Murray G. Hall

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Murray Gordon Hall (born May 25, 1947 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ) is a Germanist and associate professor for modern German literature at the University of Vienna .

Life

Hall studied German at the University of Vienna from 1972 . In 1975 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on "Animals and animal motifs in the prose work of Robert Musils " . In the summer of 1974 he was one of the organizers of a large Robert Musil permanent exhibition in the Austrian National Library . He became a board member of the "International Robert Musil Society" . He also dealt intensively with the history of Austrian publishing. His two-volume treatise on this subject (1985) is considered a standard work. In 1987 Hall completed his habilitation and since then has held numerous lectures and seminars at the German Institute of the University of Vienna.

Since May 1977 (since July 1995 as an employee) Murray G. Hall worked as an editor at ORF , Radio Austria International. He left ORF at the end of May 2009. On December 11, 2002, he was awarded the “Golden Decoration of Honor for the Services of the State of Vienna” . He was the editor of the catalog for the exhibition “Stolen Books” , which took place from December 10, 2004 to February 27, 2005 in the Austrian National Library. Since 2006 Hall has been chairman of the “Society for Book Research in Austria” and co-editor of the publication series “Buchforschung. Contributions to the book system in Austria ”.

In the summer semester of 2009 and 2010, Hall taught as a visiting professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In the summer semester 2011 he taught at the Alpen-Adria-Universität in Klagenfurt, in the summer semester 2012 at the University of Salzburg and at the University of Klagenfurt.

Hall is a scientific adviser to the “Austrian Society for Children's and Young Adult Literature Research” (ÖG-KJLF).

Awards

Works (selection)

Monographs:

  • Murray G. Hall: The Bettauer case . Löcker Verlag, Vienna 1978, 219 pages, ISBN 3-85409-002-1 .
  • Murray G. Hall, Franz Kadrnoska, Friedrich Kornauth, Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler: The musket. Cultural and social history in the mirror of a satirical and humorous magazine, 1905-1941. Edition Tusch , Vienna 1983, 235 pages, ISBN 3-85063-137-0 .
  • Murray G. Hall: Austrian Publishing History 1918–1938. Volume 1: History of the Austrian publishing industry. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1985, ISBN 3-205-07258-8 , 427 pages (= literature and life. New series. 28 / I; online at murrayhall.com ).
  • Murray G. Hall: Austrian Publishing History 1918–1938. Volume 2: Fiction Publishers of the First Republic . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1985, ISBN 3-412-05585-9 , 600 pages (= literature and life. New series. 28 / II; online at murrayhall.com ).
  • Murray G. Hall, Gerhard Renner : Handbook of the estates and collections of Austrian authors (= literature in history, history in literature. Volume 23). Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 1992, 344 pages, ISBN 3-205-05528-4 .
  • Murray G. Hall: The Paul-Zsolnay-Verlag: from the foundation to the return from exile (= studies and texts on the social history of literature. Volume 45). Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1994, 841 pages, ISBN 3-484-35045-8 .
  • Murray G. Hall, Herbert Ohrlinger: The Paul Zsolnay Verlag 1924-1999. Documents and certificates. Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-552-04948-7 .
  • Murray G. Hall (ed.), Carl Junker : On the book system in Austria: collected writings (1896-1927) (= book research. Volume 2). Edition Praesens, Vienna 2001, 677 pages, ISBN 3-7069-0058-0 .
  • Murray G. Hall (Ed.): Stolen Books. The Austrian National Library faces up to its Nazi past. Exhibition from December 10, 2004 to January 23, 2005. Austrian National Library, Vienna 2004, 189 pages, ISBN 3-01-000035-9 .
  • Murray G. Hall, Christina Köstner: "... to get hold of all kinds of things for the national library ...": An Austrian institution during the Nazi era. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2006, 560 pages, ISBN 3-205-77504-X / ISBN 978-3-205-77504-1 .

Other selected publications:

  • Murray G. Hall: On the history of the book trade in the Bohemian countries in the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Communications from the Society for Book Research in Austria. No. 1, 2015, pp. 7-21.
  • Murray G. Hall: The Militarization of Youth Literature 1933-1945. In: Susanne Blumesberger, Jörg Thunecke (Hrsg.): German-language children's and youth literature during the interwar period and in exile. Focus on Austria. Peter Lang Edition, Frankfurt am Main 2017, pp. 99–113.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personalities of Viennese intellectual and cultural life honored. In: wien.gv.at. December 12, 2002, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Stolen books: The Austrian National Library confronts its past ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.onb.ac.at archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . An exhibition in the State Hall of the Austrian National Library. December 10, 2004 to February 27, 2005
  3. ↑ Scientific Advisory Board. In: oegkjlf.univie.ac.at. University of Vienna, Austrian Society for Children's and Young Adult Literature Research, accessed on April 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b publications. In: murrayhall.com. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hall, Murray G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hall, Murray Gordon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian German studies specialist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg , Manitoba, Canada