Andrea Winkler

Andrea Winkler (* 1972 in Freistadt) studied German and theater studies in Vienna. She was professionally involved in youth work and adult education as well as in a German research project at the University of Salzburg.
Her prose debut with Arme Närrchen. Self-talk was published in 2006. The self-talk as the final consequence of confirmed communication and language skepticism forms the connecting stylistic element of the 19 short texts. The novel König, Hofnarr und Volk (2013) is a “reckoning with literary life and its vanities as well as with the humanities that have destroyed all spirit through schematic thinking and replaced it with striving for a career and validity”.
In The Woman on My Shoulder from 2018, a woman describes in diary-like notes that extend over half a year, her temporary departure from the usual. “What prompted you to retire to the house of the late Mr. Friedrich remains in the vague. Your stay in the country has neither a program nor a goal. Presumably she is looking for distance from her usual life. ” The critics certified that she wrote “extraordinary narrative texts, eccentric content, profoundly humorous, stylistically beautiful and flawless”. She cultivates "a language that gives things an almost magical life of their own, and uses absurd humor in her bizarre dialogues in an almost Beckettian way".

Foto: Reinhard Winkler