Conference paper
A LITERARY MUSEUM AS A PLATFORM FOR A CREATIVEWRITING- INITIATIVE
Heimo Strempfl
; Književni muzej Roberta Musila, Klagenfurt, Austrija
Abstract
The Robert-Musil-Literatur-Museum in Klagenfurt
(Austria) is the responsable body for the so
called “Klagenfurter Literaturkurs”. The literary
Museum is run by the City of Klagenfurt, Division
of Culture, since the year 1994 and shows
since then steady exhibitons about the life and the
work of the three Austrian writers Robert Musil -
who was born in the so-called “Musil-House” in
Klagenfurt´s Bahnhofstrasse, where the Museum
is established Ingeborg Bachmann and Christine
Lavant. The “Klagenfurter Literaturkurs” is a
meeting for writers, who want to start a professi -
onal literary career and who must not be older
than 35 years. Participants for the Literaturkurs
come from Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
The literary meeting is held in the foreÞ eld of the
“Ingeborg-Bachmann-Prize”, which is one of the
most important literary Prizes for German speakting
authors. The participants have the possibility
to discuss their texts withe three well-known authors
(“Tutors”).
It is very important for the Robert-Musil- Literatur-
Museum as an institution, that writers at the
beginning of their career are confronted with a
kind of “Dead poets society” - to quote the title
of a Peter-Weir- Film from the year 1989. It gives
a special kind of dynamism to the activities of a
literary Museum. The Museum on the other hand
has the possibility of positioning itself as a place
of a lively debate not only about the literary works
of the past but also of contemporary literature.
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Publication date:
1.12.2007.
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