The Woman Without a Grave
The fate of a central European woman: born as an Austrian, a citizen of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, a German after 1941, then murdered in 1945. And in all that time, Martin ...
moreMartin Pollack
Martin Pollack, born in 1944 in Bad Hall, Austria, studied Slavonic studies and Eastern European history. He has translated texts by Ryszard Kapuscinski among others, and worked as an editor for Spiegel in Vienna and Warsaw until 1998. He is the recipient of numerous awards among them the Angelus Central European Literature Award and the Georg-Dehio Book Award (2010). His Publications at Zsolnay include: Anklage Vatermord. Der Fall Philipp Halsmann (2002), Der Tote im Bunker. Bericht über meinen Vater (2004) and Warum wurden die Stanislaws erschossen? Reportagen (2008),Kaiser von Amerika. Die große Flucht aus Galizien (2010) and most recently Die Frau ohne Grab. Bericht über meine Tante (2019).
The Emperor of America
At the turn of the century, the image of the Statue of Liberty lured people in their hundreds of thousands across the ocean. It was the beginning of an emigration wave from Galicia, the poorhouse ...
moreWhy Did They Shoot the Stanislavs?
"For me, the collapse of Communist East Europe began on August 18, 1980. Yes, on precisely that day." Martin Pollack, then an almost unknown journalist wanting to report on the Solidarity strikes ...
moreThe Dead Man in the Bunker
Sbarramento di Brennero, April 6, 1947: At the entrance of a bunker at the Austrian/Italian border, carabinieri discover a dead man. The man has been shot, twice in the head and once in the ...
moreCharged with Patricide
He was amongst the world's best photographers, his portraits of the rich and the beautiful adorning the covers of Life and Vogue, his pictures exhibited in the most important collections. When ...
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