Augsburg, das »muffigeverabscheuungswürdige Nest«, die »Lechkloake«. Überhaupt: »Salzburg, Augsburg, Regensburg, Würzburg, ich hasse sie alle, weil in ihnen jahrhundertelang der Stumpfsinn warmgestellt ist.« »Bremen verabscheute ich vom ersten Moment an, es ist eine kleinbürgerliche unzumutbare sterile Stadt.« Übrigens Trier: »Man geht nicht ungestraft nach Trier / man geht nach Trier und macht sich lächerlich.«
Author
Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian writer who ranks among the most distinguished German-speaking writers of the second half of the 20th century. Although internationally he's most acclaimed because of his novels, he was also a prolific playwright. His characters are often at work on a lifetime and never-ending major project while they deal with themes such as suicide, madness and obsession, and, as Bernhard did, a love-hate relationship with Austria. His prose is tumultuous but sober at the same time, philosophic by turns, with a musical cadence and plenty of black humor. He started publishing in the year 1963 with the novel Frost. His last published work, appearing in the year 1986, was Extinction. Some of his best-known works include The Loser (about a student's fictionalized relationship with the pianist Glenn Gould), Wittgenstein's Nephew, and Woodcutters.
