Table des matières

Günter Bischof

Preface

Bernhard Fetz

Introduction

Biographical Narrative between Truth and Lies, Production and Authenticity

• Truth and Lies
• The Relativity of the Biographical Notion of Truth
• Authenticity and Dramatization
• Undividuality and Type

Political lives

John Deak

Ignaz Seipel (1876-1932)

Founding father of the Austrian Republic

• Early Life
• Seipel’s Political Vocation
• The Party Politician
• Seipel’s Afterlife

Ernst Hanisch

Otto Bauer (1881-1938)

Politician and Public Intellectual

• The Return of Biography
• The Jew
• The Marxist with Marx Beyond Marx
• Vision of Socialism
• The Ambivalent Attitude Toward Communism
• The Intellectual
• The Question of Nationalities and Social Democracy
• The Austrian Revolution
• The Struggle Forest and Meadow
• The Problem of Rationalization
• The Politician
• The Human Being

Gabriella Hauch

“Against the Mock Battle of Words”

Therese Schlesinger, née Eckstein (1863-1940), a Radical Seeker

• Meaning in the Context of the Past
• “There was nothing to do but ‘stick it out’” The Feminists in the Social-Democratic Workers’ Party
• Caring for the Human Soul: Theoretical Positions
• New Ways: Political Concepts
• Apocalypse at he End of her Life – “Yes, let’s do it!”
• Intimate Stranger

Philipp Luis Strobl

Thinking Cosmopolitan or How Joseph Became Joe Buttinger

• Introduction
• Rural Poverty – Buttinger’s Childhood
• First Contacts with the Social Democratic Movement
• Buttinger’s Political Career in the Making
• The Road into the “Illegality”
• Going Underground: Buttinger’s Carrer as the Leader of the Revolutionary Socialists
• The End of Buttinger’s Life in Australia: First Connections to the United States
• In Exile: The stateless Refugee Buttinger
• Buttinger: The New American Citizen
• Conclusion

Johannes Koll

From the Habsburg Empire to the Third Reich Arthur Seyß-Inquart and National Socialism

• Biographical research and National Socialism
• Austrians, the Anschluss of 1938, and the Greater German Reich
• SeyB-Inquart’s road to the National Socialism
• SeyB-Inquart’s role in the preparation of the Anschluss
• In the service of the Greater German Reich - Austria, Poland, and the Netherlands
• Power techniques-surviving in a pool with sharks
• Setbacks
• Conclusion

Elisabeth Röhrlich

A century in a Lifetime: Biographical Approaches to Bruno Keisky (1911-1990)

• Bruno Kreisky’s Austrian Life
• Writing Kreisky’s Biography(s)
• The stories he told and the stories he was

Martin Eichtinger et Helmut Wohnout

Alois Mock - Pioneer of European Unity

• A Christian Democratic Reformer - Alois Mock’s Political Career up to 1989
• Austria’s Application for EC/EU Membership
• The Fall of the Iron Curtain and its Consequences for Austrian Foreign Policy
• The Conclusion of the Conflit with Italy over South Tyrol
• The Dissolution of Yugoslavia
• Austria’s Negotiations and Successful Conclusion of the Negotiations for Accession to the EC/EU

Lives of the mind

Deborah Holmes

“Genia” Schwarzwald and Her Viennese “Salon”

• Naming conventions
• Visible woman...?
• ...Or invisible woman?
• The viennese salon in the fin de siècle
• Schwarzwald — an unusual salonière
• When is a salon not a salon?

Jason Dawsey

Where Hitler’s Name is Never Spoken: Günther Anders in 1950s Vienna

• Introduction
• “Homecoming”
• The critical Ethnographer
• Conclusion

Timothy Pytell

Viktor Frankl: The Inside Outsider

• Forgeting and Forgiving
• Reconciling

Stefan Maurer

Wolfang Krauss: Impresario of Austrian literature and Cold Warrior

• Introduction
• The Literary Field of Austria in the 1960s and the Founding of the ÖGL
• Wolfgang Kraus and the Networks of the Cultural Cold War in Europe
• The ÖGL and the “Marshall Plan for the Mind”
• The ÖGL and the End of the CCF
• Conclusion

Common lives

Wolfram Dornik

Torn apart between time and space?

