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SUMMARY:The Matchbox Girl: Alice Jolly in Conversation with Rosie Goldsmith
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to welcome prize-winning novelist Alice Jolly\, author of The Matchbox Girl\, in conversation with award-winning journalist Rosie Goldsmith. \nSet in 1930’s Vienna\, The Matchbox Girl brilliantly brings neurodiversity to light. \nJoin us for a conversation offering insight into the story of a young non-verbal girl’s battle for survival and search for the truth. \n\nAbout The Matchbox Girl \nAdelheid Brunner does not speak. She writes and draws instead and her ambition is to own one thousand matchboxes. Her grandmother cannot make sense of this\, but Adelheid will stop at nothing to achieve her dream. She makes herself invisible\, hiding in cupboards with her pet rat\, Franz Joseph\, listening in on conversations she can’t fully comprehend. Then she meets Dr Asperger\, a man who lets children play all day and who recognises the importance of matchboxes. He invites Adelheid to come and live at the Vienna paediatric clinic\, where she and other children like herself will live under observation. But the year is 1938 and the place is Vienna – a city of political instability\, a place of increasing fear and violence. When the Nazis march into the city\, a new world is created and difficult choices must be made. Why are the clinic’s children disappearing\, and where do they go? Adelheid starts to suspect that some of Dr Asperger’s games are played for the highest stakes. In order to survive\, she must play a game whose rules she cannot yet understand. \n\nAlice Jolly is a novelist and playwright. Her writing has been awarded the PEN/Ackerley Prize\, an O Henry Prize and the V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize\, and been longlisted for Ondaatje Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. She teaches on the Creative Writing Masters at Oxford University. \n\nRosie Goldsmith is an award-winning journalist and presenter\, specializing in arts and foreign affairs. As a BBC broadcaster for twenty years\, she travelled the world. Today she combines journalism with presenting and curating cultural and literary events. As well as being Director of the European Literature Network and Editor-in-Chief of The Riveter magazine\, Rosie is also the Artistic Director of the European Writers’ Festival in the UK\, a books podcaster and book prize judge.
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/the-matchbox-girl-alice-jolly-in-conversation-with-rosie-goldsmith/
LOCATION:Austrian Cultural Forum London\, 28 Rutland Gate\, London\, SW7 1PQ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Presentation & Discussion with Thomas Harding – The Maverick - George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing
DESCRIPTION:Hella Pick Lecture Series with the Weidenfeld Institute\, University of Sussex\nThe Austrian Cultural Forum invites you to the third event in the Hella Pick Lecture series in cooperation with the Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies. \nThe evening will feature a book presentation of The Maverick – George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing by renowned author Thomas Harding who will present his remarkable biography of the namesake of the Weidenfeld Institute – famed publisher Lord George Weidenfeld. \nThe presentation will be followed by a discussion with the director of the Weidenfeld Institute\, Professor Gideon Reuvenui. \nThe Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies\, launched in 2019\, is an interdisciplinary research hub that places the Jewish experience in a broader context. Aimed to act as an agent of change\, their work is focussed on the present and making past experiences relevant in a world increasingly divided by disinformation and prejudice. \nThe Institute is home to the Centre for German-Jewish Studies\, which for over two decades has been at the forefront of academic enquiry into the history\, culture and thought of Jewish refugees from German-speaking lands. The Institute also works with Digital Holocaust Memory and Education Projects and sponsors prestigious Fellowship programmes. \nThomas Harding www.thomasharding.com is a bestselling author whose books have been translated into twenty languages. His publications include Hanns and Rudolf which won the Wingate Prize for Non-Fiction and Blood on the Page which won the Crime Writers’ Association’s Golden Dagger Award for Non-Fiction. His other books have received wide acclaim including The House by the Lake (shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and extracted in BBC Radio 4’s Book Of The Week)\, Future History (nominated for the German Youth Literature Award ‘Best Youth Book’ and performed by Berlin Youth Ballet) and White Debt (longlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing and dramatised on BBC Radio 4). In addition\, his book The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing was chosen as a New York Times Critics’ Pick for 2023. His most recent book\, The Einstein Vendetta\, was published in 2025. \nThomas has written for the Sunday Times\, the Washington Post and the Guardian\, among other publications. In 2024\, he was elected as a visiting fellow of Jesus College Cambridge. For ten years (2014-2024) he was president of the Alexander Haus project outside of Berlin. \nAbout The Maverick \nAfter arriving in London just before World War II as a penniless Austrian-Jewish refugee\, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only the world of publishing but the culture of ideas. The books that he published include momentous titles such as Lolita\, Double Helix\, The Group and The Hedgehog and the Fox\, with authors he championed ranging from Joan Didion\, Mary McCarthy\, JD Salinger\, Edna O’Brien\,  Henry Miller\, Harold Wilson\, Saul Bellow and Henry Kissinger. His role as publisher brought him into the orbit of influential figures such as George Bush\, Ann Getty\, Donald Trump and LBJ. \nIn this first biography\, Thomas Harding provides a full\, unvarnished\, and at times difficult history of this complex and fascinating character. Throughout his long career\, he was written about in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, Time Magazine\, Vanity Fair\, and other publications. Was he\, as described by some\, the “greatest salesperson\,” “the world’s best networker\,” “the publisher’s publisher\,” and “a great intellectual”? Was his lifelong effort to be the world’s most famous host a cover for his loneliness? Who\, in fact\, was the real George Weidenfeld and how did he rise so successfully within the ranks of New York and London society?
