Robert Menasse

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Robert Menasse, 2019

Robert Menasse (born June 21, 1954 in Vienna ) is an Austrian writer and political essayist.

Life

Robert Menasse studied German , philosophy and political science in Vienna , Salzburg and Messina and in 1976 was a co-founder of the Viennese student magazine Central Organ of Stray Germanists. He was born in 1980 with the work The type of outsider in the literary business. Using the example of Hermann Schürrer . Study on the peculiar relationship between the official literature business and literary "underground" in Austria of the Second Republic to the Dr. phil. PhD with Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler .

From 1981 to 1988 he taught first as a lecturer for Austrian literature, later as a guest lecturer at the Institute for Literary Theory at the University of São Paulo in Brazil . Since his return to Vienna he has been working as a freelance writer and initially also as a translator from Brazilian Portuguese .

In 1981 he became a member of the Graz authors' assembly . Twelve years later he was elected to the PEN Club. From this he resigned in 1998 together with Robert Schindel in protest against the membership of the writer Paul Kruntorad . In 1999 he spent three months as Writer in Residence in Amsterdam . Since 2011 he has curated a writer-in-residence program at the one world foundation in Sri Lanka.

His works have been translated into the following languages: Basque, Bulgarian, English, French, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Croatian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Czech and Hungarian.

Menasse now lives mainly in Vienna. He is the son of the Austrian soccer player Hans Menasse and half-brother of the journalist and writer Eva Menasse . He is married to Elisabeth Menasse-Wiesbauer .

Novels

Robert Menasse's first story, nails biting , was published in 1973 in the journal Neue Wege . From 1975 to 1980 he worked on his unfinished and unpublished novel Kopfwehmut, a society novel set in Vienna in the 1970s. His first published novel Sensual Certainty appeared in 1988 as the first part of the trilogy of enthusiasm that began in Brazil . The latter also includes the novel Selige Zeiten, brüchige Welt, published in 1991 , which is also a detective novel, philosophical novel and Jewish family legend, as well as the novel Schubumkehr (1995) and the postscript Phenomenology of Entgeisterung (1995).

In reverse thrust Menasse describes the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 and the breakdown of the familiar order in a small Lower Austrian village against the background of the private life circumstances of the literary professor Roman, who has already been introduced to Sensual Certainty . This novel, which is not least an artistic examination of contemporary history, was awarded the Grimmelshausen Prize in 1999 and made the author well known. As suggested in the title of the novel Thrust Reversal and in the Entgeisterung trilogy , Menasse reverses Hegel's phenomenology of the mind . In contrast to Hegel, who assumes a development of human consciousness into an all-embracing spirit, Menasse postulates a regressive development, the last stage of which is "sensual certainty", according to Hegel the most naive form of consciousness.

In his novel The Expulsion from Hell (2001) Menasse questions the objectifiability of the story, linked to the author's personal story and his Jewish roots, a topic that will keep the author busy. In 2007, Don Juan de la Mancha appeared, in which he tells of more or less fictional incidents from the (love) life of the newspaper editor Nathan - between listlessness, drive, desire and the search for a fulfilled love. The figure Nathan is an example of the generation that was socialized in the 1970s with the claim of the "sexual revolution".

In 2017 Menasse published the satire Die Hauptstadt, which was hailed as the world's first novel about the European Union and received the German Book Prize . The story focuses on officials from the cultural department who are supposed to polish up the image of the EU Commission for its birthday. This is to be achieved with a “Big Jubilee Project” event with concentration camp survivors in Auschwitz . In addition to the EU officials, the focus is on a retired Jewish teacher and Auschwitz survivor in the old people's home, a large Austrian pig farmer who represents the agricultural and meat lobby, a Belgian commissioner who is trying to uncover a murder case and a contract killer from Poland. The life stories of the people involved lead to six EU countries. A recurring motif that the book also opens is a pig roaming free in the middle of Brussels. With this metaphor Menasse would like to connect everyone “from the lucky pig to the bastard”.

