Mars in Aries

Alexander Lernet-Holenia (Author)

Alexander Lernet-Holenia was born in Vienna in 1897. He served in the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War and became a protégé of Rainer Maria Rilke. During his life he wrote poetry, novels, plays and was a successful screenwriter. His books were included on the first Nazi blacklist and subsequently burned, but after the end of the Second World War, he again became a vital figure in Austrian cultural life.

Robert Dassanowsky (Translator)

Robert Dassanowsky (1965-2023) was Professor at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, an independent film producer, former President of the Austrian Studies Association, and author of Austrian Cinema (2005); New Austrian Film, ed. (2011); World Film Locations: Vienna, ed. (2012); Screening Transcendence: Film under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope 1933–1938 (2018). He was a member of the European Film Academy and fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

John Barrett (Translator)

John S. Barrett (1935) is a translator, reviewer and retired cardiologist. He has translated Grete Weil, Heimito von Doderer, Christa Wolf and Hanna Johannsen, among others. His translations have won the American Literary Translators’ Association Award, the Koret Foundation Award and the Batchelder Award for Children’s Literature.