ABSTRACT
In Peter Whitehead's documentary film about the event, Wholly Communion, the Austrian writer bears a resemblance more to a bookkeeper than an avant-garde poet. Jandl discovered literature through e. e. cummings, Carl Sandburg, and Gertrude Stein, each of whom considerably influenced his own poetry in the years after the war. The initial spark for Wolfgang Bauer to start writing came from seeing a production of Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros in early 1961. Elfriede Jelinek's first novel bukolit, written in 1968 and published in 1979, is described as an "erotic story" in a blurb for the 2005 reprint. For Hintze, one of the most important guiding principles for the school was to reject national boundaries. After Hintze died in 2012—another myocardial infarction—the radio personality, musician, DJ, journalist and author Fritz Ostermayer became the new director of the Vienna Poetry School.
