Valerie Fritsch

Valerie Katrin G. Fritsch (born May 14, 1989 in Graz ) is an Austrian writer and photo artist.

Life

Valerie Fritsch grew up in Graz and Carinthia and, after graduating from the Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium Kirchengasse in Graz, graduated from the Academy for Applied Photography in 2007.

She is a member of the literary group die plattform , an “open collective of authors settled in the Graz literary house and rolling through the (head) world”. Her first novel The Embodiment was published by Leykam in February 2011 . Her work is strongly influenced by intensive travel and she spends six to seven months a year abroad. In 2014 she traveled extensively in Togo , Benin , Nigeria and Ghana . Since her second novel Winters Garten , her works have been published by Suhrkamp Verlag in Berlin .

At the invitation of Klaus Kastberger , Valerie Fritsch took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2015 and won the Kelag Prize and the BKS Audience Prize .

Works

• Heart valves from Johnson & Johnson - Roman, Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-518-42917-4 .
• Winters Garten - Roman, Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-42471-1 .
• Children of the Blur Relation - Poems, 2015
• The world is my innards - travel letters and pictures, 2012
• The embodimentEN - Novel, 2010
• The big city dwellers. The human being in the focal point of the metropolis - collection of short stories, 2012
• The adventure of art. Associations According to Modernism - Essay Volume, 2012
• The Alphabet of Childhood - Narrative Collection, 2012

Awards

• Sepp Schellhorn Scholarship , 2015
• Kelag Prize and BKS Audience Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2015
• red maple manuscript award , 2014
• Travel grant from BMUKK : India , 2012
• Travel grant from the BMUKK : Cuba , 2011
• Literature Promotion Prize of the City of Graz , 2010
• 3rd place in the FM4 wording literary competition , 2010
• Minna Kautsky Literature Prize , 2010
• Literature Prize of the City of Graz , 2010
• Literature grant from the State of Styria , 2009
• Starting grant from the BMUKK for literature , 2009
• Literature Prize of the Graz Academy 3rd Prize, 2009

Web links

• Literature by and about Valerie Fritsch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Valerie Fritsch's website with a detailed catalog raisonné

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gymnasium Styria: BG / BRG Kirchengasse. Retrieved October 8, 2018 . 
2. ↑ World of Women : What Makes Travel an Adventure , 78/2013
3. ↑ Kleine Zeitung : "Way to be close". Valerie Fritsch (25) fixed star in the domestic literary heaven, about her move to Suhrkamp-Verlag, the adventure of traveling and puzzling things in her refrigerator. , July 24, 2014
4. ↑ Der Standard : Valerie Fritsch: How has Africa changed me? , August 10, 2014
5. ↑ Valerie Fritsch - Suhrkamp Insel Verlag author details
6. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2016 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. 
7. ↑ orf.at - Kelag Prize & BKS Audience Prize for Valerie Fritsch . Article dated July 5, 2015, accessed July 5, 2015.
8. ↑ Small newspaper : Two word world travelers. Red maple prizes for Valerie Fritsch and Fabjan Hafner , 23 September 2014
9. ↑ FM4 : wording 10 - the third place. Valerie Katrin G. Fritsch inspires with "The Story of the Eye". The jury: "Every sentence is a pleasure, great, wonderful." , September 21, 2010
10. ↑ Literature Prize of the Graz Academy 2009  ( 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.