born 1964 in Amstetten/NÖ, studied German and history in Vienna, literary scholar, historian, author. Together with Martin Pollack, Gerhard Zeillinger made the selection for this last anthology.
Pollack’s book The Age of Shame gathers essays and articles by a passionate campaigner for democracy and an open society. This volume offers a careful selection of texts from recent years, including gripping reports from Eastern European countries such as Ukraine, Belarus and the Republic of Moldova, but also calls for resistance and moving essays against forgetting the Holocaust. In these works, Pollack returns again and again to confront his own family’s difficult history. During his final years, already marked by illness, he wrote very personal works of observation from his beloved garden in the Austrian region of Burgenland: tales of apple trees, seasons and wildlife of all kinds, published here for the first time.
