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Literary and cultural historian interested in life writing, literature & politics, and digital editing (Auden Musulin Papers: https://amp.acdh.oeaw.ac.at). ACDH, Austrian Academy of Sciences. www.sandramayer.org

Many thanks to #Wienbibliothek for having us! It was a great evening talking about the #AustrianAuden & our work here at @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @kathiprager.bsky.social

If you are in Vienna next Tuesday, join us at #Wienbibliothek for some (German-language) glimpses into AAD editors' workshop: www.wienbibliothek.at/veranstaltun... #AustrianAuden #DigitalEdition #DigitalHumanities #DSE #SDE @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social

Building tools at the interface of #DigitalEdition and #NetworkAnalysis. Stay tuned. 👀 fedihum.org/@timofruehwi... @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social

Very happy to share some of our research into #AustrianAuden with an international audience in this article by @philipoltermann.bsky.social in @theguardian.com. @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social

Delighted to make available previously unknown (& unexpected) correspondence by poet #WHAuden to his Austrian lover & confidant, shedding new light on Auden's life in Austria & on Austrian queer history. www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/sens... @fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social

heute in einer woche geht es in den loosräumen der #wienbibliothek darum, wie ein britischer dichter in hinterholz 6 in kirchstetten landet und wie er (sich in) österreich (ein)findet. #forschungswerkstatt cc: @victorianceleb.bsky.social www.wienbibliothek.at/veranstaltun...

Briefe an Hugo 💌 @theguardian.com berichtet über den Fund von bisher unbekannten Korrespondenzen des Autors W. H. Auden in Niederösterreich, untersucht von ÖAW-Forscher:innen Sandra Mayer und Timo Frühwirth @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social ✒️📮 Mehr dazu ➡️ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

📦 affiliation-builder v0.2.0: a #Python package for creating bipartite affiliation networks from #JSON using #NetworkX. 🌐 https://pypi.org/project/affiliation-builder/ Generic enough for any affil...

On May 27, 2026, a demonstration was organised in Vienna to protest against government funding cuts affecting the entire Austrian university sector.

Exclusive: The newly released correspondence reveals how a strong bond developed between the Funeral Blues poet and the sex worker who broke into his home

Around 100 previously unknown letters and postcards written by W. H. Auden to his lover, friend, and confidant Hugo have been discovered in Lower Austria, following after a TV report. Researchers at t...

The boxes of fan letters to Benjamin Disraeli yield some intriguing finds - like this correspondence with a young woman from Vienna, Bettina Wirth, which I've written about here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ein TV-Interview, ein geheimnisvoller Wiener "Callboy" namens Hugo... und plötzlich tauchen 100 verschollene Briefe des englischen Dichters W. H. #Auden auf! 💌 Ein Zufall, der Literaturgeschichte schrieb. www.oeaw.ac.at/news/sensati...

Exclusive: the newly released correspondence reveals how a strong bond developed between the Funeral Blues poet and the sex worker who broke into his home A “once in a century” discovery of a cache of long-lost letters has revealed how the English poet WH Auden developed a deep and lasting friendship with a Viennese sex worker and car mechanic after the latter burgled the Funeral Blues author’s home and was put on trial. York-born Auden, a prominent member of a generation of 1930s writers that also included Christopher Isherwood, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender, described his unconventional arrangement with the man he affectionally called “Hugerl” in the posthumously published poem Glad. Continue reading...

Rund 100 bislang unbekannte Briefe und Karten von W. H. Auden, geschrieben an seinen Liebhaber, Freund und Vertrauten Hugo, wurden nach einem Fernsehbericht in Niederösterreich gefunden. Der Nachlass ...