Traumlogiken des Krieges

Alexander Lernet-Holenia und der Erste Weltkrieg in der Habsburger Monarchie

Author(s): Oliver Jahraus / Language(s): German Issue: 25/2016

In dem Erzählwerk von Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897-1976) wird der Erste Weltkrieg aus einer besonderen Perspektive auf das österreichisch-ungarische Kaiserreich mit einem geographischen Schwerpunkt auf dem Balkan geschildert. Für den Blick auf diesen Raum ist Lernet-Holenias Erzählwerk deswegen so bedeutsam, weil er Geopolitik, eine ausgeklügelte Erzähltechnik und eine spezifische Modernität der Literatur verbindet. Der Beitrag zeigt an der Novelle Der Baron Bagge (1936) und am Roman Die Standarte (1934), wie der Autor ein Modell von Kriegsliteratur entfaltet, das als Traumlogik des Krieges beschrieben wird und mit dem er bspw. die prekäre Frage nach der postimperialen Identität Österreichs aufgreifen kann.

Hugo von Hofmannsthals Kriegsziel-Notizen im Kontext deutscher und österreichischer Südosteuropa-Konzepte im Ersten Weltkrieg

Author(s): Primus-Heinz Kucher / Language(s): German Issue: 25/2016

Ausgehend von den im Zuge der kritischen Werkausgabe erstmals vollständig edierten Notizen und Aufzeichnungen Hofmannsthals zum Ersten Weltkrieg befasst sich der Beitrag mit dem Stellenwert und der Art dieser Notizen und Reflexionen. In weiterer Folge werden diese mit den für die »Neue Freie Presse« verfassten Kriegsfeuilletons sowie mit den relevanten Briefwechseln (v.a. mit E. Bodenhausen, Harry Graf Kessler, J. Redlich) abgeglichen. Schließlich rekonstruiert der Beitrag die bei Hofmannstahl nachweisbaren Lektüren zeitgenössischer Kriegszielpublikationen und kontrastiert sie mit den eigenen, stärker kulturpolitisch ausgerichteten Vorträgen und Publikationsvorhaben zwischen 1915 und 1917.

Konjunktivistisches Denken oder der Erste Weltkrieg als Lehrstück in Literatur und Wissenschaft

Author(s): Christine Magerski / Language(s): German Issue: 25/2016

Im Sommer 1914 immatrikulierte sich Joseph Roth an der Wiener Germanistik, wo er gedachte, eine Universitätslaufbahn einzuschlagen. Der Plan scheiterte am Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs. Statt einer Professur widmete sich Roth fortan dem Versuch, literarisch zu begreifen, was sich ereignet hatte. Vergleichbares unternimmt einhundert Jahre später der Politikwissenschaftler Herfried Münkler. Was beide verbindet, so die These, ist der Zweifel an der »Erzählung der Zwangsläufigkeit des Krieges« (Münkler). Wie detailliert gezeigt wird, liegt dem Konvergieren von Literatur und Wissenschaft eine Öffnung beider für die Kontingenz der Ereignisse und der kontrafaktischen Geschichte zugrunde.

Die Reaktionen österreichischer Schriftsteller auf den Kriegseintritt Italiens am Beispiel der D’Annunzio-Rezeption

Author(s): Arturo Larcati / Language(s): German Issue: 25/2016

Die vorliegende Studie analysiert die Reaktionen österreichischer Schriftsteller auf Italiens Kriegseintritt an der Seite der Entente im Mai 1915. Der Fokus liegt auf der D’Annunzio-Rezeption, weil der Autor der Laudi für diesen Schritt Italiens verantwortlich gemacht wird. Alles, was im österreichischen Literaturbetrieb Rang und Namen hat, beteiligt sich an der heftigen Polemik gegen den italienischen Dichter; dabei profiliert sich speziell Stefan Zweig – ein Umstand, der bisher in der Forschung unbeachtet geblieben ist. Die heftige Auseinandersetzung bietet den Autoren der Wiener Moderne die Möglichkeit, mit ihrer bisherigen D’Annunzio-Faszination abzurechnen.

