Wiener Gruppe

The Wiener Gruppe (Vienna Group) was a small and loose avant-garde constellation of Austrian poets and writers, which arose from an older and wider postwar association of artists called Art-Club.

[3] This group showed interest in Baroque literature, as well as in Expressionism, Dadaism and Surrealism.

[5] The linguistic awareness of the Wiener Gruppe was also displayed in the members' notion of language as optic and acoustic material.

[6] Already in the early 1950s concrete poetry became an exciting new element of at least the works of Rühm, Achleitner and Wiener.

With the charm of novelty, several members also made use of the richness of sounds and vocabulary of their own Bavarian and Vienna dialect.