Writings

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Click for ANNUAL LETTERS (1989–2002, 2006)

Click for Fred Viebahn's occasional essays (since January 2005) at the online publication Die offizielle Homepage von Henryk M. Broder (IN GERMAN ONLY!)

Click for Fred Viebahn's essays at the online publication Die Achse des Guten (IN GERMAN ONLY!). At the top of the page, click >suche<, then select Fred Viebahn under >Autoren<.

For Fred Viebahn's two hour fundraiser program on public radio station WTJU, Charlottesville, May 15, 2004:
Click here for the first hour
Click here for the second hour

Click for the link to the first chapter of Fred Viebahn's novel-in-progress, Slow Dust (PDF)

Click for the link to Fred Viebahn's 1998 essay "Aviva's World" (PDF)

Click for the link to Fred Viebahn's German translation of Rita Dove's play The Darker Face of the Earth (PDF)

Click for the complete German text of Fred Viebahn's 1975 play Blutschwestern (PDF)

Click for the complete text (English & German) of Fred Viebahn's 1978 play Das Naturtheater von Oklahoma (PDF)

Click for the complete text (English & German) of Fred Viebahn's 1979 play Schurz (PDF)

Click for the 1979 essay (in German) " Gelegenheiten" (PDF)

Click for the 1991 memoir (in German) "Annäherung an die Vergangenheit" (PDF)

Click for the 2001 memoir (in English) "I CAN'T GET NO / ROLLS ROYCE ACTION" (Word doc)

Click for the article "In Memory of Wilhelm Unger" (1983/2006; in German only)

Click for the complete German text of Fred Viebahn's unpublished 1976 play Die Zerstörung Trojas (PDF)

Click for the complete German text of Fred Viebahn's unpublished 1977 play Die Bergung (PDF)

Click for the complete German text of Fred Viebahn's unpublished 1969/1970 play Schmitz & Co (PDF).
[NOTE: This is a PDF scan from an old photocopy in very bad quality. The original manuscript burned up in our house fire in 1998. Eventually I hope to restore the text and post it here in a more readable shape.]

Click for GEDICHTE 1961–1981 - poems 1961-1981, in German (PDF)

Click for a documentation of the 1998/99 Academy of American Poets controversy (PDF)

Click for 2 newspaper articles about the Feb 1976 visit to the States by Fred Viebahn and eleven other German writers (PDF)