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)
Albert K. Stevens Arbor to experience a more engaging intellectual environment, a move that led to A.K.'s academic career at the University. Angelyn became a graduate student in philosophy at Michigan during Professor Stevens' early years in the University's English Department. The couple started a lifetime friendship with the Anglo-American poet W. H. Auden when he was a visiting instructor at the University in the early 1940s. Auden dedicated the poem "Mundus Et Infans" to the couple. When Auden became a U.S. citizen, Stevens was his sponsor. Stevens and his wife died together in an automobile accident in September, 1984. They were survived