Taghelle Gegend

by Angelika Reitzer

172 pages, Hardcover

First published December 8, 2006

About the author

Angelika Reitzer was born in 1971 in Graz, Austria. She studied German philology in Salzburg and Berlin, and is now living in Vienna. Before becoming a freelance author of prose, poetry and drama, she worked the odd job in the artistic and cultural field and was also a proof reader for art magazines and fact books. Her most notable works include the novels Taghelle Gegend (Daylight Region, 2007) and unter uns (Among Us, 2010), a collection of prose Frauen in Vasen (Women in Vases, 2008), and the mini-dramas Nichts davon (None of It, 2008) and Tirol-Connection (2009). Her play Ein Kind seiner Zeit (A Child of Its Time, 2010), set to Hieronymus Bosch’s painting Christ Child with a Walking-Frame, was performed in the Museum of Art History (KHM) in Vienna. She was the recipient of the “Hermann Lenz” grant in 2007 and her accolades also include the Reinhard Priessnitz Award (2008), as well as the Marianne von Willemer Prize (2009).

Reviews

[Sternenstaubsucherin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kein eigentlicher Roman im herkömmlichen Sinn, eher so kurze Einblicke in das Leben der Protagonistin Maria. Dabei spielt die Autorin mit den Perspektiven, erzählt mal in der Ich-Form, mal als Beobachterin.
Stellenweise war ich orientierungslos, da man oft nicht sofort erkennt, in welche Zeit gerade erzählt wird. Nur die Träume, die erkennt man sofort.
Daher erschien mir das Buch insgesamt oft wirr und Zusammenhanglos.