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3 unusual facts about Heimito von Doderer


Heimito von Doderer

Stranded in Samara, Doderer and his comrades again turned to the East, and found refuge in a Red Cross camp near Krasnoyarsk, cared for by Elsa Brändström.

His unusual first name was based on an attempt by his mother to germanicize the Spanish name Jaimito, a diminutive of Jaime (James).

Tauern Railway

The southern ramp down to Spittal an der Drau was erected from 1906 under the supervision of the Viennese engineer and entrepreneur Wilhelm Carl Gustav von Doderer, father of the writer Heimito von Doderer.



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