Teresa Präauer is an Austrian writer and visual artist.
Life
Teresa Präauer was born in Linz and grew up in Graz and St. Johann im Pongau District. From 1997 to 2003 she studied German studies at the University of Salzburg and the Humboldt University of Berlin as well as painting at the Mozarteum Salzburg. From 2003 she lived and worked in Vienna, where she studied as a postgraduate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 2004 to 2005. 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 the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis of the city of Bad Homburg for Johnny and Jean and was nominated for the prize of the Leipzig Book Fair. Teresa Präauer was nominated for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize at the Days of German Literature in 2015. In the summer semester of 2016, Präauer held the Samuel Fischer Guest Professorship for Literature at the Free University of Berlin and gave a seminar on Poetic Ornithology. On aviation in literature. On May 25, 2016 she gave the inaugural lecture entitled Animal Will. In 2017, she held the Mainz Poetry Lecture and was invited to the German Department of Grinnell College in the state of Iowa, as a writer in residence and visiting professor.
Career
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". In her first published work, she combined drawings with poetic short texts. In 2010 she illustrated the picture book The Contrary Goose by Wolf Haas. The birds, flying and crashing are also addressed in For the Ruler from Overseas:Roman. The book tells the story of two children who spend the summer with their grandfather. In her second novel Johnny und Jean, an artist's novel for which, as with all her books, she designed the cover. 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 as Salvador Dali and Marcel Duchamp. From 2015 she started to write for the literary magazine Volltext about video viewing on the Internet. Between 2015 to 2017 wrote the literary column Stuff & Pieces, for the theater feature section of the Editorial Night Review or Redaktion nachtkritik. She also writes regularly for Die Zeitonline magazine in the culture section. Since 2018 she has been a regular guest author for the Salzburger Nachrichten. Some of her artistic works can be seen permanently, such as a book sculpture in the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, a painting in the Artothek of the Federal Government. In May 2018, her drama Ein Hund namens Dollar premiered at the Schauspiel Frankfurt. Since November 2018, a dramatized version of her novel Oh Schimmi has been shown at the Schauspielhaus in Vienna.