The director Tom Kühnel and the dramaturge Ralf Fiedler have transformed the novel with around twenty characters into a theatrical version, which premiered in January 2018 at the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich. After a production by director Lucia Bihler at the Schauspielhaus Wien with a premiere in September, the German premiere came out in October 2018 at the Schauspiel Essen . The stage version and staging by Hermann Schmidt-Rahmer manages with non-stop 2 hours 10 minutes and six actors for all roles. The theater criticism complained that the "staging vacillates between bureaucratic farce, type study, political theater and gets lost between all the characters, storylines, ambitions". At the same time, it was praised for "a bilious, turbulent theater evening that does not leave much Europe optimism." Directed by Niklas Ritter , the Deutsches Theater Göttingen premiered a new production of The Capital on July 10, 2020 , "which is mainly in the pleasure in play, in movement and in exaggeration ".

Essays and writings on cultural theory

Robert Menasse during his speech in the plenary hall of the European Parliament in Brussels on the occasion of the ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, 21 March 2017.
Robert Menasse speaking in the plenary hall of the European Parliament in Brussels on the occasion of the ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, 21 March 2017

In his political and journalistic oeuvre, Menasse is regarded as an “enlightener of the old style”, whose intellectual references are in particular Hegel and Marx , Georg Lukács , Ernst Bloch and the philosophers of the Frankfurt School .

Essays such as The Aesthetics of Social Partnerships (1990) or The Land Without Properties (1992) made Menasse famous as an essayist, but also gave rise to criticism because of “nest pollution”. In the Land Without Qualities , he deals with the Austrian national identity in relation to the approaching accession to the European Union in 1995 and especially in relation to Germany and the German identity after the Second World War . He often takes the argument that the identity of the Austrians was artificially created in order to distinguish themselves from the Germans after the fall of the National Socialist regime. In the course of time, the essay volumes Hysteria and other historical errors (1996) as well as Stupidity is feasible (1999), Tell me Austria (2000) and That was Austria (2005) followed. In these texts, the author deals with the political history, history of mentality and literary history of the Second Republic of Austria, takes a stand on the current cultural-political situation in his home country and asserts a latent continuity of Austrofascism .

Jakob Augstein and Robert Menasse in conversation, May 15, 2017 at the Neumarkt Theater in Zurich

Since 2005, since his Frankfurt poetics lectures The Destruction of the World as Will and Idea, Menasse's essays have increasingly been devoted to topics critical of the EU and globalization. In this European and world-wide context, Menasse primarily criticizes the deficits in democratic politics and the view that these deficits are structural, which obscures the prospect of possible alternatives. He is not fundamentally critical of the European Union, but justifies the democratic deficits in his criticisms primarily with the influence and power of the individual nation states, whereas he evaluates purely European institutions, such as the Commission, positively. In Der Europäische Landbote (2012) he depicts the supranational organs and bureaucracies of the EU in Brussels, developing Claudio Magris' "Habsburg myth" into a "European myth". This also leads to a positive review of the Habsburg monarchy. In this context, Menasse is in favor of a “European Republic” based on a Europe of the Regions . His research in Brussels for the European country messenger was sponsored by a foundation of the gaming group Novomatic .

Menasse also repeatedly expresses himself in interviews and discussions on the political state of Austria and Europe. In the "Zeit" he said about the presidential election campaign in Austria: "Norbert Hofer would be a catastrophe not only for Austria, but for all of Europe". He also thinks the collapse of Europe is very likely, but sees "the idea of ​​a European Union" as "the only sensible future model".

In 2016, together with political scientist Ulrike Guérot , Menasse demanded that refugees in Europe should no longer be integrated, but that building land should be made available to them so that they could recreate their hometowns and run their own schools, theaters, hospitals, radio stations and newspapers, and where professional and degrees from the countries of origin should apply.

With the European Balcony Project manifesto, also written together with Ulrike Guérot, Menasse propagated the proclamation of a "European Republic" for November 10, 2018. According to this manifesto, the Europe of nation states had failed and the European Republic had the goal of “accepting the universal legacy of the universal declaration of human rights” “and [...] finally realizing it on this continent”. In turning away from the principle of citizenship as a prerequisite for political participation in a free, democratic community with Western-European characteristics, the manifesto says: “We declare everyone who is on the European continent at this moment to be citizens of the European republic. [...] We are aware that Europe's wealth is based on centuries of exploitation of other continents and the oppression of other cultures. We therefore share our soil with those we have driven from theirs. European is whoever wants to be. The European Republic is the first step on the way to global democracy. ”Furthermore, it qualifies the EU as a tool“ of a neoliberal agenda [...] that contradicts the idea of ​​social justice ”.

