Dr Deborah Holmes from the Department of Modern Languages will be a guest of the autobiography research group at the Brenner Archive, University of Innsbruck on Thursday 7 May 2015.
Deborah will speak on ‘Blabbermouth with the Best of Intentions: Eugenie Schwarzwald and the Misogyny of Viennese Modernism’. Eugenie Schwarzwald (1872-1940) was a tireless pioneer of women’s education and social work, who began her career in Vienna in the seminal year 1900. Her schools and her salon made her known far beyond the borders of Austria-Hungary. When she was forced to flee from Hitler in 1938, her personal papers and letters were mostly lost. Deborah Holmes produced a biography of Schwarzwald, Langeweile ist Gift: Ein Leben der Eugenie Schwarzwald (Residenz, 2012), both enriched and hampered by the previous literary portraits that Schwarzwald inspired from influential Modernist authors.
Full details of the event can be found on the University of Innsbruck website here: www.uibk.ac.at/geschlechterforschung/geschlechterforschungprofil/autobiografieforschungsaktivitaeten.html