Margareth Obexer
Margareth "Maxi" Obexer is a German-Italian writer, originally from South Tyrol in northern Italy. She is a freelance author, focusing on theatre works, novels, radio dramas, essays, and other narrative pieces.
Life
Margareth Obexer was born in Brixen, South Tyrol. She was born into a German-speaking family. She attended school in Bolzano, a short distance to the south of Brixen, where she also mastered Italian. She has subsequently relocated to Berlin and, more recently, taken German citizenship. She has come to prominence increasingly on account of the political nature of her plays, audio plays, and essays.She studied general and comparative literature, philosophy, and theatre studies in Vienna and Berlin. While she was still a student, her prose works, stage plays, and radio dramas attracted commendation. One consequence of that was stipendiums received from both the Literary Colloquium in Berlin and the city's Academy of Arts. Later, in 2004, and again in 2007, she spent time as a stipendiate at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. In 1994, she became a fellow of the Literary Colloquium. In 2009, she took a guest professorship at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, followed between 2009 and 2011 by a similar appointment at the Berlin University of the Arts.
In 2014, Obexer teamed up with Marianna Salzmann to establish the "New Institute for Stage Writing", with the objective of bringing the social significance of dramatic art back more strongly into public consciousness, and "to strengthen an art-form that exists, in the first instance, to develop a culture of debate". Her 2015 radio and stage plays "Illegale Helfer" won the "Eurodrama" and Robert Geisendörfer prizes in 2016.