Together with PORR AG and Julius Meinl Austria GmbH, our firm is supporting the rediscovery of one of the most linguistically powerful Austrian authors of the 20th century.
Maxl & Mötz Rechtsanwälte is among the sponsors of the symposium „Doderer’s Vienna: An Author and His City“, which will take place on 19 September 2026 at the Wien Museum on Karlsplatz. We are delighted to share this commitment with two further renowned partners: PORR AG and Julius Meinl Austria GmbH. As sponsors from the very outset, the three companies – together with Stadt Wien Kultur, the Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport, and the Wien Museum – are making possible a full-day event of high literary-scholarly quality, free of charge for the public.
The occasion is the 130th anniversary of Heimito von Doderer’s birth and the 60th anniversary of his death. „Now I am coming!“ Thomas Bernhard is said to have exclaimed after Doderer’s death in 1966 – „Now Doderer is coming, once again!“ is the unofficial title of the symposium. With The Strudlhof Steps, The Demons and The Waterfalls of Slunj, Doderer wrote three metropolitan novels in which Vienna is not merely a setting but a poetic resonating space. The event is not intended as a nostalgic retrospective, but as an invitation to rediscover an Austrian author of world stature.
The organiser is the Wiener Heimito von Doderer-Gesellschaft, founded at the end of 2024 and based c/o Maxl & Mötz Rechtsanwälte GmbH. Dr. Martin Maxl, partner of our firm, is a founding member of the society as well as the initiator and organiser of the symposium; he will open the event and contribute a lecture of his own on Doderer’s Viennese novels.