Teresa Präauer was born in Linz and grew up inGraz andSt. Johann im Pongau District.[2] From 1997 to 2003 she studied German studies at the University of Salzburg and theHumboldt University of Berlin as well as painting at the Mozarteum Salzburg. From 2003 she lived and worked in Vienna,[3] where she studied as a postgraduate at theAcademy of Fine Arts Vienna from 2004 to 2005. [4] For her first novel titled,For the Ruler from Overseas, Präauer was awarded the aspects literature prize of ZDF for the best German-language prose debut. In 2015 she received theFriedrich-Hölderlin-Preis of the city of Bad Homburg[5] for Johnny and Jean and was nominated for the prize of the Leipzig Book Fair. Teresa Präauer was nominated for theIngeborg Bachmann Prize at the Days of German Literature in 2015.[4]
In the summer semester of 2016, Präauer held the Samuel Fischer Guest Professorship for Literature at theFree University of Berlin and gave a seminar on Poetic Ornithology. On aviation in literature. On 25 May 2016 she gave the inaugural lecture entitled Animal Will.[5] In 2017, she held the Mainz Poetry Lecture and was invited to the German Department ofGrinnell College in the state of Iowa, as a writer in residence and visiting professor.
In addition to her work as a writer, Teresa Präauer also works as a visual artist. Her literary and pictorial works are closely related. For both areas, she develops "actually two very similar ways of thinking".[3] In her first published work, she combined drawings with poetic short texts.[6] In 2010 she illustrated the picture bookThe Contrary Goose by Wolf Haas.[7] The birds, flying and crashing are also addressed inFor the Ruler from Overseas:Roman. The book tells the story of two children who spend the summer with their grandfather.
In her second novelJohnny und Jean, an artist's novel for which, as with all her books, she designed the cover.[8] Präauer as author leads the reader into the milieu of a contemporary art scene at an art academy, in which younger and old masters of art history are quoted and the artist Johnny even comes into conversation with the artists in his imagination, such asSalvador Dalí andMarcel Duchamp.[9][8]
From 2015 she started to write for the literary magazineVolltext about video viewing on the Internet.[10] Between 2015 and 2017 wrote the literary column Stuff & Pieces, for the theater feature section of theEditorial Night Review orRedaktion nachtkritik.[11] She also writes regularly forDie Zeit online magazine in the culture section.[12] Since 2018 she has been a regular guest author for theSalzburger Nachrichten.
Some of her artistic works can be seen permanently, such as a book sculpture in theMuseum of Applied Arts, Vienna, a painting in theArtothek of the Federal Government.
In May 2018, her dramaEin Hund namens Dollar premiered at theSchauspiel Frankfurt.[13] Since November 2018, a dramatized version of her novelOh Schimmi has been shown at theSchauspielhaus in Vienna.
Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum (Linz) (2004).Im Schloss 2004 : Carla Ählander, Johann Jascha, Constantin Luser, Klaus Mosettig, Gerhard Müllner, Teresa Präauer ; [dieses Katalogbuch dokumentiert das Symposion auf Schloss Sigharting vom 27. Juni bis 18. Juli 2004] [Landesgalerie Linz at the Upper Austrian State Museum] (in German). Weitra: Publ. P No 1, Bibliothek der Provinz.ISBN3-902414-19-7.OCLC501387388.
Animals come, 50 drawings for the magazineQuart, Innsbruck 2014
Präauer streams, Literary column in the literary magazineVolltext. Ongoing since 2015.
Präauer, Teresa; Balmes, Hans Jürgen (2017).Poetische Ornithologie. Neue Rundschau, 128,1. Frankfurt: S. Fischer Verlag GmbH.ISBN978-3-10-809109-5.OCLC979540329.
Thun-Hohenstein, Christoph; Pokorny-Nagel, Katrin; Rossberg, Anne-Katrin; Präauer, Teresa; Schmidt, Frieder; Schwahn-Reichmann, Raja; Doosry, Yasmin; Pokorny-Nagel, Kathrin (2017).Ephemera: die Gebrauchsgrafik der MAK-Bibliothek und Kunstblättersammlung = the graphic design of the MAK library and works on paper collection. MAK - Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst.; MAK studies (in German). Vienna: Verlag für Moderne Kunst.ISBN978-3-903131-94-1.OCLC974987164.
Image of an exhibition - The art column by Teresa Präauer.[14] 10 episodes on ORF radioÖ1, 2019
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^abAxmann, David (4 October 2014). "Präauer, Teresa: Johnny und Jean" (in German). Government of Austria. Wiener Zeitung.
^Von Maike, Albath (11 March 2015)."Mich kann keiner aufhalten" (in German). Kulture: Die Welt. Die Welt. Retrieved7 December 2019.
^"Präauer streamt "Seasons" von Future Islands".Volltext (in German). Thomas Keul. 12 January 2018. Retrieved7 December 2019.This is the latest version. The footer contains additional links.
^Präauer, Teresa (10 February 2015)."Glitzer".nachtkritik (in German). chtkritik Kulturnetz gemeinnützige GmbH. Retrieved18 December 2019.
^"Teresa Präauer Schriftstellerin" (in German). Kulture: Zeit-Verlag Gerd Bucerius GmbH & Co. KG. Die Zeit. 17 August 2013. Retrieved7 December 2019.
^"KEINE | ANGST vor der Angst".Literaturhaus Wien. Documentation Centre for Newer Austrian Literature. Retrieved15 December 2019.
^"Kröte des Monats Oktober 2010".Stube (in German). Krötenarchiv: STUBE Study and Counseling Center for Children's and Youth Literature. October 2010. Retrieved4 December 2019.
^"Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis 2015".Bad Homburg (in German). Magistrat der Stadt Bad Homburg v.d.Höhe vertreten durch Oberbürgermeister Alexander W. Hetjes. Retrieved5 December 2019.
