New Books – up-coming events
Sunday 10 August 2008, 4:30pm
Edinburgh International Festival
Paulus Hochgatterer: The Sweetness of Life
Translated by Jamie Bulloch
Paulus Hochgatterer will present his new book The Sweetness of Life at this year’s Edinburgh Festival. His novel is an uncanny psychological thriller set in the claustrophobic alpine town of Furth am See, Austria. A six year-old girl is witness to the violent murder of her grandfather and from this time on does not speak a single word. Raffael Horn, the psychiatrist engaged to treat the silent child, reluctantly becomes involved in investigating and solving the murder together with Detective Superintendent Ludwig Kovacs.
The Berliner Zeitung writes “Hochgatterer slowly unwraps claustrophobic stories of envy, resentment, guilt and cowardice … A brilliant psychological thriller”
Paulus Hochgatterer is a writer and child psychiatrist in Vienna. He has won sundry literary prizes and commendations, most recently the Elias Canetti Stipend of the city of Vienna. The Sweetness of Life is his first work to be translated.
Jamie Bulloch has worked as a languages teacher and history lecturer, and is now a translator and freelance writer. He lives in south London with his wife and three daughters.
For more information please visit: http://www.eif.co.uk/ or http://www.quercusbooks.co.uk/
Hochgatterer will be appearing with Polish author, Marek Krajewski, author of the Breslau quartet.
Venue and Information
Edinburgh International Festival
The Writer's Retreat, Edinburgh
Wednesday 18 June, 2008, 7pm
Edinburgh International Festival
Out of Austria
The Austrian Centre in London in World War II
Book Launch
The Austrian Centre was established in London in 1939 by Austrians seeking refuge from Nazi Germany. It soon developed into a comprehensive social, cultural and political organization with a theatre and a weekly newspaper of its own. The first comprehensive English-language book on the cultural and political life of Austrian refugees in Britain, Out of Austria assesses and evaluates the Austrian Centre’s activities and achievements. It gives a fascinating insight into such figures as Sigmund Freud, who became the Centre’s Honorary President during his final months, and the poet Erich Fried, then an unknown seventeen-year old, and sheds light on the interaction of politics and culture against the background of exile in wartime Britain.
The authors, Marietta Bearman, Charmian Brinson, Richard Dove, Anthony Grenville and Jennifer Taylor, are members of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies (University of London). The book will be published in February 2008 by I.B Tauris.
www.ibtauris.com
Venue and Information
Edinburgh International Festival
The Writer's Retreat, Edinburgh
Edinburgh International Festival
ANSCHLUSS
Ich hole Euch heim
This remarkable new photography book shows sensational and never before published images from the National Library and Film Archive in Vienna. Official photographs in addition to rare personal snapshots illustrate a precise chronological account of the Anschluss, Austria’s annexation by Nazi Germany. With informative text, and excellent reproductions this book is ideal for anyone interested in the Anschluss or Austrian history.
Edited and compiled by historian Dr Hans Petschar, Director of the Picture Archives, Austrian Nationalbibliothek.
To date this book has only been published in German language by Christian Brandstätter Verlag.
For more information please visit www.cbv.at
Venue and Information
Edinburgh International Festival
The Writer's Retreat, Edinburgh
Edinburgh International Festival
Sandor Végh in Cornwall
By Hilary Tunstall-Behrens
with a foreword by András Schiff
In this book Hilary Tunstal-Behrens examines Sandor Végh’s impact on music-making in Britain. Végh’s ideas and his ability to express them through teaching changed the way many musicians approached and played music.
In 1971 Hilary Tunstal-Behrens invited Sandor Végh to Cornwall to attend a small music festival he held at Prussia Cove. Végh understood the fruitful relationship between music and nature and the potential of this remote part of England to offer sustenance to musicians. The next year the first Master Class was held in Cornwall, with Végh as Maestro. It was the beginning of the International Musicians’ Seminar (IMS) which still continues in the values and traditions of Végh.
For further information please contact: IMS office, 32 Grafton Square, London SW4 0DB, E: rosie@i-m-s.org.uk, or visit the IMS website: www.i-m-s.org.uk