Robert Menasse Turns 70 on 21 June 2024

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16.06.2024

On 21 June 2024, Suhrkamp author Robert Menasse celebrates his 70th birthday. The award-winning Austrian novelist and essayist is known for the way that he deftly deals with historical and political themes in his novels – for example in The Capital and Enlargement, which are set among the backroom intrigues of the EU – and for his keen insights into contemporary politics in his non-fiction writing – as in his most recent work, The World of Tomorrow. With the ongoing rise of the AfD in Germany, Marine Le Pen in France and Giorgia Meloni in Italy, the course of European politics is currently on a knife-edge. It seems that Menasse’s plea for a post-national European politics has not yet been heard widely enough.

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We wish the author many happy returns.

Robert Menasse

Robert Menasse was born in Vienna in 1954. He studied German philology, philosophy and political science in Vienna, Salzburg and Messina and received his PhD in 1980 with a thesis on the character of the outsider in literature. Menasse then spent six years at the University of São Paulo, first as a lecturer for Austrian literature, then as a guest lecturer at the Institute for Literary Theory, where he gave lectures on philosophical and aesthetic theories, including on Hegel, Lukács, Benjamin and Adorno. Since his return from Brazil in 1988, Robert Menasse has been a writer and essayist based mainly in Vienna.

Robert Menasse

Robert Menasse was born in Vienna in 1954. He studied German philology, philosophy and political science in Vienna, Salzburg and Messina and...