Kurt Benesch
Kurt Benesch (born May 17, 1926 in Vienna ; † January 20, 2008 ibid) was an Austrian writer .
Life
Kurt Benesch was the son of the government councilor Josef Benesch and his wife Agnes, née Hilbert. He graduated from elementary and high school in Vienna and graduated in 1944. He then moved to Poland for labor service, followed by military service to Italy and in 1946 he returned to Vienna from British captivity. Benesch then studied theater studies and German at the University of Vienna. In 1949 he received his doctorate under Eduard Castle on "Ibsen at the Vienna Theater (1906 - 1949)".
Kurt Benesch was the author of numerous novels, non-fiction, books for children and young people and received several literary prizes. Occasionally he published under the pseudonym Florian Hilbert. He was buried at the Ober Sankt Veiter Friedhof in Vienna.
Awards
- 1993 Ernst and Rosa von Dombrowski Foundation Prize for Literature
Publications
- 1955: The escape from the angel . novel
- 1956: The excessive
- 1957: Mogul and Mönch (published under the pseudonym Florian Hilbert )
- 1965: loss of feeling
- 1966: Mister Sealsfield's Many Lives
- 1966: The woman with a hundred fates. The life of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
- 1967: never going back!
- 1972: closer to the sun. Notes from an outsider
- 1972: Italy has more than the sea - A holiday story for the whole year , Verlag Jugend und Volk, Vienna, ISBN 3714113096
- 1974: Otto and the Kielschwein
- 1985: The trail in the desert
- 1987: Fabrizio Alberti
- 1991: The Way of St. James to Santiago de Compostela
- 1993: The search for Jägerstätter . A biographical novel.
Web links
- Kurt Benesch in the literature archive of the Austrian National Library
- Literature by and about Kurt Benesch in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Benesch, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 2008 |
| Place of death | Vienna |