If you are in London, and if you like, come and hear Susanne Gregor, Eleanor Updegraff and me discuss Susanne's novel Halbe Leben next Tuesday 18.11. www.acflondon.org/events/book-...
such a good book!
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abendspaziergang in Pisa

farbforschungen: Inn in Innsbruck letzten Sonntag rechts, Inn bei Imst (vom Zug) heute

having a great time at the Brenner-Archiv in Innsbruck looking at the papers of Max Riccabona. Many thanks to archive director @ulriketanzer2.bsky.social and everybody at the archive and to @ilcs.bsky.social
(pictured Georg Trakl's and Ludwig von Ficker's graves and railway viaducts with mountain

That was a great book launch with Teresa Praeauer and Eleanor Updegraff at the Austrian Cultural Forum. Thanks to all for coming, especially to the UCL students, their Austrian Lektorin Sigrid Thomsen, translator colleagues and @pushkinpress.com @ilcs.bsky.social @dances-with-voles.bsky.social

Looking forward to moderating Teresa Präauer and Eleanor Updegraff launching the publication of "Cooking in the Wrong Century" out with @pushkinpress.com
19 May at ACF:
www.acflondon.org/events/book-...; see also 22 May at Waterstones Putney www.waterstones.com/events/teres... @ilcs.bsky.social

Looking forward to moderating an evening with Robert Seethaler and @cctranslates.bsky.social. We present he English translation of Das Café ohne Namen -The Café with No Name published @canongate.co.uk; translated by @katyderbyshire.bsky.social; @ilcs.bsky.social.

www.acflondon.org/events/book-...

here she is presiding over bryant square in nyc :)

Very happy to announce the publication of Reading Bachmann Now, co-edited by me and 2 lovely people, Katya Krylova and Marlen Mairhofer, and wonderful contributions
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Friederike Mayröcker ist morgen vor 100 Jahren geboren. Auch eine wunderbare Zeichnerin. RIP ihre unsterbliche Seele.

Proposals are welcome for our symposium on Modes of Modernism. Vienna 1900 and beyond. Check out the CFP here:
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/cfp-m...
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Looking forward to moderating a reading by Austrian-Slovenian writer Ana Marwan from her Bachmann prize winning text "Wechselkröte", followed by a discussion with Seán Williams. Book free tickets here:
www.acflondon.org/events/readi...
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Many thanks to Katya Krylova for an absolutely brilliant lecture and to all attendees for a lively and interesting discussion.

how weird is that?

Auf Uwe Johnsons Spuren in Sheerness, wo er die letzten 10 seines Lebens verbracht hat. Er lebte in 26 Marine Parade, war im Pub als Charlie bekannt & seine Asche ist im Halfway Cemetery begraben.

einer der Mayröcker'schen Schutzgeister als November-Talisman (gegen Allerheiligenblues)

Heute waere der 91. Geburtstag der unvergessenen Ruth Klüger. Schriftstellerin & Literaturwissenschaftlerin. * 30.10. 1931 in Wien, mit 10 Jahren in Theresienstadt, dann Auschwitz ueberlebt, spaeter Emigration in die USA. 1992: "weiter leben: Eine Jugend". Starb am 5.10. 2020 in Irvine, California.

There will be a symposium on the work of the one and only Friederike Mayröcker in 2024 at the Bachmann Centre. Watch this space.