reception

Discussions about Menasse's essays have continued in the feature sections of German-language newspapers. Andreas Dorschel states that a “comparably illuminating political economy of the Austrian nationality” is “currently nowhere to be obtained”. In Menasse's “Dismantling Political Phrases” the “great Austrian tradition of language criticism continues; At the same time it is quite un-Austrian to call a lie a lie. Throughout, Menasse has the courage to choose those who are successful and those who are on the safe path to iconization in Austrian culture as opponents. "

The Staatsschauspiel Dresden as part of the state enterprise Sächsische Staatstheater hangs up a banner on Mondays (on the day of the PEGIDA demonstrations) with the following text: “It will soon have to be decided which type of European will determine the future: the universal European or the one-dimensional European. But that also means: whether there will be human rights on this continent in the future or the law of the thumb again. Robert Menasse ”.

Made up Hallstein quotes

In October 2017, the historian Heinrich August Winkler pointed out in an essay in the news magazine Der Spiegel that Menasse quoted the politician Walter Hallstein (1901–1982) not only in his literary works, but also in his political writings , which he had never said or written like that. So he put a quote in Hallstein's mouth that "the abolition of the nation ... is the European idea". The fact that Hallstein gave his inaugural address as the first President of the European Economic Community (today President of the European Commission ) on the grounds of the extermination camp in Auschwitz (in the then COMECON member Poland ) turned out to be incorrect on closer examination. Subsequently, in an interview with Münchner Merkur , he criticized the alleged forgetting of the fictional Hallstein speech in Auschwitz: "That is forgotten today, but it will turn out: it is forgotten to the chagrin of the forgetful."

Menasse justified his claims with his interpretation of the philosophical school of Paul Feyerabend , according to which the achievement of a social goal legitimizes the falsification of quotations. He commented on the discussion about the invented quotations, among other things, with the fact that Hallstein had "never said it so sharply", "you would have to quote long passages to be able to derive this position," but wanted to say exactly that. “The source is correct. The sense is correct. The truth can be proven. What is missing is the smallest thing: the verbatim. What do I care about the literal when it comes to mind? "

The political scientist Ulrike Guérot , who acted as co-author in the texts in question, distanced herself from this method in the course of the discussions and expressed her regret that she did not have “the sovereignty” to submit the text contributions of her co-author to Menasse to verify.

In January 2019 he explained in a text in Die Welt : The "quotation marks were, from a scientific point of view, a mistake [...] I apologize for that, I'm sorry." At the same time, Menasse criticized the "scandalization" of his work; “Scornful journalists and bloggers” would consciously or unconsciously “promote the business of the nationalists”. The incorrect marking of Hallstein's statement as a quote does not change the legitimacy of his European political program. The Germany correspondent of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Daniel Haas, accused Menasse of advocating a "conspiracy theory": "Exaggerating and twisting facts in order to explain to others, if they occur to you, that you will be able to say that" , is precisely the argumentation pattern of those anti-European forces that Menasse always oppose.

Menasse's forgeries were compared with the Relotius case, which had just become known, and the left-alternative daily newspaper taz used the case to criticize the “black and white thinking” of the “liberal left”.

Menasse in a press conference after being awarded the Carl Zuckmayer Medal (2019)

Despite the criticism of his citation style, Robert Menasse received the Carl Zuckmayer Medal of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate on January 18, 2019 . After talks between Prime Minister Malu Dreyer , the relevant commissioners and Robert Menasse, the state government published a joint statement on January 7th, in which he a. This verbatim speech can be read: “It was a mistake on my part to ascribe quotes to Walter Hallstein in public statements and non-fictional texts that he did not literally say. It was rash that I relied on hearsay to locate Hallstein's inaugural address in Auschwitz. This did not take place there. I should have checked. I did not make these mistakes with intent or with the aim of deceiving. I considered this story to be a strong symbolic image of the European project of unification, which is undoubtedly linked to the oath 'never again Auschwitz'. This is consistent in my novel, but I very much regret the mixing of literary fictions with statements in European political discussions and I apologize to everyone who feels deceived. "

Others

Roland Freudenstein accuses Menasse of deceiving in the entertaining and exciting novel Die Hauptstadt, written "in the tradition of the classic conspiracy thriller", of "openness and yet ultimately offers a firmly closed, left-western European worldview."

