Young Vienna

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alys George
Keyword(s):  
Literary Production ◽  
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal ◽  
Arthur Schnitzler ◽  
The Core

Young Vienna was an informal, heterogeneous literary circle that existed in Vienna for little more than a decade, beginning in approximately 1890. Hermann Bahr and his protégés Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arthur Schnitzler, Richard Beer-Hofmann, and Felix Salten formed the core of the group, while Karl Kraus and Peter Altenberg were later, peripheral participants. Many other writers, most now forgotten, were involved to varying degrees. These included Felix Dörmann, Friedrich Michael Fels, Paul Goldmann, Jacques Joachim, Eduard Michael Kafka, Julius Kulka, Rudolf Lothar, and Richard Specht. The group often met at Café Griensteidl and, later, Café Central. Unlike the naturalists in Berlin and Munich, Young Vienna put forth no coherent literary program, manifestos, or theories, and their literary production ranged from naturalism and impressionism to aestheticism, symbolism, and decadence. The only commonality among the writers, according to Bahr, was that they wanted ‘in all things and at all costs to be modern’ (in allen Dingen um jeden Preis modern zu sein).

Austrian Festival Missions after 1918: The Vienna Music Festival and the Long Shadow of Salzburg

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 147-166
Author(s):  
Michael Burri
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Social Class ◽  
World War ◽  
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
Central European ◽  
Organic Unity ◽  
The Core ◽  
Politics And Culture

Rising from the ruins of a post-1918 Austria shed of its monarchical leadership and much of its former territory, the Salzburg Festival acquired a symbolic authority during the First Austrian Republic that continues to ensure its privileged place in Austrian politics and culture to this day. At the core of this privileged place are two signature legacies that, while grounded in the festival's prewar history, fortified a particular agenda of the Second Austrian Republic in defining Austrian history and national identity in the decades following World War II. The first, as expressed in 1919 by the festival's most articulate cofounder, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, is that with its Salzburg setting, the festival should be understood as situated in the “heart of the heart of Europe,” a place where the antitheses of Central European geography (German and Slavic, German and Italian), social class (commoner and elite), and aesthetic genre (dramatic theater and opera) encounter one another only to be dissolved through transcendence in an “organic unity.”

S. Fischer Verlag

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Barndt
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Emile Zola ◽  
Gerhart Hauptmann ◽  
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal ◽  
Arthur Schnitzler ◽  
Hermann Hesse ◽  
Literary Journal ◽  
Publishing Houses

Founded in Berlin in 1886 by Samuel Fischer, S. Fischer Verlag quickly became one of the most important publishing houses of German and European modernism. Émile Zola and Henrik Ibsen headlined the publisher’s first list of authors. The company went on to bring European and world literature to the German reading public, including works by Joseph Conrad, John Dos Passos, and Virginia Woolf. Yet the main focus of S. Fischer Verlag was to launch important new German-language writers who would soon come to shape the canon of modernism, including Gerhart Hauptmann, Thomas Mann, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Hermann Hesse, Arthur Schnitzler, Franz Werfel, Robert Musil, and Alfred Döblin. During the first decade of its existence, S. Fischer Verlag was instrumental in shaping naturalist drama in Germany, with Gerhart Hauptmann as its leading literary voice. This success was due to an engagement on various fronts: the founding of a private theatre association, the Freie Bühne (Free Stage), where new plays could premiere despite censorship; the promotion of naturalism in the publisher’s own literary journal; and the publishing concept of ‘Collected Works’. These multi-volume editions of complete works by living writers successfully accelerated the canonization of many of Fischer’s authors, adding economic and cultural value in the process.

scholarly journals Österreichische Literatur in der Zeitschrift "Wiadomości Literackie" in der Zwischenkriegszeit

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-32
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Hurnikowa
Keyword(s):  
Rainer Maria Rilke ◽  
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal ◽  
Arthur Schnitzler ◽  
Kulturelle Bildung ◽  
Stefan Zweig ◽  
Joseph Roth

Das Hauptthema des Artikels ist die Rezeption der österreichischen Literatur der Zwischenkriegszeit in den Wiadomości Literackie. Das war eine der populärsten Zeitschriften dieser Periode, die sich sowohl die kulturelle Bildung der Gesellschaft, als auch die Verbreitung der fremden Literatur zum Ziel setzte. Am meisten wurde zwar die französische Literatur propagiert, man schenkte aber auch viel Aufmerksamkeit den deutschsprachigen Autoren (das beweisen Forscher, die im Artikel zitiert wurden). Man unterschied damals zwischen der deutschen und der österreichischen Literatur nicht, aber es wurden viele Verfasser, die heutzutage als Vertreter der österreichischen Literatur gelten, präsentiert: Joseph Roth, Stefan Zweig, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arthur Schnitzler, Ödön von Horváth, Franz Werfel u.a. Die Autorin beschreibt und kommentiert die Interviews mit den Schriftstellern, die Rezensionen ihrer Bücher und andere Artikel in der Zeitschrift Wiadomości Literackie.

