Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the Journal of Austrian-American History. In addition to publications in scholarly journals he is also a contributor to Senses of Cinema, Bright Lights Film Journal and The Vienna Review. His Telegrams from the Metropole: Selected Poems 1980–1998 received a Pushcart Prize nomination in 2000. His poetry book Soft Mayhem was published in 2010 (Poetry Salzburg). The English translation of Austrian playwright Felix Mitterer's treatment of the life of Nazi resister Jägerstätter by Gregor Thuswaldner and Dassanowsky (University of New Orleans Press 2015) received its American staged dramatic reading premiere under the direction of Guy Ben-Aharon at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York in December 2016. He has authored over ninety articles and essays in book collections, journals, and periodicals. Producer and media appearances The son of Austrian-American pioneering film studio founder and musician, Elfi von Dassanowsky, he is also active as an independent producer and head of the Colorado/Vienna based Belvedere Film production company. His Belvedere Film projects include the documentary on aesthete Felix Pfeifle Felix Austria! a.k.a. The Archduke and Herbert Hinkel (2013) directed by Christine Beebe (in which he also appears), the dramatic shorts Menschen (2012) and The Retreat (2010), the feature film Wilson Chance (2005), and the award-winning Semmelweis (2001). Felix Austria! premiered at the 2013 Hot Docs Festival. As an independent, he served as associate producer of Dog Eat Dog (2012) a comedy short with Zachary Quinto directed by Sian Heder, of Curt Hahn's dramatic feature Deadline with Eric Roberts (2012), of Mark Devendorf and Mauricio Chernovetzky's Styria a.k.a. Angels of Darkness based on Sheridan Le Fanu's gothic novel Carmilla starring Stephen Rea and Eleanor Tomlinson (2014), and of the feature biopic The Creep Behind the Camera directed by Pete Schuermann (2014). He was a producer of Brad Osborne and Eric Vale's independent mystery thriller feature, Chariot (2014), and produced Ally Acker's interview documentary on women in cinema history, Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women with Jodie Foster (2014). He was associate producer on the award-winning Canadian feature, Before Anything You Say (2016) directed by Shelagh Carter with cinematography by Ousama Rawi; producer on Matthias Greuling's Austrian documentary regarding author Thomas Bernhard, Der Bauer zu Nathal with Sunnyi Melles and Nicholas Ofczarek (2018), and associate producer and historical adviser on the biographical documentary feature Paul Henreid: Beyond Victor Laszlo directed by the Austro-Hollywood actor's daughter, Monika Henreid. The