Austrian literature, the Glossary
Austrian literature is mostly written in German, and is closely connected with German literature.[1]
Table of Contents
238 relations: Abraham a Sancta Clara, Absolutism (European history), Adalbert Stifter, Adelheid Dahimène, Adolf Hitler, Age of Enlightenment, Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Albert Drach, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Alfred Kolleritsch, Almanac, Aloys Blumauer, Ann Cotten, Anschluss, Anti-clericalism, Anton Wildgans Prize, Architecture, Aristotle, Arthur Schnitzler, Austria-Hungary, Austrian Empire, Auto-da-Fé (novel), Ava (poet), Žganci, Barbara Frischmuth, Böhlau Verlag, Benedictines, Berlin, Bertha von Suttner, Biedermeier, Budapest, Bulgaria, Burgtheater, Carl Emil Schorske, Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg, Catholic Church, Censorship, Charles Sealsfield, Chivalry, Christine Werner, Christoph Ransmayr, Conrad Celtes, Constantin Göttfert, Counter-Reformation, Crowds and Power, Cvetka Lipuš, Czechoslovakia, Daniel Kehlmann, Der Nachsommer, ... Expand index (188 more) »
Abraham a Sancta Clara
Abraham a Sancta Clara (July 2, 1644December 1, 1709) was an Augustinian monk.
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Absolutism (European history)
Absolutism or the Age of Absolutism (–) is a historiographical term used to describe a form of monarchical power that is unrestrained by all other institutions, such as churches, legislatures, or social elites.
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Adalbert Stifter
Adalbert Stifter (23 October 1805 – 28 January 1868) was a Bohemian-Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue.
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Adelheid Dahimène
Adelheid Dahimène (2 June 1956 – 21 November 2010) was an Austrian writer.
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.
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Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
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Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt
The Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt (ADEVA) is an Austrian book publisher in Graz that specialises primarily in publishing lavish facsimile editions.
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Albert Drach
Albert Drach (17 December 1902 – 27 March 1995) was an Austrian-Jewish writer and lawyer.
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Albert Paris Gütersloh
Albert Paris Gütersloh (born Albert Conrad Kiehtreiber; 5 February 1887 – 16 May 1973) was an Austrian painter and writer.
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Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Alexander Lernet-Holenia (21 October 1897 — 3 July 1976) was an Austrian poet, novelist, dramaturgist and writer of screenplays and historical studies who produced a heterogeneous literary opus that included poetry, psychological novels describing the intrusion of otherworldly or unreal experiences into reality, and recreational films.
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Alfred Kolleritsch
Alfred Kolleritsch (16 February 1931 – 29 May 2020) was an Austrian journalist, poet and philosopher.
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Almanac
An almanac (also spelled almanack and almanach) is a regularly published listing of a set of current information about one or multiple subjects.
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Aloys Blumauer
Aloys Blumauer, also known as Alois Blumauer or Johannes Aloysius Blumauer, (21 or 22 December 1755 Steyr - 16 March 1798 Vienna) was an Austrian poet.
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Ann Cotten
Ann Cotten (born 1982 in Ames, Iowa) is an American-born Austrian writer.
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Anschluss
The Anschluss (or Anschluß), also known as the Anschluß Österreichs (Annexation of Austria), was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into the German Reich on 13 March 1938.
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Anti-clericalism
Anti-clericalism is opposition to religious authority, typically in social or political matters.
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Anton Wildgans Prize
The Anton Wildgans Prize of Austrian Industry is a literary award that was endowed in 1962 by the Federation of Austrian Industry.
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Architecture
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.
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Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.
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Arthur Schnitzler
Arthur Schnitzler (15 May 1862 – 21 October 1931) was an Austrian author and dramatist.
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Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918.
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Austrian Empire
The Austrian Empire, officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a multinational European great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs.
