Rainer Deutner
speech, language and performance artist, physiotherapist, lives and works in Vienna

born in 1969 in Vienna, grew up in the outskirts of Vienna, attended a language-oriented secondary school in Perchtoldsdorf near Vienna, studied Sociology and Sinology, in 1990 four month journey through China, broke off the university course, various jobs, self-taught improvement of English and French and learning of Swedish and Spanish, extended stays in the USA, France, Scandinavia and Spain, training as a fitness and mountainbike instructor, from 1998 in discourse with Werner Nowacek about new presentation forms for literature, language and body, which in March 2001 led to the founding of the duo 'phonetic decoration text factory onophon', since then speech, language and performance artist, numerous live and media performances, workshops, cooperation with the Russian writer, performer and visual artist Dmitri Prigov in the formation 'prigophon', cooperation with the Russian dancer and performer Oleg Soulimenko

2004-2007 training as a physiotherapist, 2007-2009 employed as a physiotherapist in the forensic psychiatry, since 2009 freelance physiotherapist in Vienna (www.undbewegung.org), home visits for people with neurological or psychiatric disorders, preoccupation with Gindler-Hengstenberg-Tritschler work, developing, and leading theme-oriented psychomotor body awareness groups for people with mental illnesses, development of movement material (www.kletterkokon.com), leading of movement offers at the Mostviertler Montessori Free School, since 2009 training in Original Play® with O. Fred Donaldson and Jolanta Graczykowska in Austria and Poland (www.originalplay.at), 2011 with my live-in partner Sonja Mille 10-week journey through Bulgaria, Romania and Moldova with Original Play® in children's homes at the Concordia Organization, 2012 Travel South Africa with Original Play® in children's homes, townships and informal settlements