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Rudolph J. Wojta
Rudolph J. Wojta (born August 10, 1944) is an Austrian novelist. Life and work Wojta was born and raised in Vienna. Whilst studying literature and psychology he began to publish short stories in German and Austrian newspapers, including ''Die Welt'' and ''Die Presse''. In 1975, he joined the weekly newspaper ''Wochenpresse'' as critic in the fields of architecture, literature, theatre, cinema and art. In 1979 he joined the newly founded magazine ''Wiener (magazine), WIENER'' for which he served as editor in chief from 1981 to 1982. He then rejoined the ''Wochenpresse'' where he remained until the newspaper folded in 1996. Subsequently, he worked as freelance writer, author and contributor. In 2002, together with Nicholas Allen (theatre director), Nicholas Allen he founded Shakespeare in Styria, an annual festival in the town of Murau showcasing a Shakespeare play in English with young European professional actors. He lived in Murau for eight years. In 2010 he returned to Vienna. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolph J
Rudolph or Rudolf may refer to: People * Rudolph (name), the given name including a list of people with the name Religious figures * Rudolf of Fulda (died 865), 9th century monk, writer and theologian * Rudolf von Habsburg-Lothringen (1788–1831), Archbishop of Olomouc and member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine Royalty and nobility * Rudolph I (other) * Rudolph II (other) * Rudolph III (other) * Rudolph of France (died 936) * Rudolph I of Germany (1218–1291) * Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552–1612) * Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1576–1621) * Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (1858–1889), son and heir of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Empress Elisabeth of Austria (died at Mayerling) Places * Rudolph Glacier, Antarctica * Rudolph, South Dakota, US * Rudolph, Wisconsin, US, a village * Rudolph (town), Wisconsin, adjacent to the village * Rudolf Island, northernmost island of Europe * Lake Rudolf, now Lake Turkana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murau
Murau () is a town in the western part of the Austrian federal state of Styria. It is the administrative seat of Murau District. Geography The historic town is located in mountainous Upper Styria in the valley of the Mur river between the Lower Tauern range and the Gurktal Alps. The municipal area comprises the cadastral communities of Laßnitz-Lambrecht, Murau proper and Sankt Egidi, as well as the former independent municipalities of Laßnitz bei Murau, Stolzalpe and Triebendorf which were incorporated in the course of a 2015 administrative reform. Murau currently has a population of 3,688. The town's economy largely depends on tourism, especially in the nearby Kreischberg ski resort. It is also known for its brewing tradition ('' Murauer Bier'') documented since the 15th century. Murau station is a stop on the narrow-gauge Mur Valley Railway (''Murtalbahn''), running along the Mur river from Unzmarkt up to Mauterndorf in Salzburg. History The area was already settled i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austrian Novelists
Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen * Austrian German dialect * Something associated with the country Austria, for example: ** Austria-Hungary ** Austrian Airlines (AUA) ** Austrian cuisine ** Austrian Empire ** Austrian monarchy ** Austrian German (language/dialects) ** Austrian literature ** Austrian nationality law ** Austrian Service Abroad ** Music of Austria **Austrian School of Economics * Economists of the Austrian school of economic thought * The Austrian Attack variation of the Pirc Defence chess opening. See also * * * Austria (other) * Australian (other) * L'Autrichienne (other) is the feminine form of the French word , meaning "The Austrian". It may refer to: *A derogatory nickname for Queen Marie Antoinette of France ** ''L'Autrichienne'' (film), a 1990 French film on Marie Antoinette with Ute Lemper * ''L'Autrichienn ... {{disambig Lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buch Wien
BUCH WIEN is a four-day international book fair in Vienna, which takes place annually in November on the grounds of the Messe Wien in the Hall D. A total of around 400 events will take place as part of "Buch Wien". Since 2014, BUCH WIEN has started with the "Long Night of Books" the night before the fair. General Readings, autograph sessions, discussions and new publications of all genres - fiction and crime, cooking and non-fiction, world literature - are part of the program. The children's and youth program includes workshops, readings and talks on various topics such as comics, classic media and social networks and journalistic production. The organizer of the fair is Literatur- und Contentmarketing Ges.m.b.H., owned by the Main Association of the Austrian Book Trade (HVB). With the introduction of the 2008 Buch Wien, there is also the newly created ''Reading Festival Week'', which is supported by the City of Vienna and the Federal Ministry of Education. As part of this '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heimito Von Doderer
