Elfriede Jelinek
Acting · Writing
Born October 20, 1946, Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004. Jelinek's output has included radio plays, poetry, theatre texts, polemical essays, anthologies, novels, translations, screenplays, musical compositions, libretti and ballets, film and video art. She has also appeared in a couple of feature films. She is probably best known for her novel "Die Klavierspielerin/The Piano Player" published 1983.
Filmography
- 2026The Blood Countess — Writer
- 2026Women as Lovers — Novel
- 2019The Children of the Dead — Novel
- 2017Kein Licht — Writer
- 2015Valie Export - Icon and Rebel — Reader, Writer
- 2004Elfriede & Elfriede
- 2004Elfriede Jelinek: Nobel Prize Lecture
- 2001The Piano Teacher — Novel
- 1991Malina — Writer
- 1988Elfriede Jelinek. News from Home 18.8.88 — Writer
- 1988Lust
- 1987What the Night Speaks – a Story — Dialogue
- 1982The Excluded — Anna's Teacher, Writer
- 1976Ramsau am Dachstein — Writer
Appearances as themselves (6)
- 2026Einar Schleef - No Germany Did I Find — Self
- 2022Elfriede Jelinek: Language Unleashed — Self
- 2017Chance 2000 - Abschied von Deutschland — Self
- 2002Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container — Self
- alpha Österreich — Self
- NeXt — Self