Stefan Feinig

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Stefan Feinig writes poetry, prose, and essays in German and Slovene. His work combines literary experimentation, social critique, and bilingual writing. Central themes include the everyday, social conditions, multilingualism and the fragile experience of human existence in the contemporary world.

In 2015, he published his debut Banalitäten des Wahnsinns, ten short stories about constellations of everydayness and madness. In 2016, the anti-crime novel Das wilde Schaf (intertextual parody) followed. In 2018, the bilingual poetry project rob krožnika in obzorje / Horizont und Tellerrand about experiences from the gastronomy world was published. In 2021, the bilingual epic long poem 374 about the fragile human condition in a neoliberal world followed. In 2022 Vampirji svetlobe about transgressions in a postmodern world was published. In 2024, Feinig published the epic Made in China about the often invisible people behind the products of everyday life. In 2025, the essay Der apokalyptische Bullshit in postfaktischen Zeiten – ein Versuch über die Ära Trump about the phenomenon of bullshit and the loss of the claim to truth in a postfactual world followed. In 2026, the Slovene short story collection Pod težo miline was published.

His writing has received several awards, including the Hohenems Literature Prize (2021), founded by Michael Köhlmeier, the Audience Prize at the Feldkirch Poetry Award (2024), and the Carinthian State Prize (2025).

Feinig is a member of the Carinthian-Slovene art collective Kopp23, whose interdisciplinary performances bring together literature, music, textile printing, dance, and cabaret in the search for new artistic forms of expression.

Photo: Jennifer Freund