Die Erde trägt ein Kleid aus Worten (The World Wears a Dress of Words)
2nd edition of memoirs and rencontres with people all over the world, including new texts from 1974 to 2008, new and more drawings and photos of the author.Europa Verlag Zürich 2010, hardcover, 202 p.
The book is already translated into English by Laura Ackerman,
Publishing rights in Anglophone countries with my US agent Christine Witthohn, Book Cents LLC
Das Chamäleon ("The Chameleon")
a surreal novellaVienna: Wiener Frauenverlag 1989
Two young women who complement each other perfectly in their very different characters search for their identity by delineating themselves from each other. They spin a dense net of common experiences, but one from which there is no escape. The story turns a surprising corner and the everyday gives way to a nightmare.
Eine unauffällige Frau ("A Discrete Woman")
Story collectionShort stories with nine illustrations by Ulli Klepalski. Literaturedition Niederösterreich, 1996. ISBN: 3-901117-26-1.
Press reviews:
These stories contain nothing spectacular, nothing artificially enhanced. Yet the author, born in 1954, overlays the descriptions of even the simplest events with poetic magic. She is just as familiar with plants, rocks, and landscapes as with the depths of the human - generally female - psyche.
(ORF)
In this second book by [Beatrix] Kramlovsky, the author's strength in creating a psychologically credible picture of today's world is evident. (Barbara Neuwirth in "Literatur aus Österreich")
Kramlovsky is rigorous in describing reality. She rubs at the surface of things until their essence is revealed.
(Zdenka Becker)
Das Risiko ("The Risk")
a crime novelVienna: Milena, 1997.
ISBN: 3-85286-038-5
Emma believes she has everything that makes up a fulfilled life: a fascinating scientific career, a husband to whom she is happily married, two sons, money.
She has successfully repressed the shadows of her childhood, even left the land of her birth under strange conditions. Things take a fatal turn when someone is murdered in the heavily-protected lab where she works and a genetically altered mouse escapes. Emma, seduced by the heady rush of manipulability, of the possibilities of individual selection of "living material", is forced to discover that her beloved husband is interested in neither her work nor in morality. All he cares about is the reputation of the company as it is measured in earnings. He cannot understand Emma's shock, and her children withdraw from her too. Emma, a modern Medea, becomes a cold, hard shadow of herself, waiting for her last chance.
Press reviews:
In spite of its theme, [the novel] remains both uncompromising and always realistic.
(Wienerin)
In her 'poison cocktail' Das Risiko, Beatrix Kramlovsky sensitively tells the story of a woman who discovers one day that she no longer belongs in her own world. (Kultur!News Kassel)
Kramlovsky manages to make this novel more than a run-of-the-mill scientific thriller; she raises it to the level of a psychothriller, and its end is really only for those with strong nerves.
(Margret Holota in der Stadtzeitung Hamm/Westf.)
…as a modern Medea, Emma has the power to manipulate life in her role as genetic researcher. The parallels to her mythological role model are obvious. ….The murders here are not solved.
Allmedia 1/1997
2000 Angeln in Zwischenräumen ("Fishing in Gaps")
a theatre play in two acts for six players.Literaturedition Niederösterreich Theater anthology, May 2000.
ISBN: 3-901117-45-8
Theme:
Can we be so easily manipulated by those in the media who shape public opinion that we try to make our lifestyles resemble those of television films? Are we the role models for soap operas, or already merely their imitators?
Content:
A young man leaves home to discover what is real, what is true for him beyond the world his parents apprehend. The breakdown in communication among those involved leads to their living parallel lives, to the shattering of their brittle relationships.
Auslese ("Selection")
a crime novel taking place in ViennaLiteraturedition Niederöstereich 2002, 208p., ISBN 3-901117-58-X
Homicide inspector Lothar Haberl is called to the scene of a murder in Vienna. Both the type of killing and the way the scene is set make it immediately clear to him that an unusual murderer is at work. His research leads him to a job center where the unemployment of one person means a new job for someone else. The result is a heated, prickly atmosphere in which other rules seem to apply than those out in society. The divorced Haberl's personal difficulties culminate simultaneously with the development of the case: the murderer is revealed as a serial killer.
