Films by Johnnes Schmelzer-Zieringer

Germany, Austria 2022, 96 min
by Claudia Müller

A complex, associative work that embraces contradictions and offers a visual take on the Nobel laureate’s technique of linguistic montage.Wunderkind, scandalous author, traitor to the fatherland, fury of the theater, feminist, fashion-lover, communist, pessimist, language terrorist, rebel, enfant terrible, nest fouler, brilliant, vulnerable artist, Nobel laureate. This film about Elfriede Jelinek, who in 2004 became the first Austrian author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, focuses on