Josef Weinheber from 1936. Part of his house there, located on Josef Weinheber-Strasse, has been preserved as a museum in his honour. The English poet W. H. Auden, who spent summers in Kirchstetten from 1958 until 1973, wrote a moving poem about Weinheber called "Josef Weinheber." Auden acknowledges Weinheber's support of Nazism but also records his reply to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels' offer to enrich Austrian culture: "in Ruah lossen" (leave us alone). Auden's poem appears in his "Collected Poems." Josef Weinheber "Translated from German Wikipedia" Josef Weinheber (9 March 1892 in Vienna – 8 April 1945 in Kirchstetten, Lower Austria)
Epilogue For W. H. Auden for W. H. Auden". ("Now the winter nights begin / Lonely comfort walls me in...".) At this time both Auden and MacNeice were living in London; MacNeice had moved into a flat in Keats Grove, Hampstead on 6 November ("Here in Hampstead I sit late..."), while Auden was living nearby with the painters Nancy and William Coldstream. The picture MacNeice gives in "Epilogue for W. H. Auden" of "loneliness / And uncommunicableness" (stanza 17) is somewhat contradicted by letters written at the same time describing his new life in Hampstead: "Wystan is very nice indeed & we had a marvellous