WGS - W.G. Sebald Audio-Visual Collection
Reference code
WGS
Level of description
Collection
Title
W.G. Sebald Audio-Visual Collection
Date/s
1975-2001
Quantity & Format
8 boxes
1 ring binder
1 ring binder
Personal name
Sebald, W.G. (Winfried Georg), 1944-2001
Subject
Authors, German -- 20th century
Creator
Sebald, W.G. (Winfried Georg), 1944-2001Administrative/Biographical history
W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) was a German writer and academic who was appointed to a chair of German literature at the University of East Anglia in 1987, and in 1989 became the founding director of the British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT).His novels in German include: Vertigo (1990), The Emigrants (1992), The Rings of Saturn (1995) and Austerlitz (2001) [VERA].
The English translations follow a different order: The Emigrants (1996), The Rings of Saturn (1998), Vertigo (1999), and Austerlitz (2001) [ERVA].
Scope and content
WGS comprises two sub collections:
WGS/GT W.G. Sebald Audiovisual Collection compiled by Gordon Turner.
WGS/UEA W.G. Sebald Audiovisual Archive collected by UEA Archives.
WGS/GT W.G. Sebald Audiovisual Collection compiled by Gordon Turner.
WGS/UEA W.G. Sebald Audiovisual Archive collected by UEA Archives.
Conditions governing access
Available to access in the Archive Reading Room. The archive is partially digitised.
Conditions governing reproduction
Under copyright. All rights reserved.
Language/scripts of material
English, French, German
- WGS - W.G. Sebald Audio-Visual Collection