Very excited to share v0.2.0 of Auden in Austria Digital 🙌 Now making available for the 1st time the full correspondence between #WHAuden & #AustrianSocietyForLiterature. @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @adz-krems.bsky.social #AustrianAuden #DH #DigitalHumanities

Der Open Access-Beitrag im Journal of Homosexuality stellt die Briefe von W. H. Auden an seinen Liebhaber Hugo Kurka in einen historischen Kontext queerer Geschichte. Von Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social, Timo Frühwirth von der ÖAW und Andreas Brunner @andreasbrunner.bsky.social von Qwien.

ACDH@acdh-oeaw.bsky.social · last mo.

Frisch im Journal of Homosexuality erschienen ist ein Open Access-Beitrag zur jüngst entdeckten Korrespondenz zwischen W. H. Auden und seinem Wiener Freund und Liebhaber Hugo Kurka von @victorianceleb.bsky.social , Timo Frühwirth und @andreasbrunner.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Freudige Nachricht! Selma Jahnke und ich haben eine Verlagszusage für die Edition der Erzählungen (Der gläserne Käfig), des Theaterstücks (Die Ehrlosen) und der Briefe von #ElsaPlessner. Sie war eine junge Autorin, die zwischen 1896 und 1901 versuchte, am Literaturmarkt Fuß zu fassen. #LitWiss

Die Briefe sind außerdem seit letzten Oktober in der digitalen Edition "Auden in Austria Digital" zugänglich: auden.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/kurka.html

Kurka Papers

Autograph Card Signed W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman to Christa Kurka and Hugo Kurka 1960-10-25

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We were happy to collaborate with @andreasbrunner.bsky.social of @qwien.bsky.social on this first study of the newly discovered Auden Kurka Papers, available OA in the @tandfresearch.bsky.social Journal of Homosexuality. @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @adz-krems.bsky.social

ACDH@acdh-oeaw.bsky.social · last mo.

Frisch im Journal of Homosexuality erschienen ist ein Open Access-Beitrag zur jüngst entdeckten Korrespondenz zwischen W. H. Auden und seinem Wiener Freund und Liebhaber Hugo Kurka von @victorianceleb.bsky.social , Timo Frühwirth und @andreasbrunner.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ein neues Paper von @victorianceleb.bsky.social, Timo Frühwirth und @andreasbrunner.bsky.social beschäftigt sich mit dem sensationellen Fund von 90 Briefen des Dichters W.H. Auden an seinen Geliebten Hugo Kurka, die 2025 durch Zufall ans Archiv gelangten: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“I Can’t Imagine / A Kinder Set-up”: Mapping Networks of Queer Intimacy Through the Auden–Kurka Correspondence

Recently, a previously unknown private collection of correspondence by the British-American poet W. H. Auden (1907–1973) surfaced in Austria. The approximately 90 letters and postcards are addresse...

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The boxes of fan letters to Benjamin Disraeli yield some intriguing finds - like this correspondence with a young woman from Vienna, Bettina Wirth, which I've written about here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

About yesterday - #UnisRetten: petrifiedmusephotography.net/2026/05/27/s...

Save the Universities (#UnisRetten): Documenting a Demonstration against University Funding Cuts - Petrified Muse Photography

On May 27, 2026, a demonstration was organised in Vienna to protest against government funding cuts affecting the entire Austrian university sector.

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Many thanks to #Wienbibliothek for having us! It was a great evening talking about the #AustrianAuden & our work here at @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @kathiprager.bsky.social

If you are in Vienna next Tuesday, join us at #Wienbibliothek for some (German-language) glimpses into AAD editors' workshop: www.wienbibliothek.at/veranstaltun... #AustrianAuden #DigitalEdition #DigitalHumanities #DSE #SDE @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social

heute in einer woche geht es in den loosräumen der #wienbibliothek darum, wie ein britischer dichter in hinterholz 6 in kirchstetten landet und wie er (sich in) österreich (ein)findet. #forschungswerkstatt cc: @victorianceleb.bsky.social www.wienbibliothek.at/veranstaltun...

Truly seeing out the old year with a bang, in every sense of the word, at Schaubühne Berlin - here‘s to a very happy 2026!