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/book-presentation-discussion-with-thomas-harding-the-maverick-george-weidenfeld-and-the-golden-age-of-publishing/
LOCATION:Austrian Cultural Forum London\, 28 Rutland Gate\, London\, SW7 1PQ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Presentation & Discussion with Susanne Gregor and Eleanor Updegraff – Halbe Leben
DESCRIPTION:The ACF London is delighted to welcome Austrian-Slovak novelist Susanne Gregor and translator Eleanor Updegraff for a special evening celebrating Gregor’s latest novel Halbe Leben (Half lives). \nThis incisive and gripping book about two families\, one in Slovakia\, one in Austria\, explores the dynamics of two interdependent families. A Slovakian woman puts her life on hold to support her children by working as a carer for a family in Austria. Starting out with a possible crime\, the novel navigates shifting power dynamics and veiled exploitation with narrative skill as well as irony. Susanne Gregor explores major themes that affect us all\, telling a story of inequality—between two women and their families\, between two lives. \nThis very topical novel was recently dramatised and staged by the Volkstheater in Vienna using Slovakian surtitles and touring the city’s quarters in a variety of locations. \nThe event will be chaired by Andrea Capovilla\, Director of the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature and Culture and will conclude with an audience Q&A session. \nThis bilingual event is accessible to non-German speakers. \n\nSusanne Gregor https://susannegregor.com/ was born in 1981 in Žilina\, Czechoslovakia. In 1990\, she moved to Austria with her family. She studied German studies and journalism in Salzburg and later taught German as a foreign language at the University of New Orleans. She now lives in Vienna. Gregor has received multiple awards for her literary work\, including the Elias Canetti Scholarship\, the Writing between the Cultures Award and the City of Vienna Advancement Award. Her novel Wir werden fliegen was nominated for the Austrian Book Prize. \n\nEleanor Updegraff https://www.eleanorupdegraff.co.uk/about is a writer\, editor\, and translator of contemporary German and Austrian literature. Born in London and raised in Hampshire\, she lived for several years in Vienna and Carinthia before returning to the UK. Her recent translations include Teresa Präauer’s Cooking in the Wrong Century\, Tanja Paar’s The Trembling World and Annabelle Hirsch’s A History of Women in 101 Objects.
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/book-presentation-discussion-with-susanne-gregor-and-eleanor-updegraff-halbe-leben/
LOCATION:Austrian Cultural Forum London\, 28 Rutland Gate\, London\, SW7 1PQ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Arc of History Lecture Series: The Hidden Impact of Allied Cultural Policies and the Austrian Exile Community on Austrian Culture After 1945
DESCRIPTION:The Arc of History Lecture Series: Austria 1900 – 2020 \nWe are excited to continue our series of lectures launched in 2024\, reflecting on Austrian history\, identity and creativity over a turbulent 120 year span. \n\nLecture 6: The Hidden Impact of Allied Cultural Policies and the Austrian Exile Community on Austrian Culture After 1945 \nBy Oliver Rathkolb \nBetween 1945 and 1955\, the four Allied powers (the U.S.\, U.K.\, France\, and the Soviet Union) took different approaches to cultural policy in Austria. These had a major impact on the art scene\, but this influence has largely been overlooked or forgotten. Now\, 80 years later\, this history is being revisited using an “archaeological” approach to recent history. After Vienna was liberated in April 1945\, its people were exposed to more international cultural influences than ever before. \nEven before 1945\, the Allies had identified culture and the media as important tools for shaping postwar society. In this lecture\, Oliver Rathkolb focuses on how these plans affected music\, theater\, and the media (newspapers\, publishing\, and radio) in Vienna—especially since the Western Allies only began operating there from September 1945. He explores how Austria’s cultural elites and the public responded to these efforts\, and what role this played in removing Nazi ideology and reducing German cultural dominance\, while expanding Austria’s cultural identity. \nIn the second part of the lecture\, Rathkolb looks at Austrians who went into exile in Britain during the war. He will highlight how they helped rebuild and internationalise Austrian culture after they returned home\, using specific case studies to illustrate their impact. \n\nOliver Rathkolb\, born in 1955\, is a former long-standing head and professor at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. He is the author of numerous publications on Austrian and international contemporary and cultural history\, editor of the journal zeitgeschichte\, as well as chairman of