Susanne Ayoub

Susanne Ayoub

Susanne Ayoub (* 1956 in Baghdad ) is an Austrian - Iraqi writer, journalist and filmmaker .

Life

She fled to Vienna with her Hungarian-Austrian mother at the age of six . Since completing her studies in theater studies , art history and philosophy at the University of Vienna , she has worked as a writer and director for ORF and as a freelance journalist . She founded the theater group Trio , for which she wrote plays and staged them.

Baghdad project

In 2002 she went on a trip to Iraq, originally she wanted to make a film documentary. The project failed due to bureaucratic hurdles and in 2004 she finally published an audio book about this trip entitled Born in Baghdad . A 15-minute fragment of the planned film was only shown once at the presentation of this audio book. During a second trip she wrote an art report series for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . In 2002 she was invited to Alpbach for the European Forum as Author of the Year for a reading and subsequent discussion. The subject of her lecture was also her experiences in Iraq. In 2006 she was finally able to finish her film documentation: Baghdad Fragment, a 42-minute film essay, premiered at the Austrian film festival Diagonale. In 2008 the DVD + CD Baghdad Fragments was released .

Literary work

She also writes detective novels, her book Engelsgift , which was published in 2004 by Hoffmann + Campe Hamburg and in which she takes up a historical criminal case, was an international success. She often draws the material of her works from real women's lives from the past, which she then processes as fiction . In the radio play Sister Kafka she processed z. B. the life and execution of the nun Maria Restituta .

Books

• Angelic poison . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-455-00220-X .
• Born in Baghdad . Audio book. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-45530377-3
• Shadow bride . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-455-00221-8 .
• From the fulfilled, from the disappointed, from the past love. Poems . With drawings by Alfred Hrdlicka . Lehner, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-901749-56-X .
• Mandragora. Novel of a crime . Braumüller Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-99200-013-5 .
• The girl from Ravensbrück . Braumüller Verlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-99200-007-4 .
• Are you talking to me . Poems. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-85409-800-3 .
• The gem garden. Verlag LangenMüller, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7844-3391-2 .

Scripts

• Hannah 1996
• Home without stars 1990
• Back in the park in 1988

Movies

• Baghdad Fragment 2007
• May in Mauthausen 2008
• Once upon a time in Mauthausen World Premiere Jewish Film Festival Vienna 2011
• Alma's little photographer 2016

Radio plays / audio pictures

• Johanna: Student at ORF - Radio Vienna 1986
• Die Jungfer Paradis ORF - Radio Wien 1992
• The case of Flora S. ORF - Radio Ö1 2001
• Sleep. A monologue ORF - Radio Ö1 2003
• Sister Kafka ORF - Radio Ö1 2004
• Born in Baghdad ORF Radio Ö1 and Deutschlandradio Berlin in 2004
• Sister Kafka. Scenes from the life of the Helene Kafka radio play. Production ORF - Radio Ö1. First broadcast in 2004
• Prolet is not a dirty word audio picture about Alfred Hrdlicka . Production ORF - Radio Ö1. First broadcast in 2003
• Marie. One case production ORF - Radio Ö1. First broadcast in 2011
• Alma's little photographer ORF Vienna and Deutschlandfunk Cologne first broadcast in 2012
• Princess Vukobrankovics ORF Vienna and Deutschlandfunk Cologne first broadcast in 2014
• Hinkel , detective radio play Deutschlandradio Kultur Berlin, first broadcast May 5, 2014, director: Andrea Getto, length: 54'07.
• A man with qualities: Werner Vogt ORF - Radio Ö1. First broadcast in 2014
• Mixed double crime radio drama SWR Stuttgart first broadcast in 2015
• Cooker wash trough home work. The better world of Käthe Leichter ORF - Radio Ö1 first broadcast 2015
• Bread and roses. The long way to women's suffrage ORF - Radio Ö1 first broadcast 2019
• The Caravaggio crime thriller. The most famous art theft in the world . ORF - Radio Ö1 first broadcast 2019

Plays

• Back in the park in 1990
• The Kauffmannin 1991
• Moons of Disappointment 1992
• Monologue for 2 2000
• Midday Angel 2009
• Salam Aleikum, Medea 2013

Awards

• 1989 ORF nomination for the international EBU television film competition
• 1989 Theodor Körner Literature Promotion Prize
• 2001 Poetry Prize for Pain.Männlich.Weiblich from German-Switzerland. PEN clubs
• 2002 Her audio picture The Flora S. case was nominated for the “ Prix ​​Europa ”.
• 2002 Hans Nerth Prize for the radio play Born in Baghdad
• 2005 Your novel Engelsgift was nominated for the “ Friedrich Glauser Prize ” (debut novel).
• EXIL Prize for Drama, awarded by the Wiener Wortstätten
• Adult Education Radio Prize 2013 for the audio image of Alma's little photographer
• 2013 nomination for ORF Poetry Contest
• Dr. Karl Renner Publizistikpreis 2014 for the audio picture "Princess Vukobrankovics. The three lives of Elisabeth Thury"
• 2014 3rd place at the Zonser Hörspieltage for the radio play Hinkel

Individual evidence

1. ^ Susanne Ayoub: The precious stone garden . 1st edition LangenMüller, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7844-3391-2 .
2. ↑ Introduction film: Alma's Little Photographer. In: Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien. Retrieved on May 11, 2019 (German). 
3. ↑ http://oe1.orf.at/programm/317790
4. ↑ ^{a b} http://oe1.orf.at/programm/396378
5. ↑ http://funkkorrespondenz.kim-info.de/kritik.php?pos=H%F6rfunk&sub=1&nr=4006  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ oe1.orf.at: audio images | SA | 13 09 2014 | 9:05. Retrieved May 11, 2019 . 
7. ↑ oe1.orf.at: audio images | SA | 27 06 2015 | 9:05. Retrieved May 11, 2019 . 
8. ^ Oe1.orf.at: Bread and Roses - Struggle for the right to vote. Retrieved May 11, 2019 . 
9. ↑ oe1.orf.at: SA | 12 10 2019. Retrieved October 20, 2019 . 
10. ↑ http://www.theatre-contemporain.net/dossiers_de_presse/semaines_du_ta19.pdf
11. ↑ http://das-syndikat.com/?page_id=2434
12. ↑ http://www.nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&id=8759&Itemid=1
13. ↑ http://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/kultur/medien/600069_Almas-Fotograf-und-Kinderachrichten.html
14. ↑ http://oe1.orf.at/artikel/350211
15. ↑ http://no-na.net/theremin/videos.php
16. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
17. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RANA04Ym2lM

Web links

• Literature by and about Susanne Ayoub in the catalog of the German National Library
• Interview with Susanne Ayoub on Radio Orange (Winamp-Stream)
• Homepage of Susanne Ayoub

1. ↑ Susanne Ayoub - writer and director. Retrieved on May 11, 2019 (German).