Marlene Streeruwitz

Marlene Streeruwith was born in Baden near Vienna. She studied Slav languages and literature and art history in Vienna. She wrote radio plays for diverse state radio stations. Since 1992, her stage plays have been performed in major theatres, Schauspiel Cologne, Kammerspiele Munich, Deutsches Theater Berlin and the Vienna Festwochen amongst them. In 1995, her first novel Verführungen. was published. It received the Mara Cassens Award. After a number of further novels, her novel Die Schmerzmacherin. was shortlisted for the German Book Prize in 2011. recent novels include Nachkommen., Yseut. and, under the alias Nelia Fehn, Die Reise einer jungen Anarchistin in Griechenland.. Marlene Streeruwitz lives in Vienna.