She has become known for her biting, socially critical videos. Now the social media cabaret artist Toxische Fries is impressing with her first novel.
A daughter who wants to be like everyone else. A father who is forced to leave his homeland and loses himself and his daughter in search of a new life. In her autobiographically colored novel “A Beautiful Foreigner’s Child”, the social media cabaret artist Toxische Fries describes how the lives of migrant parents and their daughter, who grew up in Austria, drift apart.
Toxische Fries has become known under this name on social networks with her biting, socially critical videos. In real life, the Viennese’s first name is Irina and she works as a lawyer; She does not reveal any more private information. From her videos you can get a general idea of her biography: she satirizes the way Balkan parents treat their adult children, she makes fun of the Austrians’ red-white love of homeland and their conservatism as well as the Viennese academic bubble. Hundreds of thousands of people watch the videos on Tiktok and Instagram.