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. While she was still a student, her prose works, stage plays, and radio dramas attracted commendation.

In 2014, Obexer teamed up with Marianna Salzmann to establish the "New Institute for Stage Writing" ("Neue Institut für Dramatisches Schreiben"), 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.

Works (selection)

Radio dramas