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I explore narration as a voice of listening. For my current project I am re-narrating a situated microhistorical disappearance from within a context of legalized dehumanization. I am interested in the narrative gestalts through which the unknown, unresolved,  and unsaid might re-appear. I am not reconstructing the past, but am curious how the dead flash by in the present. The narration that forms inbetween disappearance and return (in this particular order).

Born in Salzburg-Lehen, Austria, into a Viennese family, I currently live and write in Vienna and at the right bank of the Morava river. I am currently a PhD candidate at the University of Arts in Linz. I studied Visual Cultures and Creative Writing at art universities in the UK (Goldsmiths College, London), Germany (Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig), Italy (Free University of Bolzano/Bozen),  and Austria (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna). Since 1999 I have been engaged in organic farming in Italy. I served as an organiser and curator in the visual arts, and worked as a speechwriter to a German Minister of Justice. (Family) research travels have taken me to Mexico, Russia, and beyond. I am member of IG Autorinnen Autoren and of the Austrian Society for Literary Translation.  My writing has received funding from BMWKMS, Land Salzburg, Kulturförderung des Freistaates Sachsen, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Literatur, and others. In 2013 I was awarded the third Edit Essay prize.