Elisabeth Weilenmann was born in Lower Austria in 1982 as one of six daughters. After completing her Matura, she spent a year in France and fell in love with the writings of Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan (the understanding of which came somewhat later). Upon her return to Vienna, she studied communication and political science at the University of Vienna and began writing and directing radio plays and documentaries for ORF, the entire ARD network, DLF and SRF. At the heart of her work is always human intimacy and the female body – as a self-chosen canvas (in the radio play: My body is a battlefield), as an object (in the piece: Take one of us, we all reply, femicides in Austria), as a subject (LIBIDOdialogues, a dating SYMPHONY in three movements). Her work has received numerous awards, including the Critics' Radio Play Prize, Prix Europa, Juliane Bartel Media Prize, and the Silver Radio Award at the New York Radio Festivals.
Of significance for my teaching is…
... an open ear. The sense of hearing is the first sense to develop in humans – it functions from about the 22nd week of pregnancy. With voices, noises and music, we can open up a wide variety of spaces – we can travel into outer space as well as deep into the earth, into the mind of a protagonist as well as into collective thoughts. The radio play is a magnificent, broad, proud art form – discovering and living it is a joy, and it is this joy that I would like to convey.
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