Opening Remarks - Professor Edward Timms

Inspirational figures from the founding of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies: Max and Hilde Kochmann and their friend Kurt Hellman

Professor Marjorie Perloff

The Vienna Paradox: Jewish Identity and Austrian High Culture from World War I to the Anschluss

Marjorie Perloff was born Gabriele Mintz into a secularised Jewish family in Vienna and fled abroad in 1938 when she was six-and-a-half. The family settled in the United States, where she has had a distinguished academic career, currently being Professor of English at the University of Southern California. Her numerous books include The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant-Guerre, and the Language of Rupture (1986), Wittgenstein’s Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary (1996), and Poetics in a New Key (2014). Her most recent publication is Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire (2016). This work enlarges on the theme of her 2004 memoir The Vienna Paradox.

The public lecture will be followed by a reception.

If you would like to attend, please email Diana Franklin, Centre Manager E: d.franklin@sussex.ac.uk

By: Robert John Dunphy
Last updated: Friday, 23 June 2017