Author’s reading: Angelika Reitzer “BLAUZEUG” in German Language

Angelika Reitzer, Wien, 2025, Copyright www.peterrigaud.com

Angelika Reitzer reads in the kunstGarten series Women Empowerment from the poetry book “Blauzeug”, which was published in September 2025 by Limbus.

Rome, the much-traveled city, Angelika Reitzer visits in her eponymous cycle Blauzeug. She meets workers, poets and artists, learns the sad fate of the Capitoline she-wlf and passes by markets where the tables bend under meat and fresh fruit. Once sky-colored, once in the water of the wells, once faded, it tells the city in all shades of blue, which mix with red to violet, the color of the Lent cloths with which the altars are imposed in the churches. But the blue stuff is also present elsewhere, in interpersonal relationships and in everyday life.

Angelika Reitzer’s poems are captivating observations, they tell of the crashing of the residents in a Viennese residential building during the pandemic or the incomprehensibility of the terrorist attack on Schwedenplatz. On the basis of lyrical indices, Angelika Reitzer finally reveals the basic categories of her literary being, reports and reflects on childhood, living, work and democracy, presents backgrounds and attitudes. One thing always applies: »Everything, everything is seen with your own eyes.«

ANGELIKA REITZER

Angelika Reitzer, born 1971 in Graz, lives as a writer, screenwriter, filmmaker and literary mediator in Vienna.

Angelika Reitzer publishes novels, short stories and poetry, writes dramatic texts, librettos and film screenplays, in Styrian autumn 22 her participatory and inclusive opera “Regina” was performed, in February 2025 the musical for young people “Wenn der Wald geht” in the Volkshaus Kindberg. Her latest publication is the poetry book “Blauzeug” (Limbus Verlag, 2025).

At the Diagonale 2024 in Graz, their film essay “abstechen” had a world premiere, the film was represented in the international competition of the Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2024.

Angelika Reitzer has received, among other things, the Outstanding Artist Award for Literature, the Literature Prize of the State of Styria, the Elias Canetti Scholarship as well as the Literature Prize of the City of Vienna and the Robert Musil Scholarship of the BMUKK, the Reinhard Priessnitz Prize and the Marianne Willemer Prize, most recently she was Writer in Residence at Grinnell College, Iowa and as an AiR scholarship holder of the state of Styria in Trieste.