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Auto-da-Fé (novel)
Auto da Fé (original title Die Blendung, "The Blinding") is a 1935 novel by Elias Canetti; the title of the English translation (by C. V. Wedgwood, Jonathan Cape, Ltd, 1946) refers to the burning of heretics by the Inquisition.
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Ava (poet)
The poet Ava (c. 1060 – 7 February 1127), also known as Frau Ava, Ava of Göttweig or Ava of Melk, was the first named female writer in any genre in the German language.
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Žganci
Žganci is a dish in Slovenian and Croatian cuisine, also called pura on the Croatian coast.
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Barbara Frischmuth
Barbara Frischmuth (born 5 July 1941 in Altaussee, Salzkammergut) is an Austrian writer of poetry and prose.
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Böhlau Verlag
Böhlau Verlag is a book and magazine publisher predominantly of humanities and social science disciplines, based in Vienna (Böhlau Verlag GmbH & Co. KG) and Cologne (Böhlau Verlag GmbH & Cie.), with a branch in Weimar.
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Benedictines
The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (Ordo Sancti Benedicti, abbreviated as OSB), are a mainly contemplative monastic order of the Catholic Church for men and for women who follow the Rule of Saint Benedict.
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Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.
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Bertha von Suttner
Bertha Sophie Felicitas Freifrau von Suttner (9 June 184321 June 1914) was an Austro-Bohemian noblewoman, pacifist and novelist.
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Biedermeier
The Biedermeier period was an era in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848 during which the middle classes grew in number and the arts began to appeal to their sensibilities.
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Budapest
Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary.
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Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located west of the Black Sea and south of the Danube river, Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the 16th largest country in Europe.
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Burgtheater
The Burgtheater (literally: "Castle Theater" but alternatively translated as "(Imperial) Court Theater"), originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the national theater of Austria in Vienna.
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Carl Emil Schorske
Carl Emil Schorske (March 15, 1915 – September 13, 2015), known professionally as Carl E. Schorske, was an American cultural historian and professor at Princeton University.
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Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg
Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (7 September 1633, Viehdorf — 10 April 1694, Nuremberg) was an Austrian poet of the Baroque era.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Censorship
Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information.
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Charles Sealsfield
Charles Sealsfield was the pseudonym of Austrian-American journalist Carl (or Karl) Anton Postl (3 March 1793 – 26 May 1864), an advocate for a German democracy.
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Chivalry
Chivalry, or the chivalric language, is an informal and varying code of conduct developed in Europe between 1170 and 1220.
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Christine Werner
Christine Werner (born 26 August 1954 in Vienna) is an Austrian writer.
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Christoph Ransmayr
Christoph Ransmayr (born 20 March 1954) is an Austrian writer.
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Conrad Celtes
Conrad Celtes (Konrad Celtes; Conradus Celtis (Protucius); 1 February 1459 – 4 February 1508) was a German Renaissance humanist scholar and poet of the German Renaissance born in Franconia (nowadays part of Bavaria).
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Constantin Göttfert
Constantin Göttfert (born 1979) is an Austrian writer.
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Counter-Reformation
The Counter-Reformation, also sometimes called the Catholic Revival, was the period of Catholic resurgence that was initiated in response to, and as an alternative to, the Protestant Reformations at the time.
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Crowds and Power
Crowds and Power (Masse und Macht) is a 1960 book by Elias Canetti, dealing with the dynamics of crowds and "packs" and the question of how and why crowds obey power of rulers.
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Cvetka Lipuš
Cvetka Lipuš (born 1966) is an Austrian poet writing in Slovenian.
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Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.
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Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann (born 13 January 1975) is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality.
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Der Nachsommer
Der Nachsommer (italic; subtitled A Tale; 1857) is a novel in three volumes by Adalbert Stifter.
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Der von Kürenberg
Der von Kürenberg or Der Kürenberger (fl. mid-12th century) was a Middle High German poet and one of the earliest Minnesänger.
