Database of Funded Projects
The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies has generously funded academic research and public history projects that promote an understanding of the historic relationship between the United States and Austria. The following search tools make it possible to explore these projects and to learn more about the scholars and organizations who have received BIAAS grants and fellowships.
Christopher Long
This book, Volume 3 of Viennese architect Josef Frank's complete writings, features a single work, a series of linked essays Frank wrote in the mid-1940s but never published. In addition to an introduction by Christopher Long, the work includes important essays about Frank's life and work written by Tano Bojankin, Hermann Czech, and Otto Kapfinger. This translation of the original German-language volume marks the first time this seminal work of Frank's—a powerful critique of modernism—will [...]
Monika Platzer – Cold War and Architecture: The Competing Forces that Reshaped Austria after 1945
In contrast to Berlin, Vienna is not perceived as the site of a politicized architectural debate during the Cold War. […]
Lauren Wolfe – Figuring “Austria” Through Translation
Lauren K. Wolfe received a BIAAS grant in the amount of $12,584 to support her project “Figuring ‘Austria’ Through Translation.” This research project, which will be carried out at various literary archives in Klagenfurt and Vienna, focuses on the experimental and politically charged literary projects of two 20th century Austria writers, Karl Kraus and Werner Kofler, both of whom utilized collage as a mode of composition. […]
Joshua Parker
BIAAS granted Joshua Parker $5,800 in order to collect and translate short poetry by Austrian refugees […]
Ron Hassner
BIAAS issued a grant for $4,000 to Ron Hassner in order to publish an English translation of the play Der Herr Karl. […]
Teresa Carmody
BIAAS awarded an $8,450 grant to Teresa Carmody to produce a bilingual anthology of Austrian experimental writing, entitled An Austrian Avant-Garde. […]
Robert Lackner
BIAAS granted Robert Lackner $13,000 for the transition of Lackner’s manuscript on Hugo Botstiber into German and preparing it for publication. […]
Gregor Thuswaldner
BIAAS issued a grant to Gregor Thuswaldner for $5,350 in order to produce a translation of Felix Mitterer’s play, Jägerstätter. […]
Jorun Johns
BIAAS awarded $3,996 to Jorun Johns in order to fund an English translation of a biography of composer and pianist Hermann Leopoldi. […]
Anette Baldauf
BIAAS funded a $16,000 grant to Anette Baldauf in order to complete a publishing and translation project of Victor Gruen unpublished autobiography. […]