Aus dem Inhalt:

Introduction: Biographies of the Austrian State Problem

1. The Problem of the Austrian State and People(s)

2. Empire and Austrian Identity

3. The Biographies

Part One: Ernest von Koerber (Heinrich Friedjung):

The Problem of the Austrian State

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Part Two: Hugo von Hofmannsthal (Leopold von Andrian):

The Problem of the Austrian Culture

1. Understanding Hofmannsthal

    Hofmannsthal's Political Engagement

2. Guardians of Austrian Culture: Hofmannsthal and Andrian

    Andrian, Hofmannsthal, and the Austrian Identity

    Der Rosenkavalier

3. Hofmannsthal in the Great War

    The Poet in These Times of War

    The Austrian Library

    Andrian at War (Preusse und Österreicher I)

    Hofmannsthal and Mitteleuropa (Preusse und Österreicher II)

    Der Schwierige (Preusse und Österreicher III)

4. Austrian Identity after the Empire

    Arabella, or the Reconciliation of Austria with the Slavic East)

    Andrian and the Creation of an Austrian Nation

5. Conclusion

Part Three: Josef Redlich (Karl Renner):

The Problem of the Austrian Peple(s)

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