Peter Campa in the footsteps of his great-grandmother | SUN | 11/20/2022 | 21:40

Ö1 Art Sunday: New texts

“Lviv 1886”. By Peter Campa. Reading: Pippa Galli and Michael Dangl. Editor: Edith-Ulla Gasser.

It turned up during a move: a silver book with a red and a white rose embroidered on it. For the Viennese author Peter Campa, the sentences contained therein in old-fashioned ink handwriting mean that he was able to take a look into the life of his great-grandmother. Because the book is her diary from 1886, when Hermine Hirt was still a young, unmarried girl. The now Ukrainian city of Lviv forms the background. At that time Lemberg was Austrian, and for young women from the bourgeoisie a proper marriage was the most important goal in life.

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Peter Campa, “Lviv 1886”, manuscript, 2022

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