Susanna Niedermayr was born in Vienna, Austria in 1972, and studied painting and political science. From 1995 to 2000 she was a member of WochenKlausur, a Vienna-based international group of artists, who make sociopolitical interventions at the invitation of art institutions and cultural organisations since 1993. She has been working as a journalist, presenter and web designer at the ORF (Ö1, FM4) since 1996, amongst others as a presenter of ORF Ö1 Kunstradio. In 2002 she set up line_in:line_out. Since 2007 she is co-curator of ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst. Since 2008 she is one of the 2 editors in chief of the new music program of ORF Ö1, and as a part of this also co-producer of the radio-series ORF Ö1 Zeit-Ton, for which Susanna Niedermayr has been working as an editor since 2000. She has published in various publications, and has worked as an advisor and curator, amongst others for Wien Modern, Wiener Festwochen and Turning Sounds (Warsaw). She is co-author of European Meridians - New Music Territories, PFAU, 2002/2003. Living and working in Vienna.

(last update: march 2010)