Robert von Dassanowsky

Robert of Dassanowsky (born 28 January 1960 in New York City, New York, Robert Dassanowsky ) is an Austrian-American German literature, film historian, writer and film producer. He is Professor of German and Film at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, was a guest at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA) and is Adjunct Professor of Media and Communication Science (film ) at Webster University Vienna.

Life and work

The articles written by him in the property sector of the literary and cultural criticism include both essays on Ingeborg Bachmann, Leni Riefenstahl, Robert Musil, Max Dauthendey, Alois Hotschnig, Billy Wilder, Christine Brückner, Hugo von Hofmannsthal uva as well as essays that deal with issues of international film art. The specialist in the field of Austrian literature and cultural studies is an expert in the work of Alexander Lernet- Holenia. He wrote the first socio- political treatise on Lernet- Holenias novels which examine the problems of the Austrian identity crisis: Phantom Empire (1996). His book Austrian Cinema: A History (2005 ) is the first English-language study of the Austrian film history. He is also a poet, translator (including Lernet- Holenia, Hans Raimund, Oskar Marischler - Rotter home ), playwright and serves in the editor board of the literary journal Poetry Salzburg Review, rampike (Canada), Osiris (USA), Colloquia Germanica, as well as for Ariadne Press in Los Angeles. Dassanowsky is also an employee at Senses of Cinema, Bright Lights Film Journal, and The Vienna Review.

He led the Belvedere film production company in Los Angeles and Vienna with his mother, Elfi von Dassanowsky (1924-2007), and produced or co / associate produced, among other films like Semmelweis (Short Film, USA / A 2001 ), The Nightmare Stumbles Past ( Cartoons, USA 2002 ), Wilson chance ( feature film, USA, 2005 ), The Retreat ( short film, USA, 2010 ), People ( short film, USA / A 2012) and Felix Austria! (also: The Archduke and Herbert Hinkel, Documentary, USA / A 2013 ).

Dassanowsky is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, the European Film Academy, the Academy of the Austrian film, the Austrian and USA PEN Centre, and co-founder of the International Alexander Lernet- Holenia Society and the Austrian American Film Association ( AAFA ). 2014 he was a member of the advisory board Salzburg Institute. He was a board member of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association ( MALCA ) which appears as Austrian Studies Association (ASA ) since 2012. Dassanowsky was Vice President (2010-2012) and president (2012-2014) of the Company and on the editorial board of the Journal of Austrian Studies.

Dassanowsky announced in November 2007 that was planned in memory of his mother a Elfi von Dassanowsky Foundation. The Cultural Fund has been active in February 2009.

Works

  • Phantom Empires: The Novels of Alexander Lernet- Holenia and the Question of Post Imperial Austrian identity. Ariadne Press, Riverside 1996, ISBN 1-57241-030-2.
  • Telegrams from the Metropole. Selected Poems 1980-1998. University of Salzburg, Salzburg 1999, ISBN 3-901993-02-9.
  • Robert of Dassanowsky (ed.): Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. 3 volumes. 2nd edition. Gale Group, Farmington Hills in 2000, ISBN 0-7876-3987-7.
  • Austrian Cinema: A History. McFarland, Jefferson 2005, ISBN 0-7864-2078-2.
  • European Film. In: Gary Hoppe stand, Gerd Bayer ( eds.): Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture. Volume 3: Europe. Greenwood Press, Westport, London 2007, ISBN 0 - 3133-3255 -X.
  • Soft Mayhem: Poems. Poetry Salzburg Press, Salzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-901993-30-5.
  • Robert of Dassanowsky and Oliver C. Speck ( ed.): New Austrian Film. Berghahn, New York and Oxford 2011, ISBN 978-1-84545-700-6.
  • Martin Liebscher, Christophe Fricker, Robert of Dassanowsky (ed.): The name Able and the Unnameable: Hofmannsthal 's The Difficult Revisited. Iudicium, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86205-030-7.
  • Robert of Dassanowsky (ed.): Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: manipulation of Metafilm. Continuum, London and New York 2012, ISBN 978-1-441138699.
  • Robert Dassanowsky (Ed.): World Film Locations: Vienna. Intellect, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-841505695.
  • Verses of a Marriage. Poetry of Hans Raimund. Foreword by Karl -Markus Gauss. Event Horizon, 1996, ISBN 1-880391-16-3.
  • Mars in Aries. Translation by Alexander Lernet- Holenias Mars in Aries. Ariadne Press, Riverside 2003, ISBN 1-57241-118- X.
  • Day of Freedom of Leni Riefenstahl. Short Vision 8, Warner Home Video DVD, 2000, ASIN B00004RF95.
  • With Gertraud Steiner: Austria 's Hollywood / Hollywood ' s Austria. Special edition of Film Art. 154, 1997.
  • Michael Haneke. Special issue of Modern Austrian Literature. 43.2, 2010.

Awards

  • 2004: Appointed as " U.S. Professor of the Year " by the Carnegie Foundation for Colorado and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education ( CASE)
  • 2005: Silver Medal of the Republic of Austria
  • 2007: Appointed Fellow of the Royal Historical Society ( FRHistS )
  • 2009: Appointed to the delegate of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • 2010: Appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts ( FRSA )
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