What’s on today

Events on today and exhibitions now showing

IGRS Seminar Series 2010 Measuring the World: 20th Century Austrian Writers Abroad

21 April 2010, 4.00pm

Wednesday 20 January: Night Work (Die Arbeit der Nacht, 2006) by Thomas Glavinic An ordinary man wakes up on a seemingly ordinary day to find that he is the last man alive. His response and ...

Letter from an Unknown Woman

12 February – 17 March 2010 | BFI Southbank

One of cinema's most achingly poignant romances, Max Ophüls' version of Stefan Zweig's novella is also, despite being shot in a Hollywood studio, one of the great films about fin-de-siècle Vienna ...

Social Sculpture

1 January – 5 April 2010 | Whitechapel Gallery

This ongoing exhibition throughout London’s Whitechapel Gallery features works of art which offer a space for contemplation or discussion. Diwan (or couch) by Austrian sculptor Franz West invites visitors to take a rest, have ...

Arthur Schnitzler’s Sweet Nothings

25 February – 10 April 2010 | Young Vic

Arthur Schnitzler’s play is an exploration of the power of sexual longing, the cruelty of tradition and the vulnerability of those in love. Directed by Luc Bondy, in a co-production with Wiener Festwochen and ...

Gerti Deutsch – Between Vienna and London. Images from Austria and England (1932–1952)

3 February – 14 May 2010 | Austrian Cultural Forum London

Gerti Deutsch (1908–79) came to London from her home city of Vienna before the Anschluss in 1938. She brought with her a portfolio of photographs, including the studio portraits of Austrian artists and musicians ...

Karin Leitner, flute; Duccio Lombardi, harp

5 – 11 March 2010 | Various venues, UK

Austrian flautist Karin Leitner and harpist Duccio Lombardi are performing across the UK this Spring. Their performance on 11 March at the well-loved venue of St. Martin-in-the-Fields is the final concert of the highly acclaimed ...