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Dietmar von Aist
Dietmar von Aist (c. 1115 – c. 1171) was a Minnesinger from a baronial family in the Duchy of Austria, whose work is representative of the lyric poetry in the Danube region.
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Dimitré Dinev
Dimitré Dinev (Bulgarian: Димитър Динев) (born 1968 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian-born Austrian writer.
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Diu Crône
Diu Crône (The Crown) is a Middle High German poem of about 30,000 lines treating of King Arthur and the Matter of Britain, dating from around the 1220s and attributed to the epic poet Heinrich von dem Türlin.
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Doron Rabinovici
Doron Rabinovici is an Israeli-Austrian writer, historian and essayist.
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Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.
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Eduard von Bauernfeld
Eduard von Bauernfeld (13 January 1802 – 9 August 1890), Austrian dramatist, was born at Vienna.
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Egon Kisch
Egon Erwin Kisch (29 April 1885 – 31 March 1948) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak writer and journalist, who wrote in German.
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Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek (born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist.
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Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti (Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German-language writer, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a Sephardic Jewish family.
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Epic poetry
An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants.
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Erich Fried
Erich Fried (6 May 1921 – 22 November 1988) was an Austrian-born poet, writer, and translator.
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Ernst Jandl
Ernst Jandl (1 August 1925 – 9 June 2000) was an Austrian writer, poet, and translator.
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Essay
An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story.
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Expressionism
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century.
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Fatherland Front (Austria)
The Fatherland Front (Vaterländische Front, VF) was the right-wing conservative, authoritarian, nationalist, and corporatist ruling political organisation of the Federal State of Austria.
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Feldkircher Lyrikpreis
The Feldkirch Poetry Award, in German Feldkircher Lyrikpreis, started by Erika Kronabitter, an Austrian artist and writer, is granted annually by the Theater am Saumarkt in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg/Austria.
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Felix Pollak
Felix Pollak (November 11, 1909 – November 19, 1987) was an American librarian, translator, and poet.
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Ferdinand Kürnberger
Ferdinand Kürnberger Ferdinand Kürnberger (3 July 1821, Vienna – 14 October 1879, Munich) was an Austrian writer.
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Ferdinand Raimund
Ferdinand Raimund (born Ferdinand Jakob Raimann; 1 June 1790 – 5 September 1836, Pottenstein, Lower Austria) was an Austrian actor and playwright.
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Ferdinand von Saar
Ferdinand Ludwig Adam von Saar (30 September 1833 in Vienna, Austria – 24 July 1906 in Döbling) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet.
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Florjan Lipuš
Florjan Lipuš (born 4 May 1937 in Lobnig above Bad Eisenkappel, Austria) is a Carinthian Slovene writer and translator.
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Franz Grillparzer
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer (15 January 1791 – 21 January 1872) was an Austrian writer who was considered to be the leading Austrian dramatist of the 19th century.
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Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language novelist and writer from Prague.
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Franz Theodor Csokor
Franz Theodor Csokor (6 September 1885 – 5 January 1969) was an Austrian author and dramatist, particularly well known for his expressionist dramas.
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Franz Werfel
Franz Viktor Werfel (10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II.
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Franzobel
Franzobel is the pseudonym of the Austrian writer (Franz) Stefan Griebl.
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Freemasonry
Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 14th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.
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Friederike Mayröcker
Friederike Mayröcker (20 December 1924 – 4 June 2021) was an Austrian writer of poetry and prose, radio plays, children's books and dramatic texts.
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Friedrich Achleitner
Friedrich Achleitner (23 May 1930 – 27 March 2019) was an Austrian poet and architecture critic.
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Friedrich Halm
Baron Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen (Freiherr von Münch-Bellinghausen) (2 April 180622 May 1871) was an Austrian dramatist, poet and novella writer of the Austrian Biedermeier period and beyond, and is more generally known under his pseudonym Friedrich Halm.
