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Josef Frank: Complete Writings, Volume 4 includes the later theoretical writings of the important Austro-Swedish architect and designer Josef Frank (1885–1967), covering the period from 1938 to the early 1950s. In addition to Frank’s essays, Volume 4 will also feature several interpretive essays concerning his work of this period, as well as a long, previously…
Some weeks after National Socialist Germany annexed Austria in March 1938, a small group of 15 and 16 year-old classmates of Jewish heritage promised one another that they would do their best to maintain ties. The boys’ original promise resulted in an extraordinary group correspondence that stretched over fifteen years and spanned three continents. This correspondence…
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.…
In contrast to Berlin, Vienna is not perceived as the site of a politicized architectural debate during the Cold War.
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…
BIAAS granted Joshua Parker $5,800 in order to collect and translate short poetry by Austrian refugees
BIAAS issued a grant for $4,000 to Ron Hassner in order to publish an English translation of the play Der Herr Karl.
BIAAS awarded an $8,450 grant to Teresa Carmody to produce a bilingual anthology of Austrian experimental writing, entitled An Austrian Avant-Garde.
BIAAS granted Robert Lackner $13,000 for the transition of Lackner’s manuscript on Hugo Botstiber into German and preparing it for publication.
BIAAS issued a grant to Gregor Thuswaldner for $5,350 in order to produce a translation of Felix Mitterer’s play, Jägerstätter.