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Herbert Wadsack (Knittelfeld, February 19, 1912-Vienna, July 15, 2004) was an Austrian librarian and writer. [1]
He was at the Wehrmacht and was a prisoner of war.
He was a member of the Österreichischer Schriftstellerverband and of the PEN International.
Ernst Jandl was an Austrian writer, poet, and translator. He became known for his experimental lyric, mainly sound poems (Sprechgedichte) in the tradition of concrete and visual poetic forms.
Jean Paul was a German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories.
Bernhard Sekles was a German composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue.
Elisabeth Gehrer is an Austrian politician for the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). From May 1995 until January 2007, Gehrer was Federal Minister of Education, Science and Culture, at first in grand coalition governments headed by Franz Vranitzky and Viktor Klima, and from 2000 onwards in Wolfgang Schüssel's coalition government. From 1999 to 2007, she also served as vice party chairperson of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP).
Ekkehard Schall was a German stage and screen actor/director.
Gerd Zacher was a German composer, organist, and writer on music. He specialized in contemporary compositions, many of which feature extended techniques, and are written in graphic or verbal scores. He interpreted the scores of numerous contemporary composers, including John Cage, Juan Allende-Blin, Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti, Hans Otte, Luis de Pablo, and Isang Yun. He is also known as an interpreter of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Eberhard Esche was a German film and television actor. He studied at the Theaterhochschule Leipzig.
Günter Kunert was a German writer. Based in East Berlin, he published poetry from 1947, supported by Bertold Brecht. After he had signed a petition against the deprivation of the citizenship of Wolf Biermann in 1976, he lost his SED membership, and moved to the West two years later. He is regarded as a versatile German writer who wrote short stories, essays, autobiographical works, film scripts and novels. He received international honorary doctorates and awards.
The Children of Golzow is a documentary by the German filmmaker Winfried Junge that was started in 1961 and lasted until 2007, when the series concluded. The film is a prolonged observation of the lives of several people in the Brandenburg town of Golzow.
Dieter Henrich is a German philosopher. A contemporary thinker in the tradition of German idealism, Henrich is considered "one of the most respected and frequently cited philosophers in Germany today," whose "extensive and highly innovative studies of German Idealism and his systematic analyses of subjectivity have significantly impacted on advanced German philosophical and theological debates."
Franz Fühmann was a German writer who lived and worked in East Germany. He wrote in a variety of formats, including short stories, essays, screenplays and children's books. Influenced by Nazism in his youth, he later embraced socialism.
Günter de Bruyn was a German author.
Herrmann Zschoche is a German film director and screenwriter. He has directed 25 films between 1961 and 1994. His 1981 film Bürgschaft für ein Jahr was entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival.
Walter Kaufmann was a German-Australian writer.
Fidelio Friedrich "Fritz" Finke was a Bohemian-German composer.
Uwe Harten is a German musicologist, who works in Austria.
Karl Hochreither was a German organist, conductor, music educator and musicologist.
Ruth Bodenstein-Hoyme was a German composer and piano teacher.
Walter Kolneder was an Austrian musicologist and violist.
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