The Story of Darkness. Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought. Gerhard Roth, born in 1942, has become one of Austria's most prolific and challenging novelists.

The Story of Darkness. An author primarily of prose fiction and of essays, he has also written plays, a children's book and television scripts. His narrative oeuvre resists classification; it is distinguished, however, by an abiding concern with recent Austrian history. His style of writing is characterized by a highly variable pictorial imagination and by an intense inquiry into the workings of disoriented minds. His works have received numerous awards.

Start by marking Thunder Rumbling at My Heels as Want to Read . The writer, who died in 1973, is These essays deal with Ingeborg Bachmann, the most important and most widely read Austrian woman writer of the twentieth century.

Start by marking Thunder Rumbling at My Heels as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. The writer, who died in 1973, is currently enjoying a resurgence of interest in her work, most noticeably her prose, which is being performed on various stages in Vienna in the form of collage presentations.

BACHMANN, Ingeborg (LITERATURE). Born: Klagenfurt, Austria, 25 June 1926. Spent her childhood in Carinthia. Education: Educated at co-educational high school until 1938, girls’ school, 1938-44; studied philosophy at Graz, Innsbruck,and Vienna universities, P.

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The Ingeborg Bachmann Centre, established at the then Institute of Germanic Studies in 2002 with the support of the Erste Bank, the Österreichische Nationalbank, the Austrian Cultural Forum, and the Österreich Kooperation, explores this contribution by means of a varied programme of events.

Robert von Dassanowsky's interests parallel his Austrian heritage; he grew up in a bilingual household

Robert von Dassanowsky's interests parallel his Austrian heritage; he grew up in a bilingual household. Von Dassanowsky worked as an actor in Los Angeles, a playwright, and a poet before turning to academic studies in German.

Thunder Rumbling at My Heels by Gudrun Brokoph-Mauch, June 1998, Ariadne . Thunder Rumbling at My Heels Written in English. There's no description for this book yet.

Thunder Rumbling at My Heels. Tracing Ingeborg Bachmann (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought Translation Series). by Gudrun Brokoph-Mauch. Published June 1998 by Ariadne Press (CA).

Austrian culture has been influenced by its past and present neighbours: Italy, Poland, Germany, Hungary, and Bohemia.

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, Vol. 31, Is. history, culture, and values. 31, Iss. 1, Art. . Based on data from an ethnographic study from 2014, the paper discusses young people’s future-oriented essays in relation to their islands’. They offer an opportunity to discuss the relation between micro- and macro-level events and between material and cultural shifts.

Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture (169). Katya Krylova's book undertakes close readings of key contemporary Austrian literary texts, films, and memorials that treat the legacy of Nazism and the Holocaust. Collections: Show more. The analysis focuses on texts by Robert Schindel, Elfriede Jelinek, and Anna Mitgutsch, documentary films by Ruth Beckermann and by Margareta Heinrich and Eduard Erne, as well as recent memorial projects in Vienna, examining what these reveal about the evolving memory culture in contemporary Austria.