The essays in this book document how the impressive body of literary works and films created by women writers and filmmakers has greatly enriched t...

This play is Thomas Bernhard's devastating satire on the business of literature. The novelist Moritz Meister, after years of neglect, has finally a...

In his eminence, his iconic status, and his masterful command of enormous fictional realms in several huge novels, Heimito von Doderer (1896-1966) ...

The well-known painter, Oskar Kokoschka, also produced a considerable and significant body of literary work: plays, a few poems, essays and autobio...

This collection of seventeen articles offers an investigation of some of the most important voices from Austria's theatre world between 1945 and 20...

The Prince of Darkness', written by Erika Mitterer (1906-2001) in 1939, is a veiled criticism of the contemporary political system. It was meant to...

Long considered one of Arthur Schnitzler's greatest accomplishments, Professor Bernhardi brings together its author's treatment of anti-Semitism, a...

This novel describes from varying perspectives the lives of two Austrian brothers. Moritz and Vinzenz, who meet again after a long estrangement. Th...

This anthology presents an image of the Austrian people through short narrative prose works by forty of the leading modern and contemporary authors...

Otto von Habsburg, who is presently serving as President of the Pan-Europa Union, presents a series of essays examining the problems facing all of ...

In Austrian literary circles, Hilde Spiel (1911-1990) [BJ1]is known as the grande dame of post-war Austrian literature. Published widely in both En...

In 1831 a young princess is forced to leave her home in Brazil and follow her father into exile. After the forcible overthrow of her tyrannical unc...

The plot of "The Search for M" revolves around the lives in contemporary Vienna of two generations of European Jews, the survivors of the Holocaust...

A coming-of-age novel that is set in a farming village near Klagenfurt and in Salzburg, Austria during the later 1970s. Its sure sense of place and...

This study offers an overview and critical analysis of emerging women's movements and of a feminist consciousness in women's literature across the ...

Mitterer's plays confront human suffering and oppression with an honesty and directness that is often painful for theatre audiences. Siberia is a m...

Turrini's theatre works extend far beyond their Austrian origins in expressing the hopes, frustrations, and hypocrisies of life in the modern world...

Text in English & German. This volume contains the presentations given at the International Stefan Zweig Congress, held in Salzburg in February...

The author was one of the major Expressionist painters of the first half of the 20th century, and also wrote a number of plays, poems, and stories....

Ödön von Horváth (1901-1939) is one of the most important theatre writers in the 1930s. His reputation rests largely on the four plays in this coll...

The Condor; The Ancient Seal; Tourmaline; Granite: Confidence; Prose Poem (from Indian summer); The Eclipse of the Sun in 1842; My Life: An Autobio...

Each play deals with a certain aspect of our human condition, embedded in the framework of the world around us. In "The Good God of Manhattan," for...

These essays deal with Ingeborg Bachmann, the most important and most widely read Austrian woman writer of the twentieth century. Her work spans th...

This is an expanded English edition of the book 'Tiger in the Tank' that was first published in German in 2002. It is a compilation of interviews a...