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Friedrich Heer
Friedrich Heer (10 April 191618 September 1983) was an Austrian historian born in Vienna.
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Friedrich Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (after 1814: von) Schlegel (10 March 1772 – 12 January 1829) was a German poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist, and Indologist.
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Friedrich Torberg
Friedrich Torberg (16 September 1908, Vienna, Alsergrund – 10 November 1979, Vienna) is the pen-name of Friedrich Kantor, an Austrian writer.
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Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando
Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando (1877–1954) was an Austrian writer and illustrator.
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Georg Scherer
Georg Scherer (1540 – 30 November 1605) was a Roman Catholic pulpit orator and controversialist.
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Georg Trakl
Georg Trakl (3 February 1887 – 3 November 1914) was an Austrian poet and the brother of the pianist Grete Trakl.
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Gerhard Fritsch
Gerhard Fritsch (28 March 1924 – 22 March 1969) was an Austrian novelist and poet.
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Gerhard Rühm
Gerhard Rühm (born 12 February 1930 in Vienna) is an Austrian author, composer and visual artist.
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Gerhard Roth
Gerhard Roth (24 June 1942 – 8 February 2022) was an Austrian writer.
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German language
German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
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German literature
German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language.
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Graz
Graz is the capital of the Austrian federal state of Styria and the second-largest city in Austria, after Vienna.
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Grazer Autorenversammlung
The Grazer Autorinnen Autorenversammlung (GAV) was founded under the name of Grazer Autorenversammlung in March 1973 and is one of the two major Austrian writers' association (besides the Austrian PEN).
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Group 47
Gruppe 47 (Group 47) was a group of participants in German writers' meetings, invited by Hans Werner Richter between 1947 and 1967.
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Gustav Freytag
Gustav Freytag (13 July 1816 – 30 April 1895) was a German novelist and playwright.
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Gustav Meyrink
Gustav Meyrink (19 January 1868 – 4 December 1932) was the pseudonym of Gustav Meyer, an Austrian author, novelist, dramatist, translator, and banker, most famous for his novel The Golem.
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H. C. Artmann
Hans Carl Artmann (12 June 1921 – 4 December 2000), also known as Ib Hansen, was an Austrian poet and writer, most popular for his early poems written in Viennese (med ana schwoazzn dintn, 1958), which however, never after were to be the focus of his oeuvre.
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Habsburg monarchy
The Habsburg monarchy, also known as Habsburg Empire, or Habsburg Realm, was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities that were ruled by the House of Habsburg.
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Hans Weigel
Julius Hans Weigel (29 May 1908, Vienna – 12 August 1991, Maria Enzersdorf) was an Austrian Jewish writer and a theater critic.
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Heimito von Doderer
Franz Carl Heimito, Ritter von Doderer, known as Heimito von Doderer (5 September 189623 December 1966), was an Austrian writer.
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Heinrich Mann
Luiz Heinrich Mann (March 27, 1871 – March 11, 1950), best known as simply Heinrich Mann, was a German writer known for his socio-political novels.
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Heldenplatz (play)
Heldenplatz (English: Heroes' Square) is a 1988 stage drama by Austrian playwright Thomas Bernhard.
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Hermann Bahr
Hermann Anastas Bahr (19 July 1863 – 15 January 1934) was an Austrian writer, playwright, director, and critic.
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Hermann Broch
Hermann Broch (1 November 1886 – 30 May 1951) was an Austrian writer, best known for two major works of modernist fiction: The Sleepwalkers (Die Schlafwandler, 1930–32) and The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil, 1945).
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Hermann Hesse
Hermann Karl Hesse (2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter.
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Hilde Spiel
Hilde Spiel (19 October 1911 – 30 November 1990) (pseudonyms: Grace Hanshaw and Jean Lenoir) was an Austrian writer and journalist who received numerous awards and honours.
