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Lifelines: the Correspondence of Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann

Lifelines: the Correspondence of Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann

1 July 2010, 7.00pm
2010 marks both the 90th anniversary of the birth, and 40 years since the death, of Paul Celan, arguably the most important German poet of the 20th Century. Wrestling with the creative challenges of responding ...

Central European Classics. Michael Hofmann, George Szirtes, Stephen Vizinczey and Tomáš Zmeškal

20 June 2010, 4.00pm
Throughout the 20th century, the countries that once made up the Austro-Hungarian Empire produced many of Europe’s greatest and most influential writers. Twenty years after the Berlin Wall came down, is the idea of ...
Reading with Lydia Mischkulnig

Reading with Lydia Mischkulnig

3 June 2010, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
This year’s writer-in-residence at the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre London is Lydia Mischkulnig, whose distinctive and uncompromising voice has earned her the prestigious Bertelsmann Literaturpreis at the Ingeborg Bachmann Wettbewerb (1996) and the Manuskripte-Preis (2002 ...
Clemens J. Setz at the Guardian Hay Festival

Clemens J. Setz at the Guardian Hay Festival

27 May – 6 June 2010 | Hay-on-Wye
Austrian author Clemens J. Setz will be at this year’s Guardian Hay Festival on Friday 4 June to present his novel Frequencies (Die Frequenzen) in which he presents life as a chain reaction through ...
Julya Rabinowich at European Literature Night II

Julya Rabinowich at European Literature Night II

12 May 2010, 6.30pm | British Library
For the second year EUNIC (European Union National Institutes of Culture), in cooperation with the British Library, present the European Literature Night. This Europe-wide event will take place simultaneously across Europe creating a genuine trans-European ...
Book Launch: The Cambridge Companion to Rilke and Nach Dulno: Studien zu Rilkes späten Gedichten

Book Launch: The Cambridge Companion to Rilke and Nach Dulno: Studien zu Rilkes späten Gedichten

30 April 2010, 6.00pm | New College, Oxford
A drinks reception to celebrate the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Rilke and Nach Duino: Studien zu Rilkes späten Gedichten edited by Karen Leeder and Robert Vilain. Please book by Friday 23 April ...

News

Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2010

From Wednesday, 23 June 2010 to Sunday, 27 June 2010, the 34th Festival of German-Language Literature (FGLL) took place in Klagenfurt with the participation of 14 authors from Austria, Germany and Switzerland. German writer Peter Wawerzinek was awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for his autobiographical text „Ich finde Dich/Rabenliebe".

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Austrian National Library opens new Reading Room

This April, the Austrian National Library has opened a new Reading Room, called the Austriaca Reading Room. It is located on the Heldenplatz and has 70 Laptop workstations and W-LAN Internet access. It also offers a special Library with 3.000 volumes about Austrian topics as well as an Austriaca-database with access to 3.000 online resources. Find out more at http://www.onb.ac.at/ev/index.php

Call for Papers

The Institute of German and Romance Studies is calling for papers for an international conference entitled Jewish Identitities in Contemporary Europe.  Convenors include Professor Lucille Cairns (University of Durham) and Dr Andrea Reiter (University of Southampton).

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Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators

Fellowships for translation are being awarded by the IWM (Institut fuer die Wissenschaft vom Menschen) in Vienna. Visiting fellows will receive support and are invited to spend three to six months at the IWM between July 2010 and June 2011 to pursue their translation projects while working in residence at the Institute. Applications for are due by March 5 2010.
Find out more by visiting www.iwm.at/Fellowships