Altenberg, Peter (1859–1919)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Kim
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Political Resistance ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal ◽  
Arthur Schnitzler ◽  
Prose Poems ◽  
Gustav Klimt ◽  
Clash Of Cultures

Born in Vienna on 9 March 1859, the Jewish-Austrian poet Peter Altenberg (birth name: Richard Engländer) became a literary sensation with his characteristically telegraphic writing style. The purpose of this narrative form, he explained, was to capture Kleinigkeit (the smallness) of modern life—fleeting, ordinary, and unembellished. His so-called prose poems went on to garner the admiration of contemporary artists, architects and writers who belonged to the Young Vienna. They included, among others, Hermann Bahr, Gustav Klimt, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Karl Kraus and Arthur Schnitzler. Suffering from pneumonia, Altenberg died in Vienna on 8 January 1919. Opposed to the assignment and expectation of specific social roles in a conservative Austro-Hungarian Empire, Altenberg took on a nom de plume to redefine his cultural identity in the image of the oppressed, including children, women and non-Europeans. This act of political resistance in writing became a lifelong commitment to exposing the divided and hypocritical world around him, although some of his works portrayed those in suffering with a certain degree of eroticization and prejudice. By focusing on moments of ambiguity, contradiction, monotony and triviality in social interaction, he exposed the clash of cultures between old provincialism and new cosmopolitanism in contemporary Vienna while pushing new limits of mimetic representation.

Demonul zeflemelei junimiste

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 28-37
Author(s):  
Ligia Tudurachi
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Core ◽  
Line Parallel

From persiflage to pornographic literature, everything in Junimea is an alternative form of discourse deconstructing to the official one. The cultural society from Iași chooses a “lateral” way of representation, moving on a line parallel to the main one. Persiflage is used in order to define a model of salon conversation but also as an instrument of literary criticism, and thus a stimulator of literary production: it becomes a technique of the critical performance, a characteristic evaluative gesture. Originating in the core of the critical act, this lateral thread almost engages a manifest dissent – which will then be emphasized by its emergence in the profane, detabooed forms of pornographic literature. Representing itself on such a lateral thread, Junimea makes possible the construction of its image as a Balkan, Eastern society; and therefore as a particular, local way of life.

scholarly journals A Study of Early Chinese Concepts of Qing 情 and a Dialogue with Western Emotion Studies

Prism ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 399-429
Author(s):  
Zong-qi Cai
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Conceptual History ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Core ◽  
Literary Thought ◽  
Chinese Intellectual ◽  
Theoretical Significance

Abstract The term qing 情 (emotion) has lain at the core of Chinese thinking about literature from antiquity through modern times. It is of profound paradigmatic significance because each major reconceptualization of qing by literary writers and scholars almost invariably signifies and undergirds a new direction of literary production and reception. Mapping out qing's long and complex lexical-conceptual history over the millennia is crucial to the study of Chinese literary thought, premodern and modern alike. In undertaking such a historicized macro study, this article consistently grounds it in the microanalysis of influential and representative statements on qing made since antiquity. Through careful contextualization, it seeks to determine which particular meaning(s) of qing is most likely intended in each instance and if and how an author has reconceptualized the term to present a new understanding of literature. It also strives to assess the theoretical significance of all major qing reconceptualizations in the broader context of Chinese intellectual and literary history. Wherever appropriate, it draws insights from Western emotion studies to illuminate hitherto unrecognized theoretical significance of some major qing reconceptualizations.

Bahr, Hermann (1863–1934)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurt Ifkovits
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
The Self ◽  
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal ◽  
Arthur Schnitzler ◽  
Sense Of Purpose ◽  
Weekly Journal

Hermann Barr was an Austrian author, essayist, critic, editor, dramaturg, and director. His wide-ranging career spanned most of the fin de siècle’s major literary trends, such as naturalism, décadence, late Heimatkunst, and expressionism. Thanks to his strategic cultural alliances, openness to all things innovative, and multifaceted interests, he became one of the most prominent figures of Viennese modernism. Following stays in Paris (1888–9) and Berlin as a collaborator at the Freie Bühne theater club, Bahr returned to Vienna with a sense of purpose. He began championing aesthetic modernism and associating with protagonists from the Viennese literary scene (Leopold von Andrian, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arthur Schnitzler). As the self-proclaimed leader of the Young Vienna literary circle, Bahr became a tireless advocate and interpreter of innovative aesthetic movements, trends, and styles. Bahr’s theater work included dramaturgy and directing with Max Reinhardt in Berlin (1906–7) and a brief term as lead dramaturg of the Burgtheater (1918). His literary work is wide in scope, encompassing many dramas, novels, and an autobiography. From 1894 to 1899 he was the co-founder, art editor, and co-editor-in-chief of the Viennese weekly journal Die Zeit. His significance for contemporary readers lies less in his literary oeuvre than in his importance as a critic, crusader, practitioner, and networker.

