Literatursalon mit Vladimir Vertlib

Vladimir Vertlib, born in 1966 in Leningrad, emigrated in 1971 with his parents to Israel, then to Italy, Holland, and the USA before settling in Austria in 1981. He has been living as a writer in Salzburg and Vienna since 1993. His work encompasses novels, short stories, essays, and numerous articles. In 2024, Vertlib was awarded the Theodor Kramer Prize for Writing in Resistance and Exile, and in 2025 the Book Prize of Salzburg Business. He wrote, among others, the novel "Lucia Binar and the Russian Soul," which was on the longlist for the German Book Prize in 2015. Published by Residenz Verlag are "Zebra in War" (2022), "Journey Home" (2024), and "The Jew of the Empress" (2025). In the Literature Salon, he will read from his novel "The Jew of the Empress." Vienna around 1670. Empress Margarita Teresa hates Jews and blames them for the early death of her firstborn. Now she is pregnant again and hopes to give her husband, who is also her uncle, a son. Her personal physician Pedro wants to work together with the Jewish midwife Esther to ensure a safe delivery – and hopes thereby to prevent the expulsion of Jews from Vienna. In "The Jew of the Empress," Vladimir Vertlib tells of the end of this hope, but also of a new beginning.