Teresa Präauer: “Cooking in the Wrong Century”, on Contemporary Writing

A Conversation (both in German & English) with author and visual artist Teresa Präauer

Teresa Präauer (fiction writer, essayist) is the author of several novels as well as essays, stories, columns and reviews. Having studied German Literature and Language in Austria and Germany, she received a Master’s Degree in Philosophy, and in Fine Arts. She regularly publishes in newspapers and magazines on poetry, theatre, pop culture and fine arts, contributes to radio-broadcasting and teaches at universities in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and America (Grinnell College). She is an Honorary Fellow in Writing of the International Writing Program 2015. Publishing at the renowned German Publishing House Wallstein Verlag for more than 10 years now, she has become a well-known and critically acclaimed writer, nevertheless a unique voice in German-language writing. In 2015 she was shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize, in 2017 she received the Erich Fried Prize, in 2022 the Ben Witter Prize for being a “self-opinionated observer and self-thinker whose writing reveals a keen eye”. In 2024 she was awarded with prestigious Bremer Literaturpreis.