Katya Krylova is a Lecturer in German, Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen. She studied German and Italian at Churchill College, Cambridge, where she then completed an MPhil in European Literature and Culture and a PhD in German Literature in 2011. She has also held research and teaching positions at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography in Vienna, in the Department of German Studies at the University of Nottingham (where she held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship), in the Department of German at King’s College London, and in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham. Her first monograph, Walking Through History: Topography and Identity in the Works of Ingeborg Bachmann and Thomas Bernhard (2013), was the winner of the 2011 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in German Studies. Her most recent monograph, The Long Shadow of the Past: Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film, and Culture, was published in 2017.

• CONTENTS: Dagmar C. G. Lorenz: The New Cosmopolitanism in Second Republic Narratives: Revisiting the Vienna–«Orient» Connection – Anne-Marie Scholz: «You’ll never know the old Vienna»: The Third Man (1949) as Historical Referent in Contemporary Austrian Culture and Literature – Benedict Schofield: Austria’s Ambiguous Smile: Transnational Perspectives on Austrian Belatedness in the Fiction of John Irving – Katya Krylova: Ariadne’s Thread: Storytelling, Digression and Flâneurship in the Recent Films of Ruth Beckermann – Valentina Serra: «Mit möglichst großer literarischer und intellektueller Qualität ein Sartre zu werden». Parodie und (Selbst)- Bestätigung in Robert Menasses Gegenwarts- und Intellektuellenkritik – Nikhil Sathe: Fortress Europe as Frontier: Adaptation of the Western Genre in Austrian Cinema – Ursula A. Schneider/Annette Steinsiek: «Ganz Tirol ist eine Grenze» und Felix Mitterer. Verkaufte Heimat – Silke Schwaiger: The Visible Uncanny: Anna Kim’s Novels Frozen Time and Anatomy of a Night – Rachel Green: «Leichen im Keller»: The Basement in New Austrian Film – Lydia Haider: Der Rhythmus als subversive Textstrategie. Gezeigt an Texten Thomas Bernhards und Ernst Jandls – Peter Höyng: Desires for a Third Space: A Critique of Elfriede Jelinek’s Winterreise by Reading Georg Simmel’s «Exkurs über den Fremden» – Magdolna Orosz: Historische Traumata, Vergessen und Erinnerung. Literarische Vergangenheitsdiskurse in der zeitgenössischen österreichischen Literatur – Petra M. Bagley: The Grandmother in Recent Austrian Literature: Peter Henisch, Eine sehr kleine Frau (2007) and Melitta Breznik, Das Umstellformat (2002) – Traci S. O’Brien: «Farben, die es auf dieser Welt nicht gibt»: Remembering Reality in Lenka Reinerová’s Late Prose – Joseph W. Moser: Blurring Fiction with Reality: Robert Schindel’s comedie humaine of 1980s Vienna in Geburtig and Der Kalte – Lauren Freede: «Walzer für Nazis»: The Vienna Philharmonic and the Nazi Past.

Katya Krylova is a Lecturer in German, Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen. She studied German and Italian at Churchill College, Cambridge, where she then completed an MPhil in European Literature and Culture and a PhD in German Literature in 2011. She has also held research and teaching positions at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography in Vienna, in the Department of German Studies at the University of Nottingham (where she held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship), in the Department of German at King’s College London, and in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham. Her first monograph, Walking Through History: Topography and Identity in the Works of Ingeborg Bachmann and Thomas Bernhard (2013), was the winner of the 2011 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in German Studies. Her most recent monograph, The Long Shadow of the Past: Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film, and Culture, was published in 2017.

• CONTENTS: Dagmar C. G. Lorenz: The New Cosmopolitanism in Second Republic Narratives: Revisiting the Vienna–«Orient» Connection – Anne-Marie Scholz: «You’ll never know the old Vienna»: The Third Man (1949) as Historical Referent in Contemporary Austrian Culture and Literature – Benedict Schofield: Austria’s Ambiguous Smile: Transnational Perspectives on Austrian Belatedness in the Fiction of John Irving – Katya Krylova: Ariadne’s Thread: Storytelling, Digression and Flâneurship in the Recent Films of Ruth Beckermann – Valentina Serra: «Mit möglichst großer literarischer und intellektueller Qualität ein Sartre zu werden». Parodie und (Selbst)- Bestätigung in Robert Menasses Gegenwarts- und Intellektuellenkritik – Nikhil Sathe: Fortress Europe as Frontier: Adaptation of the Western Genre in Austrian Cinema – Ursula A. Schneider/Annette Steinsiek: «Ganz Tirol ist eine Grenze» und Felix Mitterer. Verkaufte Heimat – Silke Schwaiger: The Visible Uncanny: Anna Kim’s Novels Frozen Time and Anatomy of a Night – Rachel Green: «Leichen im Keller»: The Basement in New Austrian Film – Lydia Haider: Der Rhythmus als subversive Textstrategie. Gezeigt an Texten Thomas Bernhards und Ernst Jandls – Peter Höyng: Desires for a Third Space: A Critique of Elfriede Jelinek’s Winterreise by Reading Georg Simmel’s «Exkurs über den Fremden» – Magdolna Orosz: Historische Traumata, Vergessen und Erinnerung. Literarische Vergangenheitsdiskurse in der zeitgenössischen österreichischen Literatur – Petra M. Bagley: The Grandmother in Recent Austrian Literature: Peter Henisch, Eine sehr kleine Frau (2007) and Melitta Breznik, Das Umstellformat (2002) – Traci S. O’Brien: «Farben, die es auf dieser Welt nicht gibt»: Remembering Reality in Lenka Reinerová’s Late Prose – Joseph W. Moser: Blurring Fiction with Reality: Robert Schindel’s comedie humaine of 1980s Vienna in Geburtig and Der Kalte – Lauren Freede: «Walzer für Nazis»: The Vienna Philharmonic and the Nazi Past.