born in Linz in 1979, studied German literature and painting in Salzburg, Berlin, and Vienna. In 2021, she gave the Zurich Poetics Lectures. In 2024, she was a visiting writer at New York University. Teresa Präauer writes novels, essays, and articles. Her publications to date include, among others: „Johnny und Jean“ (2014), „Oh Schimmi“ (2016), „Mädchen“ (2022), as well as the novel „Kochen im falschen Jahrhundert“ (2023), for which she received the Bremen Literature Prize and was nominated for the German and Austrian Book Prizes. In 2017, she received the Erich Fried Prize, and in 2022 the Ben Witter Prize. She writes the column „Wie redet ihr denn?“ for the „SZ“ and was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2025/26. Published by Residenz Verlag in the series "Unruhe bewahren": "Nie mehr weinen" (2026).
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