Stefanie Sargnagel begleitet von Christiane Rösinger

In the organizer's words:

"Stefanie Sargnagel is the most important Austrian author of the 21st century." VICE Alps already wrote this at the end of 2013, when Sargnagel's debut work Binge Living was published and became the surprise bestseller of the Austrian Christmas book trade in 2013. Numerous Austrian media outlets included it in their annual bestseller lists, and listeners of the youth radio station FM4 even voted it Book of the Year. Hyped by feature pages and hipster blogs alike, the first editions sold out within a short space of time. The second book Fitness, published in 2015, has now also made the leap to Germany. The recipe is the same as for Binge Living: Facebook postings, crazy reports and illustrations (Sargnagel studied painting with Daniel Richter at the Academy of Fine Arts) are condensed into a powerful stream of consciousness that exposes with relentless staccato what in Steffi's eyes is dishonest, fake, inadequate or simply hilarious.At the same time, Sargnagel also became a left-wing figurehead around the publication of Fitness; her battles and fights on Facebook with/against right-wing extremists and/or the FPÖ earned her heroine status and are almost as legendary as her books.Sargnagel writes radically subjectively and very wisely about the so-called simple life, about feminism, hopelessness and depression. She is taciturn, but always gets into narrative, draws something from time to time and breaks all genre boundaries. This is often hilarious, sometimes tragic, and after Sargnagel's move to the renowned Rowohlt publishing house, Statusmeldungen and Dicht - Aufzeichnungen einer Tagediebin, Sargnagel's first novel, were published in 2018. Stefanie Sargnagel's second novel, Iowa, about her time as a lecturer at a small college in the USA, was published in 2023, and in 2016 she received the audience award at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize competition in Klagenfurt and in 2022 the jury prize at the Prix Pantheon in Bonn. Her two books Statusmeldungen and Dicht were bestsellers, Statusmeldungen was made into a movie.

Christiane Rösinger grew up in Baden and moved to West Berlin in 1985, where she founded the Lassie Singers together with Almut Klotz and Funny van Dannen in 1988. Together with Almut Klotz, she also ran the Flittchen Records label and the legendary Flittchen Bar in the Maria am Ostbahnhof. After the Lassie Singers disbanded at the end of the 90s, Rösinger founded the band Britta together with Britta Neander and Julia Miess and released 4 studio albums. Her first solo album "Songs Of L. And Hate" was released in 2010 and most recently "Lieder ohne Leiden" (2017).Rösinger is the author of numerous books, most recently "Zukunft machen wir später. Meine Deutschstunden mit Geflüchteten" published by Fischer in 2017 and has written for various daily newspapers and magazines. She has also curated the event series "Flittchenbar im Südblock" since 2010. In 2019, her housing policy musical "Stadt unter Einfluss" premiered at Hebbel am Ufer, followed two years later by her feminist musical "Planet Egalia". Christiane Rösinger still lives and works in Berlin.

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