Angelika Reitzer
Angelika Reitzer was born in 1971 in Graz, Austria. She studied German philology in Salzburg and Berlin, visited the Screenwriting and Dramaturgy Class at Filmakademie Vienna, the Screenplay Masterclass at HFF Munic (University of Television and Film) and the Friedl Kubelka School For Independent Film and is now living in Vienna as a freelance author of prose, poetry and drama, she is also screenwriting and making films.
Angelika published four novels (Obwohl es kalt ist draußen / Although it’s cold outside and Wir Erben / What we inherit et al.), one book of prose and one of poems (Inventary of a Region), worked on a series of short films with artist Antoinette Zwirchmayr (What I Remember) recently made a libretto for the musical together with composer Laura Winkler. Dear Darkness, a fiction short film by A. Zwirchmayr (script: Reitzer/Zwirchmayr) was premiering at the Austrian Film Museum in February 2022. Her next book of poems will be published in autumn 2025. Her first short essay-film sticking pigs was screened at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.