“Forgive My Mistakes” by Ernst Strouhal

Ernst Strouhal, born 1957, author, journalist, retired associate professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna; recipient of the 2010 Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism and the 2025 City of Vienna Journalism Prize. Most recent publications: “Evil Letters: A History of Threats and Blackmail” (2017, co-authored with Christoph Winder); “Conversation with a Donkey: On Reading with Your Thumb” (2019); “SMadness: On the Beauty and Horror of Chess” (2022, co-authored with Michael Ehn); “Four Sisters: Distant Vienna, Strange World” (2022); “The Phantoms of Engineer Berdach: Media Criticism and Satire” (2023); “Sooner or Later: Essays and Reportages” (2024, co-authored with Claudia Geringer); “Friedl Benedikt: I’m Waiting in the Snow Outside Your Door” (2025, co-edited with Fanny Esterházy).

Stina Frenz, born in Bremen in 1996, moves in her work between analytical structure and open, intuitive action. She views design as a collaborative practice that brings perspectives to light and opens up spaces for participation and collective creation. After earning a bachelor’s degree in book and type design at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts in Kiel, she completed her master’s degree in the Graphic Design and Digital Graphics program at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. At the same time, she worked as a student intern with type designer Albert-Jan Pool, an experience that shaped her typographic thinking and her design precision. Today she lives and works as a graphic designer at Cin Cin, Creative Studios in Vienna. @stina_vier

Concept and Coordination: Toledo i Dertschei 

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