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Peter Altenberg (9 March 1859 – 8 January 1919) was a writer and poet from Vienna, Austria. He played a key role in the genesis of early modernism in the city.
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Mar 7, 2013 · The anthology is the brainchild of Peter Wortsman, Altenberg’s translator for Archipelago, and in it is a P.A. piece alongside works by the Brothers Grimm, Kleist, von Chamisso, Hoffmann,...
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Oct 17, 2013 · Little things in life supplant the “great events.” —Peter Altenberg, as translated by Peter Wortsman. The figure of the flâneur—the stroller, the passionate wanderer emblematic of nineteenth-century French literary culture—has always been essentially timeless; he removes himself from the world while he stands astride its heart.
Peter Altenberg (9 March 1859 – 8 January 1919) was a writer and poet from Vienna, Austria. He played a key role in the genesis of early modernism in the city.
Mar 6, 2021 · Peter Altenberg (1859-1919) war Autor, Journalist, Flaneur und Schnorrer, anziehend für die einen, abstoßend für die anderen. Er war Dichter kleiner und kleinster Geschichten, die seine ...
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Born into a prosperous assimilated Jewish family in Vienna in 1859, the young Richard Englànder (who later took the pen name Peter Altenberg) was labeled by a grade school teacher as a "genius without abilities." The characterization bears a.
Peter Altenberg was born Richard Engländer in Vienna on March 9, 1859. The son of Jewish middle class parents, he never managed to obtain a university degree, let alone hold a permanent job. He started studying l aw at the University of Vienna, but abandoned it in order to switch to Medical School.