Object of the month
All objects of the month
2024
Oktober: ANASTASIUS GRÜN UND SLOWENIEN. Die Volkslieder aus Krain (Paul Taglieber)
September: Jenseits des Schmökergrabs. Reinhard Juds unrealisiertes Frank-Miller-Porträt (David J. Wimmer)
Juni: Michl, wer bist Du eigentlich? Michael Vodopiutz’ geschichten von der Seele (Stefan Alker-Windbichler)
Mai: „EIN INZESTUÖSER BANKERT“. Alfred Kolleritsch, die manuskripte und (New-Wave-) Science-Fiction (David J. Wimmer)
April: "Golden Spike". Perspektive(n) auf das Anthropozän (Marietta Schmutz)
March: Wilhelm Hengstler's Wanderjahr 1964 or The Hitchhiker's Guide to Iceland (Fabio Perndorfer)
February: The soup tastes good in Graz (Lisa Erlenbusch)
January: VON DEN NAMEN UND VON DEN DINGEN: Werner Schwab's previously unpublished children's stories on CD (Daniela Bartens)
2023
December: Stifter's founder legend. A rediscovered autograph (?) of "Das Freudenfest am Trauerdenkmahle" (1824) (Christian Neuhuber)
November: "Suddenly, for a moment, I was part of a world in which anything was possible." The Bookolino reading chair (Irene Hetzenauer)
October: DER REVOLVER. A curiosity from the estate of Gerhard Roth. (Paul Taglieber)
September: "There is the Literaturhaus in Graz and everything else around it" - 20 years of Literaturhaus Graz (Agnes Altziebler)
July: "Look at your hands. They won't turn into grave shovels anymore." Barbara Frischmuth's garden tools (Stefan Alker-Windbichler)
June: Of utility and consumer texts. A dime novel in the estate of Wilhelm Hengstler (David J. Wimmer)
May: A visit from the capital (of the federal government, because that of literature ...) (Lisa Erlenbusch)
April: LETZTE LEKTÜREN. Books from Gerhard Roth's southern Styrian divan (Daniela Bartens)
March: School years of a freedom lover. The drawing book of Anton Alexander von Auersperg (Christian Neuhuber)
February: Horváth in Vienna 1935-1938 (Martin Vejvar)
January: Lonely on the Zirbitzkogel. Reinhard P. Gruber's Hödlmoser novel as a "beautiful radio play" with a prominent cast (Daniel MIilkovits)
2022
December: Peter Handke in the archive of the Franz Nabl Institute for Literary Research (Lisa Erlenbusch)
November: "EIN DING GLEICH MIR". Typewriters and their writers [Günter Eichberger, Franz Weinzettl, Doris Mühringer] (David J. Wimmer)
October: The "trademark" gangan. Registration confirmation from the Austrian Patent Office (Fabio Perndorfer)
September: Cat content from Graz: Hans Leifhelm's "Unwahrscheinliche Geschichte" (Stefan Alker-Windbichler)
June: "REQUIEM FOR A LOST LANGUAGE". A birthday letter to Gerhard Roth(Daniela Bartens)
May: "I got into an almost embarrassing predicament with this honor": Alfred Kolleritsch on receiving the 2009 Franz Nabl Prize(Lisa Erlenbusch)
April: "Dissolution. The screenplay as a dynamic text and revealing archive [Wilhelm Hengstler] (David J. Wimmer)
March: "Don't turn on the computer yet!" A Schneider PC from the 1980s in the archive (Stefan Alker-Windbichler, Hannes Schwab)
February: WITH ALL SENSE. The annual readings of the GAV Steiermark (Daniela Bartens)
January: Grün aus der Truhe: The acquisition history of the partial estate of Anastasius Grün (Christian Neuhuber)
2021
December: Prose as salvation "at the end of the literary world": Ilse Aichinger in the "manuskripten" (Lisa Erlenbusch)
October: "But I only saw the bone man". A beginning and two ends of the one "Long Night" by Grete Scheuer (Anna Fercher)
September: "What an unspeakably wonderful country!". Picture postcard from Viktor Geramb to Franz Nabl (Lisa Erlenbusch)
June: "Offside, on the tracks" - Unpublished photo series on Franz Weinzettl's sleeper text (Daniela Bartens)
May: "...mainly prose, but also poetry." An author introduces himself. [Clemens Setz] (David J. Wimmer)
April: A 'legendary' soccer match - a search for traces [from the photo collection "Alfred Kolleritsch"] (Agnes Altziebler)
March: "THE BRAIN IS ITSELF A LABYRINTH". Gerhard Roth and the "Labirinto Borges" as a labyrinth within a labyrinth within a labyrinth (Daniela Bartens)
February: "who wants to be my brother, who wants to be my sister". Herwig Kaiser's "Mitzi S." and the magazine WAS (Anna Fercher)
January: "when the ischler set out to conquer literature..." (Helmut Schranz) (Chiara-Teresa Kirschen)
2020
December: Ödön von Horváth: Impfschein (1914) (Martin Vejvar)
November: Reinhard P. Gruber: NACHRUF auf Josef Krainer (Gerhard Fuchs)
October: "We are revolting against the situation here: do not oppose the doct[r]inary Klembim with a doct[r]inary Klimbim." Draft of Alfred Kolleritsch's marginalia for "manuskripte" number 27 (1969) (Lisa Erlenbusch)
September: Writing under the cheese bell. Clemens Setz and the paradox of the Graz avant-garde (David J. Wimmer)
April: The Pornography of Circumstances. The scandal surrounding Oswald Wiener's "die verbesserung von mitteleuropa, roman" in the "manuskripten" (Daniela Bartens)
March: Ödön von Horváth: Typescript sheet with handwritten corrections to "Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald" (1930/31) (Nicole Streitler-Kastberger)
