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“Fin-de-siècle Vienna” Ten Years Later: “Viel Traum, Wenig Wirklichkeit”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2009

Michael P. Steinberg
Michael P. Steinberg
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Assistant Professor, Department of History, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853–4601.
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Austrian History Yearbook , Volume 22 , January 1991 , pp. 151 - 162
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Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 1991

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References

1 Botstein, Leon, “The Vienna Connection,” The Partisan Review 2 (1982), pp. 262–273Google Scholar.

2 Most guilty of this kind of sentimental mythification has been Frederic Morton, the popular historian. His two Austrian histories, A Nervous Splendor (Boston, 1979)Google Scholarand Thunder at Twilight (New York, 1990)Google Scholarpresent two entirely interchangeable scenarios from the Austrian world theater. The deaths of Crown Prince Rudolf in 1889 and of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 are melodramatically reconstructed as identical paradigms of imperial theatricality, hysteria, and demise. But Morton went even further in a recent column on the Felix Bloch affair (“Felix Bloch's Two Sides–and Vienna's.” The New York Times, August 7, 1989, Section A, p. 15, column 1). He argued that real Austrian culture blurs all distinctions between reality and theater, so that the question of Bloch's guilt or innocence of espionage is immaterial within an Austrian perspective. Felix Bloch takes his place next to Rudolf and Franz Ferdinand. Metternich himself would blush.

3 See Gay, Peter, Freud, Jews, and Other Germans: Masters and Victims in Modernist Culture (New York, 1978), pp. 29–35Google Scholar; and Freud: A Life for Our Time (New York, 1988)Google Scholar, passim.

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8 In a forthcoming book on musical taste in nineteenth-century Vienna, Leon Botstein will explain in detail just how and why the hand-produced Bösendorfer symbolized the tastes and ideologies of the Viennese Bildungsbürgertum.

9 On the reception and impact of the 1986 Vienna show in Paris, see Heinich, Nathalie and Pollak, Michael, Vienne à Paris: Portrait d'une exposition (Paris, 1989)Google Scholar.