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Alexandra Bernhardt
Alexandra Bernhardt (born 1974 in Bavaria, Germany) is a German philosopher, poet, writer, translator, editor and publisher living in Austria.
Alexandra Bernhardt studied philosophy, comparative literature, classical philology (ancient Greek) and oriental studies in Munich and Vienna. In 2007, she graduated from the class of Peter Kampits with the University of Vienna. Her thesis dealt with the aristotelian-thomistic concept of the philosophical term "person".She writes mainly poetry but has also published a collection of short stories. Besides, she translates poetry from Catalan, Danish, English, Icelandic and Polish amongst others. Her own poems have been translated to American English, Danish, French and Dutch and set to music.
Since 2019, Bernhardt is the editor of the "Jahrbuch österreichischer Lyrik", a biennial anthology of contemporary Austrian poetry.
In the spring of 2020, Bernhardt founded the Vienna based independent publishing house Edition Melos the focus of which lies on contemporary German-language poetry.
She has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2021 Vienna Literature Grant and the RAI Südtirol Media Prize at the Merano Poetry Prize in 2022.
Since 2002, Bernhardt lives in Vienna.
Awards (selection)
- 2020 scholarship by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna
- 2021 City of Vienna Literature Scholarship
- 2022 Media Prize of the Rai South Tyrol at the Merano Poetry Prize
- 2023 project scholarship for literature by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna
- 2024 scholarship for literature by the Ministry of the Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport (Austria)