Matriarchatsfiktionen - Johann Jakob Bachofen und die deutsche Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Soziale Ungleichheit ◽  
Franz Kafka ◽  
Thomas Mann ◽  
Gerhart Hauptmann ◽  
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal ◽  
Arthur Schnitzler ◽  
Hermann Broch ◽  
Elias Canetti

Die nach wie vor brisante Frage nach dem Verhältnis der Geschlechter und nach den Ursachen für ihre soziale Ungleichheit wurde nie zuvor so nachhaltig und radikal gestellt wie vom Schweizer Juristen und Altertumskundler Johann Jakob Bachofen. Zu seinen Lebzeiten wenig beachtet und heute einer der Autoren, die fast jeder kennt und kaum einer liest, wurde er gegen Ende des 19. und im Lauf des 20. Jahrhunderts in intermittierenden Schüben wechselweise von Feministinnen und Sozialisten, Kommunisten und Anarchisten, Faschisten und Nationalsozialisten wiederentdeckt. Dabei lag der eigentliche Höhepunkt seiner Rezeptionskarriere in den späteren 1920er und den frühen 1930er Jahren. Anders nämlich, als man aus heutiger Perspektive extrapolieren könnte, war Bachofen in der Zwischenkriegszeit nicht der «glorieux inconnu», als der er heute gelegentlich noch herumgeboten wird, ohne dass sich an den bekannt gebliebenen Namen viel mehr heftete als der in aller Regel ganz falsch oder bestenfalls halb richtig verstandene Titel seines opus potissimum von 1861, Das Mutterrecht. In den germanophonen Ländern bzw. Landesteilen der Zwischenkriegszeit erlebte er ab Mitte der 1920er Jahre eine nie zuvor und hernach nicht wieder dagewesene Konjunktur. Um die Wirkung zu dokumentieren, die von seiner Matriarchatstheorie auf die deutsche Literatur ausging, versammelt der Band Beiträge zur Bachofen-Rezeption von Karl Wolfskehl, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Franz Kafka, Arthur Schnitzler, Gerhart Hauptmann, Elias Canetti, Hermann Broch, Thomas Mann und Hans Boesch – sowie zu Bachofens Einfluss auf Fritz Langs Metropolis.

Hofmannsthal - Jahrbuch zur Europäischen Moderne

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Schlegel ◽  
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal ◽  
Arthur Schnitzler

Das Hofmannsthal-Jahrbuch ist weltweit das wichtigste Organ der Hofmannsthal-Forschung. Es bietet neben der Veröffentlichung bisher unpublizierter Briefwechsel Beiträge namhafter Wissenschaftler zur europäischen Kultur der Moderne: Inhalt: • »(E)in ganz wunderbarer mich tief rührender Mensch: Wilhelm Stauffenberg, der junge Arzt« – Hugo von Hofmannsthal und Dr.med. Wilhelm Freiherr Schenk von Stauffenberg: Eine Skizze ihrer Freundschaft. Mitgeteilt von Arne Grafe • Eine deutsch-österreichische Bildungsoffensive. Ludwig Gurlitt und Hugo von Hofmannsthal im Kontext. Mit Materialien und Dokumenten. Mitgeteilt von Ursula Renner • Besuche bei Arthur Schnitzler. Private Aufzeichnungen von Albert Ehrenstein, Victor Klemperer und Robert Adam. Mitgeteilt von Martin Anton Müller • Maurice Barrès: L´esthétique de demain: L´art suggestif. Herausgegeben und übersetzt von Rudolf Brandmeyer und Friedrich Schlegel • Jens Ole Schneider: Ich-Pluralisierung und Totalitätssehnsucht. Hofmannsthals »Aufzeichnungen« um die Jahrhundertwende in der Edition der »Kritischen Ausgabe« • Christine von Lossau: »Pierrotpoesie«: Ambivalente Figuren in Hofmannsthals Pantomimenfragmenten • Katharina J. Schneider: Hofmannsthal einrichten. Zu Oskar Strnads Wohnraum- und Bühnengestaltungen für Hugo von Hofmannsthal • Elsbeth Dangel-Pelloquin: »Ehrlich bis zur Orgie«. Schnitzlers Läuterungen • Claudia Liebrand und Stefan Börnchen: Picara-Roman, Meta-Pornografie und Institutionenkritik. Zur sexuellen Ethnografie der »Josefine Mutzenbacher« • Daniel Hilpert: Strukturen der Psyche. Hypnotismus und Dipsychismus in Kafkas »Schloss« • Rolf G. Renner: Konstruktionen des Menschen jenseits der Sprache. Eine literarische Konfiguration von der Goethezeit über die klassische Moderne bis zur Gegenwart

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