{{Short description|Austrian writer (born 1988)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox writer <!-- For more information see :Template:Infobox Writer/doc. --> | name = Johanna Sebauer | image = Johanna_Sebauer_2024.jpg | imagesize = 200 | alt = | caption = Sebauer in 2024 | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1988}} | birth_place = Vienna, Austria | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Writer | language = German | nationality = Austrian | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | portaldisp = | module = }} '''Johanna Sebauer''' (born 1988) is an Austrian writer.
==Biography== Johanna Sebauer was born in Vienna in 1988,<ref name="Perlentaucher">{{Perlentaucher|johanna-seebauer}}<!-- sic! --></ref><ref name="johannasebauer.com">{{citation |url=https://www.johannasebauer.com/%C3%BCber-mich/ |title=Johanna Sebauer |accessdate=2023-09-21 |work=johannasebauer.com}}</ref> the daughter of publisher Vera Sebauer (1954–2015)<ref name="orf2707917">{{cite web |url=https://burgenland.orf.at/v2/news/stories/2707917/ |title=Vera Sebauer gestorben |date=2015-04-28 |accessdate=2023-09-21 |work=ORF.at}}</ref> and journalist Wolfgang Weisgram.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bvz.at/mattersburg/marz-mattersburg-johanna-sebauer-tritt-in-vaters-fussstapfen-marz-mattersburg-johanna-sebauer-wolfgang-weisgram-print-282371650 |title=Johanna Sebauer tritt In Vaters Fußstapfen |date=2021-07-24 |accessdate=2023-09-21 |work=bvz.at}}</ref><ref name="meinburgenland.at">{{cite web|url=https://www.meinburgenland.at/top-stories/artikel/on-the-road-mit-johanna-sebauer/ |title="On the road" mit Johanna Sebauer |accessdate=2023-09-21|work=meinburgenland.at}}</ref> She grew up in Burgenland, studied political science at the University of Vienna and then journalism in Aarhus in Denmark, in Santiago, Chile and in Hamburg, where she moved in 2013.<ref name="Perlentaucher" /><ref name="johannasebauer.com" />
In 2014, Sebauer was awarded the Burgenland Youth Literature Prize for her short story Edina on the subject of 25 years since the fall of the Iron Curtain.<ref name="publikationen">{{cite web |url=https://www.johannasebauer.com/publikationen/ |title=Publikationen |accessdate=2023-09-20|work=johannasebauer.com}}</ref> In 2023 she published the novel Nincshof with DuMont Buchverlag about the eponymous fictional village in Burgenland near the Hungarian border. The name of the place is derived from the Hungarian term ''nincs'', meaning nothing or none.<ref name="bvz378468580">{{cite web |url=https://www.bvz.at/burgenland/kultur-festivals/burgenland-premiere-buch-als-sommerhit-alle-wollen-jetzt-nach-nincshof-378468580 |title=Buch als Sommerhit: Alle wollen jetzt nach Nincshof |date=2023-07-28 |accessdate=2023-09-21 |work=bvz.at}}</ref><ref name="tt30862618">{{cite web |url=https://www.tt.com/artikel/30862618/nincshof-von-johanna-sebauer-ein-nicht-ort-will-nicht-mehr |title="Nincshof" von Johanna Sebauer: Ein Nicht-Ort will nicht mehr |date=2023-08-20|accessdate=2023-09-20|work=Tiroler Tageszeitung}}</ref> For her debut novel, she was awarded the debut prize of the Harbour Front Literature Festival 2023, endowed with 10,000 euros.<ref name="ndr.de">{{cite web |url=https://www.ndr.de/kultur/Debuetpreis-des-Harbour-Front-Literaturfestivals-fuer-Johanna-Sebauer,kulturkurzmeldung4040.html |title=Debütpreis des Harbour Front Literaturfestivals für Johanna Sebauer |date=2023-09-21 |accessdate=2023-09-21 |work=ndr.de}}</ref><ref name="orf3225080">{{cite web |url=https://burgenland.orf.at/stories/3225080/ |title=Johanna Sebauer: Literaturpreis für "Nincshof" |date=2023-09-21 |accessdate=2023-09-21 |work=ORF.at}}</ref> In 2019, she was awarded the Burgenland Literature Prize for a first version of the novel.<ref name="orf">{{cite web |url=https://www.meinbezirk.at/mattersburg/c-lokales/literaturpreis-fuer-johanna-sebauer_a3698841 |title=Literaturpreis für Johanna Sebauer |date=2023-09-18 |accessdate=2023-09-20 |work=meinbezirk.at}}</ref>
Sebauer works in science communication, is a member of the Hamburg writers' room and part of the Zinnober reading stage in the Zinnschmelze Barmbek.<ref name="johannasebauer.com" />
At the invitation of Klaus Kastberger, she read her text ''Das Gurkerl'' at the competition for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2024, for which she was awarded the 3sat Prize, the BKS Bank Audience Prize and the City of Klagenfurt Writer's Scholarship.<ref name="orf3257226">{{cite web |url=https://bachmannpreis.orf.at/stories/3257226/ |title=Johanna Sebauer, A/D |accessdate=2024-05-24 |work=bachmannpreis.ORF.at}}</ref><ref name="orf3263200">{{cite web |url=https://bachmannpreis.orf.at/stories/3263200/ |title=Preisvergabe in vollem Gang |date=2024-06-30 |accessdate=2024-06-30 |work=ORF.at}}</ref>
==Bibliography== * ''Edina'', Kurzgeschichte zum Thema ''25 Jahre Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs'', 2014.<ref name="publikationen" /> * ''August'' und ''Wie Erna Rohdiebl aus Pamhagen ihr Herz an die Nordsee verlor'', Kurzgeschichten. In: Christoph Andexlinger: ''Junge Literatur Burgenland: Band 1'', edition lex liszt 12, Oberwart 2018, ISBN 978-3-99016-139-5. * ''Ein Versuch übers Sowohl-als-auch'', in ''Vom Kommen und Gehen: Burgenland: Betrachtungen von Zu- und Weggereisten'', published by Peter Menasse and Wolfgang Wagner, Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna/Cologne 2021, ISBN 978-3-205-21275-1. * ''Nincshof'', Roman, DuMont-Buchverlag, Cologne 2023, ISBN 978-3-8321-6820-9.
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== External links == {{Commonscat}}Johanna Sebauer's official website: https://www.johannasebauer.com/<nowiki/>{{DEFAULTSORT:Sebauer, Johanna}} Category:1988 births Category:Living people Category:Writers from Vienna Category:21st-century Austrian writers Category:21st-century Austrian women writers