Austrian project : oral history, 1976-1991.

Scope and Contents

Austrian immigrants to the United States discuss their careers in music, painting, and writing, and the influence of colleagues and teachers such as Oskar Kokoschka Participants and pagination of transcripts: Alexandra Adler, 41; Kurt A. Adler, 39; Martha Steffy Browne, 78; Hugo Burghauser, 28; Margaret Bush, 36; Thomas M. Dell, 25; Georg Eisler, 20; Mimi Grossberg, 41; Fanny Kallir, 35; Rudolf Kallir, 73; Miriam Beer-Hofmann Lens, 36; Erica Morini, 64; Jarmila Novotna, 48; John M. Oesterreicher, 44; Maria Weigl Piers, 35; Adolf K. Placzek, 62; Felix Popper, 22; Edith Porada, 12; Julius Rudel, 17; Fred Spielman, 30; Marcel Stein, 8; Friedrich Torberg, 34; Frederick Ungar, 25; Gertrude Urzidil, 61; Frederic Waldman, 40; Eric Werner, 55

Subjects

• Art, Modern--20th century.
• Artists--Interviews.
• Austria--History--20th century.
• Austria--Intellectual life--20th century.
• Authors--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Literature, Modern--20th century.
• Music--20th century.
• Musicians--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Intellectual life--20th century.