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Holy Grail
The Holy Grail (Saint Graal, Graal Santel, Greal Sanctaidd, Gral) is a treasure that serves as an important motif in Arthurian literature.
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929) was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.
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Humanism
Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential, and agency of human beings, whom it considers the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry.
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Ilse Aichinger
Ilse Aichinger (1 November 1921 – 11 November 2016) was an Austrian writer known for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry.
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Immigration
Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not usual residents or where they do not possess nationality in order to settle as permanent residents.
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Ingeborg Bachmann
Ingeborg Bachmann (25 June 1926 – 17 October 1973) was an Austrian poet and author.
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Innsbruck
Innsbruck (Austro-Bavarian) is the capital of Tyrol and the fifth-largest city in Austria.
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Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
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Jans der Enikel
Jans der Enikel, or Jans der Jansen Enikel, was a Viennese chronicler and narrative poet of the late 13th century.
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Jean Améry
Jean Améry (31 October 191217 October 1978), born Hanns Chaim Mayer, was an Austrian-born essayist whose work was often informed by his experiences during World War II.
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Jesuits
The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.
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Joachim Perinet
Joachim Perinet (20 October 1763 – 4 April 1816) was an Austrian actor and dramatist.
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Joachim Vadian
Joachim Vadian (29 November 1484 – 6 April 1551), born as Joachim von Watt, was a humanist, scholar, mayor and reformer in the free city of St. Gallen.
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Johann Beer
Johann Beer (also spelled Bähr, Baer, or Behr, Latinized as Ursus or Ursinus; (28 February 1655, in Sankt Georgen – 6 August 1700, in Weissenfels) was an Austrian author, court official and composer.
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Johann Nestroy
Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy (7 December 1801 – 25 May 1862) was a singer, actor and playwright in the popular Austrian tradition of the Biedermeier period and its immediate aftermath.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language.
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Josef Haslinger
Josef Haslinger (born July 5, 1955) is an Austrian writer.
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Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
Joseph II (German: Josef Benedikt Anton Michael Adam; English: Joseph Benedict Anthony Michael Adam; 13 March 1741 – 20 February 1790) was Holy Roman Emperor from 18 August 1765 and sole ruler of the Habsburg monarchy from 29 November 1780 until his death.
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Joseph Roth
Moses Joseph Roth (2 September 1894 – 27 May 1939) was an Austrian-Jewish journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March (1932), about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life Job (1930) and his seminal essay "Juden auf Wanderschaft" (1927; translated into English as The Wandering Jews), a fragmented account of the Jewish migrations from eastern to western Europe in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution.
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Joseph Schreyvogel
Joseph Schreyvogel (27 March 1768 – 28 July 1832) was a Viennese writer and journalist.
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Jugendstil
Jugendstil ("Youth Style") was an artistic movement, particularly in the decorative arts, that was influential primarily in Germany and elsewhere in Europe to a lesser extent from about 1895 until about 1910.
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Julya Rabinowich
Julya Rabinowich (Юля Борисовна Рабинович; born 1970 in Leningrad, (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) is an Austrian author, playwright, painter and translator. In 1977 her family emigrated to Vienna, a move in which she describes herself as having been “uprooted and re-potted.”.
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Jura Soyfer
Jura Soyfer (8 December 1912, Kharkov, Russian Empire – 15/16 February 1939, Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany) was an Austrian political journalist and cabaret writer.
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Karl Kraus (writer)
Karl Kraus (28 April 1874 – 12 June 1936) was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet.
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Karl-Markus Gauß
Karl-Markus Gauß (born 14 May 1954, in Salzburg) is an Austrian contemporary writer, essayist and editor.
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Kathrin Röggla
Kathrin Röggla (born 1971) is an Austrian writer, essayist and playwright.
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Klaus Ebner
Klaus Ebner (born 8 August 1964) is an Austrian writer, essayist, poet, and translator.
