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Born November 1, 1886 • Vienna • Austria
Died May 30, 1951 (aged 64) • New Haven • Connecticut
Notable Works “Irdisches Vergnügen in Gott” • “The Death of Virgil” • “The Sleepwalkers” • “The Spell”
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
German-language writer
Feuchtwanger
Lion Feuchtwanger
German writer
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian-German poet
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
Peter Handke
Peter Handke
Austrian writer
Ingeborg Bachmann
Austrian author
Arthur Schnitzler
Austrian author
Elfriede Jelinek
Austrian author
Adalbert Stifter
Austrian writer
Bertha, baroness von Suttner.
Bertha, baroness von Suttner
German author
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian writer
Heimito von Doderer
Austrian novelist
Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Austrian writer
Stefan Zweig
Austrian writer
Robert Musil
Austrian writer
Vicki Baum
American author
Ilse Aichinger
Austrian author
Bahr, 1916
Hermann Bahr
Austrian writer
Felix Salten
Austrian novelist
Ferdinand Kürnberger
Austrian writer