Ulrike Ottinger's 'The Blood Countess' is a loopy Viennese vampire hunt that couldn't be more exquisitely tailored for ...

Vienna turns into a playground of camp, cruelty and aristocratic disdain in a blackly comic take on the Báthory legend – with Huppert gloriously suited to the title role ...

Tobias Kratzer spoke in disbelief ahead of the world premiere of “Monster's Paradise” by Olga Neuwirth and Elfriede Jelinek, ...

Elfriede Jelinek’s latest play deals with collective calamity and individual grief, but is let down by a chaotic production. By A.J. Goldmann The event, which focuses this year on the climate and ...

Tobias Kratzer, artistic director of the Hamburg State Opera, expressed his astonishment ahead of the debut, noting how the satirical work has increasingly mirrored reality.

The message in Nobel Prize-winning playwright Elfriede Jelinek's one-woman monologue is clear: 'The king is guilty.' The Austrian artist plays with pop culture in the work that premiered in Trump's ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek (search), a reclusive author whose feminism, leftist politics and pacifism are common themes in her works, won the Nobel Prize in literature ...

Elfriede Jelinek, an Austrian novelist and playwright whose work provocatively explores gender issues and power relationships in contemporary society, was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature ...

Since being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature last week, Bob Dylan has yet to react. On the occasion of her 70th birthday, DW looks back at another reluctant winner: Austrian author and ...