Vea Kaiser

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Vea Kaiser (2019)

Vea Kaiser (born Verena Kaiser December 21, 1988 in St. Pölten ) is an Austrian writer . Her debut novel "Blasmusikpop" made her a shooting star in Austrian literature in 2012 .

Life

Vea Kaiser worked as a translator and tour guide . From 2007 on she studied Classical and German Philology with a focus on Ancient Greek at the University of Vienna . For one year she studied creative writing and cultural journalism in Hildesheim . In January 2014 her play The Argonauten was premiered at the Rabenhof Theater in Vienna. She writes a column for the leisure section of the Viennese daily Kurier . Kaiser is a fan of the Rapid Wien football club and lives in Vienna .

Awards

For her fiction works she received a. a. the start scholarship from the Austrian Ministry of Culture , the Hans Weigel literature scholarship and the Theodor Körner Prize 2011 (Prize of the City of Vienna for brass music pop or How Science Came to the Mountains ). Kaiser was a finalist at the 17th Open Mike and in 2010 took part in the Prosa authors' workshop at the Berlin Literary Colloquium . Her debut novel Blasmusikpop or How Science Came into the Mountains was voted number one on the ORF best list in September 2012 and became a bestseller. In May 2013, brass music pop was recognized as the best German debut novel at the “Festival du Premier Roman” in Chambéry . In the 2014 summer semester, she was Writer-in-Residence at Bowling Green State University .

Works

Novels:

Dramas:

  • The Argonauts, 2012

As editor:

  • Wiener Journal (together with Marc Oliver Rühle), Edition Pächterhaus, Hildesheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-941392-29-8 .

reception

“ This novel just doesn't want to end, even though everything has been said halfway through . ... is preparing to become the Helene Fischer of literature . "

- Dana Buchzik

Web links

Commons : Vea Kaiser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hans Weigel literary scholarships to two young women from St. Pölten. (No longer available online.) Landeshauptstadt.at, archived from the original on September 13, 2014 ; accessed on September 13, 2014 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landeshauptstadt.at
  2. ↑ «The doctor healed me and now we are in love» . nzz.ch. Accessed May 1, 2017
  3. ↑ D'Gschichtsdruckerin , in: FM 4 website
  4. ↑ Heroes on the verge of collapse , in: Courier
  5. ↑ Die Buchlieblinge 2014 ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 21, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.buchliebling.at
  6. ↑ orf.at - Vea Kaiser receives book prize from the Ravensburger Verlag Foundation . Article dated October 5, 2015, accessed October 5, 2015.
  7. ↑ Christine Westermann : Vea Kaiser: Blasmusikpop ( Memento from August 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) WDR 2 , August 19, 2012
  8. ↑ Zita Bereuter: The best in September 2012: Vea Kaiser review on ORF best list , September 1, 2012
  9. ↑ Thomas Rothschild: Herodotus instead of Facebook , in: Die Presse
  10. ↑ As long as your heart is still beating for me , review of Makarionissi , in: FAZ , May 9, 2015, p. 12
personal data
SURNAME Kaiser, Vea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaiser, Verena (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Polten