Alexander Lernet-Holenia

Alexander Lernet-Holenia was born in Vienna in 1897. He served in the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War and became a protégé of Rainer Maria Rilke. During his life he wrote poetry, novels, plays and was a successful screenwriter. His books were included on the first Nazi blacklist and subsequently burned, but after the end of the Second World War, he again became a vital figure in Austrian cultural life.

Robert Dassanowsky (1965-2023) was Professor at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, an independent film producer, former President of the Austrian Studies Association, and author of Austrian Cinema (2005); New Austrian Film, ed. (2011); World Film Locations: Vienna, ed. (2012); Screening Transcendence: Film under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope 1933–1938

Mars in Aries

Mars in Aries

Alexander Lernet-Holenia

Books by Alexander Lernet-Holenia from Steerforth Press

I Was Jack Mortimer

I Was Jack Mortimer

Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa

Alexander Lernet-Holenia