https://sophiestrohmeier.com Sophie Strohmeier Wed, 24 Jan 2024 01:19:09 +0000 https://sophiestrohmeier.com en https://sophiestrohmeier.com/Birch-Trees Wed, 24 Jan 2024 01:19:09 +0000 Sophie Strohmeier https://sophiestrohmeier.com/Birch-Trees THE BIRCH TREES <img width="1500" height="1125" width_o="1500" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dbd9599ccad2f7f427885bb241f7c64082fe668b2f7ee71c26c3937fff101b46/birch-trees.jpg" data-mid="202634487" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dbd9599ccad2f7f427885bb241f7c64082fe668b2f7ee71c26c3937fff101b46/birch-trees.jpg" /> A short story about speculating, interpreting, projecting, and storytellingpublished in Joyland Magazine, November 2023Read Here “There was a story I had known as a little girl about the origin of birch trees: how they had been girls once too, princesses, and they had been trapped by an evil spell. Then a village girl—curiously a girl, not a boy—swam to the bottom of a lake and asked the lady of the water for help, and the birch trees turned back into maidens…”&nbsp; https://sophiestrohmeier.com/Sisi Tue, 15 Aug 2023 00:28:50 +0000 Sophie Strohmeier https://sophiestrohmeier.com/Sisi SÉANCES WITH SISI <img width="770" height="1215" width_o="770" height_o="1215" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/635591178bbbd5bcd70a7dd5c0d9d363fcc26d3230aba9655ce11686ad68a6a4/Website_Spencer.jpg" data-mid="187948471" border="0" data-scale="69" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/770/i/635591178bbbd5bcd70a7dd5c0d9d363fcc26d3230aba9655ce11686ad68a6a4/Website_Spencer.jpg" /> Personal essay about the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Romy Scheider, and Kristen Stewart.&nbsp;Published in Kenyon Review in July 2023.Read Here Her name may have been Elisabeth, but of course we called her only Sisi. “Sisi!” in singsong, the first of the twinned syllables pronounced higher and more shrilly than the second, an invocation as much as an expression of yearning. “Sisi . . .” spoken as a sigh. In shimmering glass vitrines, opulent cakes and violet- or rose-colored candies were named after her. “Sisi” whispered from billboards and from the mouths of aunts and those frail gray-haired ladies on the red-and-white trams with wooden floors that rattled from the vineyards and forests into the Ringstrasse... https://sophiestrohmeier.com/Third Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:54:14 +0000 Sophie Strohmeier https://sophiestrohmeier.com/Third THE THIRD AND OTHER HARRY <img width="715" height="900" width_o="715" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/291eb6b846535a44a9e74a97360d071ee260807cc55476b4ad6f47756e22d319/Illust_ThirdandOtherHarry.jpg" data-mid="165896190" border="0" data-scale="61" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/715/i/291eb6b846535a44a9e74a97360d071ee260807cc55476b4ad6f47756e22d319/Illust_ThirdandOtherHarry.jpg" /> A short story about an obsessive teen’s encounter with Harry Lime at the Thanksgiving tablepublished in The Missouri Review’s online prose anthology, January 2023Read Here “When we were at Casablanca, we could still emerge from this world with a productive sacrifice, as heroes. There had not yet been a Holocaust. Now, The Third Man says that we can’t get what we want. Our heroes are dead; they weren’t even heroes to begin with. The Third Man predicted the message-board troll, the supposed friend who shows up in an AOL chat disguised as someone else. The Third Man knows you really don’t know who your friends are . . .” https://sophiestrohmeier.com/PUBS-1 Sun, 28 Mar 2021 18:30:22 +0000 Sophie Strohmeier https://sophiestrohmeier.com/PUBS-1 VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS <img width="1000" height="647" width_o="1000" height_o="647" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/71f0af3061ee717668c2838104ba44fa41a049afc67007b87998e365e29f3c71/Web_Various.jpg" data-mid="103535827" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/71f0af3061ee717668c2838104ba44fa41a049afc67007b87998e365e29f3c71/Web_Various.jpg" /> FICTION &amp; PLAYS Küss Mich, Libussa -- novel, edition a, October 2013 (in German) English translation of one excerpt, “Visiting the Snow Queen” by Emma Rault, published in Queen Mob’s Tea