Interwar Vienna
Culture between Tradition and Modernity
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2009
310 pages
978-1-57113-743-2 (ISBN)
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New essays providing a wide-ranging cultural, social, and political picture of volatile between-the-wars Vienna.
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Persons
Weindling Paul:
Paul Weindling is Wellcome Trust Research professor in the History of Medicine, Department of History, Oxford Brookes University.Vilain Robert:
ROBERT VILAIN is Senior Tutor and a Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford, UK, and Lecturer in German at Christ Church.
Paul Weindling is Wellcome Trust Research professor in the History of Medicine, Department of History, Oxford Brookes University.Vilain Robert:
ROBERT VILAIN is Senior Tutor and a Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford, UK, and Lecturer in German at Christ Church.
Content
Introduction: Beyond the Coffeehouse. Vienna as a Cultural Center between the World Wars - Deborah Holmes
Introduction: Beyond the Coffeehouse. Vienna as a Cultural Center between the World Wars - Lisa Silverman
Cultural Parameters between the Wars: A Reassessment of the Vienna Circles - Edward Timms
"weisse Struempfe oder neue Kutten": Cultural Decline in Vienna in the 1930s - John Warren
"Wiener Kreise": Jewishness, Politics, and Culture in Interwar Vienna - Wolfgang Maderthaner and Lisa Silverman
A City Regenerated: Eugenics, Race, and Welfare in Interwar Vienna - Paul Weindling
Free Dance in Interwar Vienna - Andrea Amort
Hollywood on the Danube? Vienna and Austrian Silent Film of the 1920s - Alys George
Between Tradition and a Longing for the Modern: Theater in Interwar Vienna - Birgit Peter
The Hegemony of German Music: Schoenberg's Vienna as the Musical Center of the German-Speaking World - Therese Muxeneder
Anticipating Freud's Pleasure Principle? A Reading of Ernst Weiss's War Story "Franta Zlin" (1919) -
Facts and Fiction: Rudolf Brunngraber, Otto Neurath, and Viennese Neue Sachlichkeit - Jon Hughes
The Viennese Legacy of Casanova: The Late Erotic Writings of Arthur Schnitzler and Franz Blei - Birgit Lang
An Englishman Abroad: Literature, Politics, and Sex in John Lehmann's Writings on Vienna in the 1930s - Robert Vilain
Notes on Contributors
Index
Introduction: Beyond the Coffeehouse. Vienna as a Cultural Center between the World Wars - Lisa Silverman
Cultural Parameters between the Wars: A Reassessment of the Vienna Circles - Edward Timms
"weisse Struempfe oder neue Kutten": Cultural Decline in Vienna in the 1930s - John Warren
"Wiener Kreise": Jewishness, Politics, and Culture in Interwar Vienna - Wolfgang Maderthaner and Lisa Silverman
A City Regenerated: Eugenics, Race, and Welfare in Interwar Vienna - Paul Weindling
Free Dance in Interwar Vienna - Andrea Amort
Hollywood on the Danube? Vienna and Austrian Silent Film of the 1920s - Alys George
Between Tradition and a Longing for the Modern: Theater in Interwar Vienna - Birgit Peter
The Hegemony of German Music: Schoenberg's Vienna as the Musical Center of the German-Speaking World - Therese Muxeneder
Anticipating Freud's Pleasure Principle? A Reading of Ernst Weiss's War Story "Franta Zlin" (1919) -
Facts and Fiction: Rudolf Brunngraber, Otto Neurath, and Viennese Neue Sachlichkeit - Jon Hughes
The Viennese Legacy of Casanova: The Late Erotic Writings of Arthur Schnitzler and Franz Blei - Birgit Lang
An Englishman Abroad: Literature, Politics, and Sex in John Lehmann's Writings on Vienna in the 1930s - Robert Vilain
Notes on Contributors
Index
