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Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek

Writer · Born October 20, 1946 · Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria

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Biography

Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004. Jelinek's output has included radio plays, poetry, theatre texts, polemical essays, anthologies, novels, translations, screenplays, musical compositions, libretti and ballets, film and video art. She has also appeared in a couple of feature films. She is probably best known for her novel "Die Klavierspielerin/The Piano Player" published 1983.

Wrote 10

2020s

  1. 2026
  2. Women as Lovers

    Novel

2010s

  1. 2019

    The Children of the Dead

    Novel

  2. 2017

    Kein Licht

    Writer

  3. 2015

    Valie Export - Icon and Rebel

    Writer

1990s

  1. 1991

    Malina

    Writer

1980s

  1. 1988

    Elfriede Jelinek. News from Home 18.8.88

    Writer

  2. 1987

    What the Night Speaks – a Story

    Dialogue

  3. 1982

    The Excluded

    Writer

Acted in 5

2010s

  1. 2015

    Valie Export - Icon and Rebel

    Reader

2000s

  1. 2004

    Elfriede Jelinek: Nobel Prize Lecture

    Movie

1980s

  1. 1988
  2. 1987

    What the Night Speaks – a Story

    Movie

  3. 1982

    The Excluded

    Anna's Teacher

Appearances4

2020s

  1. 2026

    Einar Schleef - No Germany Did I Find

    Self

  2. 2022

    Elfriede Jelinek: Language Unleashed

    Self

2010s

  1. 2017

    Chance 2000 - Abschied von Deutschland

    Self

2000s

  1. 2002

    Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container

    Self