Heike Geißler
Dorothea Schlegel Artist-in-Residence, Research Area 4: "Literacy Currencies", May–July 2025
Heike Geißler (*1977 in Riesa) has held guest lectureships in Kassel, Vienna and Leipzig, among others; in addition to her books, radio plays and stage plays, she has collaboratively developed film essays, audio walks, exhibitions, performances and installations in public spaces. All of her works focus on literature as a highly intermedial and performative phenomenon that is simultaneously synchronized in time and diachronically integrated, which is only effective as a collective aesthetic and social practice. Geißler is the award-winning co-founder of the intervention format Sabotique. She works with the actress Charlotte Puder as the collective George Bele. Her most recent essays Verzweiflungen (Suhrkamp) and Arbeiten (Hanser Berlin) were published in spring 2025. She lives in Leipzig