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Paul Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s nephew, graduated from the Theresian Academy in Vienna and went on to study mathematics. From the age of 35...
With this work on the history of a friendship, published in 1982, Bernhard offers an autobiography, describing his childhood and youth in five volumes as well as his life between the years 1967 and 1979. During a stay in a sanatorium, his friendship with Paul Wittgenstein, which had begun with passionate discussions about music, deepened.
Paul Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s nephew, graduated from the Theresian Academy in Vienna and went on to study mathematics. From the age of 35 onwards, however, his nervous disease continued to worsen. Initially rather well off thanks to belonging to one of Austria’s richest families, he gave away his fortune to friends and to the poor until he himself eventually ended up in poverty. In his last years he became increasingly isolated, connected only to his friend Thomas Bernhard. Bernhard’s notes thus constitute an account of Paul Wittgenstein. For twelve years he observed the slow death of his friend, and through these observations, grew much more self-aware himself – so that through the portrait, the image of the portraitist becomes all the clearer.
Persons
Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard was born in Heerlen, the Netherlands, in 1931 and died in Gmunden, Austria, in 1989. He is one of the most important Austrian writers and was awarded the Büchner Prize (1970) and the Grimme Prize (1972), among many other accolades. Suhrkamp published Thomas Bernhard's collected works in 22 volumes.
Thomas Bernhard was born in Heerlen, the Netherlands, in 1931 and died in Gmunden, Austria, in 1989. He is one of the most important Austrian...
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The Public Bernhard
On the Trail of the Truth
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Goethe Dies
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My Prizes
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Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Roof Music)
The Correspondence
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A Meeting
Thomas Bernhard rarely agreed to interviews in front of a camera. He did, however, appreciate the television journalist Krista Fleischmann as a sensitive interlocutor, with whom he produced two...
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Old Masters
Old Masters is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men.
For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in...
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The Loser
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The Lime Works
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Amras
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