This bilingual publication is dedicated to the work of Friederike Mayröcker and focuses on her visual and graphic practice alongside her literary oeuvre.

Edited by Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, with a contribution by Hans Ulrich Obrist, the book brings together drawings, notes, and visual materials that illuminate Mayröcker’s working processes beyond the realm of published texts.

Rather than presenting the drawings as illustrations of her literary work, the publication approaches them as an autonomous field of artistic expression. The reproduced materials reveal a mode of thinking in which writing and drawing intersect, overlap, and mutually inform one another. The visual works are understood as integral components of Mayröcker’s poetic practice, offering insight into her methods of composition, association, and spatial organization.

Through the combination of visual material and contextual texts, the book contributes to a broader understanding of Mayröcker’s practice as a cross-disciplinary artistic position. It serves as both a documentary record and a point of reference for literary and art-historical research, addressing questions of authorship, materiality, and the relationship between text and image.