Menasse's argument about his call for the abolition of the democratic nation states and the proclamation of the "European Republic" (made by him and his fellow campaigners on November 10, 2018) was criticized by Christian Ortner as illogical. Menasse could not conclusively explain the "quasi moral and ethical superiority of such a 'European republic' over the German, Austrian or French republic" claimed by Menasse. Rather, "a European country has exactly the same quirks and advantages [...] as its predecessors today, only in XXL".

Jacques Schuster ( WeltN24 ) wrote in 2018, citing individual lines from Menasse's 2012 essay “Der Europäische Landbote”, that he was not a supporter of parliamentary democracy and that the planned award of the Carl Zuckmayer Medal was therefore a mistake. In the essay Menasse spoke out clearly in favor of a democracy at the European level and pleaded for leaving the nation state behind. In addition, one has to get used to the idea of ​​“first of all forget about democracy, abolish its institutions in so far as they are national institutions, and this model of democracy, which seems so sacred and valuable to us because it is familiar to us, the downfall to consecrate. We have to push what will fall anyway if the European project succeeds. We have to break this last taboo of the enlightened societies: that our democracy is a sacred good. ”Based on this quote, Schuster described Menasse as“ a fool with deeply offensive ideas ”.

Audio

Works

  • Sensual certainty. Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1988.
  • The social partnership aesthetics. Essays on the Austrian spirit. Special number, Vienna 1990.
  • Blessed times, fragile world. Novel. Residence, Salzburg / Vienna 1991.
  • The land without properties. Essay on Austrian identity. Special number, Vienna 1992.
  • Phenomenology of enthusiasm. Story of disappearing knowledge. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1995.
  • Thrust reversal. Novel. Residence, Salzburg / Vienna 1995.
  • Hysteria and other historical errors. Afterword by Rüdiger Wischenbart. Special number, Vienna 1996.
  • Superstructure and underground. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1997.
  • With Elisabeth and Eva Menasse : the last fairytale princess. Illustrated by Gerhard Haderer . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1997.
  • With Elisabeth and Eva Menasse: the most powerful man. Illustrated by Kenneth Klein. Deuticke, Vienna / Munich 1998.
  • Stupidity is doable. Accompanying essays on the standstill of the republic. Special number, Vienna 1999.
  • Explain Austria to me. Essays on Austrian history. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2000.
  • The expulsion from hell. Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-41267-1 .
  • That was Austria. Collected Essays on Land Without Properties. Edited by Eva Schörkhuber. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2005.
  • The destruction of the world as will and idea - Frankfurt poetics lectures. Edition Suhrkamp 2464, Frankfurt am Main 2006.
  • The paradise of the unloved. Political play. World premiere October 7, 2006 in the Staatstheater Darmstadt
  • Don Juan de la Mancha or the education of lust. Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2007.
  • The end of the hungry winter. Reading- Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-455-30595-1 .
  • Doctor Hoechst - A fist game. A tragedy. Play. First performance April 25th, 2009 in the Staatstheater Darmstadt. Production: Hermann Schein.
  • I can tell everyone: Stories from the end of the post-war order. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2009.
  • Permanent revolution in terms. Lectures on the concept of clarification, essays. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-12592-2
  • The European messenger, the anger of the citizens and the peace of Europe or why the given democracy must give way to a won one. Zsolnay, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-552-05616-9 .
    • as a paperback: Der Europäische Landbote: the anger of the citizens and the peace of Europe or why the given democracy has to give way to a won one. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-451-06819-5 (= Herder spectrum, volume 6819).
    • Translated: Evropský systém: občanský hněv a evropský mír aneb proč musí darovaná demokracie ustoupit demokracii vybojované, Czech by Petr Dvořáček, Novela Bohemica, Praha 2014, ISBN 978-80-87683-29-3 .
  • Home is the most beautiful utopia. We talk about Europe, Edition Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-12689-9 .
  • “Because Europe has to change.” In conversation with Gesine Schwan , Robert Menasse, Hauke ​​Brunkhorst . Springer VS , Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-01391-2 .
  • A brief history of the European future. Why we must achieve what we have inherited: the Europe of the regions, in: The European. The Debatten-Magazin from June 8, 2015
  • What is literature. A miniature Bildungsroman. Bernstein-Verlag, Siegburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-945426-09-8 .
  • Europe. The future of history. Catalog and exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zürich. Cathérine Hug and Robert Menasse (eds.), With contributions a. a. by Melinda Nadj Abonji, Zygmunt Bauman, Horst Bredekamp, ​​Burcu Dogramaci, Julia Kristeva, Konrad Paul Liessmann, Thomas Maissen , NZZ libro, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-03810-088-1 .
  • Celebrate life! Catalog and exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Cathérine Hug and Robert Menasse (eds.), With the participation a. a. by Kader Attia, Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi, Daniel Knorr, Manuela Laubenberger, Erik van Lieshout, Teresa Margolles, Arnulf Rainer, Hans Schabus, Hubert Scheibl, Daniel Spoerri, Nives Widauer and Josef Zotter, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-903004- 62-7 .
  • Europe. Akzente, 3/2016. Robert Menasse and Jo Lendle (eds.), With contributions by Lily Brett, György Dragomán, Dana Grigorcea, Zbigniew Herbert, Elfriede Jelinek, Ingo Schulze, Adam Zagajewski and others. a. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25547-0 .
  • Why? The legacy of Jean Améry. Cathérine Hug in conversation with Robert Menasse about Jean Améry, his impact and topicality. Bernstein-Verlag, Siegburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-945426-21-0 .
  • “Critique of European Reason - Critique de la raison européene - A Critique of European Reason.” Ceremonial speech in front of the European Parliament: “60 Years of the Treaty of Rome”. (with the "Manifesto for the Establishment of a European Republic" attached). Trilingual: German / French / English. Bernstein-Verlag, Siegburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-945426-28-9 .
  • The capital, Roman. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-42758-3 .

