maria seisenbacher

is a poet, collaborates with other arts and artists and is working with easy and plain language. Since 2008, numerous scholarships, awards, and poetry publications.

maria seisenbacher

was born in Vienna in 1978, lives and works as a poet, translator into easy language and caretaker of three children in Vienna.

Completed the studies of comparative literature with a master’s thesis on Yoko Tawada and Ingeborg Bachmann. As a certified social pedagogue and trainer of people with and without learning difficulties lectures and workshops on political education and easy language.

Some poems have been translated into Persian, BKS, English, Macedonian and Hungarian. A book of poems has been translated into Swedish. Receiving invitations to national and international poetry festivals and readings (e.g. Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia; Days of Poetry and Wine, Slovenia). Awarded to numerous scholarships and prizes.

prices & scholarships

Exil Preis 2024, poetry
Artist in Residence in Pécs/Ungarn (Nov.-Dec. 2023)
Travel Scholarship Rumania, butoh Lab Camp (July 2023)
Artist in Residence in Paliano (May 2022)
Scholarship for Literature by the BKA (2022)
Scholarship Vienna (2021)
Artist in Residence in Venice, Literar Mechana (August 2020)
Recognition award of Lower Austria (2019)
Scholarship Literar-Mechana (2017/18)
Artist in Residence in Rom by the BKA (Italy, 2017)
Scholarship for Literature by the BKA (2016)
Artist in Residence in Ptuj (Slovenia, 2016)
Artist in Residence in Wartholz (Austria, 2014)
Startstipendium für Literatur by the bmukk (2012)
Artist in Residence in Slovakia (2011)
Hans Weigel Literaturstipendium by the federal state of Lower Austria (2007/08)

participant of poetry festivals

Ars Poetica festival in Bratislava (2023)
Litfest Umea, Sweden (2019)
Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia (2017)
Days of Poetry and Wine, Slovenia (2016)
Trgni se! Belgrade Poetry and Book Festival, Serbia (2016)
re: Verse (JAK-Tabór), Hungary (2015)
LirikOnFest XXI, Slovenia (2015)
Festival Stranou, Czech Republik (2014)

education & activities

Mag.a* phil. of comparative literature
Member of the literature group „Wortwerft“ (www.wortwerft.at)
2003 – 2017 Co-Editor of the literary periodical „Keine Delikatessen“ (www.keinedelikatessen.at)
Translator into easy language (www.einfachleicht.net)
since 2017 member of Versopolis

publications, i.a.

Hecken sitzen. poems. illustrations Isabel Peterhans. (Limbus Verlag, 2022)
kalben. poems & CD. (Literaturedition Niederösterreich, 2019)
Sitta lungt med ordentliga skor. translation into swedish language by Cecilia Hansson und Daniel Gustaffsson (Ellerstörms, 2019)
Zwei verschraubte Plastikstühle. poems. (Edition Atelier, 2018)
Ruhig sitzen mit festen Schuhen. poems. (Edition Atelier, 2015)
bher(a). poems. (Edition Yara, 2011).
Konfrontationen. poems 2005-2007. Together with Hermann Niklas: (Literaturedition Niederösterreich, 2009).

dance practice

seit 2019 butoh, Eva Maria Klausner-Herrmann/Wien
2019-23 butoh dance & mediation, Eva Maria Klausner-Herrmann, budhist center Scheibbs/AUT
2022 & 23 butoh – dance of darkness, Shinichi Iova-Koga, Impulstanz

2023

What the fascia? Kerstin Kussmaul, Impulstanz
butoh lab camp rumania, Henriette Heinrichs, Tashi Iwaoka, Matilde Javier Ciria, Michiyasu Furutani, Yumiko Yoshioka, Konan Amok
contact improvisation, rollingpoint/vienna
butoh – Life of Flower, Atsushi Takenouchi & Hiroko Komiya/ Vienna

2024

butoh, Michiyasu Furutami, Salzburg
butoh – Joan Laage, Vienna
MaRIA Probst, RELEASZ technic: contemporary dance / CI-light / somatic
BIG BUTOH, Schloss Bröllin, Workshops bei Yumiko Yoshioka (Japan/ Berlin), Atsushi Takenouchi (Japan/ Italien), Slava Inozemecev (Belarus), Eugenia Vargas (Mexico), Taketeru Kudo (Japan/ Berlin), Natsuko Kono (Japan/ DE), Jonathan Martineau (Canada/ ESP), Uiko Watanabe (Japan/ F) Workshop
Glenna / G;emma Batson: Un/folding and Rewilding – entering the eco-
somatic f/old / Impulstanz 2024
Susanne Bentley: Embodying Text / Impulstanz 2024
Kerstin Kussmaul: Psoas Connection – Experiential Anatomy /Impulstanz 2024

2025

Jinen butoh intensive, Atsushi Takenouchi & Hiroko Komiya/Italy
Sabine Parzer, I speak dance. holistic dance institute Vienna