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Thomas Bernhard
Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright, poet and polemicist who is considered one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era. He explored themes of death, isolation, obsession and illness in controversial literature that was pessimistic about the human condition and highly critical of post-war Austrian and European culture. He developed a distinctive pr…
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culture · Austrian novelist and playwright (1931–1989) · writer · novelist · playwright · screenwriter · poet · linguist · librettist · also Thomas Bernhard, Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard, Bernhard
Born 9 February 1931 · Died 12 February 1989 · Q44336
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2026· 6 entries
interviewmagazine.com: Ivy Wolk and Sandra Bernhard on What It Costs to Be Too Much
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Legacy obituary: View Claudia Bernhard's Obituary and express your condolences
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Sofascore: Groß Gerungs vs St. Bernhard/F. live score, H2H and lineups
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Yahoo Finance: Bernhard Capital-Backed Optimum Energy Co. Announces Acquisition of Hussung Mechanical Contractors and HMC Service Company
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golfdom.com: Bernhard and Company expands North American distribution with Grassland Equipment partnership
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2009· 1 entry
And his correspondence with his publisher Siegfried Unseld from 1961 to 1989 – about 500 letters – was published in December 2009
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2001· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: THOMAS BERNHARD: The Making of an Austrian
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1999· 1 entry
Bernhard's literary executor, his half-brother Peter Fabjan, lifted the ban on the performance of his plays in Austria
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1989· 12 entries
Died 1989-02-12.
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“„Ein Gehirn ist ein Staatsgebilde”, sagte der Maler. „Plötzlich herrscht Anarchie”. (niem.)”
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“W dolinie milczał z gębą pełną srebrastojąc nad kością, na której się potknął,on, który szedł do wójta potem i meldował: człowiek,nie, nie człowiek, grenadier, szkielet z bladą twarzą,z hełmem na głowie, nie:na bladej czaszce (…).”
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“Innerhalb der Irrenhäuser ist der allgemein anerkannte Irrsinn (…) außerhalb der Irrenhäuser der illegale Irrsinn. (niem.)”
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“Teraz, wiosną,nie potrafię już zrozumiećmowy pól,zmarli przyglądają mi sięrozszerzonymi oczymai pszenica się pienii tylko rzeka zdaje sprawę z nieba…”
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“(…) sen twój uśmierca twarz morza,twarz zadżumioną bezdusznego lata (…).”
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“Wenn man älter wird, hat man auch nichts davon, weil man die Dinge noch mehr durchschaut und außerdem alt wird. Es ist alles nicht sehr angenehm. (niem.)”
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“Ob schwarz oder rot – Politiker sind immer dasselbe Gesindel. (niem.)”
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“Mit dem Alter wird das Denken zu einem Mechanismus der Qual des Antippens. (niem.)”
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“In mir ist alles ausgetrocknet wie ein Flußbett, wie ein ausgetrockneter Blutstrom ist alles in mir. (niem.)”
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“Man muß aufpassen, daß man nicht länger lebt als man dazu fähig ist. (niem.)”
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“Das Fürchterliche muß sein Gelächter haben! (niem.)”
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Prix Médicis étranger (1988).
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Feltrinelli Prize (1987).
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1979· 1 entry
Bernhard resigned from the German Academy for Language and Literature when it made the former West German president Walter Scheel an honorary member
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1978· 1 entry
Bernhard was diagnosed with sarcoidosis and a terminal heart complaint
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1972· 2 entries
Awarded Grimme-Preis (1972).
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Staged a protest because the organisers of the ceremony did not recognise him and escort him to his seat
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded Franz-Grillparzer-Preis (1971).
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1970· 2 entries
Awarded Georg Büchner Prize (1970).
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Bernhard's novel The Lime Works was published and his first professionally produced play, A Party for Boris, premiered at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg
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1968· 1 entry
“Opis: początek przemowy po odebraniu Austriackiej Nagrody Państwowej, 4 marca 1968.”
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1967· 3 entries
Awarded Anton Wildgans Prize (1967).
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Awarded Austrian Promotional Prize for Literature (1967).
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After completing his second novel Gargoyles, Bernhard had surgery to remove a tumour from his lungs and spent several months recovering in the Baumgartnerhöhe sanatorium
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1965· 2 entries
Awarded Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen for Frost (1965).
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Bernhard bought a disused farmhouse in Obernathal, Upper Austria
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1964· 2 entries
Awarded Julius Campe award (1964).
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And, according to biographer Gitta Honegger, consolidated his favourable critical reputation
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1962· 1 entry
Wrote a novel Frost, which was revised and published in 1963
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1959· 1 entry
“The Life of Saint Thomas Aquinas: Biographical Documents”
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1950· 1 entry
While staying at the Grafenhof sanatorium in Sankt Veit im Pongau, Bernhard met Hedwig Stavianicek (1894–1984), a wealthy heiress who was more than thirty-seven years his senior
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1949· 1 entry
And his mother died of cancer the following year
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1947· 1 entry
Bernhard left school to start an apprenticeship with a grocer
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1936· 1 entry
Herta married Emil Fabjan and the following year moved with him and Thomas to Traunstein, Bavaria, in Nazi Germany
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1935· 1 entry
Herta's parents moved with Thomas to Seekirchen, near Salzburg
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1931· 1 entry
Born 1931-02-09.
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