Maja Haderlap
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Maja Haderlap | |
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| Born | August 26, 1961 Eisenkappel-Vellach (Slovene: Železna Kapla-Bela), Carinthia |
| Occupation | Novelist, Poet |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna, Austria |
| Period | 1983 to present |
| Genre | Novel, Poetry |
| Notable works | Engel des Vergessens |
Maja Haderlap (born 26 August 1961 in Eisenkappel-Vellach (Slovene: Železna Kapla-Bela) , Carinthia) is a bi-lingual Slovenian-German Austrian writer .
In 2011 she won the 25,000 Euro prize prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Prize at the 35th Festival of German Literature in Klagenfurt.[1] Her award-winning poetic text is a three-generations family history, and highlights the resistance of the Carinthian Slovenes against the German Nazi Wehrmacht.
She studied German language and literature at University of Vienna and has PhD in Theatre Studies.
Life and Work
After her graduation she worked as assistant dramaturg, as a program editor and a lecturer at the Institute for Comparative Literary Studies at the Alpen-Adria-Universität in Klagenfurt. Between years 1992 and 2007 she worked as drama supervisor at the Klagenfurt City Theatre under the direction of Dietmar Pflegerl.
Maja Haderlap is considered the most lyrical voice among Slovenian Austrians since her first book of poems 'Zalik pesmi' (1983).
She was editor of many years of Carinthian Slovene minority literary magazine 'Mladje'. She writes poetry, prose and essays in both Slovenian and German. Her work has been published in numerous German and international literary journals and anthologies. Maja Haderlap is a member of the Graz's Guild of writers and lives in Klagenfurt.
Books
- Žalik pesmi, Poems (1983)
- Bajalice, Poems (1987)
- Poems - Pesmi - Poems (1989)
- Deček in sonce (The boy and the sun), zadruga Novi Matajur, Cividale and Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Založba Drava 2000 ISBN 3-85435-330-8
- Between Politics and Culture
- The city of Klagenfurt Theatre from 1992 to 2007 . The era Pflegerl Dietmar (2007)
- Angel of Forgetting (novel), Wallenstein, Göttingen, 2011 ISBN 978-3-8353-0953-1
Awards
- 1983: Promotion Award of Carinthia
- 1989: Award of Prešeren Foundation
- 2004: Hubert Burda Prize as part of the Hermann-Lenz Prize
- 2005: Women's Culture Prize for Literature in the province of Carinthia
- 2006/2007: Austrian State Scholarship for Literature
- 2011: Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for the novel "Angel of Forgetting"
Angel of Forgetting
In the novel, which won the 25,000 Euro prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann prize at the 35th Festival of German Literature in Klagenfurt, the author Maia Haderlap has taken a much-needed literary theme: the Austria's only militarily organized resistance against National Socialism - the Carinthian minority - Slovenians. And that is by no means a compulsory exercise in so-called "overcoming the past", no thesis novel, but an authentic narration, the story of a grown woman who moves into her childhood with the knowledge of present.
References
External links
- Private Homepage von Maja Haderlap
- Kurzporträt und Text Im Kessel bei bachmannpreis.eu