1896
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September 5: Franz Carl Heimito Ritter von
Doderer, born in Hadersdorf / Weidlingau bei
Wien
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1902
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September: Registration in the Imperial and
Royal State School on Kundmanngasse, Vienna
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1914
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July 4: Examinations for graduation; enrollment
at the University of Vienna for the study of
law
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1915
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Mid-April: Enlistment in the Imperial and Royal
Dragoon Regiment 3 as a one-year volunteer at
Breitensee Barracks
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1916
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From mid-January: Taking part in the Russian
campaign along the Galician front
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July 12: Captured near Olesza; subsequent
prisoner-of-war internment in Siberia (Krasnaya
Ryetshka, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk)
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1920
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August 14: Return to Vienna; re-enrollment at
the university (history and psychology)
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1921
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July: Beginning of his love relationship with
Auguste ("Gusti") Hasterlik
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1923
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June 6: Entrance examination for the Institut
für österreichische Geschichtsforschung
(Institute for the Study of Austrian History)
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Publication of a volume of poems, Gassen und
Landschaft (Street Scenes and Landscapes)
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1924
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Die Bresche (The Breach), subtitled
Ein Vorgang in vierundzwanzig Stunden (An
Episode in 24 Hours)
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1925
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July 22: Award of Ph.D. degree, University of
Vienna
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1927-1931
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Numerous feature pieces and stories in Viennese
newspapers
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1930
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February: The novel Das Geheimnis des
Reichs (The Secret of the Empire)
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May 28: Marries Gusti Hasterlik
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November: The book-length essay Der Fall
Gütersloh (The Case of Gütersloh)
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1932
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Final separation from Gusti
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1933
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April 1: Formally joins the National Socialist
German Workers' (Nazi) Party
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1936
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Completion of the first part of Die
Dämonen (The Demons)
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August 1: Moves to Dachau
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1937
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September 21: Meets Emma Maria Thoma
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September 23: Publishing contract with C. H.
Beck, Munich
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1938
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End of August: Return to Vienna
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September 1: Shares an apartment on
Buchfeldgasse (Eighth District) with Albert Paris
Gütersloh; begins instruction as a catechumen
with Father Born, S. J.
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October 1: The novel Ein Mord den jeder
begeht (Every Man a Murderer)
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November 25: Decree of divorce from Gusti
Hasterlik
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1940
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April 28: Reception into the Roman Catholic
Church
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April 30: Induction into the Luftwaffe
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August 20: Transfer to France
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The novel Ein Umweg (The Long Way
Around)
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1941
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December: First sketches for the novel Die
Strudlhofstiege (The Strudlhof Steps)
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1942
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April 17: Transfer to the Russian front, near
Kursk
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October 23: Placement on the sick list because
of strong attacks of neuralgia
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1943-1945
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Stationed in a number of changing localities
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1945
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May 8: Prisoner-of-war internment in Norway
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1946
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January 31: Arrival in Linz and release from
prisoner-of-war status
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May 19: Return to Vienna
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Banned from publishing because of previous
membership in the National Socialist party
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1948-1950
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Course of study at the Institut für
österreichische Geschichtsforschung
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1951
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March: The novel Die erleuchteten Fenster
oder Die Menschwerdung des Amtsrates Julius
Zihal (The Lighted Windows)
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April: The novel Die Strudlhofstiege oder
Melzer und die Tiefe der Jahre (The Strudlhof
Steps or Melzer and the Depth of the Years)
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1952
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September: Marries Emma Maria Thoma
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1953
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October: The novella Das letzte Abenteuer
(The Last Adventure)
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1955
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June 20: Meets Dorothea Zeemann at a reading
given by Robert Neumann
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1956
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May: Moves into an apartment on
Währingerstrasse 50 (Ninth District).
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September: The novel Die Dämonen: Nach
der Chronik des Sektionsrates Geyrenhoff (The
Demons)
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1957
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Autumn: Publication of a volume of poems, Ein
Weg im Dunklen (A Way in the Dark)
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1958
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March: Great Austrian State Prize
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1962
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The novel Die Merowinger oder Die totale
Familie (The Merovingians)
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1963
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The novel Die Wasserfälle von Slunj
(The Waterfalls of Slunj)
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1964
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The diaries entitled Tangenten: Tagebuch
eines Schriftstellers 1940-1950 (Sideward
Approaches: A Writer's Diary, 1940-1950)
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1966
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The book of short stories Unter schwarzen
Sternen (Under Black Stars)
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An autobiographical volume Meine neunzehn
Lebensläufe und neun andere Geschichten
(My Nineteen Curricula vitae and Nine Additional
Stories)
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December 23: Death of Doderer in the Rudolfiner
Hospital in Döbling (Nineteenth District)
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