Auden in Austria DigitalWho remembers Ingo Mussi?
He was press secretary to Austrian Federal Chancellor #BrunoKreisky, & later Austrian ambassador to #Israel & #Sweden. 🇦🇹 🇮🇱 🇸🇪
Please help improve #Wikidata item https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112448647.
Now editing the correspondence between British-American poet #WHAuden and Austrian-British writer #HildeSpiel, 'grande dame' of Austrian literature (https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q93872):
✉️ 12 letters by Auden 1966-72
✉️ 5 letters (carbon copy) by Spiel 1970-72
✉️ 1 letter (carbon copy) by Spiel 1972 to Austrian chancellor #BrunoKreisky *
* (successfully) asking him to politically intervene on Auden's behalf 🏡 💵 👩⚖️
Stay tuned.
Two years later, in 1972, Austrian Chancellor #BrunoKreisky seems to have been involved in reducing #WHAuden's tax liability - when the poet appealed to the Supreme Administrative Court against the Austrian authorities' tax assessment:
https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737014946.141 (pp 148-151)
Laxeros#podcast #geschichteausdergeschichte #Brunokreisky #intro #outro #ichfreumichsoaufsamstag #kommtBrunoauch?
Coney von 1LandPolitical Theory Uni Wien
Talk of #OliverMarchart at the conference "Conflicting Populisms: Left and Right Wing #Populism in #Europe", organized by the #PoliticalTheory section of the #University of #Vienna in collaboration with the #BrunoKreisky Forum for International #Dialogue on June 9-11, 2016.
➡️https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1KndyFcyBsg
