Contact Admin. Here, as in the rest of Austria, all literary and cultural roads led to him. In the Department of German at the University of Vienna, of which. The silence in the university halls stands in stark contrast to the public discourse generated by and around the renowned literary critic.
The media have rushed to honor the telegenic and congenial professor, a frequent guest on public radio and television channels. Since the Zagreb-born Germanist began his career at the university in the mid-sixties, he has revolutionized the way Austrians think about their culture. Registration is simple and quick — all we need is your name and a valid e-mail address. We appreciate your interest in bridges. Studies of Thomas Bernhard , In this book, Schmidt-Dengler sought to confront the polemical discourse Bernhard generated during the last years of his life with a more nuanced study of Bernhard's hyperbolic rhetoric.
Schmidt-Dengler also contextualized Bernhard's work within Austrian literary traditions, outlining affiliations with the authors Heimito von Doderer, Ernst Jandl, and Peter Handke, all of whom were among Schmidt-Dengler's scholarly concerns.
In one charming anecdote, Schmidt-Dengler liked to tell of an encounter with Thomas Bernhard: Schmidt-Dengler, already well known through his media presence, was ready for any question. Asked, somewhat disappointingly, whether the newspaper lying next to him was free, Schmidt-Dengler, in his own words, demonstrated his "familiarity with Bernhard's oeuvre and answered with the title of one of Bernhard's prose works: Schmidt-Dengler was interested in the educators who remain critical of the institutions to which they are indebted and who manage to convey this analytical, some would say rebellious, spirit to the young people under their tutelage.
Unsurprisingly, Schmidt-Dengler was one of the most outspoken critics of his university's administration, reminding readers of the daily paper Der Standard that changing the names of departments or merging institutes has little to do with educational improvement and everything to do with budgetary shortcuts. Login Signup. Signup Login Contact Admin. Verifiziertes Profil. Lily 20 Bayern. Stella ist eine russische, junge 21 J.
