War and Memory
Lecture W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz
, Topics to be covered
– life and career
– Sebald and war
– Sebald and genre
Austerlitz
– Narrative style
– War, the Holocaust, and ideas of progress
, W.G. Sebald
• Born Winfried Georg Maximilian Sebald,
May 1944, Wertach, Bavaria, Germany
• Father served in Wehrmacht, imprisoned
in P.O.W. camp in France until 1947
• Studied at universities in Freiburg and
Switzerland, 1963-1966
• Taught at University of Manchester, 1966-
1968
• Lecturer, then Professor, in German and
European Literature, University of East
Anglia, 1970-2001
• Prose-poem After Nature (1988 [2003])
• Vertigo (1990 [1999]); The Emigrants
(1992 [1996]); The Rings of Saturn (1995
[1998]); Austerlitz (2001)
• Killed in a car accident, December 2001
Lecture W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz
, Topics to be covered
– life and career
– Sebald and war
– Sebald and genre
Austerlitz
– Narrative style
– War, the Holocaust, and ideas of progress
, W.G. Sebald
• Born Winfried Georg Maximilian Sebald,
May 1944, Wertach, Bavaria, Germany
• Father served in Wehrmacht, imprisoned
in P.O.W. camp in France until 1947
• Studied at universities in Freiburg and
Switzerland, 1963-1966
• Taught at University of Manchester, 1966-
1968
• Lecturer, then Professor, in German and
European Literature, University of East
Anglia, 1970-2001
• Prose-poem After Nature (1988 [2003])
• Vertigo (1990 [1999]); The Emigrants
(1992 [1996]); The Rings of Saturn (1995
[1998]); Austerlitz (2001)
• Killed in a car accident, December 2001
