Marlene Streeruwitz

DAAD Chair for Contemporary Poetics at NYU

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Marlene Streeruwitz is one of the important voices of German speaking literature. Since 1986 she published plays, novels, radioplays and essays. Her work is a philosophical quest for truth and freedom. Using poststructuralist literary theories from the beginning her work was part of the cultural turn of the 90ies of 20th century. She was awarded many prizes. So the Bremer Literaturpreis and the Preis der Literaturhäuser in 2020.

education

Studies of Slavonic Literatures and Art History at the University of Vienna. Dissertation, but no final exams.

Doctor of Philosophy in Germanic Studies 2005 at the University of Illinois

select publications

27 books and numerous publications in anthologies and collections of essays.

For a comprehensive list of publications go to the timeline on www.marlenestreeruwitz.at