Peter Altenberg

Peter Altenberg was born on the 9^th March 1859 in the city of Vienna; he died on the 8^th January 1919 in the city of Vienna. He was an Austrian writer and a poet. He was the key to the starting of the early modernism in the city of Vienna.

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Biography

Peter Altenberg was born with the name Richard Engländer on the 9^th March 1959. He is from a small town on the Danuber River. 

Peter Altenberg was discovered by Arthur Schnitzler in the year 1894 and was appreciated by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Karl Kraus. He was one of the major proponents of the impressionism of the city of Vienna. He was a master of aphoristic stories because of the intimate observation of the life events of the people of the country.

Peter Altenberg became popular al through the city of Vienna aft6er publishing the book of his fragementary observation of the children and women in the street activities of the country.

He is at times called a Cabaret of a coffee house poet because of the continuous repetition of the bars and coffee houses of the city of Vienna in his works.

 He is seen by many academics to be a bohemian’s Bohemian. Like other writers of the country, Peter Altenberg was often in lack of money, but was good at making friends and convincing people to pay for his bills, his meal and for the drinks he take.

He was never married. Peter Altenberg died on the 8^th January 1919 at the age of 59. He was buried at the Central Cemetary in the city of Vienna.

The Altenberg Trio is named after Peter Altenberg. It is a classical chamber music group that was formed in the year 1994 in the city of Vienna, Austria.

Works

German

Ø  Wie ich es sehe. S. Fischer, Berlin 1896.

Ø  Ashantee. Fischer, 1897

Ø  Was der Tag mir zuträgt. Fünfundfünfzig neue Studien. Fischer, Berlin 1901

Ø  Prodromos. Fischer, Berlin 1906

Ø  Märchen des Lebens. Fischer, Berlin 1908; veränd. A. ebd. 1919

Ø  Die Auswahl aus meinen Büchern. Fischer, Berlin 1908

Ø  Bilderbögen des kleinen Lebens. Reiss, Berlin 1909

Ø  Neues Altes. Fischer, Berlin 1911

Ø  Semmering 1912. Fischer, Berlin 1913; verm. A. ebd. 1919

Ø  Fechsung. Fischer, Berlin 1915

Ø  Nachfechsung. Fischer, Berlin 1916

Ø  Vita ipsa. Fischer, Berlin 1918

Ø  Mein Lebensabend. Fischer, Berlin 1919

Ø  Der Nachlass von Peter Altenberg, zusammensgestellt von Alfred Polgar. Fischer, Berlin 1925.

Ø  Peter Altenberg. Auswahl von Karl Kraus, herausgegeben von Sigismund von Radecki. Atlantis, Zürich 1963

Ø  Das Buch der Bücher von Peter Altenberg, zusammengestellt von Karl Kraus. 2009

Ø  Die Selbsterfindung eines Dichters. Briefe und Dokumente 1892–1896. 2009

English Translated

Ø  Telegrams of the Soul: Selected Prose of Peter Altenberg (2005).

Ø  Ashantee. (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought) (2007).

Ø  Alexander King Presents Peter Altenberg's Evocations of Love (1960).