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  Peter Altenberg - Wikipedia
Die Kunst Peter Altenbergs besteht darin, mit wenigen „literarischen Pinselstrichen“ ein umfassendes Bild zu schaffen; mit Hilfe von kurzen Andeutungen vor dem Leser, der bereit ist, auch zwischen den Zeilen zu lesen, ein ganzes Panorama der Gesellschaft, ein ganzes Netz von Beziehungen auferstehen zu lassen.
Altenberg versucht nicht, das Leben auf einen ideologischen Nenner zu bringen, sondern zeigt es in seiner ganzen Buntheit, seiner oft widersprüchlichen Vielfalt.
Trotz Erfolges blieb Altenberg von Spenden abhängig, zu denen seine Freunde - u.a.
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 BOOKFORUM | Feb/Mar 2006
In 1914, Altenberg was nominated jointly with Arthur Schnitzler for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Born Richard Engländer in 1859, Peter Altenberg was the eldest son of wealthy, assimilated Jewish parents.
Altenberg’s literary quest was a search for that very quality of soul his father had put his faith in, and for the mysterious, inaccessible femininity his mother represented.
www.bookforum.com /archive/feb_06/lewis.html   (1345 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Peter Altenberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Peter Altenberg is the pseudonym under which the Viennese impressionist Richard Engländer wrote his twelve volumes of sensitive musings, aphorisms, prose poems, and short sketches.
Altenberg’s name is well known and strongly associated with impressionism and the artistic glories and coffee house culture of the Vienna fin-de-siècle, but he is sometimes mentioned in passing or viewed more as a friend of the famous and an interesting character than as a writer.
Altenberg was already well known in artistic and intellectual circles when he began to write at the age of thirty-seven.
www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5806   (702 words)

  
 Altenberg, Peter :: A : Gourt
Peter Altenberg (1859 - 1919) was a writer and poet from Vienna, Austria.
Although he grew up in a middle class Jewish family, Altenberg eventually separated himself from his family of origin by dropping out of both law and medical school, and embracing Bohemianism as a permanent lifestyle choice.
At the fin de siècle, when Vienna was considered a major center for arts and culture, Altenberg was a very influential part of a literary and artistic movement known as Jung Wien or "Young Vienna." Altenberg was a contemporary of Karl Kraus, Gustav Mahler, Arthur Schnitzler, and Gustav Klimt.
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 PR Peter Altenberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Peter Altenberg was the quintessential poet and one of the central figures in fin de siècle Vienna.
He was admired by many of his contemporaries and at the same time laughed at: a dreamer and legendary coffee house figure, an admirer of beautiful women and unspoiled landscapes, a master of aphorisms and other literary forms, a disciple of nature and health fanatic who was nevertheless not averse to a drop of alcohol.
Altenberg’s albums of postcards complete with inscriptions were forerunners of the collage technique.
www.jmw.at /en/pr_peter_altenberg.html   (1293 words)

  
 Peter Altenberg
Peter Altenberg (1859-1919) was more than just a coffee-house poet: Bohemian and aesthete, admirer of landscapes and beautiful women.
It provides an insight into Altenberg’s activities in the Jugendstil milieu: a sensitive writer, amateur psychologist, alternative aesthete and collector of picture postcards, photographs and pictures, which he commented on pertinently — his life and environment as a work of art.
Items from Altenberg’s collection have been gathered from the archives of the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna, the Vienna City and Provincial Library, Gallery St. Etienne in New York, the Munich City Library/Monacensia and from private collections.
www.jmw.at /en/peter_altenberg.html   (188 words)

  
 Peter Altenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Because most of his literary work was written while he frequented various Viennese bars and coffeehouses, Altenberg is sometimes referred to as a cabaret or coffee house poet.
Altenberg was also rumored to have problems with alcoholism and mental illness.
Altenberg, like many writers and artists, was constantly short of money, but he was adept at making friends, cultivating patrons, and convincing others to pay for his meals, his champagne, even his rent, with which he was frequently late.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Altenberg   (499 words)

