The Balkans Start in Vienna: Lecture with Max Kade Writer-in-Residence Mascha Dabić
This talk will feature this year’s Max Kade Writer-in-Residence, Dr. Mascha Dabić, translator, interpreter, and novelist who has lived in Austria since 1992. Her talk will address the visibility of Vienna as a multinational and multilingual city from the perspective of Balkan migration. The talk will be in English, followed by a short reading in German. A reception in Konrad’s Corner will be held after the talk.
Mascha Dabić was born in 1981 in Sarajevo (Yugoslavia) and has lived in Austria for over 30 years. She studied Translation and Interpreting Studies (English and Russian), in Innsbruck, Vienna, Edinburgh and St. Petersburg. She wrote her PhD on the topic of interpreting in psychotherapy for asylum seekers at the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of Vienna in 2017. She works as an interpreter (for asylum seekers and at international conferences) and is a senior lecturer for simultaneous and consecutive interpreting (Russian-German) at the University of Vienna. In addition, Mascha Dabić has translated literary works from Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian into German, including works by Barbi Marković, Dragan Velikić, Miljenko Jergović, Edo Popović, Tanja Šljivar, etc.
In 2016, she debuted with her novel Reibungsverluste, in which she tells about one day in the life of an interpreter who works in the office of a psychotherapist for refugees. This novel was nominated for the prestigious Franz-Tumler-Literature Prize and made the short list for the Austrian Bookprize “Debüt.” Her short stories and essays are published in several German/Austrian and Bosnian/Croatian literary magazines.