Sophie Anna Reyer is an Austrian author of multiple theater pieces and publications. She was born in the Alpine capitol of Vienna, Austria in 1984. Reyer discovered her various profound talents in the arts at a young age as a child prodigy,^[1] honing her skills as a scriptwriter for children's theatre as well as a composer of classical music.

Career

In 2010, Reyer received both the Master of Arts in Composition/Music Theater as well as her Diploma in Scenic Writing at uniT. In 2018, she was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Language Arts and a Screenwriter (KHM Cologne).

Her most important prizes include the Literature Promotion Prize of the City of Graz and the Manuscript Promotion Prize. In 2017, she wrote the theatre texts "vogelglück", "baumleberliebe", "hundpfarrer" and "Anna and the Wulian" (publisher: Fischer-Verlag). In 2019 and 2020, she was on the shortlist for the Austria Book Prize with her novels, "Mutter Brennt" and "1431".

Reyer is a lecturer at Pädagogische Hochschule Baden.

Publications (selection)

Reyer's poems have been printed in various literary journals and anthologies. Her texts have been translated into Serbian, Polish and Spanish.

• go dense. Poetry volume. With illustrations by Monika Migl et al. Landeck 2005. ISBN 978-3-901735-17-2
• Dried birds. Leykam, Graz 2008. ISBN 978-3-7011-7639-7
• Baby blue eyes. Ritter, Klagenfurt, Graz, Wien 2008. ISBN 978-3-85415-431-0
• Flight (tracks). Poems. Edition Keiper, Graz 2012. ISBN 978-3-85415-494-5
• Marias. An obituary. Ritter Literatur, Klagenfurt 2013. ISBN 978-3-85415-494-5
• The experience) SuKuLTuR, Berlin 2013.
• Pun Hall. Spoken score together with A. J. Weigoni, 2014.^[2]
• Anna und der Wulian (Anna and the Wulian). Children's theater. S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 2014.
• Insecticide. Novel. Leykam, Graz 2014. ISBN 978-3-7011-7897-1
• Simon and the Shivering Spider. With illustrations by Birgit Scholin. edition lex liszt 12, Oberwart 2015, ISBN 978-3-99016-081-7
• Sleeper. Narrative. Edition Atelier, Vienna 2016. ISBN 978-3-903005-18-1
• Sleeping snow. Poems. edition pen (Vol. 63) in Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2017. ISBN 978-3-85409-851-5
• Turtle Days. Novel. Czernin Verlag, Vienna 2017. ISBN 978-3-7076-0615-7
• In the month of the silkworm. A lyrical revelation. edition lex liszt 12, Oberwart 2017, ISBN 978-3-99016-128-9
• Performance and biopower. Text strategies in the social field. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2018. ISBN 978-3-7092-0275-3
• Mother is burning. Edition Keiper, Graz 2019. ISBN 978-3-903144-85-9
• Leaning diagonally against woods. Poems. Shoebox House Verlag, Hamburg 2019. ISBN 978-3-941120-36-5
• BioMachtTrees. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2019. ISBN 978-3-7092-0364-4
• Veza Canetti: A Biography. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2019. ISBN 978-3-8260-6675-7
• 1431. Roman. Czernin Verlag, Wien 2021. ISBN 978-3-7076-0726-0
• A scream. My own. Czernin Verlag, Wien 2022. ISBN 978-3-7076-0774-1
• After the faces. Miniatures. Edition Melos, Wien 2023. ISBN 978-3-9505384-9-6

Prizes and scholarships

• 2007: Literature Promotion Prize of the City of Graz
• 2008: Prize of the Styrian Regional Health Insurance Fund, Scholarship of the City of Graz, Scholarship of the Province of Styria
• 2009: Scholarship stay on the island of Hombroich, Manuskripte-Förderungspreis of the city of Graz, Austrian Start Scholarship
• 2013: Winner at Nah dran - promotion of children's theater plays
• 2013: KUNO essay prize for reference universe.
• 2014: lime lab for the project Wortspielhalle with Andrascz Jaromir Weigoni, Graz.