Portraits from the Austrian avant-garde of the 60s and 70s

Peter Handke in the 1970s

Feminine "Sponti" disrupts the "Internationale Literaturforum" in Frankfurt am Main, 1967. Erich Fried on the left, Handke unimpressed at the microphone, H.C. Artmann above him

H.C. Artmann plays the "Armer Poet"

Gerald Bisinger, H.C. Artmann, and Gert Jonke in Berlin, 1970

Barbara Frischmuth, Gert Jonke, Klaus Hoffer at the "Frankfurter Buchmesse" in 1969

Gert Jonke

Jonke again

Ingeborg Bachmann in the kitchen of her Rome apartment, 1968

Konrad Bayer at the Gruppe 47 meeting in Saulgau, Germany in 1963, a year before his death

Wolfgang Bauer

Michael Scharang

The floorplans for possible uses of the Forum Stadtpark in Graz

Hubert Fabian Kulterer, publisher, academic, writer and actionist, the inspiration for Thomas Bernhard's short story "Der Kulterer"

The Vienna avant-garde in 1966: (L to R) Oswald Wiener, Dominik Steiger, Hermann Nitsch, Ingrid Wiener, Gerhard Rühm, Reinhard Priessnitz

"7 students play african-american music" in the "adebar" in Vienna, 1954. On trumpet: a young Oswald Wiener

Oswald Wiener in the 1960s

All images from Österreichische Literatur seit 1945: eine Annäherung in Bildern (Reclam, 2000)