Literature and books archive

BBC Music in the Glock Era and After. Published by Plumbago Books (London)

22 April 2010, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London

With author Leo Black, editor Christopher Wintle, illustrator Milein Cosman and a special performance by Daniela Lehner, mezzo soprano, with Oliver Davies, piano. The BBC of the 1960s, a formative time in the evolution of ...

Andreas Unterweger at StAnza Poetry Festival

17 – 21 March 2010 | Various venues, St Andrews

Graz born poet, novelist and musician Andreas Unterweger will read at the Scottish international StAnza Poetry Festival on Friday 19 March at 12:45. Andreas Unterweger has won several literary awards and bursaries and has ...

A Man Named Su: Wolf Suschitzky – Photographer and Cameraman

19 January 2010, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London

The ACF in cooperation with Synema celebrates the life and career of photographer and cameraman Wolf Suschitzky with a special evening featuring an exhibition private view, the launch of a new catalogue of his work ...

Best European Fiction 2010

20 January 2010, 7.45pm

Marking the publication of a new anthology entitled Best European Fiction 2010, which brings together newly translated stories from 32 European nations including Austrian writer Antonio Fian, this 2-part program at London’s South Bank ...

3rd Ingeborg Bachmann Centre Lecture

14 January 2010, 6.00pm | University of London

Andrew Barker, Professor at Edinburgh University will give the third of these biennial lectures, which honour outstanding scholarly achievement in the field of Austrian literature and culture. Andrew Barker’s lecture is titled: ‘Politics and ...

The System of Vienna by Gert Jonke

5 January 2010

An astonishing and fantastical auto biographical novel, The System of Vienna (Das System von Wien), details Gert Jonke’s travels through Vienna by tram, reporting the bizarre and frustrating encounters he experiences as he progresses ...

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".

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).

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