Literature
Friderike Zweig in American Exile: Cultural Networks and Intellectual Agency, 1940–1971 Although Friderike Maria Zweig (1882–1971) is best known as Stefan Zweig’s first wife, she was herself an accomplished writer, translator, literary agent, and cultural mediator whose work significantly shaped Austrian-American intellectual exchange after her exile to the United States. Drawing on archival materials held…
“I am conducting research on the German-speaking cabaret “Die Arche” which played in New York during World War II, from January 1943 to December 1944. This political cabaret was created by Austrian Zionists who had fled Europe. Though “Die Arche” I want to understand how Austrian Zionist maintained and reshaped their networks in exile, how…
Red Vienna’s American Dreams This project examines the impact of America and Americana— literary and cultural products that capture the spirit of 1920s-1930s America—on the working-class literary imagination of Red Vienna, and especially in the works of Hugo Bettauer, Hermynia Zur Mühlen, and Felix Salten. At the center of my argument is the thesis that…
By Thomas Antonic The European Tours Between 1979 and 1983, Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), undoubtedly the most influential and famous American poet of the second half of the 20th century, who would celebrate his 100th birthday on June 3, 2026, toured several times through Europe. He was accompanied by his long-term partner and poet in his…
Writing Home: Emigration Diaries of German and Austrian Jews, 1933-1945 considers the practice of diary writing during emigration and exile, and the changes in writing and its functions as the author is geographically displaced. Beyond giving account of the history of emigration, the diary became a part of constructing a new self as a refugee in…
The aim of this project is to study the sojourns of the U.S. poet Allen Ginsberg in Austria in 1957, 1980, and 1993, and to examine the impact of these visits on the poet’s work as well as the influence of his time in Austria on the country’s literary and cultural landscape. The focus is…
At the Redemptorist Archives—a Smithsonian-grade religious archive in Philadelphia—we are aiming to place our collections online in order to facilitate greater access to knowledge about the Redemptorists, the Catholic Church in the United States, and more generally, religion in America.
Deborah Cohen received a 2019 Botstiber Fellowship to finish her book about American foreign correspondents who spent their formative working years in Austria and the territories of the former Hapsburg empire.
BIAAS awarded a grant to Matti Bunzl to fund the production of the English publication “Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, and Modernist Residences in California” (working title) by Andreas Nierhaus (text) and David Schreyer (photography).
Sina Hoche received a BIAAS grant for her project “VALIE EXPORT in Context: Transatlantic Affinities between Performance Art and the Women’s Liberation Movement in Austria and the U.S.” in which she will be examining sketches, drafts, recordings, and other works stored at the VALIE EXPORT Research Center in Linz, Austria and the MoMA in New…