Maja Haderlap
Maja
Haderlap, born in Železna Kapla/Eisenkappel, Carinthia, has long been
an important voice from and for the Slovenian community in Austria. This
role increased ten-fold when she was awarded the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis in July 2011 with her debut as an author of German prose at the Tage der deutschsprachigen Literatur. The prize-winning novel, Engel des Vergessens, published in 2011 by Wallstein Press, was subsequently awarded the Bruno-Kreisky-Preis for the best political book and the Rauriser Literaturpreis
in 2012. The novel is a moving account of a contemporary Slovenian
family in Carinthia and how that area’s history has impacted on
individuals’ lives. In addition to her novel, she has written several
volumes of poetry, including Gedichte – Pesmi – Poems. Klagenfurt: Drava Verlag, 1998.
- “‘Ich, Partisanin Maja Haderlap’.” Die Presse.com. 10 May 2013.
- Maja Haderlap im Gespräch mit Michael Kerbler
- “Klagenfurter Rede zur Literatur”*
- “In Light of Language” (*Klagenfurt Address on Literature, translated by Adrian West)
- ACF Prize for Engel des Vergessen translator Tess Lewis
Ursula Hübner
Ursula Hübner studied stage design at the Mozarteum and painting at the Hochschule für angewandte Kunst in Vienna, where she was a student of Maria Lassnig. She has been a Professor für Malerei und Grafik at the Kunstuniversität
in Linz since 1998. Her extensive oeuvre includes paintings,
installations, and graphic design. She has also designed stage settings
for plays by Wolfgang Bauer, Alan Bennett, Flann O’Brian, Gustave
Flaubert as well as film sets for Kurt Palm. One of her most visible
installations was the Triumphbogen der Kunst as part of the Triennale in Linz in 2010. She was been awarded numerous prizes, including the Preis für Bildende Kunst der Stadt Wien (2008) and the Internationaler Preis für Kunst und Kultur des Kulturfonds der Stadt Salzburg (2010).
- “Meine Wohnung ist wie eine Collage” derStandard.at 7. April 2013
- Interview (in Wie geht Kunst?) wiegehtkunst.com 25 July 2006
Karl Markovics
In
his professional life Karl Markovics has crossed many borders. He is a
talented stage and television actor as well as a screen actor. He is
perhaps best known to American audiences as Salomon “Sally” Sorowitsch
in the Oscar-winning film The Conterfeiters (2007). In addition to the many Austrian movies he has starred in, he played a German physician in the Hollywood movie Unknown (2011) and a prisoner in The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). In 2012, he debuted as a director with the award-winning film Atmen
(Breathing), which deals with a young man in a correctional facility
struggling with many internal and external borders. He is presently
working on a new film, Superwelt, in which a supermarket employee meets God.
Karl Markovics will be joining us per Skype.
- In Cannes mit Atmen
- Advice to actors from Think Talk Director’s Cut
- “Frau trifft Gott, Frau verliert Gott, Frau findet Gott wieder” filmclicks.at
- KMs Blog zu Superwelt
- Trailer to Superwelt
- Superwelt Filmpremiere
Diane Shooman
Diane
Shooman, who will speak on the dance scene in Austria, received her PhD
in Comparative Literature from Brown University in 1987, and taught at
Oberlin College, Clark University and Skidmore College before moving to
Vienna in 1990. She has been teaching the interdisciplinary seminar
“Vergleiche künstlerischer Disziplinen” at the University of Art in Linz
since 1998, and Humanities at the University of Applied Sciences
Technikum Wien since 1999. She was a Core Adjunct Faculty member of the
Hollins University/ American Dance Festival MFA Program in Dance from
Summer 2008 – Summer 2010. She writes book and catalogue texts on the
visual arts, and authored the Q&A dance column “Fragen Sie Dr
Shooman” for the Falter Zeitschrift, where she regularly publishes guest
essays on dance. She has been a vocalist in the band “Chrono Popp und
die Sorry Babies” since 2010, and debuted as a singer/songwriter in
Spring 2014.