With ’Jedermann: Das Spiel vom Sterben des reichen Mannes’ (1911), Hugo von Hofmannsthal created a festival classic that is still performed today at the Salzburg Festival, which he co-founded. (Jedermann and Death, 2014. Photo: Francisco Peralta Torrejón/Wikimedia | CC BY 3.0)
With 'Jedermann: Das Spiel vom Sterben des reichen Mannes' (1911), Hugo von Hofmannsthal created a festival classic that is still performed today at the Salzburg Festival, which he co-founded. (Jedermann and Death, 2014. Photo: Francisco Peralta Torrejón/Wikimedia | CC BY 3. The first comprehensive biography of Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal has been published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of his birth. The extensive volume was created at the University of Basel. On the table is a book containing over 900 pages. Prof. Elsbeth Dangel-Pelloquin and Prof. Alexander Honold have just returned from readings in Germany and Austria.
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