Prizes, awards and grants

Appointed Knight of the French Order of “Arts et Lettres” , 2006
Robert Menasse with the Carl Zuckmayer Medal 2019

Secondary literature

  • The world seems incorrigible. On Robert Menasse's “Trilogy of Entgeisterung”. Published by Dieter Stolz. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-518-39276-X .
  • Joanna Drynda: Beautiful appearance, unclear being. The poetics of criticism of Austria in the work of Gerhard Roth , Robert Menasse and Josef Haslinger . Rys-Studio, Poznań 2003, ISBN 83-88856-26-X (also dissertation at the University of Poznań , 2002).
  • Verena Holler: Fields of Literature: A study of the sociology of literature using the example of Robert Menasse. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 978-3-631-50884-8 .
  • Kurt Bartsch, Verena Holler (ed.): Robert Menasse. Published by the Franz Nabl Institute for Literary Research at the University of Graz , Droschl, Graz 2004, ISBN 978-3-85420-674-3 (= Dossier, Volume 21).
  • Kathrin Krause: Robert Menasse's “Trilogy of Enthusiasm”. A contribution to the theory of the novel. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 978-3-89528-516-5 (also dissertation at the University of Wuppertal , 2004).
  • Jürgen Jacobs: Interim balances of life. To a basic pattern of the educational novel. Bielefeld (Aisthesis Verlag) 2005. ISBN 3-89528-468-8
  • Eva Schörkhuber (Ed.): What once really was. On the work of Robert Menasse. Vienna (Sonderzahlverlag) 2007. ISBN 978-3-85449-273-3 .
  • Aneta Jachimowicz: The difficult whole. Postmodernism and Robert Menasse's “Trilogy of Entgeisterung”. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-56270-3 .
  • Matthias Beilein: 86 and the consequences. Robert Schindel , Robert Menasse and Doron Rabinovici in the literary field of Austria. Schmidt , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-503-09855-2 (= Philological Studies and Sources, Issue 213, also dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 2006).
  • Hans-Dieter Schütt: The earth is the most distant star. Conversations with Robert Menasse. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02152-8 .
  • Antje Büssgen: Europe according to the nations? The European project in the age of post-democracy and globalization. On Robert Menasse's analysis of European integration in his essay Der Europäische Landbote. In: Tomislav Zelić, Zaneta Sambunjak, Anita Pavić Pintarić (eds.): Europe? On the cultural history of an idea. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8260-5663-5 , pp. 297–326.
  • Martin Meyer: Utopia as Freedom as Criticism - Laudation to Robert Menasse on the occasion of the presentation of the Max Frisch Prize in the Zürcher Schauspielhaus on May 11, 2014. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , No. 108, May 12, 2014. p. 33.
  • Steven Erlanger: "Brussels, EU Capital, Gets a Novel, Both Tart and Empathic". In: The New York Times, January 14, 2018.
  • Eva Menasse : Using the example of my brother, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 9, 2019, p. 9

