Doderer, Heimito von

Doderer, Heimito von

▪ Austrian novelist
born Sept. 5, 1896, Weidlingau, near Vienna, Austria
died Dec. 23, 1966, Vienna

      Austrian novelist who achieved international fame with his novel of post-World War I Vienna, Die Dämonen (1956; The Demons), on which he had worked since 1931. It explores the society and mood of Vienna in 1926–27 in a many-layered web of detail and complex characterization.

      Doderer served as an officer in the Imperial Austrian Dragoons in World War I and was captured by the Russians, spending several years in Siberia working as a lumberjack before repatriation in 1920. He received a doctorate in history from the University of Vienna in 1925. An involved psychological thriller, Ein Mord, den jeder begeht (1938; Every Man a Murderer), and several other novels attracted little attention. In the 1930s Doderer was briefly a member of the then-outlawed National Socialist Party in Austria, which he described in a book of reminiscences, Tangenten (1964; “Tangents”). In World War II he was a Luftwaffe captain. Die Strudlhofstiege (1951; “The Strudlhof Stairs”), which covered the Vienna scene in 1910–11 and 1923–25, sets the stage for Die Dämonen, which was a success and established Doderer's reputation. Die Wasserfälle von Slunj (1963; The Waterfalls of Slunj) was the first novel in an intended tetralogy spanning life in Vienna from 1880 to 1960 and collectively entitled Roman Nr. 7 (“Novel No. 7”). The second volume, Der Grenzwald (“The Frontier Forest”), unfinished, appeared posthumously in 1967.

      Doderer elucidated his views on the novel in Grundlagen und Funktion des Romans (1959; “Principles and Function of the Novel”). His style and ideas are traditional and formal.

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