Press reviews:
….. The author quietly and sensitively probes the way the loss of useful and paid employment upsets people's lives….. In the process, she never loses her intimate view of and her empathy for her characters…..
Almuth Heuner in Virginia, Oktober 2003
…Kramlovsky …succeeds in ramping up the tension to great heights….She never reveals more than is necessary, doesn't overload the text, and stays with her theme, which deals with unemployment and its consequences, the isolation of the individual, borderline personality disorder and its manifestations. [Kramlovsky's] well-grounded research reveals her competence with the subject matter and makes itself felt in the steady hand with which she leads her reader surely and safely along the edge of a deep abyss….
A. Tiefenbacher im Kulturbericht OÖ11/03
A crime novel set in Vienna that calls for a sequel. Lothar Haberl has the makings of a serial hero.
(Nils Jensen in Buchkultur)
Her trick with the stylistically constrasting text insertions and the psychological panorama she develops here allow me to claim with enthusiasm that there is an author in Austria who can hold a candle to Henning Mankell - Beatrix Kramlovsky
(Marianne Gruber in Österr. Gesellschaft f. Literatur)
2006 Die Erde trägt ein Kleid aus Worten ("The World wears a Dress of Words")
Literaturedition Niederösterreich 2006, hard cover, 170 p. ISBN 3-901117-82-2A female artist, writer and mother travels round the world over the years, works in different countries with different political systems and collects certain people everywhere.
"Often working and living abroad I have realized that home is more than a country, that people everywhere can turn into anchors and roots. Most of my friends have to travel too, modern life has created a new form of nomadic life, which includes the development of new friendship patterns.
Being posted in the former GDR from 1987 -1991 meant (besides working in the underground as I was not allowed to publish or exhibit my pictures) caring for a net of friends which started with colleagues and friends of the international diplomatic corps and ended with forbidden artists and colourful people everywhere (including a wonderful US American teacher in the Iran, a gardening sheikh in Oman, a British barkeeper becoming a kiwi farmer in New Zealand, a stepmother of more than 150 children in Thailand, teachers and students in Turkey, Iran, Cuba, Ireland and Bulgaria, travellers in Canada, friends in the States and Africa.)"
Press review:
"….The texts for her newest book, appropriately titled "The World Wears a Dress Spun of Words" have their origins in [Beatrix Kramlovsky's] many travels and the experiences they occasion. These are travel impressions with strongly subjective commentary: she probes, call things into question, avoiding deftly any hint of postcolonialism, presenting the reader with her encounters. And: equally at home in both literary and artistic worlds, [Kramlovsky] has supplied ink drawings for the book - sketchlike impressions, snapshots, landscapes, people. This is not an art book with texts, but rather an anthology from here (that is, the [Austrian] wine region where the author lives) to Tehran, Turkey, New Zealand, Canada, etc. and back again. This is leavetaking and arriving, people in pictures and words."
Nils Jensen in Buchkultur Österreich spezial 2006/107 B
…..Beatrix Kramlovsky has long since made a name for herself as a writer of crime fiction, but here she indulges in her passion for travel in a voice that is often quiet but always extremely observant….. She writes of foreign cultures and curiosities with a candor that is sensitive; she poses questions, draws comparisons. Interspersed are ink drawings that point to her second passion, that of art. ….Many passages call to mind Bruce Chatwin and a profession that has become rare - travel literature in the sense of those splendid, memorable descriptions that transcend any travel guide and are literature of the finest kind….
Rudolf Kraus in Literarisches Österreich 2/2006
2007 Auslese, ("Selection")
the crime novel edited as CD in GermanyBy TechniSat Radioropa
5 Audio-CDs
Performed by Tobias Triebswetter
2008 Sdrasti- Bulgarian Youth
Non fiction specially published for Austrian SchoolsSdrasti - that´s "Hello!" in Bulgarian.
Students and pupils wrote about their lives and dreams, guided by Kramlovsky. The preface is by Jana Patsch, one of the best Austrian Journalists, specialized on Balkan politics and countries.
