19/04 //\\ Photo Cluster
18:00 //\\ Reading with Svjetlana Pravdić and Ivan Pravdić hosted by Mascha Dabić
19:30 //\\ Interactive performance Tete-a-tete Poet by Ivan Pravdić
Svjetlana Pravdić was born on February 2, 1998, in Banja Luka. She graduated top of her class in Dramaturgy at the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka. Together with the German writer Peter Voelker, she co-authored the book Dünengras und Blutmond for Engelsdorfer Verlag in Leipzig, Germany. She works professionally as a writer for theater and television and has won six literary awards for her poetry and short stories.
Ivan Pravdić is an artist and lecturer from Serbia. He is a professor of Dramaturgy, Polymedia Arts, and Time Design at the universities of Belgrade and Novi Sad. Through performances, actions, plays, audience participation projects, workshops, videos, installations, and texts, he has participated in festivals and symposia in Canada, Portugal, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Spain, Hungary, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Russia, and across the former Yugoslavia.
Mascha Dabić was born in Sarajevo. She has studied translation and interpreting studies and received her PhD at the University of Vienna, where she teaches translation and interpreting in Russian. She translates literature, theatre plays and poetry, mainly from the Balkans region. In 2017 she published her first novel Reibungsverluste (edition atelier) on the topic of interpreting in psychotherapy.
The reading will be held in English.
Supported by Stadt Wien, BMKOES, Bezirk Josefstadt, Bezirk Margareten, Bezirk Meidling, Photo Cluster and Hotel Korotan.