Theodor Illek

Theodor Illek (born in 1984, Kranj, Slovenia), is a poet, prose writer, visual artist, and playwright who focuses on the themes of migration, religion, and the issue of connecting art with science. He is a doctor in veterinarian medicine by training. Since 2007, he has been presenting his work both in Slovenia and abroad, namely in Russia, France, Germany, Israel, Austria, the Czech Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, as the author of independent and group experimental projects implemented in the framework of a contemporary art society called Aggressive Theatre. He is also a co-founder of the same society and its president. Illek's poetry is published in the notable Slovenian (Nova revija, Sodobnost, Literatura, Dialogi, Poetikon, Lirikon, Mentor, etc.) and foreign magazines (Le Rouge sang, Rukopisi 32 (Belgrade, Serbia), Van kutije – an anthology of modern poetry (Podgorica; Montenegro), Republika poezije (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Euroorientacije (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina), DeZopilant (France)). His first work of poetry, called Sinapse, for which he received a scholarship from a fund for gifted high-school and university students, was published in 2003.

Illek lives and works in Vienna.