A Collective Biography of Austro-Hungarian Military Personnel on the Eastern Front, 1914-1918

• Space and Time
• Fear and Despair
• Identity and Culture
• Body and Mind
• Conclusion

Winfried R. Garscha

Ordinary Austrians

Common War Criminals during World War II

• A Dumb Murderer and the Beginning of the Postwar War Crimes Trials
• The Tyrolian Downhill Racer as War Criminal
• A Female Camp Guard from the Majdanek KZ Escapes Punishment
• Austria’s “Herr Karls”: “Ordinary Men” Harassing Viennese Jews
• Conclusion

Günter Bischof et Barbara Stelzl-Marx

Lives behind Barbed Wire

A Comparative View of Austrian Prisoners of War during and after World War II in Soviet and American Captivity

• Introduction
• To the Front: Warriors
• Behind Barbed Wire: Prisoners of War
• “Skoro domoi”: Repatriation
• Conclusion

Hans Petschar et Herber Friedlmeier

Günter Bischof (trad.)

The photographic Gaze — Austrian Visual Lives during the Occupation Decade

A cross-section of ordinary Austrians photographed by American and Austrian artists

• In the Beginning — After the End
• A Country Akin Serving as Refugee Center
• Private and Public Aid Programs Revive Lives and the National Economy
• An Iconography of Ordinary Austrians during Postwar Reconstruction
• Go West Young Man
• Modernizing Austria?
• Okamoto’s Unusual Iconography of Postwar Austrians
• Conclusion

Ernst Langthaler

Balancing Between Autonomy and Dependence Family Farming and Agrarian Change in Lower Austria, 1945-1980

• Conventionnal view: Peasants into Farmers
• Long Shot: Family Systems
• Close Ups: Family Farming Styles
• Revised Picture: Resilience Through Hybridity

Petra Ziegler, Yvonne Schuermann-Zehetner, Regina Fritz et al.

Attitudinal Lives

A Survey of Austrian Students Attitudes towards Muslims and Jews, Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung and World War II, and Democratic Dispositions

• Introduction
• Procedure
• Methodology
• Results- Socio-Demographics, Fields of Study, Universities
• Group-forcused Enmity
• Immigration
• Muslims
• Jews
• Rights of Traditionnal Minorities
• Coming to Terms With History
• Victim Thesis and shared Responsability for the Persecution of the Jews 1938/45
• Resistance
• Expropriation
• Drawing a Schlussstrich
• Democratic Dispositions
• New Authoritarianism
• Conclusion

Book reviews

Peter Berger

Ernst Hanisch, Der große Illusionist: Otto Bauer, 1881-1938

Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2011

Alexander N. Lassner

Ein österreichischer General gegen Hitler: Feldmarschalleutnant Alfred Jansa; Erinnerungen, ed Peter Broucek

Vienna: Böhau, 2011

Gerald Steinacher

Evan Burr Burkley, Jews and Intermarriage in Nazi Austria

Cambridge: Cambridge university press, 2011

Berthold Molden

Dirk Rupnow and Heidemarie Uhle, eds., Zeitgeschichte ausstellen in Österreich: Museen – Gedenkstätten – Ausstellungen

Vienna: Böhlau, 2011

Maria-Regina Kecht

Ingrid Schramm and Michael Hansel, eds., Hilde Spiel und der literarische Salon

Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2011

Thomas Nowotny

Manfried Rauchensteiner, ed., Zwischen den Blöcken: NATO, Warschauer Pakt und Österreich

Vienna: Böhlau, 2010

• The quest for Austria’s security: the role of the military

Annual Review

Reinhold Gärtner

Austria 2011

• Government reshuffle
• State secretary for integration
• Styria- Reform Agenda
• Political Scandals and Corruption
• WKR and “the new Jews”
• Economical and Statical Data

List of authors