Olivia Vieweg studied visual communication in Weimar and graduated in 2011 with the comic «Endzeit». She was co-editor of the manga anthology «Paper Theatre», for which she received the ICOM Prize in 2010. In 2012, she won the Egmont Comic Scholarship with her script for «Antoinette Returns» (2014).
In 2015, she received the Tankred Dorst Award for her screenplay adaptation of «Endzeit». The film was released in 2019. Olivia Vieweg has adapted «Antigone» into comic form for the journey «Die Unheimlichen» curated by Isabel Kreitz.