Kathrin Röggla

Kathrin Röggla - © Doris Poklekowski
© Doris
   Poklekowski

Born in Salzburg on 14.6.1971. Studied German and Journalism at Salzburg from 1989. Kathrin Röggla has lived in Berlin since 1992. She writes prose, radio plays, and theatre texts, and produces reviews for newspaper arts pages, literary magazines, and Austrian and German radio. She has also published several books of prose texts including "irres wetter" (2000/2002) and "really ground zero" (2001).

Prizes and Awards

  • 1992 Salzburg Annual Literary Grant
  • 1993 Berlin's Open-Mike International Festival Prize
  • 1994 Federal Ministry of Education and Art's Award for Young Writers
  • 1995 Reinhard Priessnitz Prize
  • 1996 Federal Ministry of Science, Research, and Art's State Stipendium
  • 1997/8 Federal Chancellor's Office State Stipendium for Literature
  • 2000 kolik Literary Prize
  • 2001 Alexander von Sacher Masoch Prize
  • 2002 Hamburg Blue Capital GmbH's Italo Svevo Literary Prize
  • 2003 Ernst Nossack Prize