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Gabriele Petricek. Meet the Author

10 June 2009, 3.00pm | University of London

An opportunity to meet the author in an informal setting and engage in detailed discussion.For more information please see reading on 4 June.

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Gabriele Petricek Reading

4 June 2009, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London

Organised in conjunction with the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre, London Gabriele Petricek, born in Krems an der Donau in 1957, trained as a fashion designer, then moved into marketing andjournalism, writing for the Neue Z ...

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The Faber Pocket Guide to Haydn by Richard Wigmore

26 March 2009, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London

Austrian composer Joseph Haydn (1732 –1809) was one of the greatest and most innovative composers of the classical period, the so-called father of the symphony and the string quartet. Published to coincide with the anniversary ...

Robert Menasse, Don Juan de la Mancha

26 February 2009 | Austrian Cultural Forum London

Nathan, an editor for a Viennese newspaper, maintains an emancipated marriage and an equally emancipated affair, paying frequent visits to his psychotherapist. In this entertaining and facetious novel, Robert Menasse paints a vivid portrait of ...

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Eric Sanders, Emigration ins Leben

10 February 2009, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London

Eric Sander will present his book Emigration ins Leben: Wien-London und nicht mehr retour which describes, from a very personal perspective, the various transformations of his life, from the son of a Jewish shop owner ...

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Hilde Spiel, The Dark and the Bright. Memoirs 1911-1989. with Christine Shuttleworth and Felix de Mendelssohn

13 November 2008, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London

The author, journalist and grande dame of Austrian literature, Hilde Spiel (1911–1990), was born in Vienna. She emigrated to London in 1936, returning to Austria for the first time in 1946 as correspondent for ...

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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