Kerstin Schütze (Vienna): Lost Austrian Literature -- The Rediscovery of Maria Lazar
Date and Time
October 18, 2022
06:00PM - 08:00PM EDT
Location
Nebel Room, Barker 359
Maria Lazar (1895-1948) was one of Vienna's most productive and talented novelists, poets, and dramatists in the 1920s and 1930s. Together with her husband, Friedrich Strindberg, she worked and corresponded with Elias and Veza Canetti, Karin Michaelis, Egon Fridell, Walter Benjamin, Helene Weigel and Bertolt Brecht, and many others.
This month, after half a century, her literary estate is being handed back to Vienna. As one of the principal editors, Kerstin Schütze presents the stunning story and exceptional biography of Maria Lazar and the difficulties involved in publishing her unknown works.