Book presentation: annotated new edition of Rudolf Kalmar’s Zeit ohne Gnade

Ehemaliger Kräutergarten

Following an invitation by the
Memorial Site, on Wednesday July 11, the Austrian literary scholars Stefan
Maurer and Martin Wedl presented their annotated new edition of Zeit ohne Gnade, a work first published
in 1946.

The author Rudolf Kalmar, an
Austrian journalist, was deported to the Dachau concentration camp immediately
after the so-called Anschluss of Austria with Germany in 1938, where he
remained imprisoned for the following seven years until liberation. Published
just a year after liberation his book attracted considerable attention, not
just in Austria but also abroad.

Thanks to its annotation and
essays on the author’s biography and the reception history of the work, the new
edition makes this powerful contemporary document once again accessible for
today’s reader.