Maja Haderlap

Maja Haderlap ( born March 8, 1961 in Bad Eisenkappel / Železna Kapla, Carinthia ) is an Austrian writer. In 2011, won the Carinthian Slovene the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.

Life

After graduating Maja Haderlap holds a degree in Theatre Studies and German at the University of Vienna. After receiving her doctorate, she worked as an assistant dramaturg, as a program editor and a lecturer at the Institute of Comparative Literature and the Alpen- Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. 1992-2007 she was director of drama at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt under the direction of Dietmar Pflegerl, where she was responsible for numerous performances in speech, music and dance theater, including world premieres by playwrights like Peter Turrini and Gert Jonke.

As an author she was long-standing co-editor and editor of the Carinthian -Slovene literary magazine mladje. In 2011, she won the 25,000 Euro prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Prize as part of the 35th Festival of German literature in Klagenfurt. Your award-winning poetic text in the boiler is a village and family history and examines the resistance of the Carinthian Slovenes against the German Wehrmacht.

Haderlap writes poetry, fiction and essays in Slovenian and German and translated from Slovenian into German. Your own texts have been translated into several languages ​​and published in numerous German and international literary journals and anthologies.

Maja Haderlap is a member of the Graz authors Autorenversammlung and lives in Klagenfurt.

Effect

Maja Haderlap regarded as the most lyrical voice among Slovenian write Austrians, not only throughout the Slovene cultural space and in the Austrian tradition. Since her first book of poetry Zalik pesmi from 1983 they had established themselves in the province of Carinthia as one of the most remarkable forces of contemporary literature.

Works

  • Zalik pesmi. Poems (1983 )
  • Bajalice. Poems (1987 )
  • Poems - Pesmi - Poems (1989 )
  • Srečko Kosovel: Decek in sonce. The boy and the sun, German and Slovenian. Translated from the Slovenian by Maja Haderlap, illustrations, Mojca Cerjak. Klagenfurt / Celovec: 1999 ISBN 978-3-85435-330-0 Drava
  • The Papalagi ( dramatization of the same name published in 1921 the book by Erich Scheuermann, based on the fantastic book " The Travels of Lukanga Mukara from the innermost Africa to Germany " by Hans Paasche ): Maja Haderlap. Director: Herbert Gantschacher. ORF Kärnten (1990).
  • Med politiko in kulturo ( Between politics and culture ) (2001 )
  • The Stadttheater Klagenfurt 1992 to 2007. Pflegerl The era Dietmar (2007)
  • Angel of oblivion. Novel. Wallenstein, Göttingen 2011 ISBN 978-3-8353-0953-1

Awards (selection)

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