Franz Suess was born in Linz in 1961. He studied painting and graphic art at the University of Art and Industrial Design Linz and attended the master class for ceramics. Afterwards he designed postcard comics and published comics, photos, and satirical collages on the »Raketa« internet platform for satire and
Franzobel was born Franz Stefan Griebel in 1967 in the Upper Austrian Vöcklabruck. Following the Matura he went to Vienna in 1986 to study German Studies and History. During his studies, which he completed in 1994 with a Diplom, he studied painting and conceptual art intensively, and made his first
Ewald Palmetshofer was born in Linz in 1978, studied Theology, Philosophy and Psychology in Vienna. He was in-house playwright at the Schauspielhaus Wien in 2007/08. In a poll made by the journal »Theater heute«, the participating critics chose him as the best young dramatist in 2008. He also received the
Eva Menasse was born in 1970 in Vienna. She studied German language and literature as well as history and worked as a journalist for the Viennese news magazine »Profil« and as a cultural editor for the »FAZ«. In 2000, she reported for weeks on the trial of the Holocaust denier
Elisabeth Steinkellner was born in southern Lower Austria in 1981. After training as a social pedagogue and studying cultural and social anthropology in Vienna, she devoted herself to writing.Her numerous children’s books, from »An Herrn Günther mit bestem Gruß!« (2010; tr: To Mr. Günther with Best Regards!) to »Pepe und
Dimitre Dinev was born in 1968 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He started writing at the time of his secondary schooling in a German speaking ‘Gymnasium’ in Pasardshik. His first texts were published in 1986, both in Bulgarian and Russian. At the end of the 1980’s he took part in protests against
Dietlind Antretter was born in 1961 in the Austrian city of Salzburg. After attending grammar school she began studying German Language and Literature in her home city, during which time she was already working as a journalist and in a theatre. At the same time she was employed in the
was born 1982 in Graz. In 2001, he began his studies in German Language and Literature and Mathematics in his hometown. At the same time, he published poems and short stories in magazines and on Austrian radio. His début novel, »Söhne und Planeten« (tr: »Sons and Planets«), published in 2007,
born 1954 in Upper Austria’s Wels, he studied German Language and Literature, Communications and Sports Science in Salzburg. His publications include books of poetry, stories and other prose, translations as well as the novel »Die schönen bitteren Wochen des Johann Nepomuk« (tr: The beautiful bitter weeks of Johann Nepomuk). He
studied philosophy and political science in Vienna and Paris, and comparative literature in Bielefeld. He worked at the Peter Szondi institute of comparative literature at Berlin’s Free University. Avanessian was a visiting fellow of the German departments at Columbia University and Yale, and a visiting professor at art academies in
Arno Geiger was born in 1968 and grew up in Wolfurt, near Bregenz. He studied law, German language and literature, comparative literature and history and has been living and writing in Vienna since 1993. For his novel »Es geht uns gut« (2005) he was awarded the German Book Prize given
born in Pécs, Hungary in 1990, is currently studying Transmedia Art in Vienna. Her first book of poems, »A bálna nem motívum« (tr: The Whale is not a Motif«, was published in 2017. She is a founding member of xtro realm, a group of visual artists who use various methods