  
 Alban Berg: Altenberg Lieder Op.4
Fünf Orchesterlieder nach Ansichtkartentexten von Peter Altenberg was composed in the autumn of 1912.
The brief character of the five Altenberg songs was preceded by compositions by Webern and Schoenberg: "Webern had written nothing since 1909 that was not [aphoristic], and Schoenberg himself had turned to "aphoristic form" in 1911, in his Six Little Piano Pieces, Op.
The riot at the Altenberg concert was caused by three factors: the first was the violent dislike of the "new music" by the Viennese public, the second was the shocking character of most of the work on display that evening.
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 Poetic telegrams, pastries and tarts from old Vienna
Altenberg said that around 1899, and was praised for it by Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann and Arthur Schnitzler, writers whom you might run into if you frequented the right cafes and burned with esprit du temps.
Inspired by Baudelaire, Altenberg wrote his poetry in prose paragraphs under the influence of morphine, cocaine and alcohol, but the baroque wallpaper in his room may have been equally influential.
Altenberg collected walking sticks and was known to wield one if provoked late at night in a dubious neighborhood.
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 Amazon.fr : Telegrams Of The Soul: Selected Prose Pearls Of Peter Altenberg: Livres en anglais: Peter Altenberg,Peter ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Peter Wortsman's new selection and translation reads like a sly lyrical wink from the turn-of-the-century of the telegram to the turn-of-the-millennium of e-mail.
Peter Altenberg, also known as Richard Englander, 1859–1919, was born into a well-to-do Viennese Jewish family, lived in hotels and listed as his official address the Cafe Central, Vienna's intellectual clubhouse (also the sometime haunt of Leon Trotsky and his chess partner Vladimir Ilyich Lenin).
A renowned eccentric, Altenberg pioneered the very notion of loose-fitting leisure attire, designed a line of necklaces and favored sandals, walking sticks, slivovitz and the company of prostitutes.
www.amazon.fr /Telegrams-Soul-Selected-Pearls-Altenberg/dp/0974968080   (523 words)

  
 CD Baby: PETER ALTENBERG: All Cows Eat Grass
All Cows Eat Grass is Peter Altenbergs first solo CD.
Peter has been studying tabla since 1984 starting with Ustad Alla Rakha in Chicago and Bombay and has been learning from Ustad Zakir Hussain since 1986.
Peter is also cellist with and founder of The Beer&Bach Orchestra who will soon release a CD a compilation "Beer&Bach Orchestra Playing with The Bands of San Francisco".
www.cdbaby.com /cd/altenberg   (240 words)

  
 Telegrams of the Soul by Peter Altenberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Altenberg relates his supposed encounters with shop clerks, waiters, and hotel maids, and displays his family's dirty laundry--their financial and sexual hi-jinks--for all to see.
Altenberg bragged that he never rewrote anything, that all of his writings were spontaneous first drafts.
Altenberg begins by speaking of the print hanging on the wall of his room, which shows Schubert playing the piano for three little girls; this reminds him of the composer's longing for the daughter of one of his patrons.
www.codeschaos.0catch.com /telegrams.html   (468 words)

  
 Telegrams of the Soul
A virtuoso fin-de-siècle Viennese innovator of what he called the "telegram style" of writing, Altenberg's signature short prose straddles the line between the lyrical and the narrative, the poetic and the prosaic, fiction and observation, harsh verity and whimsical vignette.
Peter Altenberg is a genius of nullifications, a singular idealist who discovers the splendors of this world like cigarette butts in the ashtrays of coffeehouses.” —Franz Kafka
“Some [of Altenberg's pieces] are like steel projectiles, so tightly enclosed in themselves, so complete and precise in their form; and like projectiles, they pierce the breast; you are struck and you bleed.
www.archipelagobooks.org /catalog/telegrams/index.html   (300 words)

  
 In the Amusement Park and My Ideals
Peter Altenberg (pen name of Richard Engländer) was born in 1859 in Vienna and died there in 1919.
Hofmannsthal wrote about Altenberg's first published collection Wie ich es sehe (1896): »Even though entirely unconcerned with things important, the book has such a good conscience that one can immediately see that it cannot possibly be a German book.
The translations are based on: Peter Altenberg, Sonnenuntergang im Prater, 25 prose pieces, selection and afterword by Hans Dieter Schäfer, Philipp Reclam Jun., Stuttgart 1976.
www.jbeilharz.de /austria/altenberg   (488 words)

  
 Notes of a 'Soul' man | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Altenberg was the quintessential Romantic bohemian, who scorned the straitlaced fashions of his time, preferring loose-fitting leisure attire and sandals.
As befits a writer who thought greatly of little things, Altenberg was a miniaturist.
His nonconformism notwithstanding, Altenberg was remarkably representative of his time and the city he rarely ventured far from.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050911/news_lz1c11soul.html   (382 words)

