacht-Zettel , Berlin 1987 (published together with Herbert Wiesner) -
• Ici et ailleurs , Graz 1996 (together with Sabine Reisner).

Translations

• Gertrude Stein : A book with there the pot has a hole at the end of a love story. Friedenauer Presse, Berlin 1987 (translated together with Oskar Pastior ), ISBN 3-921592-39-9 .
• David Markson : Wittgenstein's mistress. Berlin, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8270-0817-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Sissi Tax in the catalog of the German National Library
• http://www.literaturhaus.at/autoren/T/S-Tax/bio.html
• http://www.droschl.com/tax.htm