February: DER TIEFE ATEM. Newspaper clipping of Peter Handke's Petrarca Prize speech on Alfred Kolleritsch (Elisabeth Loibner)
January: Ödön von Horváth: Typescript sheet with handwritten corrections to "Kasimir and Karoline" (1931/32) (Nicole Streitler-Kastberger / Martin Vejvar)
2019
December: Canetti ff. Highlights on the Franz Nabl Prize of the City of Graz and its naming (Gerhard Fuchs)
November: "Whereabouts presumably Paris". Maurice Blanchot's "The Idyll" in "manuskripte" (Stefan Maurer)
October: "What should I do with the fashions?" Two letters by Doris Mühringer (1972/73) (Gerhard Fuchs)
September: "I was born, I live, I will die." Günter Eichberger's "Materials for a curriculum vitae" (Daniela Bartens)
August: "I was very interested in your play". A letter from Arthur Schnitzler to Franz Nabl dated May 21, 1927 (Christian Neuhuber)
July: Chanson "Ein jeder Mensch" by Emil Breisach (Anna Fercher)
June: Storage systems: The age of mapping (Stefan Maurer)
May: "Authoritative information for Gunter Falk's haikus". A haiku compilation in the "Mixner Collection" (Daniela Bartens)
April: Two meet or: Archivalie sticht Erwartung [Aichinger and Frischmuth] (Silvana Cimenti)
March: Volume 1. 10 years of Platform. An Anthology (2014) (Gerhard Fuchs)
February: "I am ...?" On the books for young people by Hannelore Valencak (Stefanie Schneebauer)
January: Barbara Belic in conversation with artist friends of Werner Schwab (2014) (Daniela Bartens)
2018
December: Gunter Falk reading at Café Grammel (Gerhard Fuchs)
November: Vom Fehlen. Gerhard Roth and "The History of the History of Darkness" (Daniela Bartens)
October: The art student Werner Schwab in front of the "Kunstkadi" (Harald Miesbacher)
September: Dis/Continuities: A reading by Hannelore Valencak in Vienna in 1966 (Stefan Maurer)
August: Showcase on Klaus Hoffer's novel "Halbwegs. At the Bieresch 1" (Christian Neuhuber)
July: Barbara Frischmuth/ Space - People - History (Silvana Cimenti)
June: "Local history for Gruber Reinhard 3.a" - a school exercise book (Daniela Bartens)
May: 1938: Mozart Prize for Franz Nabl (Gerhard Fuchs)
April: The showcase. The 'showcase' of literature in the museum (Stefan Maurer)
March: OaMtopia - Gerhard Roth's search for traces (Daniela Bartens)
February: What spiked wire and electric current deny us. Adalbert Schremmer's poem Clouds over Dachau (Stefan Maurer)
January: "As long as he existed, it filled one with pride to belong to the literature of this country". Elias Canetti's letter of condolence to Ilse Nabl dated January 30, 1974 (Christian Neuhuber)
2017
December: Wolfgang Bauer / Gunter Falk: 1st manifesto of HAPPY ART & ATTITUDE (1965) (Daniela Bartens)
November: Social criticism between Kottan and Ambros. Franz Buchrieser's radio play typescript of his 'Graz version' of Harald Müller's "Der Zögling" (1977) (Christian Neuhuber)
October: Photo Manfred Mixner (1993) (Gerhard Fuchs)
September: A topography of the dead. Attempt at a visual breakdown of Elfriede Jelinek's "Die Kinder der Toten" (David J. Wimmer)
August: Wilhelm Muster: Curriculum Vitae [1955] (Gerhard Fuchs)
July: Program booklet and original typescript for "Der Schulmeister" vom Himmelpfortgrund by Lois Groß (Christian Neuhuber)
June: Gerhard Roth and the bees (Daniela Bartens)
May: Hannelore Valencak: Vorhof der Wirklichkeit - Ein Frauenleben in der Enge der Nachkriegszeit (Stefanie Lindner)
April: Storage system: archive box (Stefan Maurer)
March: Werner Schwab: Canceled and announced - Correspondence 1983 to 1993 (Daniela Bartens)
February: Günter Eichberger: Of mummy preparators, man-eaters & other mythomaniacs (Gerhard Fuchs)
January: Letter from Robert Hamerling to an unknown fellow poet (Christian Neuhuber)
2016
December: Two postcards from Wolfgang Bauer to Gerhard Roth, one from Paris, one from San Francisco (Daniela Bartens)
November: Ödön von Horváth: Driver's License (Martin Vejvar)
October: Urs Widmer: Letter to Klaus Hoffer (Harald Miesbacher)
September: Barbara Frischmuth: Speech at the reopening of the Altaussee Literature Museum (Marietta Schmutz)
August: Helmut Schranz: Folded letter to "perspektive" (Gerhard Fuchs)
July: Doris Mühringer: Vienna, July 1945 (Stefan Maurer)
June: Peter Handke: Sacramento (Gerhard Fuchs)
May: Peter Rosei: Contributions to a Poetry of the Future (Daniela Bartens)
April: Ödön von Horváth: Typescript sheet with handwritten corrections to "Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald" (1930/31) (Nicole Streitler-Kastberger)
March: Broch to Vlasics (Gerhard Fuchs)
February: Barbara Frischmuth: Duftrausch (Hannes Schwab)
January: Helmut Eisendle: A handshake (Gerhard Fuchs)
2015
December: Werner Schwab: Music cassettes (Stefan Maurer)
November: Gerhard Roth: Microscopic specimens (Daniela Bartens)
October: Arthur Schnitzler: Dedication copy to Franz Nabl (Gerhard Fuchs)
September: Reinhard P. Gruber: Styrian hat (Daniela Bartens)