ARTFUL ENERGY: Interdisciplinary Creative Writing in Vienna

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Viennese Impressions

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Gorgeous glimpses of a city that's historically rich, cosmopolitan, imperial, and modern (via the City of Vienna website).

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Vienna's Corbelli Palace (aka our study center in the heart of the city)

During our time in Vienna, we'll make use of classrooms, a study center, and various other student resources housed in the beautiful ~17th-century baroque Corbelli Palace (home to our Viennese study abroad partner IES). You can learn more about the Corbelli in various places across the Internet. Here are a few: The New York Times highlights the Corbelli in an April 2019 article about central Vienna real estate The Corbelli's Wikipedia page Above: The Palais Corbelli in around 1725 A brief bio of Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt , the presumed architect of the Palais Corbelli Early 20th-century photos of the Palais Corbelli interiors More Corbelli photos on the IES Instagram page A 12-minute smartphone tour of the Corbelli , hosted by IES (FYI, the Corbelli stands directly across the street from the excellent Austrian Literature Museum )

VIDEO - Introducing Artful Energy: Interdisciplinary Creative Writing in Vienna

More Info: About Instructor Mark Cunningham See an On-location Video about the Vienna Program

The Incomparable Viennese Writer Stefan Zweig

by M. Allen Cunningham I first became acquainted with the literary/intellectual figure of Stefan Zweig many years ago while reading various biographies of Rainer Maria Rilke, where Zweig’s name frequently recurred. I can only begin to imagine in how many other biographies Zweig must feature as a tangential character. As testified in his absorbing memoir The World of Yesterday , he was seemingly everywhere and knew seemingly every significant artist and intellectual in Europe from the fin-de-siècle until World War II. Rilke, Auguste Rodin, James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Thomas Mann, Paul Valéry, Maurice Ravel, Béla Bartok, Romain Rolland, Sigmund Freud, Arthur Schnitzler, Salvador Dalí —the roster of luminaries goes on and on. Zweig had an uncanny way of accidentally synchronizing his movements to the larger movements of history. In one characteristic vignette he reports arriving in the Austrian border town of Feldkirch just as the imperial train bear...

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