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Johanna Sebauer

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Johanna Sebauer
Sebauer in 2024
Sebauer in 2024
Born1988 (age 35–36)
Vienna, Austria
OccupationWriter
LanguageGerman
NationalityAustrian

Johanna Sebauer (born 1988) is an Austrian writer.

Biography[edit]

Johanna Sebauer was born in Vienna in 1988,[1][2] the daughter of publisher Vera Sebauer (1954–2015)[3] and journalist Wolfgang Weisgram.[4][5] She grew up in Burgenland, studied political science at the University of Vienna and then journalism in Aarhus in Denmark, in Santiago, Chile and in Hamburg, where she moved in 2013.[1][2]

In 2014, Sebauer was awarded the Burgenland Youth Literature Prize for her short story Edina on the subject of 25 years since the fall of the Iron Curtain.[6] In 2023 she published the novel Nincshof with DuMont Buchverlag about the eponymous fictional village in Burgenland near the Hungarian border. The name of the place is derived from the Hungarian term nincs, meaning nothing or none.[7][8] For her debut novel, she was awarded the debut prize of the Harbour Front Literature Festival 2023, endowed with 10,000 euros.[9][10] In 2019, she was awarded the Burgenland Literature Prize for a first version of the novel.[11]

Sebauer works in science communication, is a member of the Hamburg writers' room and part of the Zinnober reading stage in the Zinnschmelze Barmbek.[2]

At the invitation of Klaus Kastberger, she read her text Das Gurkerl at the competition for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2024, for which she was awarded the 3sat Prize, the BKS Bank Audience Prize and the City of Klagenfurt Writer's Scholarship.[12][13]

Bibliography[edit]

  • Edina, Kurzgeschichte zum Thema 25 Jahre Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs, 2014.[6]
  • August und Wie Erna Rohdiebl aus Pamhagen ihr Herz an die Nordsee verlor, Kurzgeschichten. In: Christoph Andexlinger: Junge Literatur Burgenland: Band 1, edition lex liszt 12, Oberwart 2018, ISBN 978-3-99016-139-5.
  • Ein Versuch übers Sowohl-als-auch, in Vom Kommen und Gehen: Burgenland: Betrachtungen von Zu- und Weggereisten, published by Peter Menasse and Wolfgang Wagner, Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna/Cologne 2021, ISBN 978-3-205-21275-1.
  • Nincshof, Roman, DuMont-Buchverlag, Cologne 2023, ISBN 978-3-8321-6820-9.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Johanna Sebauer at perlentaucher.de – das Kulturmagazin (in German)
  2. ^ a b c "Johanna Sebauer", johannasebauer.com, retrieved 21 September 2023
  3. ^ "Vera Sebauer gestorben". ORF.at. 28 April 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  4. ^ "Johanna Sebauer tritt In Vaters Fußstapfen". bvz.at. 24 July 2021. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  5. ^ "„On the road" mit Johanna Sebauer". meinburgenland.at. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  6. ^ a b "Publikationen". johannasebauer.com. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  7. ^ "Buch als Sommerhit: Alle wollen jetzt nach Nincshof". bvz.at. 28 July 2023. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  8. ^ "„Nincshof" von Johanna Sebauer: Ein Nicht-Ort will nicht mehr". Tiroler Tageszeitung. 20 August 2023. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  9. ^ "Debütpreis des Harbour Front Literaturfestivals für Johanna Sebauer". ndr.de. 21 September 2023. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  10. ^ "Johanna Sebauer: Literaturpreis für „Nincshof"". ORF.at. 21 September 2023. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  11. ^ "Literaturpreis für Johanna Sebauer". meinbezirk.at. 18 September 2023. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  12. ^ "Johanna Sebauer, A/D". bachmannpreis.ORF.at. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
  13. ^ "Preisvergabe in vollem Gang". ORF.at. 30 June 2024. Retrieved 30 June 2024.

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