Joseph McVeigh

Joseph McVeigh

Joseph McVeigh is professor of German Studies at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. His research interests lie primarily in post-1945 Austrian and German literary culture and in the area of German and American cultural relations.

Joseph McVeigh is professor of German Studies at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. His research interests lie primarily in post-1945 Austrian and German literary culture and in the area of German and American cultural relations.


PUBLICATIONS

Ingeborg Bachmann’s Vienna 1946-1953
Year of Publication: 2015
Joseph McVeighYear of Publication: 2015
In the autumn of 1945 the nineteen-year-old Ingeborg Bachmann sets off on the journey that she would later describe as her »longest«, from provincial Kärnten, via Innsbruck and Graz to Vienna.


She begins her studies in philosophy and finds work with the American occupation radio station Rot-Weiß-Rot, publishes her first poems and stories and quickly joins the circle...
The Radio Familiy
Year of Publication: 2011
Ingeborg BachmannYear of Publication: 2011
In autumn of the year 1952, a »chain-smoking mermaid with angel’s hair who more whispered than spoke« entered the radio play department of the American occupied forces Rot-Weiß-Rot...
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