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Klaus Händl
Klaus Händl (born September 17, 1969) is an Austrian actor, writer and director.
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Konrad Bayer
Konrad Bayer (17 December 1932 – October 1964) was an Austrian writer and poet.
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Konstantin Kalser
Konstantin Kalser (4 September 1920 30 July 1994) was a German-American film producer and advertising executive.
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Kurt Waldheim
Kurt Josef Waldheim (21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian politician and diplomat.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont; 15 May 168921 August 1762) was an English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer, and poet.
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Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (27 January 1836 – 9 March 1895) was an Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life.
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Lied
In the Western classical music tradition, Lied is a term for setting poetry to classical music to create a piece of polyphonic music.
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Linda Stift
Linda Stift (born 1969) is an Austrian writer.
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List of Austrian women writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Austria or whose writings are closely associated with that country.
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List of Austrian writers
This is a list of Austrian writers and poets.
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Literatur und Kritik
The Austrian literary magazine Literatur und Kritik (Literature and Critical Reviews) was founded in April 1966 by the Austrian writers Rudolf Henz, Gerhard Fritsch, and Paul Kruntorad as successor of the literary publication Wort in der Zeit, which had existed since 1955.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
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Lower Austria
Lower Austria (Niederösterreich abbreviation LA or NÖ; Austro-Bavarian: Niedaöstareich, Niedaestareich, Dolné Rakúsko, Dolní Rakousy) is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country.
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Ludwig Ganghofer
Ludwig Ganghofer (7 July 1855 – 24 July 1920) was a German writer.
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Ludwig Laher
Ludwig Laher (born 11 December 1955 in Linz) is an Austrian writer.
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Maria Theresa
Maria Theresa (Maria Theresia Walburga Amalia Christina; 13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780) was ruler of the Habsburg dominions from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position suo jure (in her own right).
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Marianne Fritz
Marianne Fritz (14 December 1948 – 1 October 2007) was an Austrian writer and novelist.
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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Countess Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbachová, Marie Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach; 13 September 1830 – 12 March 1916) was an Austrian writer.
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Marlene Streeruwitz
Marlene Streeruwitz (born 28 June 1950) is an Austrian playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer.
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Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe.
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Max Brod
Max Brod (מקס ברוד; 27 May 1884 – 20 December 1968) was a Bohemian-born Israeli author, composer, and journalist.
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Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
Maximilian I (22 March 1459 – 12 January 1519) was King of the Romans from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death in 1519.
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Meistersinger
A (German for "master singer") was a member of a German guild for lyric poetry, composition and unaccompanied art song of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries.
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Melk
Melk (older spelling: Mölk) is a city in the Austrian state of Lower Austria, next to the Wachau valley along the Danube.
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Melting pot
A melting pot is a monocultural metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements "melting together" with a common culture; an alternative being a homogeneous society becoming more heterogeneous through the influx of foreign elements with different cultural backgrounds, possessing the potential to create disharmony within the previous culture.
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Michael Beheim
Michael Beheim (also Michel Behaim, Beham or Behm, 1416 – c.1472) was a wandering singer from the modern-day German state Baden-Württemberg.
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Michael Köhlmeier
Michael Köhlmeier (born 15 October 1949 in Hard, Austria), Austrian Federal Chancellery, 23.06.2008.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
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Miguel Herz-Kestranek
Miguel Herz-Kestranek (born 3 April 1948) is an Austrian actor and author.
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Milo Dor
Milo Dor (7 March 1923 – December 2005) was a Serbian Austrian writer and translator.
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Minnesang
("love song") was a tradition of lyric- and song-writing in Germany and Austria that flourished in the Middle High German period.
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Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.
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Neidhart von Reuental
Neidhart (Middle High German Nîthart) (later often called Neidhart von Reuental) was one of the most famous Minnesänger.
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Nibelungenlied
The Nibelungenlied (Der Nibelunge liet or Der Nibelunge nôt), translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem written around 1200 in Middle High German.
