ERIKA WIMMER MAZOHL
Writer. Photographer. Illustrator.
Her words have the power to make us pause, reflect and rethink. After a childhood in Bolzano, Erika Wimmer Mazohl studied German, English and comparative literature in Innsbruck. Despite her diverse experience in cultural management, including as director of the Literaturhaus am Inn, she is a writer and artist at heart. In addition to writing, she also works with photography and text/image installations. Numerous publications since 1991, most recently "Das andere Gesicht. Gedichte" (2021) and "Wolfs Tochter" (2022), a novel that sheds light on cultural, political and social aspects of the post-war period.
Erika Wimmer Mazohl / © Kristin Jenny
“a room for my own! my most important tools: laptop printer photo camera and store, brush paint, burning love for what i do and lots of time, financial cushion from somewhere, patience flexibility and confidence”
Chor der Frauen 2022 – 2024
Herbarium Duett 2024
Wolf's Daughter
All my life I've been looking for the right words, I can't stop that, in that respect I'm probably like the others who have been writing for years and decades, some of them like madmen. These people look in on me again and again, they still visit me now, and together we search for a word, we almost sniff around for the one word, of course it is the one and only word for us, we write incessantly, thinking, everything is writing and text, in the end even literature! But it doesn't want to be literature, only text, that's a difference, hold on to it! We and the words! Building sentences, not forming them, no! Syllable constructions, sentence constellations and sustainable building material are needed, a perforated, thoroughly tested, knocked out language, what is not suitable is filtered out and goes on the language protection heap, there should always be less than more, reduction work, into the waste paper basket with everything superfluous, The wastepaper basket is an important tool for every author, it must be emptied daily, not that the author fishes out the old formulations at the end of the day or the next morning because she can't think of any new ones.
From: Wolf's Daughter. Novel. Ed. Laurin 2022: From five perspectives and in different tones, the text revolves around a central phase in the life of the author, psychoanalyst and peace activist Erika Danneberg, who would have been one hundred years old in 2022.
“it is pointless to worry about the sense and nonsense of poetry and art / they are a driving force, indeed a motor without a goal / they promise happiness without a name / they lead nowhere / at most to joy / to the place / where i and everyone else have always wanted to be”
