Fondée en 1975 par Félix Kreissler, la revue Austriaca fédère les chercheurs spécialisés sur l'Autriche et les États d'Europe centrale et orientale que leur passé lie à l'Autriche. Éditée par les Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre (PURH), elle publie deux numéros par an en français et en allemand.
Ce numéro double propose une histoire culturelle des relations austro-tchécoslovaques au XXe siècle, à la lumière de figures d’intellectuels et de médiateurs culturels ayant favorisé les transferts culturels entre Vienne et Prague, notamment Thomas Masaryk, les écrivains du Cercle de Prague, Leoš Ja...
Wir haben uns nie vollkommen getrennt. Es gibt gut und schlecht geschiedene Ehen, wir sind eine schlecht geschiedene Ehe. Wir haben eine lange Ehe geführt, die nicht ausgeglichen war. Es gab vielmehr eine klare Rollenteilung zu Ungunsten der tschechischen Ehefrau. Sie sollte Buchteln backen und schw...
Leoš Janáček’s opera, Jenůfa, was performed for the first time in Brno in 1904 but had to wait 12 years to have the honour of appearing at the Czech National Theatre in Prague: friends and admirers managed to overcome the opposition of the theatre’s conductor Karel Kovařovic. The triumph in Prague a...
For Central Europe, 1918 was a fundamental turning point on both the political and everyday levels. How does literature react to this break? Using German-language authors from Prague, Rilke and Kafka, Brod, Urzidil, Winder and Werfel as examples, the text examines both the confrontations with 1918 f...
Based on the theories of Pierre Bourdieu (Language and Symbolic Power, 1991), our article aims to show how the author of Austrian origin Fred Wander became the target of structural censorship measures (Bourdieu) in the GDR as well as in Austria or the GFR, and how he became himself an actor of censo...
This article aims to analyse how a Viennese journal dedicated to artistic modernity presents to the Austrian – but also international – public of the interwar period Prague’s musical life and Czech musical creation of the time. The musicographers and musicologists who contributed to the journal Musi...
Based on the study of the poem “Archaischer Torso Apollos”, this paper proposes a reflection on Rilke’s poetic language, on its etymological and semantic stratification, as well as a reflection on the possibility or impossibility of translating this poetic language. Based on the terms Bug and Sturz,...
Since Adolf Loos mostly lived and worked in Vienna between 1900 and 1933, he is often considered as a Viennese architect. Nevertheless, after the First World War and his resignation from the head of Vienna’s settlement office, Loos began working in France and in Czechoslovakia. He even took the Czec...
This article discusses the works of Stefan Zweig, which explicitly have Jewish themes. From Zweig’s concept of diaspora these works develop a space of an alternative order, which is supposed to support both a pacifist transnational coexistence and European modernity.
In this article, linguistic methods are applied for the analysis of a literary text. It provides a microstructural description of conversational behaviour within a hierarchically structured society in ancient Austria in a central scene in Hofmannsthals comedy The Incorruptible. The aim is to study t...
This paper aims to clarify the relations between one particular Prague journal and the city of Vienna, at a time when it was the former centre of a recently defunct monarchy and the capital of a new republic neighbouring Czechoslovakia. Since the study examines the first year of the publication’s ex...
Fellow Emeritus du Trinity College de Dublin où il enseigna pendant quarante ans, de 1969 à 2008, le germaniste anglais Gilbert Carr n’est pas un inconnu de la recherche krausienne. D’une manière plus générale, il a beaucoup publié sur la Vienne fin de siècle et la modernité viennoise, la satire, le...
Traductions Baum Vicki, Sang et volupté à Bal, Maurice Betz et Marie-Noël Rio (trad.), Paris, Le Sonneur, 2019. Franzos Karl Emil, Sender le bouffon, Laurent Cassagnau (trad.), Belval, Circé, 2019. Geiger Arno, Le Grand Royaume des ombres. Roman, Olivier Le Lay (trad.), Paris, Gallimard, « Du monde...
Tomás Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937) was the founder and first president of the Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1935). However, it is less known that he spent about fifteen years in Vienna as a student, as a young university teacher and as a member of the Reichsrat. As the President of Czechoslovakia, he...
This article seeks to analyse the interaction of political and administrative players, at all levels, in the reception and implementation of denazification measures applied to public servants in Austria between 1947 and 1949. It focuses on a particular category: the so-called Minderbelastete, who di...
In 1958, the Prague publishing house Orbis, which was subordinate to the Czechoslovak Ministry for Information and Culture, launched a German-language magazine primarily targeted at German readers from the Federal Republic of Germany: Im Herzen Europas. Three years later, the Austrian version of the...
La première viennoise d’Orphée aux Enfers (Orpheus in der Unterwelt), le 17 mars 1860 au Carltheater, fut le dernier grand succès de Johann Nestroy comme directeur de ce théâtre (sa direction prit fin le 31 octobre 1860) et fut, simultanément, le premier événement marquant dans la réception d’Offenb...
Richard Teschner est connu dans le domaine du théâtre de marionnettes pour avoir élevé celui-ci au niveau d’un art total. Fabriquant lui-même ses marionnettes, leurs costumes, les scènes, les décors, les accessoires et jusqu’aux instruments de musique sur lesquels il accompagnait les représentations...
The article deals with Jiří Gruša’s life and work in terms of his literary and political activities and as a cultural mediator. The focus is on the question of the formative historical (Central European) events and how he has implemented them productively in his literary work (volumes of poetry Der...
Édité par Tomislav Zelić, Zaneta Sambunjak et Paul Michael Lützeler, spécialiste, éditeur et biographe de Broch, cet ouvrage, qui est le fruit d’une journée d’étude organisée début septembre 2016 à l’université de Zadar en Croatie, se propose d’analyser l’œuvre de Hermann Broch dans le contexte de l...
Es ist ein imposantes Kompendium, das hier von einem an der Universität Graz tätigen Germanistenteam vorgelegt wird. Die im knappen Umschlagtext angesprochenen Verdienste dieser Literaturgeschichte kann man ohne Einschränkung unterschreiben: „Das Buch präsentiert erstmals die wichtigsten Ausdrucksfo...
Vienna 1918: How to transform the decline in an awakening, the failed ambitions in clever aims and to conserve the dream of greatness? What to do, now ? Ten contradictory pictures of Vienna from the months and years immediately following the foundation of the republic. Ten announcements that that sh...
L’effondrement militaire et politique de l’Empire habsbourgeois constitue assurément une césure inaugurale dans l’histoire du XXe siècle européen. À l’automne 1918, en quelques semaines marquées par des moments d’incertitude et d’improvisation, de tension croissante sur tous les fronts et de bouleve...
This study outlines the specificity of the memory of the Great War in France as compared to other nations and stresses the importance of the House of Austria as a territorial and political power for the history of France until 1918 and beyond, if one admits that national-socialism amplified the “Nib...
In the play 3 November 1918 the Austrian writer and poet Franz Theodor Csokor questions the end of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy from a particular angle ― that of the army. Csokor gave his interpretation nearly two decades later, in 1936, at a time when literary views of the Habsburg Empire were sof...