Svemoćna majka: Problematika odnosa majke i kćeri u romanu Pijanistica Elfriede Jelinek

Author(s): Sandina Herić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 11/2016

In dieser Arbeit wird das Problem der Beziehung zwischen Müttern und Töchtern am Beispiel des Romans Die Klavierspielerin von Elfriede Jelinek analysiert. Durch Beispiele werden die Probleme der Beziehung von Mutter und Tochter im Roman Die Klavierspielerin vorgestellt und interpretiert. Elfriede Jelinek rechnet in diesem Roman mit den Mythen über die selbstlose mütterliche Liebe, mit der Welt der Musik und der Musikindustrie ab. Das Heilgtum der mütterlichen Liebe entlarvt Jelinek als bloßen Materialismus und eine Form der Macht.

Роман Г. Майринка “Голем” и готическая традиция в литературе

Author(s): Sergei Tuzkov / Language(s): Russian Issue: 94/2016

The analysis of G. Meyrink's novel “The Golem” is represented in the article in terms of gothic tradition in literature. The advantage of this investigation is that the majoriry of literary scholars point out those aspects of the novel “The Golem” that are connected with G. Meyrink's interest to occult sciences, alchemy, Buddhizm and Kabala learning. The value of these aspects for the authentic perception of G. Meyrink's text is beyond doubt. But at the same time the role of the elements referring to the gothic tradition in literature is not less important in the narration organization of the novel “The Golem”. For example in narration organization the author of the novel uses not only gothic chronotope but also the elements of the gothic invariant such as mystory and horror, play-acting, fate, manuscript, phantom etc. As a result the system of the characters of the novel “The Golem” correlates in its turn with the characters of a classic gothic novel: the main characters go through some hardships before they find happiness in the ideal love at the ending of the novel; the gothic villain embodies the evil incarnate and is inavitably punished; the phantom being the character's clone shows the transparence (ephemerality) of the border line between two worlds – real and infernal. The given aspect of G. Meyrink's poetics is not taken into account in numerous investigations of literary scholars. Therefore the aim of this investigation to examine the poetics of G. Meyrink's novel “The Golem” in terms of gothic tradition in literature gains particular actuality. As a result the analysis of G. Meyrink's novel “The Golem” shows how meaningful the gothic invariant in the XX th century literature is.

Franz Werfel – držeći povijest za riječ

Author(s): Rüdiger Görner / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1+2/2014

Pripovijedanje smatra da povijest neutralizira pripovijesti1. Povijest može epizodno nadahnjivati pripovijesti, ali pripovijesti ne mogu tražiti da budu povijesna istina. Ipak, pripovijest koja zorno prikazuje povijesne događaje ima svoju vrijednost zbog sposobnosti predaje. U takvim narativnim konstelacijama, da upotrijebimo pojam znanstvenice Kate Hamburger, “estetska istina” stoji uz bok povijesne istine. Iz određenja relacije između ove dvije istine rezultira specifi čna vrijednost književnog djela, romana, “Četrdeset dana Muse Dagha”.

LITERATUR

Author(s): Hermann Kesten,Günter Blöcker / Language(s): German Issue: 050/1952

* Stefan Zweig. Remembrance of a Friend (by Hermann Kesten) * Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea. Scribners, New York. (reviewed by Günter Blöcker)

U vremenu Stefana Zweiga

Author(s): Ljiljana Filipović / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1-2/2017

Te je noći Stefan Zweig odigrao sa susjedom svoju posljednu partiju šaha, otišao kući, napisao oproštajno pismo od jedva dvije stranice započinjući ga na portugalskom da bi, kako se smatra, brazilskim policajcima odmah skrenuo pažnju na to o čemu se radi.

Autobiografska bilješka

Author(s): Stefan Zweig / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1-2/2017

Ja sam, piše Stefan Zweig, rođen 28. studenog 1881. u Beču i tamo sam pohađao školu, već u gimnaziji nije samo meni, nego čitavoj skupini nas, bavljenje umjetnošću bio nepriznat cilj, a uživanje u umjetnosti zajednička strast.

Literatura austriacka na łamach „Literatury na Świecie”

Author(s): Elżbieta Hurnik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

The article deals with the reception of Austrian literature – as it has been presented in “Literatura na Świecie” – since the magazine was founded in 1971. The main goal has been to analyze the ways in which the magazine has contributed to the spread of literature among Polish readers. Because of the breadth of the topic, the article focuses on specific problems in: the representativeness of the works printed or excerpted, the portrayal of Austrian writers, the reviews of texts, critical reviews, translations, and discussions regarding translations. The analysis indicates that the magazine has contributed to the expansion of knowledge concerning Austrian literature and its main representatives, (Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Musil, Elias Canetti, Franz Kafka, Georg Trakl, Paul Celan, Ilse Aichinger, Elfriede. Jelinek and others , and others), their specificity, along with the historical and cultural conditions of the literature and its proponents.