Franz Carl Heimito, Ritter von Doderer, known as Heimito von Doderer (; 5 September 189623 December 1966), was an Austrian writer. Family Heimito von Doderer was born in Weidlingau, which has been part of the 14th District of Vienna since 1938, in a forester's lodge where his family stayed while his father, the architect and engineer (1854, Klosterbruck (), Znaim 1932, Vienna) worked on the regulation of the Wien River. The lodge was not preserved; today a memorial marks the site. Wilhelm Carl Doderer also worked on the construction of the Tauern Railway, the Kiel Canal and the Wiener Stadtbahn public transport network. His brother Richard (18761955) and his father (1825, Heilbronn 1900, Vienna; ennobled in 1877) were also noted architects and industrialists. Carl Wilhelm's wife Maria von (18351914) was related through her mother to the Austrian poet Nikolaus Lenau. Doderer's mother, Wilhelm Carl's wife Louise Wilhelmine "Willy" von Hügel (18621946), was the daug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Döbling
Döbling () is the 19th Districts of Vienna, district in the city of Vienna, Austria (). It is located in the north of Vienna, north of the districts Alsergrund and Währing. Döbling has some heavily populated urban areas with many residential buildings, and borders the Vienna Woods. Statistik Austria, 2008, website: (in German: population is "Einwohner"). Wien.gv.at webpage (see below: References). It includes some of the most expensive residential areas such as Grinzing, Sievering, and Neustift am Walde, and is home to many ''Heurigen'' taverns. There are some large ''Gemeindebauten'', including Vienna's most famous, the Karl-Marx-Hof. Geography Location Döbling is located in the northwest of Vienna and spans the slope of the Vienna Woods, Wienerwald (Vienna Woods) to the Danube and the Danube Canal, ''Donaukanal'' () that make up the border of the district in the east. The Danube forms the border between Döbling and the district Floridsdorf, and the Canal forms the bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon" or simply "the Bard". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592 he began a successful career in Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shakespeare In Styria
300px, upright=1.25, '' Julius Caesar'' by William Shakespeare performed in Murau, 2014 Shakespeare in Styria was an annual Shakespeare festival in the Upper Styrian town of Murau in Austria. The festival was founded in 2002 by British-born theatre manager Nicholas Allen and Austrian writer Rudolph J. Wojta. Since September 2015, the festival (re-branded as "Shakespeare im Park") is being managed by Paul Elsbacher (Executive Director) und Eric Lomas (Artistic Director). The 2016 summer show was an acclaimed production of ''The Comedy of Errors'', performed at St. Lambrecht Abbey, followed by a series of performances in the gardens of Palais Pötzleinsdorf in Vienna. No further performances are planned for Murau. History Each summer, ''Shakespeare in Styria'' staged an open-air Shakespeare production in the Styrian Alps, together with concerts, lectures and readings. From modest beginnings as a teacher student-training program, the project developed into a small annual festiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city and state. Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The country occupies an area of and has Austrians, a population of around 9 million. The area of today's Austria has been inhabited since at least the Paleolithic, Paleolithic period. Around 400 BC, it was inhabited by the Celts and then annexed by the Roman Empire, Romans in the late 1st century BC. Christianization in the region began in the 4th and 5th centuries, during the late Western Roman Empire, Roman period, followed by the arrival of numerous Germanic tribes during the Migration Period. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Allen (theatre Director)
Nicholas Allen (*1947 in Leeds, England) is a British–Austrian theatre pedagogue, actor and stage director. He is also the founder of Shakespeare in Styria. Life and career Allen attended Rugby School and briefly studied at Sussex University. In 1966, he settled in Vienna to continue his studies in music and acting. The following year he joined Vienna's English Theatre as an actor and remained in this institution – with one absence of three years – until his retirement in 2009. From 1971 to 1994 he was responsible for the theatre's schools touring operation; in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture the theatre presented English language plays with professional British and American actors in schools throughout Austria, and later also in Southern Germany, South Tyrol, Switzerland and Czechoslovakia. By the end of his period of office the operation had increased from one production per year, seen by approximately 15.000 pupils, to five annual p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Editor In Chief
An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The editor-in-chief heads all departments of the organization and is held accountable for delegating tasks to staff members and managing them. The term is often used at newspapers, magazines, yearbooks, and television news programs. The editor-in-chief is commonly the link between the publisher or proprietor and the editorial staff. Responsibilities Typical responsibilities of editors-in-chief include: * Ensuring that content is journalistically objective * Fact-checking, spelling, grammar, writing style, page design and photos * Rejecting writing that appears to be plagiarized, ghostwritten, published elsewhere, or of little interest to readers * Evaluating and editing content * Contributing editorial pieces * Motivating and developing editorial staff * Ensuring the final draft is complete * Handling reader complai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
