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Despite Austria's contributions to architecture and revered musical traditions, no Austrian literature made it to the classical canon until the 19th century. In the early 18th century, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, whilst visiting Vienna, was stunned to meet no writers at all. [citation needed] Several reasons can be given.
Otto Maria Carpeaux (1900–1978), literary critic and foremost historian of Literature Paul Celan (1920–1970), poet (born in Czernowitz , Austria-Hungary ), wrote in German Ada Christen (1839–1901), poet, short story writer, and writer of sketches
After the proclamation of the Republic of Austria, the Imperial Library was renamed in 1920 as the Austrian National Library. [1] The collection politics of intermediate wartime concentrated on "the national literature of those German trunks, which came now under foreign-national rule." The director at that time of the library was Josef Donabaum.
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In the late 19th and early 20th century, leading writers of the time became attached to the atmosphere of Viennese cafés and were frequently seen to meet, exchange and to even write there. Literature composed in cafés is commonly referred to as coffee house literature, the writers thereof as coffee house poets.
The house where Hofmannsthal was born, at Salesianergasse 12, Landstraße, Vienna 3 [1] Hofmannsthal was born in Landstraße, Vienna, the son of an upper-class Christian Austrian mother, Anna Maria Josefa Fohleutner (1852–1904), and a Christian Austrian–Italian bank manager, Hugo August Peter Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal (1841–1915). [2]
The other dominant voice in Viennese literature during this period was the satirist Karl Kraus. Originally Kraus had been associated with the Young Vienna writers but he broke with them and attacked them in his 1897 essay Die demolierte Literatur (Demolished Literature), which was written after
Stefan Zweig (/ z w aɪ ɡ, s w aɪ ɡ / ZWYGHE, SWYGHE, [1] German: [ˈʃtɛfan ˈtsvaɪk] ⓘ; 28 November 1881 – 22 February 1942) was an Austrian writer.At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular writers in the world.