Sophie Anna Reyer is an Austrian author of multiple theater pieces and publications. She was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1984. Reyer discovered her various profound talents in the arts at a young age as a child prodigy, [1] honing her skills as a scriptwriter for children's theatre as well as a composer of classical music.
In 2010, Reyer received both the Master of Arts in Composition/Music Theater as well as her Diploma in Scenic Writing at uniT. In 2018, she was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Language Arts and a Screenwriter (KHM Cologne).
Her most important prizes include the Literature Promotion Prize of the City of Graz and the Manuscript Promotion Prize. In 2009, she wrote the theatre texts "vogelglück", "baumleberliebe", "hundpfarrer" and "Anna und der Wulian (Anna and the Wulian)" (publisher: S. Fischer-Verlag), followed by "Fee Fleder oder fliegen lernen mit Drachen", "Unsichtbare Sterne" and "Erster Schnee" (S.Fischer). In 2019 and 2020, she was on the shortlist for the Austria Book Prize with her novels, "Mutter Brennt" and "1431".
The German film "Tod meiner Jugend" ("Death of My Youth"), Germany, 2025, on which Sophie Reyer co-wrote the screenplay, received the award for Best Screenplay at the Richmond International Film Festival (RIFF) 2025, Virginia, USA. [2] The film won the Grand Prix Award at the 2025 Chelsea Film Festival in the USA. [3]
Sophie Reyer is a lecturer at Pädagogische Hochschule, Baden (Lower Austria). Since 2024, she has been a member of a research group at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Die Angewandte) on the subject area of “Voiceover”. [4]
Reyer's poems have been printed in various literary journals and anthologies. Her texts have been translated into Serbian, Polish and Spanish.