Elfriede Jelinek, born in 1946 in Mürzzuschlag/Styria, grew up in Vienna; with four years of ballet and French lessons, in the following period comprehensive musical training; 1960 studied piano and composition at the Vienna Conservatory; 1964 studies of theatre studies and art history at the University of Vienna; 1967 Abandoned his studies, began to write; Poetry and prose texts appear in anthologies and literary magazines. Elfriede Jelinek has received numerous literary prizes, including the Georg Büchner Prize (1998). In 2004 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.