Literature and books archive
Three Lives: A Biography of Stefan Zweig. Oliver Matuschek in conversation with Professor Rüdiger Görner
28 November 2011, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
My Three Lives was Stefan Zweig’s working title for his memoir The World of Yesterday. Matuschek uses the title here to reference the three major phases in Zweig’s life — his years of apprenticeship ...
Eichmann’s Jews. The Jewish Administration of Holocaust Vienna, 1938-1945
25 November – 2 January 2012
PUBLISHED AUGUST 2011 BY POLITY PRESS
By Doron Rabinovici
“A unique and candid account of the internal workings of the Jewish Community Vienna during the war. Doron Rabinovici has the courage and the gall to ...
Tagebuchtag
15 November 2011, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
The diary can be viewed as a mirror. It reflects, or distorts, the diarist's emotional and intellectual disposition. The diary is a document of borderline experiences. It portrays degrees of intimacy and, in the ...
Return to Vienna (Hilde Spiel)
18 October 2011, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
In 1936, Hilde Spiel (1911-1990), later to be known as the ‘grande dame of Austrian literature’, left Vienna to start a new life in London. Ten years later she returned to her native city in ...
European Literature Night III at the Times Cheltenham Literature Festival
11 October 2011
European Literature Night returns to the Cheltenham Literature Festival (7-16 October) and will present writers, among them the Austrian Anna Kim, in a special evening event chaired by Rosie Goldsmith, the BBC presenter and champion ...
Alois Hotschnig: Sound & Sense
7 – 9 October 2011 | Kings Place
Two eminent Austrian artists, the writer Alois Hotschnig and the composer Thomas Larcher, present works that arise from the complex interplay of sound and sense. Hotschnig’s prose is acutely attuned to the musicality of ...
Austrian Cultural Forum London MMX | Some rights reserved | Legal information
News
Writer's residence in Graz
The city of Graz awards the "Writer of the City of Graz" scholarship each year and includes the provision of an apartment for free in Cerrini-Schloessl on the Schlossberg, from 1 September 2012 until 31 August 2013. A monthly stipend of EURO 1,100 is paid.
Application deadline is 31 March 2012. E kulturamt@stadt.graz.at for more information.