was born 1996 in Bregenz, Austria. She studied philosophy in Vienna and Berlin and Language Arts at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna and the Accademia di belle Arti di Carrara, Italy. She works multilingually and experimentally at the interface between literature and visual arts.

Crossing genres also in her writing, her long poem little Italy premiered at Kosmos Theater Bregenz (2022, directed by Stephan Kasimir) and her Radioplay 52 Hertz was broadcasted and produced by the ORF (2021). She has collaborated with composers like Gerda Poppa and the Symphony Orchestra Vorarlberg for the Festival Texte und Töne (2018) or visual artists in the context of artist books or exhibitions (WGN Projects, Bregenz 2024; Nebulosité, Carrara / Pontremoli, 2023, YCC Vienna, 2025).
As a Go-Scholarship holder 2023 she was member of the Ponte di Ferro sculptors‘ association in Carrara where she researched analogies between poetry and sculpture, translation and poetics. She is interested in docpoetry and disorder, and preferably works in expansion with rhythm, metaphors and footnotes and on every surface, also sandpaper.

She was co-editor of the literary magazine JENNY and was published in several literary journals such as honich, kolik or perspektive and awarded a.o the Recognition Prize of the State of Vorarlberg for 52 Hertz (2021), the BMKOES Start Scholarship for Literature (2023) and the Theodor Körner Prize for her essay poem Motten (2024)

Journalistic writings can be found in: https://www.kulturzeitschrift.at/ or https://reportagen.com/

She lives in Italy and works in Austria.

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katharina klein, gassergasse, 1050 wien
kathy.klein@gmx.at

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