Zdenka Becker

Zdenka Becker ( Slovak Beckerová , born March 25, 1951 in Cheb , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak - Austrian writer .

Life

Zdenka Becker spent her childhood in Bratislava . After graduating from high school, she studied economics at the Bratislava University of Economics. In 1974 she moved to Austria after marrying the Austrian Leo Becker. In 1986 she also began to write in German. From 1988 to 1990 she attended the interpreting institute in Vienna . She has lived with her family in St. Pölten - Radlberg since 1983 . She has two children.

Her works have been translated into Slovak, Czech, English, French, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Persian, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Telugu and Mandarin.

Zdenka Becker translates from Slovak, Czech and Russian into German and from German into Slovak.

Works

Books

• Berg , a novel that has already been made into a film
• Links , published 1995, ISBN 3-901117-24-5
• The only light the lunar eclipse , poems, published 1999, ISBN 3-901117-41-5
• Goodbye, Galina or Intercity Vienna Art Orchestra , stories, published in 2001 by Residenz Verlag ISBN 3-85285-059-2
• The Daughters of Róza Bukovská , Roman, published in 2006 by Residenz Verlag ISBN 3-7017-1459-2
• Taubenflug , novel, published in 2009 by Picus Verlag ISBN 978-3-85452-645-2
• The biggest case of my father , Roman, published in 2013 by Verlag Deuticke by Zsolnay ISBN 978-3-552-06207-8
• Samy , published in 2018 by Gmeiner Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8392-2254-6
• A fesches Dirndl , Roman, Gmeiner Verlag, Meßkirch 2019, ISBN 978-3-8392-2363-5

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

• Ralph Grüneberger (ed.) / Society for Contemporary Poetry . New poetry album . Issue 1/2010.

Plays

• “Minu-Minuto, the Zeitgeist”, premiered in Vienna, 1990
• "Smogis hot kisses", premiere - St. Pölten, 1992
• "Berg", WP - Eger, 1993
• "The tricked B", WP - Bratislava, 1994
• "The five-day paradise", SL - Vienna, 1994
• “Kiss me, frog”, SL - Vienna, 1996
• "Safari", WP - St. Pölten, 1996
• "The Scent of Wheat", UA - St. Pölten, 1998
• "Odysseus did not come back", UA - Bonn, 2000
• "Good-bye, Galina or Intercity - Vienna Art Orchestra", premiere - Bonn / Vienna, March / April 2003
• SL - St. Louis, Iowa City, Portland ME (USA), 2004
• “Boogie & Blues”, SL - Iowa City, USA, 2004
• “Odysseus Never Returned”, EA - New York, USA, 2005
• “The Scent of Wheat”, New York, March 31, 2006, SL
• “Boogie & Blues”, UA Zvolen, Slovakia, 2007
• “Behind the Darkness”, SL, ÖKF New York, 2009
• "Odyseus sa nevrátil", Piestany, Slovakia, 2010
• "Odysseus did not come back", 3Ländereck-Theater, Jochenstein (D), 2016
• "We live", (Citizen Theater City Stories), UA - Landestheater St. Pölten, 2016

script

• “Berg” - co-production STV + ORF, 1995; EA - STV: December 25, 1995, ORF: June 5, 1996

Awards

• 1993 workshop prize for playwrights, 2nd place, Salzburg
• 1993 recognition award from the state of Lower Austria
• 1995 Drama Scholarship from the Literar Mechana
• 1995 Theodor Körner Prize
• 1996 Award of recognition from the state of Lower Austria
• 1999 drama scholarship, Federal Chancellery
• 2000 Prize of the Lower Austrian Cultural Forum
• 2000 translation bonus from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture (BMUKK)
• 2000 Rome scholarship
• 2002 Prize of the authors' forum Rheinsberg , D, 2nd place
• 2002 translation bonus from the Austrian federal government
• 2005 POHviezdoslav Prize, Slovak State Prize for Literary Translation
• 2005 Prize of the “Short Play Festival” New York
• 2006 Menates Prize for Erotic Poetry, D, finalist (of 770 entries)
• 2007 BMUKK project grant for literature
• 2007 Theodor Körner Prize for Literature
• 2008 State grant for literature from the BMUKK
• 2011 Decoration of Honor of the City of St. Pölten
• 2012 State grant for literature from the BMUKK
• 2014 Lower Austrian Culture Prize - Appreciation Prize
• 2016 Jakob Prandtauer Prize for Science and Art
• 2017 “Writing Between Cultures” - 2nd place, exile literature prize

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://gabriele-stoeger.at/Preisgala2014.pdf
2. ↑ 2014 - Culture Prize Winners of the State of Lower Austria ( Memento from February 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ Prandtauer Prize for Becker and Kargl , NÖN , online edition, March 9, 2016

Web links

• Literature by and about Zdenka Becker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Zdenka Becker's website
• Short biography and information on Zdenka Becker's work at Literaturport
• Personal page at Residenz Verlag
• Entry about Zdenka Beckerová on Literárne informačné centrum ( German )