the Vienna Institute for Cultural and Contemporary History and Arts (VICCA) and the academic advisory board of the House of European History in Brussels. His recent publications (Molden publishing house) include Brigitte Hamann’s “Hitler’s Vienna: The Formative Years of a Dictator\,” reissued together with Johannes Sachslehner\, and previously “Schirach: A Generation Between Goethe and Hitler”. He also co-edited the publication “Controlled Freedom – Allied Cultural Policy in Vienna 1945-1955”\, published in 2025. \n\nKatherine Klinger is the initiator of the lecture series The Arc of History. Previously\, she was director of Second Generation Trust\, a UK-based charity specialising in post-Holocaust generational consequences. She organised a number of ground-breaking conferences in London\, Berlin and Vienna in the nineties\, aimed at bringing together descendants of both victims and perpetrators. Katherine ran the Education Department of the Wiener Holocaust Library for a decade. She has recently acquired Austrian citizenship. \n\nAbout the Arc of History Lecture Series: \nThe series commences with the last decades and the onset of Modernity from 1900. This was a profoundly significant period both artistically and intellectually\, with far-reaching influence and importance\, both nationally and internationally. Against this backdrop\, the lectures consider significant Jewish contributions to the period\, alongside the darker forces gathering momentum\, culminating in the tragic fate of Austrian Jewry and other victims. \nAustrian complicity\, together with a postwar victim narrative\, led many to shun a country that formally had nurtured some of the greatest achievements and minds of the early 20th century. With a growing recognition of the need to reassess its history\, Austria finally commenced\, in the mid-nineties\, its own unique process to repair some of the mid-century rupture. The announcement in 2020\, enshrined in law\, that all Austrian descendants of NS persecution have the right of citizenship\, is an important and significant contribution to this process. To date\, over 35\,000 people from across the world have acquired Austrian citizenship and it is estimated that the numbers will rise considerably in the next decade. \nThe final lecture in the series will reflect on the implications and meaning of citizenship in a country where connection has often been associated with tragedy and ambivalence\, and many have rarely\, if ever\, even visited. As a new chapter opens\, perhaps a new sense of purpose\, opportunity and responsibility emerges.
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/the-arc-of-history-lecture-series-the-hidden-impact-of-allied-cultural-policies-and-the-austrian-exile-community-on-austrian-culture-after-1945/
LOCATION:Austrian Cultural Forum London\, 28 Rutland Gate\, London\, SW7 1PQ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Theatre Performance: Telephone Conversations with Ernst Jandl
DESCRIPTION:The Austrian Cultural Forum London welcomes renowned Austrian playwright Stephan Bruckmeier and his one-man theatre show Telephone Conversations with Ernst Jandl for the first time in London. \nThis play is based on phone calls between Ernst Jandl and his editor Klaus Siblevsky. Towards the end of Jandl’s life\, the telephone was the only medium with which Ernst Jandl could still communicate with the outside world. They talked about everything\, helping us understand how Ernst Jandl lived and worked. The calls were incredibly moving and provided a rare insight into the late Austrian poet and author’s private thoughts and concerns. Later\, they were adapted into a book in cooperation with Jandl’s long-time-partner Friederike Mayröcker. Stephan Bruckmeier\, who knew Ernst Jandl personally and had a close relationship with him since 1988\, adapted the book for the stage. He performed Telephone conversations with Ernst Jandl more than 100 times during its run from 2007–2009. \nOn the occasion of the centenary of Jandl’s birthday\, we are proud to present this intimate play for the first time in London. Don’t miss this very touching\, sometimes funny\, sometimes sad tribute to a famous Austrian wordsmith. \n\nThe performance is fully accessible for a non-German speaking audience. Programmes in English will be provided. \n\n\nWritten by and starring: Stephan Bruckmeier \nMusic: Petra Pirolt (guitar) \n© Kiepenheuer Theaterverlag \n\nStephan Bruckmeier was born in 1962. Since 1985 he worked as a director\, actor and stage designer for theatre in Austria\, Germany\, USA\, Kenya\, Mozambique\, France and Hungary. He directed more than 200 theatre productions. He had close ties to Jandl since 1988.
URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/theatre-performance-telephone-conversations-with-ernst-jandl/
LOCATION:Austrian Cultural Forum London\, 28 Rutland Gate\, London\, SW7 1PQ\, United Kingdom
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