Black Vienna

Author : Janek Wasserman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801455216

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Interwar Vienna was considered a bastion of radical socialist thought, and its reputation as "Red Vienna" has loomed large in both the popular imagination and the historiography of Central Europe. However, as Janek Wasserman shows in this book, a "Black Vienna" existed as well; its members voiced critiques of the postwar democratic order, Jewish inclusion, and Enlightenment values, providing a theoretical foundation for Austrian and Central European fascist movements. Looking at the complex interplay between intellectuals, the public, and the state, he argues that seemingly apolitical Viennese intellectuals, especially conservative ones, dramatically affected the course of Austrian history. While Red Viennese intellectuals mounted an impressive challenge in cultural and intellectual forums throughout the city, radical conservatism carried the day. Black Viennese intellectuals hastened the destruction of the First Republic, facilitating the establishment of the Austrofascist state and paving the way for Anschluss with Nazi Germany. Closely observing the works and actions of Viennese reformers, journalists, philosophers, and scientists, Wasserman traces intellectual, social, and political developments in the Austrian First Republic while highlighting intellectuals’ participation in the growing worldwide conflict between socialism, conservatism, and fascism. Vienna was a microcosm of larger developments in Europe—the rise of the radical right and the struggle between competing ideological visions. By focusing on the evolution of Austrian conservatism, Wasserman complicates post–World War II narratives about Austrian anti-fascism and Austrian victimhood.

Author : Janek Wasserman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801455223

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Black Vienna by Janek Wasserman Pdf

Interwar Vienna was considered a bastion of radical socialist thought, and its reputation as "Red Vienna" has loomed large in both the popular imagination and the historiography of Central Europe. However, as Janek Wasserman shows in this book, a “Black Vienna” existed as well; its members voiced critiques of the postwar democratic order, Jewish inclusion, and Enlightenment values, providing a theoretical foundation for Austrian and Central European fascist movements. Looking at the complex interplay between intellectuals, the public, and the state, he argues that seemingly apolitical Viennese intellectuals, especially conservative ones, dramatically affected the course of Austrian history. While Red Viennese intellectuals mounted an impressive challenge in cultural and intellectual forums throughout the city, radical conservatism carried the day. Black Viennese intellectuals hastened the destruction of the First Republic, facilitating the establishment of the Austrofascist state and paving the way for Anschluss with Nazi Germany. Closely observing the works and actions of Viennese reformers, journalists, philosophers, and scientists, Wasserman traces intellectual, social, and political developments in the Austrian First Republic while highlighting intellectuals' participation in the growing worldwide conflict between socialism, conservatism, and fascism. Vienna was a microcosm of larger developments in Europe—the rise of the radical right and the struggle between competing ideological visions. By focusing on the evolution of Austrian conservatism, Wasserman complicates post–World War II narratives about Austrian anti-fascism and Austrian victimhood.

Author : Rob McFarland,Georg Spitaler,Ingo Zechner
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 805 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571133557

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The Red Vienna Sourcebook by Rob McFarland,Georg Spitaler,Ingo Zechner Pdf

The current blockbuster German TV series Babylon Berlin introduces viewers to the tumultuous period in German history known as the Weimar Republic. Critics have praised the series for its relevance to the present: it shows dark populist forces undermining a fragile democracy. While Weimar Germany makes a fascinating backdrop, its story does not inspire much hope for our present-day political and cultural woes. A fascinating contrast is the Austrian capital, Vienna. After the First World War the former imperial city elected a Social Democratic majority that persisted into the 1930s. "Red Vienna" undertook large-scale experiments in public housing, hygiene, and education, while maintaining a world-class presence in music, literature, art, culture, and science. Though Red Vienna eventually fell victim to fascist violence, it left a rich legacy with potential to inform our own tumultuous times. The Red Vienna Sourcebook provides scholars and students with an encyclopedic selection of key documents from the period, carefully translated and introduced. The thirty-six chapters include primary works from canonical names such as Sigmund Freud and Arthur Schnitzler but also introductions to lesser-known figures such as sociologist K the Leichter and health-policy pioneer Julius Tandler. The documents will be of interest to such diverse disciplines as economics, architecture, music, film history, philosophy, women's studies, sports and body culture, and Jewish studies. Rob McFarland is Professor of German Literature, Film and Culture at Brigham Young University. Georg Spitaler is a researcher at the Austrian Labor History Society. Ingo Zechner is Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History.

Author : Richard Cockett
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780300266535

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Vienna by Richard Cockett Pdf

How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West's intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens--every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some way shaped by Vienna. The city of Freud, Wittgenstein, Mahler, and Klimt was the melting pot at the heart of a vast metropolitan empire. But with the Second World War and the rise of fascism, the dazzling coteries of thinkers who squabbled, debated, and called Vienna home dispersed across the world, where their ideas continued to have profound impact. Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of this extraordinary story. Tracing Vienna's rich intellectual history from psychoanalysis to Reaganomics, Cockett encompasses everything from the communist rebels of Red Vienna to the neoliberal economists of the Austrian School. This is the panoramic account of how one city made the modern world--and how we all remain inescapably Viennese.