Building tools at the interface of #DigitalEdition and #NetworkAnalysis. Stay tuned. 👀 fedihum.org/@timofruehwi... @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social

Very happy to share some of our research into #AustrianAuden with an international audience in this article by @philipoltermann.bsky.social in @theguardian.com. @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 9mo ago

WH Auden formed ‘intense friendship’ with sex worker who burgled him, unseen letters reveal

Briefe an Hugo 💌 @theguardian.com berichtet über den Fund von bisher unbekannten Korrespondenzen des Autors W. H. Auden in Niederösterreich, untersucht von ÖAW-Forscher:innen Sandra Mayer und Timo Frühwirth @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social ✒️📮 Mehr dazu ➡️ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

WH Auden formed ‘intense friendship’ with sex worker who burgled him, unseen letters reveal

Exclusive: The newly released correspondence reveals how a strong bond developed between the Funeral Blues poet and the sex worker who broke into his home

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Delighted to make available previously unknown (& unexpected) correspondence by poet #WHAuden to his Austrian lover & confidant, shedding new light on Auden's life in Austria & on Austrian queer history. www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/sens... @fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social

Sensational Discovery: Unknown Letters by Poet W. H. Auden Found in Lower Austria

Around 100 previously unknown letters and postcards written by W. H. Auden to his lover, friend, and confidant Hugo have been discovered in Lower Austria, following after a TV report. Researchers at t...

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Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften@oeaw.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Ein TV-Interview, ein geheimnisvoller Wiener "Callboy" namens Hugo... und plötzlich tauchen 100 verschollene Briefe des englischen Dichters W. H. #Auden auf! 💌 Ein Zufall, der Literaturgeschichte schrieb. www.oeaw.ac.at/news/sensati...

📣 Excited to release v0.1.0 of the "Auden in Austria Digital" scholarly digital edition, funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social, at the @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social of @oeaw.bsky.social! Featuring previously unpublished correspondences by #WHAuden in Austria. @oegfl.bsky.social auden.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/index.html

Few things have had a more formative impact on my life and made me the person I am than this episode - so kindly and generously captured by Merlin Holland in his new book, presented at @britishlibrary.bsky.social on Thursday, Oscar‘s 171st birthday. I think I might have shed a tear.

Few things have had a more formative impact on my life and made me the person I am than this episode - so kindly and generously captured by Merlin Holland in his new book, presented at @britishlibrary.bsky.social on Thursday, Oscar‘s 171st birthday. I think I might have shed a tear.

Ladies & Gentlemen, ich darf Sie auf unsere neue Seite mit allen Veranstaltungsteilnahmen von #ArthurSchnitzler bitten: #schnitzler-kultur! Wann war er im Kino? Wann hat er öffentlich gelesen, wann privat? Besuchen Sie: schnitzler-kultur.acdh.oeaw.ac.at @luntner.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social

Some big news in the making. Stay tuned for more. @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @adz-krems.bsky.social #AustrianAuden

Some big news in the making. Stay tuned for more. @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @adz-krems.bsky.social #AustrianAuden

Strong presence of @oeaw.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social RU Literary & Print Culture Studies last week at @univie.ac.at for the "Exploring the Scandalous" conference - great papers & great discussions!

Great papers by @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social colleagues @diezypresse.bsky.social & Barbara Tumfart (on Bernhard’s Heldenplatz) & @ftb-oeaw.bsky.social‘s own @danielmilkovits.bsky.social, presenting on #Jelinek & quoting as a polemical practice! As ever, Austrian lit lends itself to a discussion of scandal

Insightful interview with Sharon Marcus (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social), opening our conference on "Scandal as a Catalyst of Progress“ at @univie.ac.at, co-organised by @oeaw.bsky.social, @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social & University of Zurich www.oeaw.ac.at/news/vom-wil...

On 5 September 2025, literary scholar and theater director #ReinhardUrbach died. www.ots.at/presseaussen... On 28 Sept 1973, he accompanied #WHAuden to his last reading. In the night of 28-29 Sept, Auden died in his Vienna hotel room. @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oegfl.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social

Wir trauern um Reinhard Urbach

Nachruf auf Reinhard Urbach (1939–2025)

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In roughly one month, @victorianceleb.bsky.social (@acdh-oeaw.bsky.social), Barbara Straumann (Zurich) and Sylvia Mieszkowski (Vienna) will be hosting a conference on #scandal at @univie.ac.at. I'm excited to be there with a talk on quoting as a polemical practice within the Austrian literary field!

Another day, another #archive. This time: the manuscript collection of the #ViennaCityLibrary @wien.gv.at 🔎 📄 📃 Great vistas and great material! @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social