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Brief Bio |
Brief Bio
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1896 |
September 5: Franz Carl Heimito Ritter von Doderer, born in Hadersdorf / Weidlingau bei Wien |
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1902 |
September: Registration in the Imperial and Royal State School on Kundmanngasse, Vienna |
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1914 |
July 4: Examinations for graduation; enrollment at the University of Vienna for the study of law |
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1915 |
Mid-April: Enlistment in the Imperial and Royal Dragoon Regiment 3 as a one-year volunteer at Breitensee Barracks |
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1916 |
From mid-January: Taking part in the Russian campaign along the Galician front |
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July 12: Captured near Olesza; subsequent prisoner-of-war internment in Siberia (Krasnaya Ryetshka, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk) |
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1920 |
August 14: Return to Vienna; re-enrollment at the university (history and psychology) |
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1921 |
July: Beginning of his love relationship with Auguste ("Gusti") Hasterlik |
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1923 |
June 6: Entrance examination for the Institut für österreichische Geschichtsforschung (Institute for the Study of Austrian History) |
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Publication of a volume of poems, Gassen und Landschaft (Street Scenes and Landscapes) |
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1924 |
Die Bresche (The Breach), subtitled Ein Vorgang in vierundzwanzig Stunden (An Episode in 24 Hours) |
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1925 |
July 22: Award of Ph.D. degree, University of Vienna |
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1927-1931 |
Numerous feature pieces and stories in Viennese newspapers |
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1930 |
February: The novel Das Geheimnis des Reichs (The Secret of the Empire) |
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May 28: Marries Gusti Hasterlik |
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November: The book-length essay Der Fall Gütersloh (The Case of Gütersloh) |
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1932 |
Final separation from Gusti |
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1933 |
April 1: Formally joins the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) Party |
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1936 |
Completion of the first part of Die Dämonen (The Demons) |
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August 1: Moves to Dachau |
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1937 |
September 21: Meets Emma Maria Thoma |
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September 23: Publishing contract with C. H. Beck, Munich |
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1938 |
End of August: Return to Vienna |
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September 1: Shares an apartment on Buchfeldgasse (Eighth District) with Albert Paris Gütersloh; begins instruction as a catechumen with Father Born, S. J. |
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October 1: The novel Ein Mord den jeder begeht (Every Man a Murderer) |
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November 25: Decree of divorce from Gusti Hasterlik |
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1940 |
April 28: Reception into the Roman Catholic Church |
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April 30: Induction into the Luftwaffe |
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August 20: Transfer to France |
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The novel Ein Umweg (The Long Way Around) |
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1941 |
December: First sketches for the novel Die Strudlhofstiege (The Strudlhof Steps) |
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1942 |
April 17: Transfer to the Russian front, near Kursk |
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October 23: Placement on the sick list because of strong attacks of neuralgia |
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1943-1945 |
Stationed in a number of changing localities |
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1945 |
May 8: Prisoner-of-war internment in Norway |
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1946 |
January 31: Arrival in Linz and release from prisoner-of-war status |
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May 19: Return to Vienna |
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Banned from publishing because of previous membership in the National Socialist party |
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1948-1950 |
Course of study at the Institut für österreichische Geschichtsforschung |
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1951 |
March: The novel Die erleuchteten Fenster oder Die Menschwerdung des Amtsrates Julius Zihal (The Lighted Windows) |
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April: The novel Die Strudlhofstiege oder Melzer und die Tiefe der Jahre (The Strudlhof Steps or Melzer and the Depth of the Years) |
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1952 |
September: Marries Emma Maria Thoma |
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1953 |
October: The novella Das letzte Abenteuer (The Last Adventure) |
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1955 |
June 20: Meets Dorothea Zeemann at a reading given by Robert Neumann |
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1956 |
May: Moves into an apartment on Währingerstrasse 50 (Ninth District). |
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September: The novel Die Dämonen: Nach der Chronik des Sektionsrates Geyrenhoff (The Demons) |
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1957 |
Autumn: Publication of a volume of poems, Ein Weg im Dunklen (A Way in the Dark) |
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1958 |
March: Great Austrian State Prize |
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1962 |
The novel Die Merowinger oder Die totale Familie (The Merovingians) |
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1963 |
The novel Die Wasserfälle von Slunj (The Waterfalls of Slunj) |
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1964 |
The diaries entitled Tangenten: Tagebuch eines Schriftstellers 1940-1950 (Sideward Approaches: A Writer's Diary, 1940-1950) |
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1966 |
The book of short stories Unter schwarzen Sternen (Under Black Stars) |
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An autobiographical volume Meine neunzehn Lebensläufe und neun andere Geschichten (My Nineteen Curricula vitae and Nine Additional Stories) |
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December 23: Death of Doderer in the Rudolfiner Hospital in Döbling (Nineteenth District) |
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