Heike Geißler (writer/EXC 2020 Dorothea Schlegel Artist in Residence 2025)

Heike Geißler is an author, translator and co-editor of the series Lücken kann man lesen. In her writing, Geißler focuses on themes such as class, literature and/as work (Saisonarbeit, 2014; Arbeiten, 2025), anti-democratic developments, right-wing extremism and misanthropy (Die Woche, 2022), as well as the artistic search for ways to counter the feeling of powerlessness in the face of current social conditions (Liegen, 2022; Verzweiflungen, 2025). Her artistic work, for example with the intervention format Sabotique, reveals literature as an intermedial and performative phenomenon that is only effective as a collective aesthetic practice. During her residency, she explores the potential of reading (literature) in both intimate and public spaces.