Johannes Chudoba’s Generation Trilogy explores the eternal questions around what we can learn in our lives and what we want to leave behind – both in terms of what we want to pass on and what parts of our legacy are actually about deliberately breaking the patterns handed down from generation to generation.

Born in 1970, the author is shaped by grandparents who grew up in an authoritarian, oppressively patriarchal society and parents who are struggling to break these shackles. Growing up in the final years of the Cold War and embarking on his career in development cooperation in the 1990s, Chudoba experiences several of the tumultuous transitions around the turn of the Millennium first-hand: Turkey in the 70s and 80s, Russia, Ireland and Bosnia in the 1990s, the USA, Congo Brazzaville, Guatemala, Tajikistan, Georgia, Albania, Nepal and Afghanistan in the 2000s. From 2012 he was based in Bishkek with his family, returning to Vienna in 2022.

Current titles include Sovereignty: Overcoming Authoritarianism – A Family Perspective (in English, published 2024) and Schattengeneration 1955: Juliane und das Erbe der Freiheit (in German, published 2025), part of the broader Generations Trilogy project.