Daniela Strigl

Daniela Strigl, born in Vienna in 1964, is a literary scholar, essayist and literary critic. She studied German literature, philosophy, history and theatre studies and taught at the University of Vienna’s Department of German Studies. She served on the jury of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize from 2003 to 2009 and from 2011 to 2014, and was also a juror for the German Book Prize and the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. Her awards include the Austrian State Prize for Literary Criticism (2001), the Max Kade Essay Prize (2007), the Alfred Kerr Prize (2013), the Berlin Prize for Literary Criticism (2015) and the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize (2019). Her books include biographies of Marlen Haushofer and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, as well as essays; she also co-edited a four-volume reading edition of Ebner-Eschenbach’s works.