Marlene Gölz

Marlene Gölz

Born in 1978 in Linz, she studied in Vienna and Berlin. She is a freelance writer and a freelance contributor at the Adalbert Stifter Institute in Linz. Awards and grants include: the Marianne von Willemer Women’s Literature Prize of the City of Linz, the Literature Prize of the Graz Academy, an artist-in-residence grant from the Upper Austrian Art Collection in Gmunden, a Start Grant for Literature from the Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture (BMUKK), a work grant from the Province of Upper Austria, the City Writer Grant of Eferding, and an artist-in-residence grant from the Upper Austrian Art Collection at the Salzamt in Linz.

Himmelfahrt

On the occasion of her friend Melanie’s funeral, Caro travels to her home village, where she spends the summer. Memories of Melanie force Caro to confront her own life—from a time when the world did not seem big enough to a broken marriage and professional stagnation. She meets her teenage sweetheart Tom and, together with him, sets out in search of answers surrounding the circumstances of her friend’s death. Clearly, she had not known Melanie as well as she thought. Everyone in the village seems to know more than Caro.

Photo: Reinhard Winkler.