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Nicholas of Cusa
Nicholas of Cusa (1401 – 11 August 1464), also referred to as Nicholas of Kues and Nicolaus Cusanus, was a German Catholic cardinal and polymath active as a philosopher, theologian, jurist, mathematician and astronomer.
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Nikolaus Lenau
Nikolaus Lenau was the pen name of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau (13 August 1802 – 22 August 1850), a German-language Austrian poet.
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Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.
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Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).
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Nuremberg
Nuremberg (Nürnberg; in the local East Franconian dialect: Nämberch) is the largest city in Franconia, the second-largest city in the German state of Bavaria, and its 544,414 (2023) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest city in Germany.
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Olga Flor
Olga Flor (born 1968) is an Austrian writer.
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Opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.
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Oskar Baum
Oskar Baum (21 January 1883 – 20 March 1941) was a Czech music educator and writer in the German language.
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Oswald von Wolkenstein
Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376 or 1377 in Pfalzen – August 2, 1445, in Meran) was a poet, composer and diplomat.
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Passion of Jesus
The Passion (from Latin patior, "to suffer, bear, endure") is the short final period before the death of Jesus, described in the four canonical gospels.
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Paul Celan
Paul Celan, born Paul Antschel, (23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a Romanian-born French poet, Holocaust survivor, and literary translator.
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Paul Heyse
Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse (15 March 1830 – 2 April 1914) was a distinguished German writer and translator.
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Paula von Preradović
Paula Preradović (12 October 1887 – 25 May 1951), known professionally as Paula von Preradović or by her married name as Paula Molden, was an Austrian writer and poet.
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PEN International
PEN International (known as International PEN until 2010) is a worldwide association of writers, founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere.
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Peter Canisius
Peter Canisius (Pieter Kanis; 8 May 1521 – 21 December 1597) was a Dutch Jesuit priest.
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Peter Handke
Peter Handke (born 6 December 1942) is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter.
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Peter Paul Wiplinger
Peter Paul Wiplinger (born 25 June 1939 in Haslach an der Mühl) is an Austrian writer and photographer.
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Peter Rosegger
Peter Rosegger (original Roßegger) (31 July 1843 – 26 June 1918) was an Austrian writer and poet from Krieglach in the province of Styria.
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Philipp Weiss
Philipp Weiss (born 5 February 1982 in Vienna) is an Austrian writer and playwright.
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Poetry
Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.
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Prague
Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet and novelist.
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Raoul Schrott
Raoul Schrott (born 17 January 1964) is an Austrian poet, writer, literary critic, translator and broadcast personality.
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Reinmar von Hagenau
Reinmar von Hagenau (also Reinmar der Alte, Reinmar the Elder) was a German Minnesänger of the late twelfth century who composed and performed love-songs in Middle High German.
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Revolutions of 1848
The revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the springtime of the peoples or the springtime of nations, were a series of revolutions throughout Europe over the course of more than one year, from 1848 to 1849.
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Robert Menasse
Robert Menasse (born 21 June 1954) is an Austrian writer.
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Robert Musil
Robert Musil (6 November 1880 – 15 April 1942) was an Austrian philosophical writer.
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Robert Schindel
Robert Schindel (born 4 April 1944) is an Austrian lyricist, director and author.
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Robert Schneider (writer)
Robert Schneider (16 June 1961) is an Austrian writer, who published novels including Schlafes Bruder, texts for the theatre, and poetry.
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Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.
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Rose Ausländer
Rose Ausländer (born Rosalie Beatrice Scherzer; May 11, 1901 – January 3, 1988) was a Jewish poet writing in German and English.
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Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
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Sadomasochism
Sadism and masochism, known collectively as sadomasochism, are the derivation of pleasure from acts of respectively inflicting or receiving pain or humiliation.
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Salzburg
Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria.
