(*1977 in Grat, lives and works in Vienna and Heiligenberg)
Anna Katharina Laggner studied International Economic Relations and worked for 20 years as a freelancer for ORF, where she wrote about film for FM4 and was a programme designer and presenter for Ö1. She has reported from New York, Georgia and Burkina Faso, and her radio feature “Neun Tage – Zwei Zehennägel – Nach Hause gehen” (Nine Days – Two Toenails – Going Home) about her walk from Vienna to Graz was awarded the Prix Bohemia Radio. As a sound artist, she has produced audio pieces for the Styrian Autumn, the Festival of Regions and international institutions (Parcours d’Art Contemporain in the Vallée du Lot, France, NGBK Berlin), among others.
She currently holds a project grant for literature (BMKOES). Literary texts and essays have appeared in the literary magazine manuskripte, schreibkraft and the anthology “female positions” (ed. Daniela Banglmayr, Susanne Baumann, Sandra Hochholzer). Her debut novel “Fremdlinge” (2023) was published by Residenz Verlag. She lives with filmmaker Siegfried A. Fruhauf and their three children in Vienna and Heiligenberg, Upper Austria.
