2025

Vienna     November 24,  6.30pm   G Architektur, Gumpendorfer Straße 63B, 1060 Vienna     Reverse Imagining Vienna – Book Presentation    With project direction and sculpture by Christoph Weber and Nikolaus Eckhard. Contributing authors are Ann Cotten, Elias Hirschl, Jakob Pretterhofer, Julia Grillmayr, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Neslihan Yakut, Nika Pfeifer, Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala.

The scientific contributors include Angelika Psenner, Barbara Laa, Filipa L. Sousa, Fridolin Krausmann, Jan Zalasiewicz, Johannes Weber, Josepha Edbauer, Michael Wagreich, Peter Fichtinger, Sebastian Hafner, Tanja Traxler and Tess Posch. Publication design by Peter Oroszlány.

Vienna     November 18,  8pm   METRO Kinokulturhaus    OUTRIDER    Art documentary .Film portrait of poet & performer Anne Waldman, With Anne Waldman, director Alystyre Julian  & producer Sarah Riggs in attendance. Moderated by Nika Pfeifer (sfd)   Outrider, USA 2025. Written & directed by Alystyre Julian     Producers: Sarah Riggs, Martin Scorsese. 101 min, color & b/w, English OV.

Graz    September 30, 7pm    KULTUM     BIST JANDL?     Performance / reading     A literary and voice performance in honor of Ernst Jandl by Ruth Johanna Benrath, Lauren Newton, Nika Pfeifer, and Herbert J. Wimmer.

Brussels    September 19,  11am-1pm    Royal Galleries,    TRANSPOESIE 2025   Writing Public Space

Brussels    September 19,  5pm-7pm    Poetik Bazar, Halles de Schaerbeek   TRANSPOESIE 2025   Performance / reading: Iñigo Astiz .  Sára Bíró . Eelco Couvreur . Marcin Czerkasow . Giuseppe Goffredo .  Julieta Sveta Grigorjeva . Simonas Colin Hassard .  Olena Herasymiuk . Jan Kooistra . Carla Lucarelli .  Ciprian Măceșaru . Sandra Noel .  Nika Pfeifer .  Margarida Vale de Rowan Carteret. 

With the support of: Austrian Cultural Forum Brussels.

Antwerp  September 18,  7pm    Letterenhuis, Antwerp    TRANSPOESIE 2025   Performance / reading: Iñigo Astiz .  Sára Bíró . Eelco Couvreur . Marcin Czerkasow . Giuseppe Goffredo .  Julieta Sveta Grigorjeva . Simonas Colin Hassard .  Olena Herasymiuk . Jan Kooistra . Carla Lucarelli .  Ciprian Măceșaru . Sandra Noel .  Nika Pfeifer .  Margarida Vale de Rowan Carteret.

Düsseldorf   Kunstkiosk #10. September 11 7pm    Elona Caffee    Performance / reading:   Eva Wal ,
Mihret Kebede reads poetry in Amharic, Translation: Nika Pfeifer. Moderation: Judy Müller-Goldenstedt
Curated by: Vera Vorrneweg.

Vienna    August 08   8 pm FASCHIERTES 3   Kultursommer Wien    Stadtpark Atzgersdorf. Performance / reading: Thomas Antonic, Karli Braun, Natascha Gangl , Max Höfler, Nika Pfeifer 

Sankt Florian, Upper Austria   July  25  Opening flora pondtemporary 2025   Exhibition: August - October 2025. Stiftsteiche.  Sankt FLorian/Linz. New works by Tobias Pilz and Lisa Grosskopf will be on display at the Stiftsteichen, while Domingo Chaves has been invited to create a work for the Mother Of Pearl pavilion. The opening will feature a performance by Ursula Maria Probst & Raashish India and a reading by Nika Pfeifer.  In addition, the sauna that was created as part of the Plateau Blo project for the Capital of Culture Salzkammergut 2024 will also be floating on the monastery ponds from now on. Still on display are works by: Hannes Gröblacher, Marlene Hausegger, Markus Hiesleitner, Nicole Krenn, Antje Majewski, Mother Of Pearl, Imre Nagy, Sophie Netzer / Kerstin Reyer, Klara Paterok, Payer Gabriel, raumarbeiterinnen, Franz Tišek, Stefanie De Vos. Opening hours: www.stiftsteiche.at

Killarney, Ireland   June 19  11.00-12.30     International Conference on the Short Story in English INEC Killarney   Readings: Paul McVeigh, Éilís Ni Dhuibhne and Nika Pfeifer. Moderator: Kimberly Gentles. A special thanks to the Austrian Embassy Dublin..

