The boundary between private and public becomes increasingly blurred and the desire to exhibit oneself and to observe others exhibiting their lives begins to look like a collective addiction. Although autobiographical texts in particular seem to be private and personal in nature, they are in actual fact the results of self-staging.(Die Furche, 20 April 2006)

(text in German)

Deborah Holmes, Caitríona Ní Dhúill, Hannes Schweiger (Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Biographie, Wien)

Deborah Holmes' report on the guest lecture by Lisa Silverman.

Esther Marian's report of the institute's first international symposium, 'Mirror and Mask: Biographical truths under construction', has recently been published in Geschichte der Germanistik. Mitteilungen, edited by Christoph König and Marcel Lepper, Wallstein Verlag.

(Report in German)

'Ernst Jandl' - publication in German

'Thomas Bernhard' - publication in German

'Mirror and Mask. Biographical truths under construction' - publication in German