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Ilse Aichinger was an Austrian writer known for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry. She wrote poems, short stories and radio plays, and won multiple European literary prizes.
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Someone had knocked at the door, quite gently, but the doctor awoke at once, turned on the light, and sat up in bed. He glanced at his wife who was sleeping quietly, picked up his dressing-gown, and went into the hall. He did not at once recognise the old woman who stood there, with the […]
When Markus Kellmer got home from work, he found a naked woman on his living-room carpet. Her dishevelled hair reminded him of the way he had drawn crows’ nests and tree tops as a child; her skin shone as if it were varnished, and when Markus turned her carefully onto her back to talk to […]
It has to be done, that’s clear, and today’s the day. Anne has an appointment – today, not tomorrow – and she’ll go there, and they’ll suck the embryo out of her. She’s going on her own. “Max,” she said, “I have to do this on my own. I don’t want you to come.” I […]
At a certain point in my life, my services entailed crossing the little bridge across the Seine (for the Pont Neuf was not yet built at that time) at a certain hour several times a week, and I was usually recognized and greeted by tradesmen or other simple folk, but most conspicuously and most regularly […]
When I was lobbing cobble stones at policemen on that September 11th, I would never have dreamed that someday I would become a policeman myself. It was September 11, 1973. I don’t know how I had heard about the putsch in Chile and the murder of President Allende. Isn’t it strange? Today I can’t imagine […]
Clemens J. Setz is an Austrian author. He was born in 1982 in Graz where he studied Mathematics and German and where he lives today as a translator and freelance writer. In 2011 he was awarded the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for the short story collection from which The Corpse is taken. His novel Indigo […]
Born in Bonn in 1985, Dorian Steinhoff is German and Austrian. He studied Philosophy, Law and German at the University of Trier. Since 2010 he has worked as a freelance author journalist and literary agent. As well as writing literary prose, he writes for print and broadcast media. He constantly tours with his own programme […]
Robert Musil was born in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 1880 and died in 1942 in Switzerland, after living in exile upon the Nazi invasion, since his wife was Jewish. Musil grew up to an engineer father, in a conservative educational atmosphere. His mother suffered from mental instability. In 1906, he published his first novel, The Confusions […]
Born in Vienna in 1874, Hugo von Hofmannsthal was, alongside Arthur Schnitzler, one of the most significant authors in the literary circle “Young Vienna” in the 1890s. In 1902, Hofmannsthal turned away from aestheticism and embarked on an intense engagement with European literary tradition. He attained world fame with his plays, which include Jedermann (1911, […]
Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1933), an Austrian writer and playwright of Jewish origin, is considered by many as the literary “twin” of his contemporary, father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud. His most famous work, Traumnovelle, was adapted into Stanley Kubrick’s provocative 1999 motion picture “Eyes Wide Shut.” Schnitzler best described the atmosphere of decadence among the bourgeoisie in […]
Robert Menasse is an Austrian writer, born in Vienna in 1954. He studied German studies, philosophy and political science in Vienna, Salzburg, and Messina. Between 1981 and 1988, he taught at the Institute of Literature Theory at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He has been working as a freelance publicist, columnist, and translator of novels […]
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