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• NarrativeThe Perchten and the KrampusPerchten und KrampusAnonymous · 1600Two winter beliefs of the Austrian Alps: an old woman who punishes the lazy, and a horned demon who comes with the saint of children.Literature
• TheatreThe Barometer-Maker on the Magic IslandDer Barometermacher auf der ZauberinselFerdinand Raimund · 1823A Viennese fairy play in two acts with songs: a craftsman receives magical gifts from a fairy and finds himself in an operetta kingdom ruled by a king named Tutu.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryThe Last KnightDer letzte RitterAnastasius Grün · 1830A cycle of verse romances on the emperor Maximilian I, the last prince to live as a knight and the first to govern as a modern.LiteraturePublic domain
• TheatreDer böse Geist LumpazivagabundusJohann Nepomuk Nestroy · 1833not translated into EnglishA satirical fairy play in three acts, in which spirits wager on the ability of three craftsmen to settle down once they are given money.LiteraturePublic domain
• NarrativeThe Poor FiddlerDer arme SpielmannFranz Grillparzer · 1847A Viennese tale in which a scholar, drawn by curiosity, listens to an old street musician tell the story of his failed life.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelIndian SummerDer NachsommerAdalbert Stifter · 1857A novel of formation in which a young naturalist, received each summer on an estate in the Alpine countryside, learns from an old man an art of living founded on moderation.LiteraturePublic domain
• NarrativeInnocensFerdinand von Saar · 1866not translated into EnglishA garrison officer and a citadel priest, in mid-nineteenth-century Bohemia: two solitudes who end up speaking to each other.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelVenus in FursVenus im PelzLeopold von Sacher-Masoch · 1870An account of voluntary servitude in a Carpathian spa town, where a man gets a woman to take complete power over him, in writing.LiteraturePublic domain
• TheatreThe Fourth CommandmentDas vierte GebotLudwig Anzengruber · 1877A popular play in four acts that sets three Viennese families side by side and asks what the duty of obedience is worth when parents fail.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelTheir PavelDas GemeindekindMarie von Ebner-Eschenbach · 1887A novel of a Moravian village where it is decided in advance what a child will become, and of a boy who grows up under that prediction.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelJakob der LetztePeter Rosegger · 1888not translated into EnglishA novel of the end of the small Styrian mountain farms, bought up for hunting while their inhabitants go down to the factories.LiteraturePublic domain
• NarrativeAshanteePeter Altenberg · 1897A series of sketches written in an African village reconstructed in Vienna for an exhibition show, and taken from the side of those on display.Literature
• TheatreThe ConcertDas KonzertHermann Bahr · 1909A comedy in three acts about an artist's vanity and his wife's patience, in the musical bourgeoisie before 1914.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe Other SideDie andere SeiteAlfred Kubin · 1909A fantasy novel in which a European couple settle in a closed kingdom in Central Asia, made up of old buildings bought in Europe.Literature
• NovelThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids BriggeDie Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids BriggeRainer Maria Rilke · 1910The notebooks of a young Dane alone in Paris, where jottings from the street and memories of childhood answer one another without order.LiteraturePublic domain
• TheatreDer RosenkavalierHugo von Hofmannsthal · 1911An opera libretto in three acts, set in aristocratic eighteenth-century Vienna, in which a woman decides to renounce before she is left and arranges the happiness of others herself.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe GolemDer GolemGustav Meyrink · 1915A novel of the old Prague ghetto, in which a man ceases to know whose memory he inhabits.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetrySebastian DreamingSebastian im TraumGeorg Trakl · 1915A collection of poems from an Austrian childhood country, in which the same figures and the same colours recur, outside any narrative.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelFranziskaErnst Weiss · 1919A novel of Bohemia before 1914, in which a penniless young woman wants to make a career as a pianist and has to defend it against the man she loves.Literature
• TheatreThe Last Days of MankindDie letzten Tage der MenschheitKarl Kraus · 1922Five acts and hundreds of scenes, in which the war of 1914 is told through the very phrases it had printed.LiteraturePublic domain
• CinemaSodom and GomorrahSodom und GomorrhaMichael Curtiz · 1922A monumental silent film in which a young woman greedy for luxury sees herself, in dream and in legend, as a cruel queen and then as the wife of a righteous man of the accursed city.Cinema
• CinemaSamson and DelilahSamson und DelilaAlexander Korda · 1922A silent film on two levels, in which a singer preparing the role of Delilah sees her life repeat the legend.Cinema