  
 Peter Altenberg Biography | Dictionary of Literary Biography
Although Peter Altenberg enjoyed high esteem among writers as diverse as the brothers Mann, Robert Musil, Karl Kraus, Franz Kafka, and Gerhart Hauptmann, he has found little favor with the literary-critical establishment.
For more than twenty years, however, this author of delightfully varied and often acute prose poems, vignettes, and short sketches was a central figure in Vienna during a period of cultural efflorescence unparalleled in modern times.
Probably the most obviously "impressionistic" of all the creative writers in Austria at the turn of the century, Altenberg attracted a wide readership across the German-speaking lands and had almost all of his books published by the prestigious S. Fischer publishing house in Berlin.
www.bookrags.com /biography/peter-altenberg-dlb   (184 words)

  
 Peter Altenberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Peter Altenberg: A Neglected Writer of the Viennese Jahrhundertwende (European University Studies, Series I, German Language & Literature, Vol 1001)
Telegrams from the Soul : Peter Altenberg and the Culture of Fin-de-Sicle Vienna (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture)
Peter Altenberg als Autor der literarischen Kleinform: Untersuchungen zu seinem Werk unter gattungstypologischem Aspekt (European university studies.
www.freeglossary.com /Peter_Altenberg   (115 words)

  
 peter altenberg : music
The band from this CD was made up of people coming from the bands Harm Farm, Little My, 100 Watt Smile, and The Breaders.
Peter Altenberg — Tabla, Cello, Flute, Hammond Organ, Sarangi, Vocals
I reside most of the year with my son Kalyan in Bremen, Germany taking annual visits to the San Francisco Bay Area, the Midwest (ancestral homeland) and Mumbai, India, where I have been studying sarangi since 1996 with Ustad Sultan Khan.
www.altenberg.com /peter/pages/musicPage2.html   (497 words)

  
 Peter Altenberg Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
A virtuoso Fin de Siecle Viennese innovator of what he called the "telegram style" of writing, Altenberg's signature short prose straddles the line between the...
Alexander King presents Peter Altenberg�s Evocations of love.
Alexander King presents Peter Altenberg Evocations of love.
www.alibris.co.uk /search/books/author/Peter_Altenberg   (164 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/peterbrowne
Peter has also worked with Emer Mayock,Camille O'Sullivan,Ann Bushnill,Providence,Hard Station,Niamh Parsons,Tango Bravo,Stocktons Wing,At First Light,Zoltan Lantos,Paul Kelly,Dave Liebman,Brian Byrne and The RTE Concert Orchestra on a number of occasions.
Hi Peter will you be at an Scoil Gheimhridh this year, hope to see you there :) Lx
Thanks for the add, Peter, and see you 'round the discussion table at Thesession.org, I'm sure.
www.myspace.com /peterbrowne   (586 words)

  
 Altenberg Trio Vienna - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It's not by chance that the three musicians - Claus-Christian Schuster, Amiram Ganz and Alexander Gebert - have found each other under the name of that "gentle revolutionary" Peter Altenberg.
The Altenberg Trio: experience on untrodden paths - warm-hearted intelligence - citizenry of the world, Central European style.
Amiram Ganz plays one of Goffredo Cappa's violins (Saluzzo 1686), Alexander Gebert plays a cello by Frank Ravatin (Vannes 2005), Claus-Christian Schuster on various pianos.
www.altenbergtrio.at /txt_bretschneider_e.php   (170 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Peter Altenberg": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Arthur Schnitzler, Peter Altenberg und Hugo von Hofmannsthal zweifelsohne auch Theodor Herzl.
Peter Altenberg, of course, occupied a small hotel room in the Dorotheagasse, and Karl Kraus slept by day at his apartment...
Sigmund Freud and Ludwig Wittgenstein have been as apt subjects for study as Gustav Klimt and Peter Altenberg.
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 Books by Peter Wortsman, compare prices
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Telegrams Of The Soul : Selected Prose Pearls Of Peter Altenberg
Peter Schlemiel : The Man Who Sold His Shadow
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 Peter Altenberg: See what people are saying right now on Technorati   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Peter Altenberg: See what people are saying right now on Technorati
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 Peter Altenberg: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
Peter Altenberg: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more
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 Find in a Library: Alexander King presents Peter Altenbergʹs Evocations of love.
Find in a Library: Alexander King presents Peter Altenbergʹs Evocations of love.
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Two short stories by Peter Altenberg (Austria, 1859-1919).
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 Amazon.com: Telegrams of the Soul: Selected Prose of Peter Altenberg: Books: Peter Altenberg,Peter Wortsman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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