Martin Mader

Martin Mader
Born in 1987 in Innsbruck, Martin Mader currently lives in Vienna and Linz. He studied Applied Theatre Studies, Philosophy, and Comparative Literature in Gießen and Innsbruck. He works as an author, dramaturg, and director. In 2021, he was awarded the Rauris Advancement Prize for Abstand ist überall. In 2022, he received the Federal Government’s playwrights’ scholarship. His texts have been published in Salz and Literatur und Kritik.

Am Anfang wieder die Nacht
Lavishly expansive, it moves through a panorama of love and politics, pornography and philosophy, of provincial life, acceleration, overload, and pop. A collage that condenses into a story. Three perspectives on one night that has left indelible traces on Judit, Karla, and Nico. Until it culminates in a radical reckoning, and the question hangs in the air: What do you do when the beginning threatens once again to sink back into dark night?

Photo: Philip Brunnader