Valerie Springer

Valerie Springer at a reading at Global 2000 in 2011

Valerie Springer (born May 14, 1958 in Munich ) is an Austrian writer of British - Czech - Austrian origin.

Life

Valerie Springer's parents returned to Central Europe in 1957 after emigrating from Great Britain , where Springer's sister was born in 1956 . Valerie Springer was born in Munich and received her parents' British citizenship . After several positions in various European countries, the family moved to Switzerland in 1969, where Valerie Springer graduated in 1977 ; in the same year the family moved to Austria.

Springer married the advertising strategist Rudolf Schramm in 1983 and had two children with him. During their marriage, she renounced her British citizenship and accepted the Austrian one. In 1993 the divorce took place. In 2004 she married Horst Springer, with whom she had previously spent several years in Jamaica. He is also the father of their third child. Since her marriage, she has published under her current name Springer. She publishes in German and English. Springer is a member of the Austrian Society for Literature and the GAV .

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Springer initially worked as a culture editor for journals and magazines before she published her first book in 2003, a non-fiction book about the relationship problem of jealousy . Then she turned exclusively to fiction and has since lived as a freelance writer in the Vienna Woods in Lower Austria .

Her debut novel Eine Liebe auf Jamaica is an erotic, tingling love story that uses poetry to depict the encounter between a European woman and a researcher from the Jamaican Maroons .

Springer's second novel Resolution was published in April 2009 . In a plot that takes place on different time levels, Springer dedicates this prose text to the background to the assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich in the spring of 1942 in Prague . Pavel Kohout praised the accuracy of her Prague research for Springer's novel Resolution with an explicit "recognition of her knowledge of the complicated historical matter". Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi and Beppo Beyerl Springer also attested to conscientious detail work.

Destruction was published in June 2011 and deals with the struggle of an individual against the terror of multinational corporations against the background of globalization- imperialism.

An audio book appeared resolution in July 2011. The audio book was published Jealous? Not me! in November 2011.

Valerie Springer is the winner of the Theodor Körner Prize and has received several grants from the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture, Vienna.

Springer's novel , which was awarded the Theodor Körner Prize for Literature, The Beloved, the Man, His Wife and Two Sons. A story about the end of time. appeared in January 2013. In her novel, Springer expressly thanks Brian Greene , whose work primarily served as the basis for her research.

In September 2013 Berger-Verlag published Divination , Springer's third part of their trilogy about the depths of humanity. Against the background of neo-Nazi activities in Vienna, the author describes the encounter between an older prostitute and a young ex-Yugoslavia refugee. Springer in the wording: “In 'Dissolution' I devoted myself to the past of the Nazi horrors, in 'Destruction' to the present of the globalization madness. And with 'fortune telling' I turn to the future of thinking. "

The Tukan with the Big Beak was published as a non-profit project in 2015 . a volume of children's poems, which Springer realized together with the Swiss illustrator Marius Buner.

In 2016, Wortreich-Verlag published Springer's novel A few days in a strange city , a "highly successful composition of scientific sensations and olfactory perceptions."

Springer has been on the air as a radio producer for the independent broadcaster Campus & City Radio 94.4 since August 2016 with her socially critical format last exit .

In November 2016, on the occasion of the production of the films Anthropoid and HHhH and on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the assassination attempt in May 2017 (Operation Anthropoid, May 27, 1942 ) , Springer published the English translation of her revised novel Resolution under the title Resolution. A search for traces .

Works

• The Mistress, The Husband, His Wife and the Two Sons. A Tale about The End of Time. Roman 2017, ISBN 978-1973582441
• Resolution. A search for traces. Roman 2016, ISBN 978-1535351577
• A few days in a strange city. Roman 2016, ISBN 978-3-903091-19-1
• The toucan with the big beak. Children's book 2015, ISBN 978-3-85028-747-0
• Divination. A research of purity, novel 2013, ISBN 978-3850285988
• The lover, the husband, his wife and the two sons. A story about the end of time. Novel 2013, ISBN 9783850285810
• Jealous? Not me !, Audiobook 2011
• Resolution. A search for traces, audio book 2011
• Destruction. A Chronology, Novel 2011, ISBN 978-3850285254
• Resolution. A Search for Traces, Novel 2009, ISBN 978-3850284820
• 9 ½ hours. A love in Jamaica, novel 2004, ISBN 978-3902141118
• Jealous? I don't!, Non-fiction book 2003, ISBN 978-3902141040

Web links

• Literature by and about Valerie Springer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage Valerie Springer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 9 1/2 hours. A love in Jamaica four-quarter publisher
2. ↑ More assassination, less reporter short review in Der Kurier
3. ↑ LitGes review ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 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. Dissolution of Valerie Springer 
4. ↑ LitGes review ( Memento of the original from April 20, 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. Destruction of Valerie Springer 
5. ↑ Verlag mcpublish  ( 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. Dissolution of Valerie Springer  
6. ↑ Verlag mcpublish  ( 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. Jealous? Not me! by Valerie Springer  
7. ↑ Promotion prizes for science and art 2006  ( 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. (PDF; 21 kB) Theodor-Körner-Fonds award winners  
8. ↑ Berger Verlag Die Geliebte, the man, his wife and the two sons. A story about the end of time. by Valerie Springer
9. ↑ Timeless ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 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. , Review of LitGes Ingrid Reichel 
10. ^ Quote from the author Valerie Springer homepage
11. ^ Children's book Cancer Aid. In: kinderbuch-krebshilfe.webnode.at. Retrieved September 17, 2016 . 
12. ↑ ILLUSTRATION AND GRAPHICS: MARIUS BUNER. In: www.mariusbuner.ch. Retrieved September 17, 2016 . 
13. ^ Regional media Austria: Neulengbacherin as a motivator for children with cancer . In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed on November 18, 2016]).
14. ^ A few days in a strange city - Verlag Wortreich. Retrieved September 17, 2016 (German). 
15. ↑ Literaturhaus Wien: Springer Valerie_Ein few days. In: www.literaturhaus.at. Retrieved November 17, 2016 . 
16. ↑ Last Exit. Retrieved September 17, 2016 . 
17. ^ Resolution. A search for traces. In: www.valerie-springer.at. Retrieved November 18, 2016 .