19. January 2026
What
do publishers do with submitted debut manuscripts? Why is fiction hardly printed in Austria anymore? And how do authors earn
money from books?
The daily newspaper “Die Presse” explores these questions in the feature-length documentary
PRODUKT:
BUCH (product:book), taking viewers behind the scenes of domestic book production.
The film was
directed and edited by
Andor Sipos, a student at the Institute for Language Arts at the University of Applied
Arts Vienna. Bettina Steiner, head of the “Presse” spectrum, accompanies viewers along the path of book creation and interviews
Fiona Sironic, alumna of the Institute for Language Arts, among others. With her novel
Am Samstag gehen die Mädchen
in den Wald und jagen Sachen in die Luft (On Saturday, the girls go into the forest and blow things up), she made it
onto the shortlist for the German Book Prize in 2025.
The film can be viewed on YouTube.
Further
information about the film