House, Spring 2017 The Birch Trees -- short story, Joyland Magazine, November 2023 The Third and Other Harry -- short story, The Missouri Review, January 2023 The Perverts -- (30 minute play) staged reading produced by UA Theatre and Dance, Spring 2019 Lady Bluebeard -- short story, Bosie Magazine, Winter 2019 There Are No Happy Loves -- chapbook by Two Trick Pony Press, September 2018 previously published in Apofenie, Spring 2018 In the Catskills -- fiction excerpt, in Emerge: 2016 Lambda Fellows Anthology, Spring 2017 - watch a video of reading Those Smarting Stars -- short story, Broad! Magazine, Winter 2015 Die Fürst -- short story, published in The Gap, issue No. 142, March 2014 (in German) Podrugi -- short story in wtf!-magazine’s Erotica Collection, ed. by Amira Ben Saoud, 2012 (in German) SELECT PUBLISHED ESSAYSMy Visconti at Camille Bromley’s Know-It-All-Zine, April 2025 Séances with Sisi at Kenyon Review, June 2023 The Music of Tár at WQXR.org, March 2023 Pants Roles: Gender Fluidity and Queer Undertones in Opera at WQXR.org, June 2022The Creative Brilliance of Louise Fitzhugh: On Sometimes You Have to Lie by Leslie Brody: essay&nbsp;in Lambda Literary Review, Fall 2021 Wagnerism Grapples with Richard Wagner’s Complex Legacy: essay in Lambda Literary Review, Fall 2020 Trumps Chance: essay in Datum Magazin, Spring 2020 Fingerplay and Handmaidens: essay in Lambda Literary Review, November 2016 Wo bleiben die Lesben?: essay in DerStandard, November 2013 (in German) EDITORIAL EXPERIEMCE Contributing writer/film reporter for FM4 radio website, Vienna, 2014-2015 Contributing writer for Sissy Magazin, Berlin, 2014-2015 Contributing writer for The Gap magazine and website, Vienna, 2014 FILM BLOG Women’s Prison films, 2014 https://sophiestrohmeier.com/ARYTHMIE Tue, 19 Apr 2022 23:38:11 +0000 Sophie Strohmeier https://sophiestrohmeier.com/ARYTHMIE AVEDIS TARSIS: GEFÄHRLICHE ARRHYTHMIE <img width="800" height="554" width_o="800" height_o="554" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe006646b82dc1181ecfaa8def6ceac6f5bd4f9f58c921cc451e726e888f48f3/WebsiteThumbnail.jpg" data-mid="140107443" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/fe006646b82dc1181ecfaa8def6ceac6f5bd4f9f58c921cc451e726e888f48f3/WebsiteThumbnail.jpg" /> Love Poems by Avedis Tarsis Ink drawings by me published June 2021 by Ketos Verlag Order your copy here Arrhythmien können verdammt gefährlich sein – besonders, wenn sie von der Liebe verursacht werden. Avedis Tarsis widmet sich in seinem ersten Gedichtband allen Spielarten amouröser Rhythmusveränderungen: von der bloß anbetenden über die fleischlich konsumierte bis zur rückwirkend verfluchten Liebe schlägt der Autor den Bogen und fasst dabei in knappe Verse, was die Musen ihm in sein halbtaubes Ohr gehaucht haben: "... Drum fass dir ein Herz / Und reiß es aus: / Es hat dich lange genug geärgert." https://sophiestrohmeier.com/SPRING-CITY Fri, 07 May 2021 17:17:44 +0000 Sophie Strohmeier https://sophiestrohmeier.com/SPRING-CITY SPRING CITY <img width="700" height="1063" width_o="700" height_o="1063" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59e392842e72c1635d5468531ae1e98452cb31f433a76220bec40ef8bbed4b7a/IMG_20200314_0002.jpg" data-mid="107766686" border="0" data-scale="52" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/59e392842e72c1635d5468531ae1e98452cb31f433a76220bec40ef8bbed4b7a/IMG_20200314_0002.jpg" /> Poems by Ana&nbsp;Božičević Ink drawings by me published April 2021 by blush Order your copy here &nbsp;Spring City is for everyone who loves even when they hate the city, fails but stays in its timeloops &amp; myths, when on eternity's scale our presence here is a New York minute. Even after so many years, the city still seems like a weird dream that just suddenly rose up out of the ocean, water glistening on the towers and the avenues.