In and Around Frankfurt

Having Austria as the Focal Point of the 1995 Frankfurt Book Fair represents the first time in the history of the Fair that there has been a German-language focus.

The literature of Austria is sustained by the thematic conflicts of harmony and rifts, of encounters and confrontations, of changing relationships and the overstepping of boundaries. These complicated associations reflect a cultural diversity which is truly representative of Europe.

The diverse programmes for the Austrian Focal Theme were set up in conjunction with the most important Frankfurt cultural sites and institutions, along with the Austrian publishing houses and institutions. A thematic and comprehensive programme is presented, ranging from the Book Fair events to public functions in and around Frankfurt, offering visitors different interpretations of the cultural development in Austrian culture during the 20th century in the form of literature, music, art, and architecture.

In this autumn of 1995, numerous public functions invite Frankfurt Book Fair visitors to take part in cultural "expeditions" to Austria:

• Opening Evening, Wednesday October 11, 1995

An evening of literature and authors, of theatre and music.

Venue: Old Opera House, Frankfurt

• Start of Modernism

Austrian Art between Tradition and European Avantgarde

Venue: Schirn Art Gallery, Frankfurt

• History of Austrian Drawing from 1900 to 1938

An extensive exhibition featuring approximately 200 drawings – including the work of Arnold Schönberg and Koloman Moser.

Venue: Frankfurt Art Society

• Interplay – Six Evenings with Literary Concerts and Concert Literature

Venue: Old Opera House, Frankfurt

• Vienna Literature House at the Frankfurt Literature House

The Frankfurt Literature House as a stage for literature, music, performances and fine arts.

Venue: Frankfurt Literature House

• Stefan Zweig: A Town and its Poet

An exhibition about the poet.

Venue: Carmelite Convent, Frankfurt

• Literature in Telefilms

Television – a modern literary medium.

A ZDF and ORF coproduction

• Sag zum Abschied...

An exhibition of the music and cabaret culture of the period between the two world wars.

Venue: Jewish Museum, Frankfurt

• Early Austrian Publishing Trade

The beginnings and development of the publishing culture in Austria.

Venue: Frankfurter Sparkasse

• Jugendstil and Modern Illustrations of Books for Younger and Older Children

Venue: Klingspor Museum, Offenbach

• Modern Austrian Architectural Projects

Modern Austrian architecture that focuses in housing projects.

Venue: German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt

• Imperial and Royal National Factory Production Cabinet

Mass production and every day decorations at the dawning of modernism.

Venue: Arts and Crafts Museum, Frankfurt

• "Hohe Tauern" as a Cultural Landscape. Minerals and Ore

A history of culture and nature, ecology and tourism of the Tauern region.

Venue: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt

• Public Functions in the Mousonturm

Venue: Mousonturm, Frankfurt

• Austrian Drama

Thomas Bernhard, Karl Kraus

Venue: Frankfurt Theatre

Note:

All museum pictures referenced here have been reprinted by permission of the LAVA Team.