Robert Menasse

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Full Name	Robert Menasse
Occupation	Translator
Date Of Birth	Jun 21, 1954(1954-06-21)
Age	70
Birthplace	Vienna
Country	Austria
Horoscope	Gemini

Robert Menasse Biography

Robert Menasse is one of the most popular and richest Translator who was born on June 21, 1954 in Vienna, Austria. Robert Menasse, born 21 June 1954, is an Austrian writer.

His first novel Sinnliche Gewissheit, published in 1988, is a semi- autobiographical tale of Austrians living in exile in Brazil. Literatur und Kritik published Menasse’s first poem, “Kopfwehmut”, in 1989. Selige Zeiten and bruchige Welt (1991), translated into English as Wings of Stone ISBN 1-7145-4295-4, and Schubumkehr (1995). Reverse Thrust) and Die Vertreibung aus der Holle (2001, Engl. Expulsion from Hell

In his political and journalistic work, Menasse is seen as an “old-style Enlightenment thinker,” whose intellectual predecessors are especially Hegel and Marx but also Georg Lukács, Ernst Bloch and the philosophers of the Frankfurt School. Essays like Die sozialpartnerschaftliche Ästhetik (1990; The Aesthetics of Social Partnership) and Das Land ohne Eigenschaften (1992; The Country without Qualities), which brought Menasse fame as an essayist, but also provoked criticism for “fouling his own nest,” were followed in time by the essay collections Hysterien und andere historische Irrtümer (1996; Hysterics and Other Historical Errors) and Dummheit ist machbar (1999; Stupidity is Doable), Erklär mir Österreich (2000; Explain Austria to Me) and Das war Österreich (2005; That Was Austria). In these texts the author deals in critical-ironic way with political history, mentality history and literary history of the second Republic of Austria, takes a position on the current cultural policy situation in his homeland and recurrently draws attention to the latent continuity of Austrofascism.

Menasse has also written some essays on Austria (especially on Austrian identity and history; “Land ohne Eigenschaften” (1992) a.o.). More recently, he wrote about the future of Europe and the European Union, criticizing tendencies of re-nationalization (especially in Germany, but also elsewehere) and anti-European integration movements, which he interprets as a reaction to the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and its aftermath (Euro crisis) (“Der europäische Landbote”, 2012).

Menasse was a junior lecturer at University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) between 1981 and 1988. Since then, he has been a freelance columnist, publicist, and translator of Portuguese-language novels into German.

Robert Menasse Net Worth

Robert Menasse is one of the richest Translator from Austria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Robert Menasse 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Robert Menasse’s first story, Nagelbeissen (Engl. In 1973, Nail-Biting was published in Neue Wege. He worked from 1975 to 1980 on his unfinished novel Kopfwehmut (Engl. Mind’s Melancholy, a social novel set during the 1970s in Vienna. His first published novel, Sinnliche Gewissheit (Engl. Sensual Certainty was published in 1988 as part of the Brazil Trilogie der Entgeisterung (Engl.) trilogy. Trilogy of Dismay, which also includes Selige Zeiten (Engl. Wings of Stone (2000), is a crime novel, philosophical novel, and a Jewish family story. It then goes on to the 1995 novel Schubumkehr. Reverse Thrust 2000, as well as the postscript Phanomenologie der Entgeisterung (1995), Engl. Phenomenology Of Dismay

Menasse was born in Vienna. He studied philosophy, German studies and political science as a student in Vienna, Salzburg, and Messina. In 1980 he completed his PhD thesis “Der Typus des Aussenseiters im Literaturbetrieb. Am Beispiel Hermann Schurrer “The outsider phenotype in literature”

In Schubumkehr, against the background of the private life of the literature teacher Roman, who was already introduced in Selige Zeiten, brüchige Welt, Menasse describes the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 and the breakdown of the familiar order in a small Austrian village. This novel, which is not least an artistic treatment of the spirit of the age, was awarded the Grimmelshausen Prize in 1999 and made the author a household name. As suggested already by the title of the novel Schubumkehr and in the Trilogie der Entgeisterung Menasse turns Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit on its head. In contrast to Hegel, who assumes a development of human consciousness to all-embracing spirit, Menasse postulates a regressive development, whose final stage will be “sensual certainty”, according to Hegel the most naïve form of consciousness.

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In 2017 Menasse published his analytical novel Die Hauptstadt (The Capital), which has been described as the first novel about Brussels as the European Union’s capital, and which received the German Book Prize. The story is focused on officials from the Department of Culture, who are expected to add polish to the image of the EU Commission on its birthday. This is to be accomplished with a “Big Jubilee Project” event with concentration camp survivors in Auschwitz. The life stories of characters lead the reader into six EU countries. The stage director Tom Kühnel and the dramaturg Ralf Fiedler translated the novel into a theatrical version with about twenty characters played by seven actors, which was premiered in January 2018 at the Theater am Neumarkt in Zürich. The English translation, The Capital by Jamie Bulloch, was published by MacLehose Press in February 2019.

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