Senad Halilbašić (September 18 1988 in Tuzla, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian and Austrian author, screenwriter, film producer, dramaturge and theater and cultural scientist.
During his school days, he realized film projects and dealt with literary and textual forms as well as the representation of contemporary history.
In 2008 he received the EXIL Literature Prize for the best prose for his story "Heimat", in which he dealt with the limits of integration and assimilation.
[5] Together with Gerald Igor Hauzenberger, Senad Halilbašić wrote the screenplay for his ORF documentary Hypotopia - The Search for Responsibility (2016), which goes in search of those responsible for the Hypo Alpe Adria bank scandal and the interdependencies between banks, politicians and lobbyists.
Halilbašić has held numerous workshops, conferences, training courses in screenwriting, dramaturgy, story development, etc.
Halilbašić also wrote the radio feature Burning Memory: The dead books of Sarajevo in collaboration with Starz (WDR/RBB, 2012).
His field research in this area represents the first on-site collection and translation of primary material (video recordings of performances, edited versions, programme, reviews; discussions with contemporary witnesses working in theatre).