Andrea Maria Dusl

Andrea Maria Dusl was born in Vienna, Austria in 1961. She is the daughter of Erwin H. Dusl, an Austrian architect and Monica Dusl-Jüllig a native Swede from a sea-faring family. She attended the Master Class in Stage Design at the Vienna Fine Arts Academy, acquiring her Magistra Artium degree in 1985. She then accepted engagements as stage designer and production assistant at various Austrian theatres such as Burgtheater/Akademietheater (where she worked with George Tabori and Ignaz Kirchner), Theater an der Wien, Theater in der Josefstadt, Raimundtheater, Vienna State Opera. From 1985 onwards Andrea Maria Dusl has written and illustrated regularly for Austrian print media. In 1996 she began writing a weekly column for the famous Viennese arts & current affairs journal, Falter. Between 1993 and 1997 she studied medicine in Vienna. Blue Moon (2002) , her first feature film (as director and screenplay writer) marked her breakthrough after six successful shorts of "Around the World in Eighty Days" (Austria 1989/91, 12 minutes).