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Banned and restricted books in Austria
6 titles have been banned or restricted in Austria, recorded across 8 dated, source-cited events, most often for political content.
Titles
6
Ban events
8
Top reason
Political content
Decades active
6
Most-restricted titles
| Title | Author | Year | Events |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler | 1925 | 2 |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | 1929 | 2 |
| The Sorrows of Young Werther | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 1774 | 1 |
| Genoveva. Eine Tragödie in fünf Acten | Friedrich Hebbel | 1843 | 1 |
| Dreimal Österreich | Kurt von Schuschnigg | 1937 | 1 |
| Diarium itineris in Moscoviam | Johann Georg Korb | 1700 | 1 |
Stated reasons
- Political content
- 5
- Race / colonialism
- 1
- Immorality
- 1
- Religious / blasphemy
- 1
By decade
1700s1
1770s1
1840s1
1920s2
1930s2
1940s1
Documented bans
All 8 recorded events, most severe and most recent first.
Mein Kampf1945
Dreimal Österreich1938
All Quiet on the Western Front1929
Mein Kampf1925
The Sorrows of Young Werther1775
Diarium itineris in Moscoviam1700
All Quiet on the Western Front1933
Genoveva. Eine Tragödie in fünf Acten1845
Source: Verboten, built on the banned-books.org Open Censorship Core (CC BY 4.0). Verboten compilation CC BY 4.0.