Sophie Reyer ist the festival poetess 2019. Her poem "Zuerst/First" was the festival poem 2019. A special competition has been created to make films after this special poem - the SPECIAL AWARD. Sophie Reyer will be present twice at the upcoming festival. Enjoy her reading on Saturday night 7pm or join the film programme on Sunday 5pm with the film talk.

Sigrun Höllrigl has founded the Austrian Poetry Film Festival in 2013. She studied literature (MA) and works as a writer, film maker and event organizer in Vienna. In 2015/16 she has published two novels "Odysseus X" and "The Camp" and realized poetry films with other film makers.