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Josef Haslinger (born July 5, 1955) is an Austrian writer. Haslinger was born in Zwettl, Lower Austria. He studied philosophy, drama and Germanic studies at the University of Vienna. [ 1] He received his PhD in 1980. [ 1]
Aug 11, 2015 · Josef Haslinger’s story "Fiona und Ferdinand" (2006) revolves around a disclosed secret in its narrator’s childhood hometown, which implicates two (deceased) village elders in a decades-old rape and murder mystery long blamed on two anonymous “Russian soldiers.”
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Josef Haslinger has made a name for himself with his novels Opernball (1995) and Das Vaterspiel (2000), both of which involve legacies of the Nazi era. He is also known for
Josef Haslinger Where did you learn how to write? Sometimes, when it comes up that I teach literary writing at the University of Leipzig, I’m asked in an ironic voice: “And who taught you how to write?” And I answer: “Gustav Ernst.” Normally people look at me with bafflement because they don’t know Gustav Ernst. But I insist
Mar 26, 2015 · Josef Haslinger's Jáchymov (2011) is many things at once: the tragic story of the famous Czech ice hockey goalkeeper Bohumil Modrý, unjustly sentenced to brutal manual labour in the uranium mines of the Czech city of Jáchymov in 1950, and also an examination of place, a concept used here to engender discussions of memory and its attachment ...
Oct 6, 2015 · Josef Haslinger's novel Opernball, first published in 1995, represents a fictitious toxic gas attack on the guests attending the Viennese Opera Ball. The novel engages millennial thinking and reaches a climax in the idea of an Armageddon, which corresponds loosely to the Book of Revelations.
Dec 5, 2017 · An author engaged in dialogues both political and aesthetic, Haslinger often conflates the Familienvater of domestic space with the archetypal Austrian patriarch in politics, and uses the dual motifs of fathers and families to metaphorize sociopolitical issues in his essayistic and fiction writing.