&nbsp; https://sophiestrohmeier.com/GAY-AND-LESBIAN-STUDIES Sun, 28 Mar 2021 17:37:29 +0000 Sophie Strohmeier https://sophiestrohmeier.com/GAY-AND-LESBIAN-STUDIES GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES <img width="800" height="518" width_o="800" height_o="518" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4660bb2db129725a3a9904e44d4cbb417360fc776ef3c587f0329a88e9029bf2/GALS_web.jpg" data-mid="103535376" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/4660bb2db129725a3a9904e44d4cbb417360fc776ef3c587f0329a88e9029bf2/GALS_web.jpg" />Art Book by Sarah Scarr Story and Illustrations by me:At once a work of epistolary prose, an instruction manual, and an obsessive tirade on Lesbian cinema and culture. Collaboration x Two Trick Pony PressMARCH 2021 SEE THE VIRTUAL EXHIBITION&nbsp;&nbsp; In the hot night, out in the backyard, by a dead flat screen television and a pile of bricks, my student spotted a worn brown sofa, and the solitary shape of someone sitting upon it: a girl, like her, dazed by boredom but unable to leave. The girl, large and blonde as well, was wearing a white blouse and a yellow vest. There were pearls in her earlobes and her shoes were new. My student sat down beside her. They discovered they were both Episcopalians, that their favorite writer was John Greene. https://sophiestrohmeier.com/LADY-BLUEBEARD Sun, 28 Mar 2021 17:37:30 +0000 Sophie Strohmeier https://sophiestrohmeier.com/LADY-BLUEBEARD LADY BLUEBEARD <img width="800" height="614" width_o="800" height_o="614" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/36efd95dd9502780a3f26aa026c9aaac1ecabc773ab4482e15a0701cced0719c/web_bluebeard.jpg" data-mid="103534904" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/36efd95dd9502780a3f26aa026c9aaac1ecabc773ab4482e15a0701cced0719c/web_bluebeard.jpg" /> A short story set amongst German emigrees in Los Angeles, Weimar Under Palm Trees. published January 2019 in Bosie Magazine Read Here &nbsp; The German words, forming in my mouth, take the shape and glimmer of mountain crystal and glacier crevices. I tell her about Max and his incessant work. How sometimes, I will read something out loud, just a word, and Max will purse his lips over his great buck teeth and go off to write with what had been my – my! Not his – phoetal glimmer: that’s how his play Sacagawea, Daughter of the Revolution (1934) came to be. One of his best. The relief I feel at saying this, out loud, in German! I feel like I might cry. “That does good,” Fiona says, in German, and shakes her head, a sigh caught in her white chest. “What does good?” “German speaking.” https://sophiestrohmeier.com/LIBUSSA Sun, 28 Mar 2021 17:37:30 +0000 Sophie Strohmeier https://sophiestrohmeier.com/LIBUSSA KÜSS MICH, LIBUSSA <img width="800" height="529" width_o="800" height_o="529" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f737ae34dec489f1e03dd93a55c8f930c2d638bcaddf0651d3b1b8ef405befa3/Toyen.jpg" data-mid="103539822" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/f737ae34dec489f1e03dd93a55c8f930c2d638bcaddf0651d3b1b8ef405befa3/Toyen.jpg" /> OCTOBER 2013 edition a GmbHLanguage: German ISBN-10 : 399001059X ISBN-13 : 978-3990010594 READ EMMA RAULT’S TRANSLATION OF AN EXCERPT PUBLISHED AT QUEEN MOB’S TEAHOUSE &nbsp; &nbsp; “I wrote on my piece of paper: Libussa, Libussa, Libuše, Libuše, ó sněhová královno, o snow queen, ó sněhová královno, o snow queen, miluji tě, I love you, větrníček, little windmill, led, ice, sníh, snow, konek, end, začátek, beginning. Then I copied a collage from the magazine Moderní revue. Breasts and little birds.” Marie, a student of Slavid Literature in Prague, has fallen in love with her professor, the formidable Libuše. In pursuit of her Snow Queen, Marie discovers Czech poetism and surrealism, sex, danger, and women. https://sophiestrohmeier.com/TRANSLATIONS Sun, 28 Mar 2021 18:40:10 +0000 Sophie Strohmeier https://sophiestrohmeier.com/TRANSLATIONS VARIOUS TRANSLATIONS <img width="800" height="540" width_o="800" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/435f2956bb2bef0481d13bf496dc8c4bd9d59d650a3ca316b9c2d97565b1b6c5/Web_Translations.jpg" data-mid="103537178" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/435f2956bb2bef0481d13bf496dc8c4bd9d59d650a3ca316b9c2d97565b1b6c5/Web_Translations.jpg" /> Art critic Carola Platzek's anthology of interviews on Japanese gardening: Teachings of the Garden -- Conversations in Japan &nbsp;(2019) Screenplays by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala: The Lodge (2019) and one segment ("Die Trud") of The Field Guide to Evil (2018) Artist Brigitte Trieb's catalogue, Arbeiten / Works (2014) I take commissions on a rolling basis.