Krems   June 11–14   Hörspieltage  2025/ Radio Play Days 2025   Literaturhaus NÖ Krems   With: Jūratė Braginaitė, Michel Decar, Iris Drögekamp, Astrid Drechsler, Heike Geißler, Ayla Güney, Juan S. Guse, Léon Haase, Fred Heinemann, Martin Heindel, Andreas Jungwirth, Stefan Kanis, Karen Köhler, Michael Lissek, Judith Lorentz, Benjamin Maack, Karl Markovics, Mara May, Jochen Meißner, Aiki Mira, Lukas Matthaei, Robert Schoen, Erhard Schmied, Bernadette Sonnenbichler, Andi Unger, Gesche Piening, Helmut Peschina, Nika Pfeifer, Valerie Prinz, Noah Rachdi, Johanna Rubinrot, Michèle Rusconi, Melina von Gagern, Robert Woelfl, Magda Woitzuck, Leonie Ziem, Elisabeth Zimmermann, Martin Zylka.

Brussels   June 5   7 p.m.   Cinematek  Bruxelles presents: Friederike Mayröcker 100! and screens Das Schweigen und das Schreiben (Silence and Writing). The writer Friederike Mayröcker by Carmen Tartarotti, IT/AT/DE 2009  ⁄ 90' ⁄ Subtitles: EN. She may still be an insider tip in Belgium, but in German-speaking countries she is an absolute icon: Friederike Mayröcker, the experimental word magician who revolutionized the literary scene with her extensive collected works published by Suhrkamp. A collaboration between CINEMATEK, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and the Austrian Cultural Forum Brussels. Talk & discussion after the screening with Prof. Inge Arteel (VUB) and poet Nika Pfeifer.

Mürzzuschlag   May 22–25   Friederike Mayröcker – Poetics and Survival   kunsthaus muerz  / ARTISTsMUSEUM Neuberg    Symposium and literature festival marking the 100th birthday of the poet. Concept: Thomas Eder & Sophie Liepold. Reading/audio collage. With contributions from: Carmen Tartarotti, Klaus Kastberger, Uta Degner, Alexandra Strohmaier, Theresia Prammer, Johanes Zechner, Eleonore De Felip, Frieda Paris, Sandro Huber, Nika Pfeifer, Ferdinand Schmatz, Olga Martynova, Marcel Beyer, Sophie Liepold, Beate Sommerfeld, Katharina Manojlovic, Sonja Martinelli.

Krems  May 16  Poet in Focus: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695)   Literaturhaus NÖ Krems   In the series ‘Poets in Focus’, 2025 will see one of the most important poets of Baroque lyricism, the Mexican nun and poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, take centre stage in the poetic debate. Christoph W. Bauer, curator of the series, has selected and translated eight poems for contemporary adaptation. Timo Brandt, Jan Koneffke, Sabine Gruber, Frieda Paris, Ariane von Graffenried, Nika Pfeifer, Arne Rautenberg, and Dieter Zwicky engage with Sor Juana's poetry and continue to write it. The texts will be published in autumn 2025 by Edition Aramo.

Vienna 12 Mar  6.30pm GEGENWARTEN Lyrik im März   Künstlerhaus, Factory    Readings 

Elisa Asenbaum, Ruth Aspöck, Katherina Braschel, Katrin Butt, Verena Dolovai, Gerald Eschenauer, Dietmar Füssel, Christl Greller, Max Höfler, Christoph Janacs, Christian Katt, Magdalena Knapp-Menzel, Judith Nika Pfeifer,  Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer, Annett Krendlesberger, Zoltàn Lesi, E.A. Richter, Gerhard Rühm, Robert Schindel, Simone Schönett, Julian Schutting, Martina Sinowatz

Recitation of texts by the late poet Gerhard Jaschke. Moderation & organization: Ilse Kilic. Language: German.

Hohenems   10 Feb   7pm    POOLBAR Generator    IMPULS Lecture / Guest Lecture  accompanying MARIANNE JUNGMAIER’s Workshop 

Linz   06 Oct    7.30pm   TIGER TOAST   BOOK PRESENTATION.  Stifterhaus - Adalbert Stifterplatz 1, Linz

CHRISTOPH JANACS: die Stille nach dem Doppelpunkt (Edition Tandem) and Nika Pfeifer: Tiger Toast (Ritter Books). Readings with the authors. Moderation: SEBASTIAN FASTHUBER, Falter

Innsbruck   27 Jan   5.00pm   An evening for & with FRIEDERIKE MAYRÖCKER   BOOK PRESENTATION & READING    MAYRÖCKER HANDBOOK    Literaturhaus am Inn, Innsbruck BOOK PRESENTATION Inge Arteel and Alexandra Strohmaier   7pm    geknistertes licht zwischenohren / nachhall   POETRYPERFORMANCE Nika Pfeifer. Introduction: Maria Piok Moderation: Uta Degner.