• NovelBambi, a Life in the WoodsBambi. Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem WaldeFelix Salten · 1923The story of a roe deer's life in a Central European forest, under the threat of hunters, written for adults after the Great War.Literature
• NarrativeFraulein ElseFräulein ElseArthur Schnitzler · 1924The interior monologue of a young woman from a good family who is asked, during two days at a holiday resort, to pay with her person for her father's fault.LiteraturePublic domain
• CinemaThe City Without JewsDie Stadt ohne JudenHans Karl Breslauer · 1924A silent satire in which a small state in crisis expels its Jews, based on a hugely successful Viennese novel.Cinema
• CinemaDer RosenkavalierRobert Wiene · 1926A silent adaptation of a Viennese opera, in which the plot was reworked for the screen and the music rewritten for the pit orchestra.Cinema
• NarrativeTwenty-Four Hours in the Life of a WomanVierundzwanzig Stunden aus dem Leben einer FrauStefan Zweig · 1927The story of a confession: an old lady relives the day when, still a young widow, she tried to tear a stranger away from his passion for gambling.LiteraturePublic domain
• CinemaCafé ElektricGustav Ucicky · 1927A silent melodrama of the Viennese underworld, in which a girl from a good family is ruined for a thief, in a café where people meet.Cinema
• PoetryDie GaunerzinkeTheodor Kramer · 1929not translated into EnglishFirst collection of a poet who lends his voice to day labourers, seasonal workers and vagabonds of the countryside.Literature
• NovelThe Man Without QualitiesDer Mann ohne EigenschaftenRobert Musil · 1930A man who takes a year's leave from his own life, in a Vienna busy preparing celebrations for 1918.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe Radetzky MarchRadetzkymarschJoseph Roth · 1932Three generations of a family ennobled after Solferino, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire wearing away around them.LiteraturePublic domain
• CinemaDie vom 17er HausArtur Berger · 1932A Viennese work of anticipation commissioned by a party for an election campaign, in which the city of 2032 judges that of 1932.Cinema
• NovelThe Forty Days of Musa DaghDie vierzig Tage des Musa DaghFranz Werfel · 1933A novel of the resistance of seven Armenian villages that took refuge on a mountain near the coast in 1915, written eighteen years after the events.LiteraturePublic domain
• CinemaGroßfürstin AlexandraWilhelm Thiele · 1933A filmed operetta in which a Russian aristocrat driven out by the revolution becomes an opera singer in Vienna and believes herself a widow.Cinema
• CinemaRay of SunshineSonnenstrahlPaul Fejős · 1933Vienna in the Depression: two desperate people meet by the river and try to live together on odd jobs.Cinema
• CinemaMasquerade in ViennaMaskeradeWilli Forst · 1934A Viennese comedy of the beginning of the century, in which the portrait of a masked woman published in a newspaper sets a whole city looking for a name.Cinema
• NovelAuto-da-FéDie BlendungElias Canetti · 1935A scholar shut up in his library, a great Central European city that the book does not name, and the meeting of a head without a world with a world without a head.Literature
• NovelMütterKarl Heinrich Waggerl · 1935not translated into EnglishA novel of a peasant village in which women and mothers play the leading role, published three years before its author joined the Nazi party.Literature
• CinemaEpisodeWalter Reisch · 1935Vienna in the time of inflation: a ruined student, helped by a wealthy collector, finds herself suspected of selling her favours.Cinema
• CinemaLittle MotherKleine MuttiHenry Koster · 1935A Viennese comedy of mistaken identity: a young girl picks up an abandoned child and no one will believe she is not its mother.Cinema
• CinemaSingende JugendMax Neufeld · 1936An orphan from the Viennese suburbs joins the choir of the Little Singers, then finds himself suspected of a theft.Cinema
• NovelPhilomena EllenhubJohannes Freumbichler · 1937not translated into EnglishA Salzburg peasant novel that follows a woman from her youth to maturity, in a valley where everyone must make a place for themselves.Literature
• TheatreVinetaJura Soyfer · 1937not translated into EnglishA 1937 parable about a drowned city whose inhabitants have lost their memory, performed on a small political stage in Vienna.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelA Child of Our TimeEin Kind unserer ZeitÖdön von Horváth · 1938A first-person novel about a young unemployed man whom the army saves from emptiness, written in exile at the time of the Anschluss.LiteraturePublic domain
• CinemaDer weiße TraumGéza von Cziffra · 1943An ice musical shot in Vienna in the middle of the war, in which a troupe of skaters finds itself without a venue.Cinema
• NovelThe Death of VirgilDer Tod des VergilHermann Broch · 1945The last hours of Virgil at Brundisium, where a dying poet wants to destroy his work and must explain himself before the emperor.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelHerod's ChildrenDie größere HoffnungIlse Aichinger · 1948A novel of persecution seen through children's eyes, in a city that resembles Vienna and that the narrative never names.Literature