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Satire
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
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Schreibkraft
Schreibkraft is an Austrian literary magazine, which was founded in 1998 by the Literature Council of the Forum Stadtpark in Graz (Styria).
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Seifried Helbling
Seifried Helbling (b. 1230) was an Austrian poet.
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Slovakia
Slovakia (Slovensko), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovenská republika), is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
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Slovene language
Slovene or Slovenian (slovenščina) is a South Slavic language of the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family.
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Sophie Reyer
Sophie Anna Reyer is an Austrian author of multiple theater pieces and publications.
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Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig (28 November 1881 – 22 February 1942) was an Austrian writer.
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Styria
Styria (Steiermark; Steiamårk, Štajerska, Stájerország) is an Austrian state in the southeast of the country, famed for its idyllic landscapes, as well as rich folk- and high culture.
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The Demons (Doderer novel)
The Demons (Die Dämonen) is a 1956 novel by the Austrian writer Heimito von Doderer.
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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh) is a 1933 novel by Austrian-Bohemian writer Franz Werfel based on events that took place in 1915, during the second year of World War I and at the beginning of the Armenian genocide.
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.
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The Merowingians (novel)
The Merowingians or The Total Family (Die Merowinger oder Die totale Familie) is a 1962 novel by the Austrian writer Heimito von Doderer.
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers), or simply Werther, is a 1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, which appeared as a revised edition in 1787.
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Theodor Fontane
Theodor Fontane (30 December 1819 – 20 September 1898) was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist author.
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Theodor Kramer
Theodor Kramer (1 January 1897 – 3 April 1958) was an Austrian poet of Jewish origin.
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Theodor Storm
Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm (14 September 18174 July 1888), commonly known as Theodor Storm, was a German-Frisian writer and poet.
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Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War, from 1618 to 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history.
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Thomas Bernhard
Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard (9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, poet and polemicist who is considered one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era.
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Thomas Glavinic
Thomas Glavinic (born 2 April 1972 in Graz) is an Austrian writer.
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Thomas Mann
Paul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
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Ulrich von Liechtenstein
Ulrich von Liechtenstein (ca. 1200 – 26 January 1275) was a German minnesinger and poet of the Middle Ages.
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Vienna
Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.
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Vienna Opera Ball
The Vienna Opera Ball (German: Wiener Opernball) is an annual Austrian society event which takes place in the building of the Vienna State Opera in Vienna, Austria on the Thursday preceding Ash Wednesday (a religious holiday).
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Viktor Žmegač
Viktor Žmegač (21 March 1929 – 20 July 2022) was a Croatian musicologist and scholar.
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Vladimir Vertlib
Vladimir Vertlib, born 2 July 1966 in Leningrad, Russia, immigrated to Austria where he became a writer.
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Volkstheater, Vienna
The Volkstheater (roughly translated as "People's Theatre") in Vienna was founded in 1889 by request of the citizens of Vienna, amongst them the dramatist Ludwig Anzengruber and the furniture manufacturer Thonet, in order to offer a popular counter weight to the Hofburgtheater.
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Walther von der Vogelweide
Walther von der Vogelweide was a Minnesänger who composed and performed love-songs and political songs (Sprüche) in Middle High German.
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Wespennest
Wespennest (literally translated "wasps nest") is a bi-annual literary magazine published in Austria.
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Wiener Gruppe
The Wiener Gruppe (Vienna Group) was a small and loose avant-garde constellation of Austrian poets and writers, which arose from an older and wider postwar association of artists called Art-Club.
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Wiener Werkstattpreis
The international Wiener Werkstattpreis is a literary award established in 1992 in Austria.
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Wolf Haas
Wolf Haas (born 14 December 1960) is an Austrian writer.
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Wolfgang Kauer
Wolfgang Kauer (born 20 February 1957) is an Austrian author who lives in Salzburg.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Zurich
Zurich (Zürich) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich.
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