Siglinde Bolbecher

Her book of poems Nadelstich was published posthumously in 2013.

On 21 March 2012, she was awarded the Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria in recognition of her significant contribution "to the research and dissemination of Austrian exile literature".

She co-edited the journal for culture of exile and resistance Zwischenwelt, the Book Series on Anti-Fascist Literature and Exile Literature – Studies and Texts and the Lexicon of Austrian Exile Literature, which was worked on for 15 years. She was particularly interested in women authors, and produced works on and with Stella Kadmon, Elisabeth Freundlich, Stella Rotenberg, Grete Oplatek, Eva Kollisch, T. Scarlett Epstein among others. She also organised exhibitions and symposia on the literature of women in exile [de], on the image of women and men in National Socialism, on cabaret and satire in the resistance, Berthold Viertel, Elisabeth Berger. She has conceived and organised numerous conferences, among others: "Gespräch über die Rückkehr" (2005 and 2006).

Born in Vienna, Bolbecher studied theatre, English, history and philosophy at the University of Vienna. In the early 1980s, she was co-founder (and later vice-chairwoman) of the Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft [de] and of the Verein zur Förderung und Erforschung der Antifaschistischen Literatur [de], whose fate she also helped to steer until her death. From 2002, she was head of the women's working group in the Austrian Society for Exile Research. Bolbecher was a freelancer at the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance for several years and taught at the Federal Academy for Social Work in Vienna.

Siglinde Bolbecher (18 June 1952 – 6 July 2012) was an Austrian historian, exile researcher and poet.