For years, a team of researchers from Vienna has been working on the early works of Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) in a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. Generating a wealth of material that prompts new questions, this large publication project has funnelled the work of the Austrian writer into the digital age. Continue reading “At Arthur Schnitzler’s desk”
After his edition of the works of Anton Kuh (1890-1941), the biographer Walter Schübler has now received further support from the FWF for the publication of a monograph about this Austrian journalist and extempore speaker. He set out to rectify misconceptions and to reconstruct the life and work of this provocative emigrant writer, who crossed […] Continue reading “Anton Kuh: writer and performer”
Ernst Toller was a revolutionary, a man of letters, a politician and an indefatigable writer of letters. With the support of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a collection of his correspondence between 1915 and 1939 has now been edited with a commentary. It opens up a 24-year window to a period of radical change. Continue reading “Unconditionally, Ernst Toller”
They were born in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, migrated, wrote manifold texts going against the grain of mainstream society in the 19th and early 20th centuries and have been widely ignored by literary history: with the support of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, the German studies scholar Alexandra Millner researched migrant women writers and assembled them […] Continue reading “Women’s voices against prejudice under the monarchy”
With the support of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, Susanne Hochreiter and Angelika Baier investigate how intersex (hermaphroditism) is treated in contemporary German-language literature. Their findings: writers are just as unsure in their approach to the third gender as society is in general. Continue reading “Outside the norm”
A project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF is currently exploring the literary and cultural landscape of the inter-war years in Austria. The results, which are published in several books and on an Internet research platform, will provide comprehensive access to the topics and creative figures of the period. Continue reading “Suppressed and forgotten – Inter-war Austrian culture”