Movies

Web links

Commons : Robert Menasse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Beilein: 86 and the consequences: Robert Schindel, Robert Manasseh and Doron Rabinovici in the literary field in Austria. Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2008, p. 76, note 216. Google Books
  2. ^ Columbus Interactive GmbH: Robert Menasse - Critical Lexicon of Contemporary German Literature (KLG). Retrieved September 1, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Karin Cerny: Sri Lanka: back entrance to paradise. In: profil, August 21, 2014.
  4. ↑ Volker Weidermann: Yes, we need the dreamy. They are the most successful siblings in contemporary German-language literature. In their first interview together, Eva and Robert Menasse talk about family myths, political writing and made up truths . In: Who did Goethe's Faust love? The big SPIEGEL knowledge test. Literature to participate . 1st edition. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-462-05131-5 , pp. 165-191 .
  5. ↑ Robert Menasse: An intellectual profile. In: Matthias Beilein: 86 and the consequences. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 127.
  6. ^ Hegel reception. Retrieved July 31, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Robert Menasse: Enlightenment as a Harmonious Strategy, 2018. ed. By Versopolis, March 23, 2018, accessed on March 31, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Isenschmid, Andreas: Robert Menasse: Herrliche Fremdmittelgedanken at zeit.de, September 6, 2017 (accessed October 9, 2017).
  9. ↑ Robert Menasse: "The Capital" - The pig connects everything . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed September 1, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Theater review by Maximilian Pahl, among others: Play me the European blues. January 18, 2018, accessed January 21, 2018 .
  11. ^ Theater review by Daniele Muscionico: War of the Pigs. January 20, 2018, accessed January 21, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Hermann Schmidt-Rahmer brings Robert Menasse's complex European novel to the stage of the Essener Schauspiel , Nachtkritik.de of October 5, 2018, accessed on October 10, 2018
  13. ↑ Jan Fischer: "Schweinereien in Brussels" , review on Nachtkritik.de of July 10, 2020, accessed July 11, 2020
  14. ↑ See Hans-Dieter Schütt, The earth is the distant star. Conversations with Robert Menasse. Berlin (Karl Dietz Verlag) 2008. ISBN 978-3-320-02152-8 . Also: Eva Schörkhuber (ed.), What once really was. On the work of Robert Menasse, Vienna (special number publisher) 2007. ISBN 978-3-85449-273-3 .
  15. ↑ Robert Menasse: Why this February does not want to pass. Der Standard, February 11, 2004, accessed July 31, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Robert Menasse in Yesterday Was Never So Young. In: Die Presse, May 9, 2014, Spectrum p. 1.
  17. ↑ Ulrike Guérot and Robert Menasse: Manifesto for the establishment of a European republic. Die Presse, Vienna, March 23, 2013, accessed on July 31, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Future of the EU: On the cowardice of European politicians. In: Zeit Online . September 30, 2011, accessed February 9, 2017 (interview with Robert Menasse).
  19. ^ Reinhard Göweil: The Occident in the Night , Wiener Zeitung, September 28, 2012
  20. ↑ a b Robert Menasse: “As a Jew, I never want to be picked up again” . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on September 1, 2018]).
  21. ^ New Damascus in Germany? : Experts: Refugees should recreate their own cities , Focus, March 1, 2016
  22. ↑ Quotes from the European Balcony Project: Manifest ( https://europeanbalconyproject.eu/en/manifesto ), accessed on January 8, 2019
  23. ↑ APA, European Balcony Project: European Republic proclaimed, published in Die Presse on November 10, 2018 ( https://diepresse.com/home/kultur/kunst/5527767/European-Balcony-Project_Europaeische-Republik-ausaid ), accessed on January 8, 2019
  24. ↑ a b Andreas Dorschel: Either and Or. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 2, 2005, p. 14.
