yes, yes, yes!!! that made me so enthusiastic at that time! - i remember: this was such a lively, young, fresh poem!
friederike mayröcker on nothing is more important
"violante" is based on the true story of an honor killing, written as a furious cross-over between grand opera and quentin tarantino's bloody cinema thrillers. - a literary poetry and at the same time airy fabric, unabashedly present, loosely historical. a prose bursting with references. k
herbert j. wimmer in kolik - zeitschrift für neue literatur
judith nika pfeifer's language not only narrates content, but creates a space beyond real spaces. the author omits what is superfluous, pathos is broken with a precise sense.
jenny erpenbeck
these poems are illuminations in the multiple meaning of the word, are cheerful, insightful, are also clarifying and can even be glaring. a cheerful science of verses.
doron rabinovici
time is movement and movement is time: to correspond to this basic principle in writing is one of the most fascinating characteristics of the twelve prose pieces that are assigned to each other under the title BETWEEN in one of the most gratifying books of recent times. whoever says time must also say space, and think places, the movement in these and between these places, the movement between people and between the layers of the past in the present of the narrative. vienna and wiepersdorf, berlin, montreal, edinburgh, sarajewo, hollywood: in and between these places, people move in and with their stories, which are told as airily as they are precisely. judith nika pfeifer has mastered the art of loosened density, what has to be in it is there, in securely placed cuts, the texts breathe freely and develop their world of images and thoughts quickly. (...) relative to what appears as literature today, ZWISCHEN is a great book that tells precisely and excitingly that and how relativity is everything we have and everything we are.
herbert j. wimmer on: judith nika pfeifer: ZWISCHEN. prosa. czernin, vienna 2014 in kolik – zeitschrift für neue literatur, march 2015
literaturhaus.at, october 2014
in many of the stories collected in zwischen, nika pfeifer achieves the masterpiece of narrating with a light hand, concentrated and laconic, in such a way that from sentence to sentence, with increasing tension, the free space grows in which these texts seem to float and to which they open up - it may be the free space of the always uncertain life, of the important questions, of meaning, love and death. one cannot expect more from short stories; and everything is redeemed here, also and perhaps especially where the 1975-born writer, sovereignly sketches her own generation, which - between (sic!) mobile precarious jobs and clarified or undecided love relationships, between media temptations and real disappointments - has a hard time settling down more decisively in existence.
birgit schwaner
deutschlandfunk, 06.04.2013
meditative hip-hop poesie. judith nika pfeifer: "nichts ist wichtiger ding kleines du", mitter verlag.
falter, 27.02.2013
in times when people like to read hundreds of pages of slabs, but hardly anyone wants to take the time for poetry, this can be taken as an announcement. especially since pfeifer's poems come across as quite uninhibitedly contemporary.
sebastian fasthuber
ö1 nachtbilder - poesie und musik, 09.02.2013
"nichts ist wichtiger ding kleines du" by judith nika pfeifer. (mitter verlag). read by yohanna schwertfeger. design: nikolaus scholz. editor: edith-ulla gasser. "nichts ist wichtiger ding kleines du" is about possibilities, about contradictions that are none. judith nika pfeifer condenses her life, observes the world within and around her. no matter if she thinks herself to the south seas or if she transforms love- and love-impossibility-moments into short flashing lights,- her poems are always transformation machines, transport vehicles into other worlds.
literaturhaus wien, 12.10.2012
judith nika pfeifer has accomplished to present a new post-digital poetic creation of value with her first volume of poetry "nichts ist wichtiger. ding kleines du". her meditative graffiti has the eternal quality. pfeifer's wonderfully light, cheerful-melancholic hip-hop poetry is practical "art to hold on to" and real lyricism to touch.
judith nika pfeifer arranges everyday observations into witty, fresh, unconventional sounds and words. she condenses her life, observes the world in and around her, and extracts new, surprising qualities from the trivial. in short and very short poems, she sheds illuminating light on the worlds of life and love of the internet and facebook generation.
jury statement reinhard-priessnitz-prize 2012 by gustav ernst and robert schindel
a pragmatic, playful attitude is how judith pfeifer approaches the writing process, a nonchalant informality that is palpable. whether in the 33-year-old's shortest prose or in her poetry.
manfred gram , the gap - magazin für musik, film, games, web & creatives 094/2009
judith nika pfeifer, whose poems are witty linguistic loosening exercises. judith pfeifer "wieners" and "de-wieners" herself, she writes: "have found love, feels like off the rack, fits..."
münchner merkur, 27.10.2010
süddeutsche zeitung, 23.10.2010
to dare more megalomania: the multiculturalist augusta laar maintains the "schamrock - salon der dichterinnen" and invites poets from austria, among them judith nika pfeifer, one in particular makes you sit up and take notice...
kleine zeitung, 24.02.2011
von nashorn, barbaren und herzmaschine / of rhinoceros, barbarians and heart machine
rundfunk | radio
ORF Ö1/ nachtbilder: manchmal passiert auch minutenlang gar nichts. von judith nika pfeifer. Read by: eva mayer. producer: nikolaus scholz. editor: edith-ulla gasser. 14 november 2015
ORF Ö1/ nachtbilder: kunstradio - radiokunst. on a bling bling trip. random trips with patricia brooks, judith nika pfeifer und jörg piringer (übertragung in dolby digital 5.1 surround sound). 08 november 2015
ORF oberösterreich :: premiere :: owen und ich :: 17 january 2015 :: 19:03
WDR 3/ auf der suche nach dem politischen subjekt: „unruhe der form“, by christiane enkeler, 23 may 2013
ORF Ö1 / KUNSTRADIO :: funk funk chant. radio rosa #6. With michael fischer, christian katt, judith nika pfeifer, and jörg piringer. concept: patricia brooks.
DEUTSCHLANDFUNK/ deutschlandradio kultur: meditative hip-hop poesie. judith nika pfeifer: "nichts ist wichtiger ding kleines du", von michaela schmitz, 3. april 2013
ORF Ö1/ nachtbilder: nichts ist wichtiger. ding kleines du. gedichte, gelesen von yohanna schwertfeger. gestaltung: nikolaus scholz. redaktion: edith-ulla gasser, 9. februar 2013