Robert Schindel
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Robert Schindel
Robert Schindel, born in 1944 near Linz, is a poet, author and director. In 2009 he accepted a position as professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He is the recipient of numerous literary awards. His works include: Gebürtig, a novel (1992), Mein liebster Feind, a collection of essays and speeches (2004), and Fremd bei mir selbst, poems (2004).
Robert Schindel, born in 1944 near Linz, is a poet, author and director. In 2009 he accepted a position as professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He is the recipient of numerous literary awards. His works include: Gebürtig, a novel (1992), Mein liebster Feind, a collection of essays and speeches (2004), and Fremd bei mir selbst, poems (2004).
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Year of Publication: 2023
Robert SchindelYear of Publication: 2023
River Walk
Robert Schindel’s new poems, published after neraly ten years of lyrical silence, are also a product of old age and parting, as the author himself confesses, not without humour. It is no accident that the title implies the act of leaving. Along this »walk« readers are presented with 55 highly personal poems of magical fluency. Melancholy, occasionally seemingly tired of dying,...
Year of Publication: 2013
Robert SchindelYear of Publication: 2013
The Cold One
A study of Austria’s political myths, attempts at forgetting, and the adequacy of memory
Austria, 1985 to 1989: three separate »culture wars« are raging side-by-side, all...
Austria, 1985 to 1989: three separate »culture wars« are raging side-by-side, all...
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Year of Publication: 1992
Robert SchindelYear of Publication: 1992
Born-Where
»Robert Schindel's Born-Where is a novel about origins, about the wages of history. Its protagonists are contemporary Viennese and German Jews who are the children of those who were killed...
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English world rights (Ariadne), France (Stock), Italy (Empiria), Poland (Austeria Klezmerhojs), Bulgaria (International Elias Canetti Society), Serbia (Futura / Nojzac), Slovenia (Wieser), Israel (Am Oved)
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Robert Schindel Turns 80 on 4 April 2024
Suhrkamp congratulates Robert Schindel on his 80th birthday.Film rights