• CinemaThe Angel with the TrumpetDer Engel mit der PosauneKarl Hartl · 1948Three generations of a family of Viennese piano makers, from 1888 to 1945, and a house into which the country's history enters room by room.Cinema
• CinemaEroicaWalter Kolm-Veltée · 1949Beethoven between disappointed admiration for Bonaparte, thwarted loves and a deafness that sets in.Cinema
• NovelUnvollendete SymphonieHans Weigel · 1951not translated into EnglishA novel of postwar Vienna, in which a young woman recounts her affair with an exile who has returned, in a city that has not decided what it will do with its recent past.Literature
• CinemaAsphaltHarald Röbbeling · 1951Five teenage destinies in the grey Vienna of 1950, drawn from police files and told one after another.Cinema
• Cinema1. April 2000Wolfgang Liebeneiner · 1952A futuristic comedy in which the Austria of the year 2000, accused before a world commission, pleads its right to become free again.Cinema
• CinemaWienerinnenKurt Steinwendner · 1952Four women's fates in occupied Vienna, filmed on real locations with amateurs, far from the postcard city.Cinema
• CinemaThe Last BridgeDie letzte BrückeHelmut Käutner · 1954A German woman doctor in the hands of Yugoslav resistance fighters, caught between her duty to heal and the camp to which she belongs.Cinema
• CinemaSissiErnst Marischka · 1955How a young girl from the Bavarian countryside finds herself engaged to the Emperor of Austria, and what the court expects of her.Cinema
• NovelThe DemonsDie DämonenHeimito von Doderer · 1956Vienna in the twenties in a chronicle with several voices, where private lives meet the rise of political violence.Literature
• PoetryThe Sun Was a Green Eggmed ana schwoazzn dintnHans Carl Artmann · 1958A collection of poems in the dialect of the Viennese suburbs, peopled with fairground murderers and figures of death, far from the rustic tradition one expected of it.Literature
• NovelEin Soldat und ein MädchenErich Fried · 1960not translated into EnglishA novel of occupied Germany, in which a Jewish soldier spends the last night of a war criminal condemned to death, at her own request.Literature
• CinemaDer Herr KarlErich Neuberg · 1961The monologue of a Viennese storekeeper who has lived through forty years of history without ever deciding anything, and who explains himself.Cinema
• NovelDas große Protokoll gegen ZwetschkenbaumAlbert Drach · 1964not translated into EnglishA novel written in the form of an official record, in which a man arrested for stealing plums passes from one administration to another in the last years of Austria-Hungary.Literature
• PoetryLaut und LuiseErnst Jandl · 1966not translated into EnglishA collection of sound poems in which German is taken apart into letters and breaths, and which asks to be spoken rather than read.Literature
• CinemaOur Trip to AfricaUnsere AfrikareisePeter Kubelka · 1966Twelve minutes drawn from a filmed safari, in which the pairing of sound and image makes the travellers say what they did not say.Cinema
• NarrativeThe Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty KickDie Angst des Tormanns beim ElfmeterPeter Handke · 1970The story of a man who kills for no reason and waits, in a border town, for words to stop clinging to things.Literature
• NovelMalinaIngeborg Bachmann · 1971A Viennese novel about a woman torn between two men, whose nights are taken up by a nightmarish father.Literature
• NovelBeautiful DaysSchöne TageFranz Innerhofer · 1974A novel of a childhood as a farmhand in the mountains of postwar Salzburg, written against the grain of the rustic novel and its idyll.Literature
• CinemaKassbachPeter Patzak · 1979Portrait of a Viennese greengrocer who finds in a far-right group an outlet for his resentments.Cinema
• CinemaThe ButcherDer BockererFranz Antel · 1981A Viennese butcher lives through the annexation and the war without ever obeying, out of stubbornness rather than conviction.Cinema
• NovelThe Piano TeacherDie KlavierspielerinElfriede Jelinek · 1983A Viennese piano teacher, drilled by her mother since childhood, and the young student who falls in love with her.Literature
• CinemaRafflChristian Berger · 1984The great Tyrolean patriotic narrative told from the point of view of the man who betrayed, and not of the hero he brought down.Cinema
• NovelExtinctionAuslöschungThomas Bernhard · 1986An Austrian exile, heir despite himself to his family's estate, sets out to write in order to erase everything that this place represents.Literature
• CinemaHeidenlöcherWolfram Paulus · 1986A deserter hidden in the caves above a mountain village, and the peasants who know.Cinema
• Cinema'38 – Vienna Before the Fall38 – Auch das war WienWolfgang Glück · 1986The months leading up to the Anschluss, seen through an actress and a Jewish writer who believe they can stay out of public affairs.Cinema
• CinemaThe Seventh ContinentDer siebente KontinentMichael Haneke · 1989Three years of everyday gestures in an ordinary family, who carefully prepare to leave everything behind.Cinema

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