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Contemporary Austrian studies ; v. 21 |
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Contemporary Austrian studies ; v. 21.
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Preface / Günter Bischof – Introduction – Biographical narrative between truth and lies, production and authenticity / Bernhard Fetz – Political lives – Ignaz Seipel (1876-1932) : founding father of the Austrian Republic / John Deak – Otto Bauer (1881-1938) : politician and public intellectual / Ernst Hanisch – zAgainst the mock battle of wordsy Therese Schlesinger, neé Eckstein (1863-1940), a radical seeker / Gabriella Hauch – Thinking cosmopolitan or how Joseph became Joe Buttinger / Philipp Luis Strobl – From the Habsburg Empire to the Third Reich : Arthur Seß-Inquart and national socialism / Johannes Koll – A century in a lifetime : biographical approaches to Bruno Kreisky (1911-1990) / Elisabeth Röhrlich – Alois Mock : pioneer of European unity / Martin Eichtinger and Helmut Wohnout – Lives of the mind – zGeniay Schwarzwald and her Viennese zsalony / Deborah Holmes – Where Hitler’s name is never spoken : Günther Anders in 1950s Vienna / Jason Dawsey – Viktor Frankl : the inside outsider / Timothy Pytell – Wolfgang Kraus : impresario of Austrian literature and cold warrior / Stefan Maurer – Common lives – Torn apart between time and space? A collective biography of Austro-Hungarian military personnel on the Eastern Front, 1914-1918 / Wolfram Dornik – Ordinary Austrians : common war criminals during World War II / Winfried R. Garscha – Lives behind barbed wire : a comparative view of Austrian prisoners of war during and after World War II in Soviet and American captivity / Günter Bischof and Barbara Stelzl-Marx – The photographic glaze : Austrian visual lives during the Occupation Decade : a cross-section of ordinary Austrians photographed by American and Austrian artists / Hans Petschar and Herbert Friedlmeier – Balancing between autonomy and dependence : family farming and agrarian change in Lower Austria, 1945-1980 / Ernst Langthaler – Attitudinal lives : a survey of Austrian students attitudes towards Muslims and Jews, Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung and World War II, and democratic dispositions / Petra Ziegler [and others] – Book review – Annual review. |
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Writing biographies for a long time had been a male hegemonic project. Ever since Plutarch and Sueton composed their vitae of the greats of classical antiquity, to the medieval obsession with the hagiographies of holy men (and a few women) and saints, Vasari's lives of great Renaissance artists, down to the French encyclopedists, Dr. Johnson and Lytton Strachey, as well as Ranke and Droysen the genre of biographical writing has become increasingly more refined. In the twentieth century male predominance has become contested and the (collective) lives of women, minorities and ordinary people are now the focus of biographical writing. This volume of Contemporary Austrian Studies offers a cross-section of Austrian lives and biographical approaches to recent Austrian history. Here are what may be called traditional biographies of leading political figures through the twentieth century. We also suggest that the intellectual biographies of thinkers and professionals are fertile soil for biographical study. Moreover, the prosopographical study of common folks in the Austrian population lifts these lives from the dark matter of anonymous masses and gives rich insight into the lives that ordinary Austrians have been leading. We present an array of political lives, including that of Ignaz Seipel and Therese Schlesinger-Eckstein, as well as "Lives of the Mind" which capture the lives of fascinating intellectual figures in pre- and post-World War II Vienna such as Viktor Frankl and Eugenie Schwarzwald. The approaches to writing biography taken in this volume also suggest that much work needs to be done to shed light on the lives of ordinary Austrians. In this volume we have biographical accounts detailing the lives of soldiers, prisoners of war, and farming families. The writing of lives is always situated between fact and fiction, ascertainable data and the imagination of the biographer. This volume of Austrian Lives offers an intimate look into the lives of intriguing individuals while illuminating the touching lives of ordinary Austrians in wartime Vienna. Authors: Bernhard Fetz, John Deak, Ernst Hanisch, Gabriella Hauch, Philipp Strobl, Johannes Koll, Elisabeth Röhrlich, Martin Eichtinger, Helmuth Wohnout, Deborah Holmes, Jason Dawsey, Timothy Pytell, Stefan Maurer, Wolfram Dornik, Wilfried Garscha, Günter Bischof, Barbara Stelz-Marx, Hans Petschar, Herbert Friedlmeier, Ernst Langthaler, Oliver Rathkolb, Peter Berger, Alexander Lassner, Gerald Steinacher, Berthold Molden, Maria-Regina Kecht, Thomas Nowotny, Reinhold Gärtner. |
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OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks). All rights reserved. |
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English. |
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Austria -- Biography -- 20th century.
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Austria -- History -- 20th century.
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Autriche -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
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Biography and True Stories.
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European history.
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History.
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Humanities.
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Regional and national history.
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HISTORY -- Essays.
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Austria https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJx8BTwr9ybyyMq4GVJFKd
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Indexed Term |
contemporary austrian studies |
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östereich |
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austria, biographies |
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austria |
| Genre/Form |
History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Bischof, Günter, 1953-
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Plasser, Fritz, 1948-
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Maltschnig, Eva, 1987-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Austrian lives. New Orleans : UNO Press, 2012 1608010929 9781608010929 (OCoLC)826179700 |
| ISBN |
9781608011407 (electronic bk.) |
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1608011402 (electronic bk.) |
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1608010929 |
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9781608010929 |
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9783902811615 |
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3902811617 |
| Standard No. |
448902 |
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10.26530/OAPEN_448902 doi |
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AU@ 000052936148 |
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AU@ 000062526652 |
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