256 CultureShock! Austria
Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
Highly-respected poet and playwright.Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931)
Popular fin de siècle playwright and author, whose works are
known for tackling anti-Semitism.Robert Musil (1880–1942)
Author whose most famous work is the novel The Man
Without Qualities.Josef Roth (1894–1939)
Novelist who often wrote about imperial Austria. His best
known work is, perhaps, The Radetzky March.Peter Altenberg (1859–1919)
Viennese poet who lived the Bohemian life, spending his time
in coffeehouses, most notably the Café Central.Georg Trakl (1887–1914)
Expressionist poet born in Salzburg. His poems reflect the
carnage he witnessed in World War I.Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
Founder of psychoanalysis.Simon Wiesenthal
Jewish Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter. Born in Ukraine,
but after World War II lived in Vienna until his death in 2005.
He founded the Jewish Documentation Centre in Vienna.Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989)
Well-known author and playwright whose works and
comments tended to cause controversy.Wolf Haas (born 1960)
Best-selling author, primarily of crime novels. A number of
his works have been turned into successful movies.