About us

ALENKA MALY

is both an actress and director and lives in Linz, Upper Austria. After her studies at Bruckner Universität Linz she has been working as an actress for theatre and film in the German-speaking countries for ten years. After that, she studied Visual Media Design at the Kunstuniversität Linz (University of Art and Design Linz). Since 2002, she has been working as film maker and stage director, focusing on social realities, and as video editor in the independent scene and for certain formats of the ORF (Austrian national broadcaster).

Films (selection):

• Kain Denkmal (premiered at Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz 2004)
• Noch gibt er nicht Milch (premiered at Crossing Europe 2006)
• Irmas Zeit (premiered at Heimatfilmfestival Freistadt 2007 / Moviemento Linz)
• Zwaso (premiered at Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival 2009, Crossing Europe 2009 –
• Haiti episode in Micha Schagrir’s “Hoppa, Hoppa Reiter”)
• Hammerweg* (premiered at Crossing Europe 2010)

*Hammerweg documents the temporary Musem Arbeitersiedlung Hammerweg (www.hammerweg.at), a museum inside the houses of a partly vacant worker’s settlement. The project, conceived and realized by Alenka Maly herself, was an interactive and multidisciplinary Intervention in urban space that provided a first-hand experience of the city’s architectural and social history.

BARBARA STEINER

Studies of political science at the University of Vienna (2003-2012) and at the

University of Lund, Sweden (2008) with research focuses on: Europe and European

Union, feminist theory and gender studies, political theories and cultural studies and

furthermore studies of German language and literature.

Publications on the Swedish Left Party in the anthology “From Revolution to Coalition. Radical Left Parties in Europe” (Dietz: Berlin, 2010) and on the European Left and their electoral performance (Brussels, 2010) in the Journal of transform! European network for critical thinking and political dialogue.

 

NORA GUMPENBERGER

Born in 1984 in Upper Austria. She studied comparative literature and German philology at the University of Vienna and wrote her diploma thesis on the narration of topography in the prose of Eugenie Kain. Additionally, she completed a university module in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. Already as a student she acted as assistant director in Elfriede Jelinek’s ‘Stecken, Stab und Stangl’ (2005) and in several international student theatre projects including ‘Andorra’ by Max Frisch (2009) and ‘Komödie der Eitelkeit’ by Elias Canetti (2011). Also, she worked as public relations officer and editor for the art exhibition ‘Hammerweg – Kunst und Alltag im temporären Museum Arbeitersiedlung’ (2008/2009) on a working-class district in Traun, Upper Austria.She has been working for the Don Juan Archiv Wien since August 2011.

 

VERONIKA PETERSEIL

Born in 1985 in Linz, Upper Austria. Veronika studied Conference Interpreting and Translation in Vienna, Genoa (IT) and Leeds (UK) and is working as a freelance interpreter, translator and subtitler based in Vienna. As a translator she has been working for the Austrian Foreign Ministry, Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture and the Federal Office for Monuments Protection (BDA).