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THE ART OF EXTINCTION.
In 1988, to commemorate Austria's annexation by Adolf Hitler fifty years earlier, a new play was commissioned from Thomas Bernhard. The author of eleven novels and more than twenty plays, Bernhard had a well-deserved reputation as the country's most provocative postwar writer: he spent his career alternately mocking and mourning Austria's Nazi legacy, which, with typical bluntness, he once represented as a pile of manure on the stage. At first, he declined to participate in the commemoration, saying with caustic humor that a more appropriate gesture would be for all the shops once owned by Jews to display signs reading "Judenfrei." But the author of plays like "The German ...
- Fear and loathing in Vienna. (Thomas Bernhard's subjects)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Lieberman, Rhonda January 1, 1994 700+ words
...moments--and years), Bernhard has preserved them in...about horrible people in Vienna and not people you know...and who repel him. The Bernhard world is structured like...recently conducted a Bernhard reading at a tony Manhattan...Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. We get into his head...
- Paumgartner, Bernhard
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE January 1, 1996 700+ words
Paumgartner, Bernhard ( b Vienna, 1887; d Salzburg, 1971). Austrian conductor, composer, and musicologist. Son of Hans Paumgartner and Rosa Papier. Cond. at Vienna Opera 1911–12, but became one of leading organizers...
- Karl Ignaz Hennetmair. Ein Jahr mit Thomas Bernhard: Das notariell versiegelte...
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Sharp, Francis Michael April 1, 2003 700+ words
...Hennetmair's business appointments, Bernhard's erratic writing impulses, or during the short periods Bernhard spent in Vienna or Salzburg. The diary preserves...secret, Hennetmair believed that Bernhard must have had his suspicions...
- CONTROVERSIAL AUSTRIAN PLAYWRIGHT AND POET THOMAS BERNHARD; AT 58
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Associated Press February 17, 1989 700+ words
VIENNA - Thomas Bernhard, the enfant terrible...Press Agency. Mr. Bernhard was born in the...He grew up in Vienna, the Austrian countryside...literature." Mr. Bernhard's plays were a...subject of debate in Vienna and Salzburg. In...
- Heldenplatz. (Burgtheater, Vienna)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) November 12, 1988 700+ words
...have enraged members of Vienna's snobbish cultural...showed-the anti-Bernhard lobby has demanded that...Messrs Peymann and Bernhard and Vienna's small coterie of...own society. As for Mr Bernhard himself, he must be...
- The grinch who stole Austria; Thomas Bernhard.(Thomas Bernhard in...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) September 8, 2001 700+ words
...Austria, and of Vienna in particular. In Bernhard's late novels...relentlessly about Vienna and Austria...novel work is Bernhard's skill...it succeeded in Vienna because the Austrians...since his death Bernhard has been transformed...
- Sikhs in brawl at Vienna temple.
- Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) May 25, 2009 700+ words
...Jalandhar several hours after the Vienna clash, in what locals there said...roadblocks across the city. In Vienna, witnesses spoke of the chaos...30 and 50 years old, spokesman Bernhard Segal, of Vienna medical services, said. Ram...
- Preachers at rival Sikh temple are attacked; n Brawl in Vienna, 'like a...
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) May 25, 2009 700+ words
...Jalandhar several hours after the Vienna clash, in what locals there described...across the city. Witnesses in Vienna spoke of chaos.. "Everybody...being investigated, said Takacs. Bernhard Segal, of Vienna medical services, said that one...
