
Born in Austria in 1995, she is a filmmaker, writer, and has been part of the feminist punk band Schapka. She studied at the Institut für Sprachkunst at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and later screenwriting at the Film Academy Vienna, where she is currently pursuing a master’s degree in directing. She is also completing a master’s in contextual painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, also in Vienna. She has written scripts, prose, and two novels, and directed short films including “Sexual Intercourse” (2018) and “The Zip of My Pants Is Open: Like My Heart” (2022), screened at film festivals such as Diagonale and Tallinn Black Nights. “If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart into Your Mouth and Smile” is her first feature film.