Meet "Roman ohne U" author Judith Taschler in the community

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From 3 November The book is read together in weekly stages and discussed with Judith Taschler. Did you like a chapter particularly well? Would you like to know why the story developed just like that and not differently? You can ask your questions directly to the author.

"Roman without U" - what is it about?

The "U" of the old typewriter, on which Thomas writes his impressions of Siberia after the war, does not work. But without "U" you can not write Gulag, not courage and not the name of Thomas? great love? Ludovica. Judith Taschler's novel is a complex family chronicle that begins with how a mother of four becomes a widow in today's Austria and how her story is interwoven with the fate of her demented brother-in-law Thomas. Taschler cleverly juggles with the time strands and entanglements, right up to the dramatic finale. (ChroniquesDuVasteMonde culture editor Angela Wittman on "Roman without U")

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The author: Judith W. Taschler

Born in Linz, Upper Austria, on August 25, 1970. Grew up in the Mühlviertel with six siblings, a cat, two dogs, twenty-one horses and countless books. Elementary school in the hometown of Putzleinsdorf, secondary school in the neighboring town of Lembach, Higher Federal Training College for Business Occupations in Linz, Matura in June 1989. After a year abroad in California jobs as a secretary, car salesman and Horterzieherin in Linz. Moved to Innsbruck in 1995, studied German literature and history. Taschler is married and has three children. For two years she works as a freelance author.

In February 2011, the debut novel "Summer Like Winter" by Picus Verlag, since January 2012, there is the novel as a paperback (Goldman).

In February 2013, the second novel titled "Die Deutschlehrerin" (four editions) was published, for which the author received the Friedrich Glauser Prize 2014. The reasoning of the jury was: "Love, betrayal and death." These are the great themes of life, which Judith Taschler lyrically puts into a small chamber play, and it is the soft tones that lend a dramatic depth to this confession of life. Unobtrusively, the reader opens up a panopticon of lost opportunities for life, two people destined for one another, following their egocentric life plans and missing out on each other. "Irritated and moved by the tragic story, we follow the protagonists' opportunistic logic of action to the bitter end." Life means failure, says Amélie Nothomb is said to be as consistent, exciting and literarily subtle as Judith Taschler implements the theme, even failure becomes a real treat! "

In February 2014, the narrative volume Apanies beads appeared with four longer stories, two of them short novel