{"id":817,"date":"2023-08-03T11:07:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T09:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deutschakademie.de\/wien\/?page_id=817"},"modified":"2023-12-19T09:20:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T08:20:22","slug":"vienna-and-literature","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.deutschakademie.com\/en\/vienna-city-guide\/vienna-and-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Vienna &#038; Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"817\" class=\"elementor elementor-817 elementor-76\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-210f7f3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"210f7f3\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c22a5d0\" data-id=\"c22a5d0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f534796 elementor-widget elementor-widget-breadcrumb_widget\" data-id=\"f534796\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"breadcrumb_widget.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"container\">\n    <nav class=\"breadcrumb\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb Navigation\">\n        <ol class=\"breadcrumb__menu\">\n            <li class=\"breadcrumb__item\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deutschakademie.com\/en\/\"\n                   class=\"breadcrumb__link\"\n                   title=\"Home\"\n                   aria-label=\"Home\"\n                   rel=\"nofollow\">\n                    Home                <\/a>\n                &gt;            <\/li>\n                            <li class=\"breadcrumb__item\">\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deutschakademie.com\/en\/vienna-city-guide\/\"\n                       class=\"breadcrumb__link\"\n                       title=\"Vienna city guide\"\n                       aria-label=\"Vienna city guide\">\n                        Vienna city guide                    <\/a>\n                    &gt;                <\/li>\n                            <li class=\"breadcrumb__item\">\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deutschakademie.com\/en\/vienna-city-guide\/vienna-and-literature\/\"\n                       class=\"breadcrumb__link\"\n                       title=\"Vienna & Literature\"\n                       aria-label=\"Vienna & Literature\">\n                        Vienna & Literature                    <\/a>\n                                    <\/li>\n                    <\/ol>\n    <\/nav>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1fa55e7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1fa55e7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7923600\" data-id=\"7923600\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-583286d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text_widget\" data-id=\"583286d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text_widget.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t        <div class=\"section\">\n            <div class=\"container\">\n                                    <div class=\"text-start\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"h1-intro\">\n                        Vienna and Literature                    <\/h1>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <p><strong>TIP:<\/strong><br \/>Admittedly, the Caf\u00e9 Griensteidl no longer exists in its original form, since it had to close down at the end of the 19th Century because of demolition. In the new Griensteidl, opened in 1990, however, you can still feel some of that literary spirit that made this place world-famous. Once authors such as Hugo von Hofmannstahl, Arthur Schnitzler, Karl Kraus and Peter Altenberg gathered in the Griensteidl. It is worth a visit.<\/p><h2>Coffee house literature<\/h2><p>In Vienna, literature is closely connected with the coffee house. Because authors such as Stefan Zweig, Karl Kraus or Peter Altenberg composed many of their texts in coffee houses, they were called coffee house writers. Viennese coffee house literature became world famous and made literary history. Its heyday was the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th Century. But the coffee house remained even after this time a popular meeting point and workplace for Austrian authors and poets. The internationally celebrated dramatist and author Thomas Bernhard, say, preferred to drink his M\u00e9lange in Vienna in the Br\u00e4unerhof and went to the Sacher.<\/p><h2>Contemporary literature<\/h2><p>The best-known Austrian authors internationally are Peter Handke and Elfriede Jelinek. Peter Handke lives in Salzburg and Paris. Elfriede Jelinek lives in Munich, Vienna and Paris.<\/p><h2>Famous authors<\/h2><p><strong>Karl Kraus<\/strong><br \/>was born in 1871 in Gitschin in the Czech Republic and died in 1936 in Vienna. He founded the literary journal \u201cDie Fackel\u201d (The Torch), and composed numerous aphorisms and the epochal drama \u201cThe Last Days of Mankind\u201d.<\/p><p><strong>Robert Musil<\/strong><br \/>was born in Klagenfurt in K\u00e4rnten in 1880, studied and later lived in Vienna. Among his most famous works are \u201cDie Verwirrungen des Z\u00f6glings T\u00f6rle\u00df\u201d and \u201cDer Mann ohne Eigenschaften\u201d.<\/p><p><strong>Stefan Zweig<\/strong><br \/>was born in 1881 in Vienna and died in 1942 in Petropolis near Rio de Janeiro. One of his best selling works is the volume of essays \u201cSternstunden der Menschheit\u201d.<\/p><p><strong>Franz<\/strong> <strong>Kafka<\/strong><br \/>was born in 1883 in Prague and died in 1924 in Kierling in Lower Austria. He wrote many great novels and stories-among the most famous being \u201cThe Trial\u201d, \u201cThe Castle\u201d, \u201cAmerica\u201d and \u201cMetamorphosis\u201d.<\/p><p><strong>Franz Werfel<\/strong><br \/>was born in 1890 in Prague and died in 1945 in Beverly Hills in California. Among his famous novels are \u201cThe 40 Days of Musa Dagh\u201d and \u201cThe Song of Bernadette\u201d.<\/p><p><strong>Elias Canetti<\/strong><br \/>was born in 1905 in Rustschuk in Bulgaria and died in 1994 in Z\u00fcrich. In 1981 the author and essayist was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His most famous novel is \u201cDie Blendung\u201d, his most famous essay collection \u201cMasse und Macht\u201d.<\/p><p><strong>Thomas Bernhard<\/strong><br \/>was born in 1931 in the Netherlands and died in 1989 in Gmunden. He composed novels, stories and dramas.<\/p><p><strong>Elfriede Jelinek<\/strong><br \/>was born in 1946 in M\u00fcrzzuschlag in Steiermark and lives as a freelance author in Munich, Vienna and Paris. Her story \u201cDie Klavierspielerin\u201d (The Piano Player) was made into a film in 2001 by the Austrian director Michael Haneke.<\/p>                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        \t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vienna and Literature TIP:Admittedly, the Caf\u00e9 Griensteidl no longer exists in its original form, since it had to close down at the end of the 19th Century because of demolition. In the new Griensteidl, opened in 1990, however, you can still feel some of that literary spirit that made this place world-famous. 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