Heimito von Doderer - Life and work, Bibliography

Writer, born in Weidlingen, Lower Austria. He served in both World Wars and was imprisoned in Siberia (1916–20). His poetry collections Gassen und Landschaft (1923) and Die Bresche (1924) place him in the Expressionist tradition. A master of a whole range of linguistic skills, his major works are the novels Die Strudelhofstiege (1951) and Die Dämonen (1956), with their depiction of Viennese life in the early part of the 20th-c, and the humorous Die Merowinger (1962) in which he breaks the boundaries set by Naturalism by introducing elements of unfathomability. He was awarded the Großer Österreichischer Staatspreis in 1957.

Life and work

Bibliography

Works, in German:

Ein Mord, den jeder begeht (novel) (1938) Ein Umweg (novel) (1940) Die Strudlhofstiege (novel) (1951) Die Dämonen (novel) (1956) - most famous work Die Peinigung der Lederbeutelchen (stories) (1959) Die Wasserfälle von Slunj (novel) (1963) - his last completed novel Schüsse ins Finstere.Zu Heimito von Doderers Kurzprosa (2001, Königshausen &