Author : Tony Cokes,Attilia Fattori Franchini,Felix Gaudlitz,Alexander Nussbaumer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Nightclubs
ISBN : 320005932X

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The Vienna Guide by Tony Cokes,Attilia Fattori Franchini,Felix Gaudlitz,Alexander Nussbaumer Pdf

Author : Frances Tanzer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512825350

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Vanishing Vienna by Frances Tanzer Pdf

In Vanishing Vienna historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s. The book reveals continuity in Vienna’s cultural history across this period and a framework for interpreting Viennese culture that relies on antisemitism, philosemitism, and a related discourse of Jewish presence and absence. This observation demands a new chronology of cultural reconstruction that links the Nazi and postwar years, and a new geography that includes the history of refugees from Nazi Vienna. Rather than presenting the Nazi, exile, and postwar periods as discrete chapters of Vienna’s history, Tanzer argues that they are part of a continuous spectrum of cultural evolution—the result of which was the creation of a coherent Austrian identity and culture that emerged by the 1950s. As she shows, antisemitism and philosemitism were not contradictory forces in post-Nazi Austrian culture. They were deeply interconnected aspirations in a city where nostalgia for the past dominated cultural reconstruction efforts and supported seemingly contradictory impulses. Viennese nostalgia at times concealed the perpetuation of antisemitic fantasies of the city without Jews. At the same time, the postwar desire to return to a pre-Nazi past relied upon notions of Austrian culture that Austrian Jews perfected in exile, as well as on the symbolic remigration of a mostly imagined “Jewish” culture now taxed with redeeming Austria in the aftermath of the Holocaust. From this perspective, philosemitism is much more than a simple inversion of antisemitism—instead, Tanzer argues, philosemitism, problematic as it may be, defines Vienna in the era of postwar reconstruction. In this way, Vanishing Vienna uncovers a rarely discussed phenomenon of the aftermath of the Holocaust—a society that consumes, redefines, and bestows symbolic meaning on the victims in their absence.

Author : David M. Goldenberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110522471

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Black and Slave by David M. Goldenberg Pdf

The series Studies of the Bible and Its Reception (SBR) publishes monographs and collected volumes which explore the reception history of the Bible in a wide variety of academic and cultural contexts. Closely linked to the multi-volume project Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR), this book series is a publication platform for works which cover the broad field of reception history of the Bible in various religious traditions, historical periods, and cultural fields. Volumes in this series aim to present the material of reception processes or to develop methodological discussions in more detail, enabling authors and readers to more deeply engage and understand the dynamics of biblical reception in a wide variety of academic fields. Further information on „The Bible and Its Reception“.

Author : W N Potter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Chess
ISBN : HARVARD:HN432X

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The City of London chess magazine, ed. by W.N. Potter [and others]. by W N Potter Pdf

Author : Brigitte Timmermann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Third man (Motion picture)
ISBN : 3950205012

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The Third Man's Vienna by Brigitte Timmermann Pdf

Author : Bettina Vernon-Warren,Charles Warren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134423668

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Gertrud Bodenwieser and Vienna's Contribution to Ausdruckstanz by Bettina Vernon-Warren,Charles Warren Pdf

Born in Vienna in 1890, Gertrud Bodenwieser became a leading exponent of Ausdruckstanz (Expressionist Dance) during the 1920s and 1930s, developing a definitive personal style and a philosophy of dance that distinguished her from all her contemporaries. In 1938 she emigrated to Australia to start her career afresh with the remaining nucleus of her company from Nazi-occupied Austria. In this collection of writings (initially compiled by Bettina Vernon and posthumously completed by her husband Charles Warren) each contributor highlights Bodenwieser's achievements from a different perspective, with reminiscences from her pupils and company members, together with scholarly studies.

Author : Michelle Jackson-Beckett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780198879510

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Vienna and the New Wohnkultur, 1918-1938 by Michelle Jackson-Beckett Pdf

While the domestic sphere might seem tangential to the dire political situation and humanitarian crises of interwar Europe, it was nevertheless at the forefront of debates about cultural identity and economic policy in the Viennese press, culture, and arts. Vienna and the New Wohnkultur, 1918-1938 explores why and how the Viennese design landscape was set apart--aesthetically and theoretically--from other European explorations of modern design. Jackson-Beckett examines interior design exhibitions, press, and debates about modern living in interwar Vienna, an overlooked area of modern European architecture and design history, arguing for a reconsideration of the contours of European modernism. The text analyses varied interpretations of modern domestic culture (Wohnkultur) in Vienna, and explores why these interpretations were distinct from other strands of European modernism. Vienna and the New Wohnkultur introduces new research and translation of primary sources on flexible, adaptable, and affordable design by architects, designers, and retailers. Vienna's design discourse also prefigured important postmodern and contemporary discussions on historicism, eclecticism, empathy, and user experience. Through extensive new research in archival and period sources, Jackson-Beckett illustrates how design ideas, taste, and portrayals of domestic culture of fin-de-si?cle Viennese Modernism (Wiener Moderne) were also deployed as forms of cultural and national identity both during the early years of the Social Democratic government in Vienna (1918-1934) and later under the fascist state (1934-1938).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWRC35

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American Chess Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11788109

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List of Beacons, Buoys, and Day Marks of the United States on the Northern Lakes and Rivers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Chess
ISBN : PRNC:32101076474400

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The British Chess Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1662 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCBK:C109075399

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British and Foreign State Papers by Anonim Pdf