Ivana Jeissing was born in austria in 1958 and grew up in Salzburg and Turino. For many years she worked as a director in the movie industry and as a Creative Directrise. Her ultimate goal was to become an astronaut. Today she writes and lives in Berlin. Ivana Jeissing became famous last spring with her debut novel “Unsichtbar”, published at Diogenes. The first piece of art she got was from Thomas Grünfeld. Nowadays she loves the work from Olafur Eliasson. In her eyes the main purpose of art is to be seduced.