Jakob Stoiber, born in 2000, grew up in Lower Austria, lives in Vienna, and is studying history and German philology with a focus on teacher education at the University of Vienna, as well as language arts at the University of Applied Arts.
He is currently working on a poetry collection with the working title “Streiten.” It deals with growing up in the Kurdish diaspora and the resulting, ever-present politicization that weaves its way through close family ties, loss, community structures, pop culture, and trauma.
His first “real” reading—not organized by his school, but a friend of his—took place in 2020 at the Bio Meisl Kulturwirtshaus. Since then, Jakob has become not only addicted to the therapeutic and intellectual possibilities of writing, but also to the validation that sometimes comes with this passion, which, in practice, tends to be a rather solitary pursuit. In addition to his usual forays into prose, drama, and poetry, Jakob also had a lot of fun co-writing songs with the band “Jeanny.” In the future, he would like to write more about society rather than his own traumas. His work has appeared in publications including: Kassiber, Mosaik, Literarische Blätter, Denkbilder, and Literarische Diverse.
Jakob Stoiber is participating in the Summer School 2026.