Description:
This engaging biography offers a fresh perspective on the great author and playwright, Arthur Schnitzler, using previously unknown archival material and correspondence between Schnitzler and his wife.
Brief description: Max Haberich was born on April 19, 1984, and grew up on Hawaii and in Munich. He studied History, History of Art and German Literature in York, Aix-en-Provence and Tübingen. Haberich completed his PhD on the German-Jewish identity of Arthur Schnitzler and Jakob Wassermann at the University of Cambridge. He has published in various academic and literary journals. In Vienna, he founded the writers' circle Jung Wien '14. Haberich is a member of the P.E.N. Club and a board member of the Austrian Writers' Association. His biography, Arthur Schnitzler. Anatom des Fin-de- Siècle, was published in German by Kremayr & Scheriau in 2017. One of Haberich's most recent publications includes a volume of short stories and satires in German, Am Abhang der Wind [The Wind at the Precipice] (2019), in the series 'Edition P.E.N.' from Löcker Verlag.