  25. ^ Heinrich August Winkler: Europe's false friends in: Spiegel Online, October 23, 2017, accessed on January 3, 2019 - first in: Der Spiegel 43/2017, p. 88.
  26. ↑ First in: Hans-Joachim Lang: Des Noms derrière des Numéros. L'identification des 86 victimes d'un crime nazi. Une inquete. Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg 2018, ISBN 979-1-03440012-6 , pp. 15-16 .
  27. ↑ https://m.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/themen/robert-menasse-hat-auschwitzer-hallstein-rede-erfunden-15967837.amp.html
  28. ↑ How the Menasse case got started by Martin Reeh in the taz on January 3, 2019, accessed on January 3, 2019.
  29. ↑ Patrick Bahners: Hallstein speech in Auschwitz ?: Robert Menasse's bluff . In: FAZ.NET . January 2, 2019, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed January 7, 2019]).
  30. ↑ Menasse invented Hallstein quotes. In: deutschlandfunk.de . December 24, 2018, accessed December 27, 2018 .
  31. ↑ Menasse's co-author says she knew nothing about false quotes. In: Welt Online . December 27, 2018, accessed December 27, 2018 .
  32. ↑ Der Standard : Robert Menasse apologizes for quotes made up , January 4, 2019
  33. ↑ Robert Menasse: What does “fraud” mean? Die Presse , January 5, 2019
  34. ↑ Daniel Haas: You can say that! Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 5, 2019
  35. ↑ Martin Reeh: Commentary on journalism and fake quotes: Counterfeiting for Europe . In: The daily newspaper: taz . January 3, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed January 7, 2019]).
  36. ↑ Dreyer and Menasse: Unreserved recognition of facts is part of the fundamental values ​​of our liberal public. Press release from the State Government of Rhineland-Palatinate, State Chancellery, dated January 7, 2019, accessed on January 8, 2019.
  37. ↑ Roland Freudenstein, How Robert Menasse breaks Europe ( https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/die-zukunft-von-europa-wie-robert-menasse-europa-kaputtschreiben/20843276.html ), Der Tagesspiegel from 12. January 2018 (accessed January 8, 2019)
  38. ^ Christian Ortner, scrapping Austria? in Wiener Zeitung from ( https://www.wienerzeitung.at/mUNGEN/gastkommentare/1000904_Oesterreich-abwracken.html ), accessed on January 7, 2019
  39. ↑ Jacques Schuster : Robert Menasse and the lust for destruction , WeltN24, January 9, 2018.
  40. ↑ A Brief History of the European Future , in: The European. The Debatten-Magazin from June 8, 2015
  41. ↑ Robert Menasse: Critique of European Reason , on the pages of Suhrkamp Verlag from March 21, 2017
  42. ↑ Overview and summary of reviews in German-speaking countries
  43. ↑ Minister of Culture Claudia Schmied announces the winners of the Austrian Art Prize 2012 on December 27, 2012, accessed on December 28, 2012.
  44. ^ Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung on their literature prize
  45. ↑ Robert Menasse receives the Swiss Max Frisch Prize. In: Der Standard , March 5, 2014.
  46. ↑ 2015 - Culture Prize Winners of the State of Lower Austria. ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 7, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.noe.gv.at
  47. ↑ Culture prizes awarded by the country. orf.at, November 7, 2015; accessed on November 7, 2015.
  48. ^ Robert Menasse receives the Prix du Livre Europeen. orf.at, November 18, 2015; Retrieved November 18, 2015.
  49. ^ Award for a novel: Robert Menasse receives the German Book Prize . In: Spiegel Online . October 9, 2017 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 9, 2017]).
  50. ↑ Robert Menasse receives the Walter Hasenclever Prize 2018. In: derStandard.at. April 17, 2018. Retrieved April 17, 2018 .
  51. ↑ Menasse receives Zuckmayer Medal , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on January 7, 2019.
  52. ↑ https://www.diepresse.com/5737581/menasse-erhalt-prix-litteraire-des-lycees-francaise-d-europe : Die Presse. Retrieved December 16, 2019 .
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personal data
SURNAME Menasse, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna