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Hermann Broch (German:; 1 November 1886 – 30 May 1951) was an Austrian writer, best known for two major works of modernist fiction: The Sleepwalkers (Die Schlafwandler, 1930–32) and The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil, 1945).
A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch. Search within full text. Get access. Edited by Graham Bartram, Sarah McGaughey, Galin Tihanov. Publisher: Boydell & Brewer. Online publication date: January 2023. Print publication year:
Nov 1, 2012 · While at Yaddo in 1939, Broch met Ohio-born poet Jean Starr Untermeyer, with whom he’d work five years on her inspired translation of his then work-in-progress, Der Tod des Vergil (The Death of Virgil, 1945). (In the interim, Broch’s mother, Johanna, was arrested and died in Thersienstadt concentration camp.)
Personal Papers includes an autograph book with inscriptions to Broch, 1925-1926, a photocopy of Broch’s death certificate, and clippings and ephemera relating to him, most 1980s-1990s. Photographs, subdivided into Hermann Broch and Other, includes Broch family photographs, a photograph of Erich and Alice Lowey Kahler, and unidentified images.
May 24, 2018 · Hermann Broch died in 1951 in New Haven, Connecticut. He is buried in Killingworth, Connecticut, in the cemetery on Roast Meat Hill Road. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Vienna
- Vienna, Austria
- November 01, 1886
- May 30, 1951 (64)New Haven, CT, United States
Introduction: Broch’s Life and Works; 1 Perspectives on Broch’s Die Schlafwandler: Narratives of History and the Self; 2 Hermann Broch and the Dilemma of Literature in the Modern Age; 3 Interrogating Modernity: Hermann Broch’s Postromanticism
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Hermann Broch (born Nov. 1, 1886, Vienna, Austria—died May 30, 1951, New Haven, Conn., U.S.) was an Austrian writer who achieved international recognition for his multidimensional novels, in which he used innovative literary techniques to present a wide range of human experience.