Zainteresowania literaturą austriacką z perspektywy czytelników Biblioteki Austriackiej w Opolu

Author(s): Monika Wójcik-Bednarz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

The article examines the interest members of the Austrian Library show in Austrian literature. The article handles the statistics that indicate the Austrian books most often borrowed in the years 2001-2015 by various groups of library members. Analysis is based on figures taken from the members’ choices. The factors that influence book choices are each member’s scientific, educational, or aesthetic needs, as well as the library’s efforts to support reading choices by its offers, such as, but not exclusively, meetings with writers, lectures, and exhibitions.

Literatur und Wissen in Johann Gabriel Seidls virtuellen Wanderungen durch Tyrol und Steyermark

Author(s): Marija Javor Briški / Language(s): German Issue: Sondernr./2018

Johann Gabriel Seidl, an author of the Biedermeier era who came to the Styrian province from the capital of Austria for professional reasons in 1829, published his travelogue Wanderungen durch Tyrol und Steyermark in 1840/41. The article is based on two hypotheses: 1. that the content of the transmitted knowledge regarding the ex-Habsburg provinces are subject to the intent of the author, who is influenced by the historical context, and to the specific commissions regarding his work; 2. that the connection of professional discourses on knowledge transfer and evident literary discourses is not counterproductive but rather useful for generating and transfering knowledge of both the countries. After a short biographical presentation of the author and his placement in the Biedermeier era, the article addresses the organisation of knowledge generated in the travelogue, the perspectivization and transfer of knowledge and the literarization of the historical discourse on the example of the history of Tyrol.

УЧИМ СЕ ГЛЕДАТИ

Author(s): Miodrag Žalica / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2018

Пишући „Zapise Malte Lauritis Bridža”, да ли 30-ту или 131-ву реченицу, Рајнер Марија Рилке посвећује учењу о посматрању. „Учим се гледати” – значи – настојим сазнавати. Тежња таквог учења је – уздигнути се изнад просјека, одлијепити се од малограђанина, одробити се из свијета који није сазвучје. „Учим се гледати”, то је реченица која се уздижe изнад поезије Рајнера Марија Рилкеа. Посматрање људи, њихових узбуђења и смирења, њихових замирања, долазака и пролазака чини живот, литературу, умјетност. То је пут ка сазнању, зрењу, формирању. Напуштању једних страсти и примању других, сложенијих, искренијих. То је пут који умјетника чини умјетником.

TEMA TERORIZMA U KNJIŽEVNOSTI NA PRIMJERU DJELA REALLY GROUND ZERO AUTORICE KATHRIN RÖGGLA

Author(s): Magdalena Ramljak,Darija Glibić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 20/2018

The paper will analyze the influence of terrorism on modern society and literature on the example of work Really ground zero written by Austrian author Kathrin Röggla. During the attack on WTC on September 11, 2001, the author was only a kilometer away from the place of the event. Using the elements of pop-literature, pop-culture, colloquial speech and even photography she shows the newly arisen situation in New York. The work is composed of the series of texts in which she surpasses everything a human can experience by the structure of events, testimonies of New York citizens and poetics of her writing. All the elements of pop-literature used in this work have a role to show us perversion of the modern society, society which functions with the help of mobile phones, society which in crisis situation does not possess the real know how, society which develops the so called Catastrophe Tourism (Katastrophentourismus) after big catastrophe. Combining all the mentioned elements, the author clearly visualizes the problem of terrorism and its influence on everyday life and consequently on literature. She creates a unique and real picture of life in New York in which terrorism became inseparable from reality and pervades all the spheres of life after “9/11”. She also emphasizes that Ground zero does not mark only the place where the attack happened but also the zero point in literature i.e. the new beginning in literature. The author thinks that after “9/11” writers do not retell anymore, but start to collect facts, report and realize what happened.

A Handke-jelenség és az irodalmi mező depolitizálása

Author(s): Orsolya Kész / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 08/2020

Peter Handke: A kapus félelme tizenegyesnél. Ford. Tandori Dezső. Helikon, Bp., 2020.

HORROR VACUI ИЛИ УЖАСИ ПРАЗНИНЕ У РОМАНУ НЕСРЕЋА БЕЗ ЖЕЉА ПЕТРА ХАНДКЕА

Author(s): Marija Jeftimijević Mihajlović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 3/2020

The novel by Peter Handke Wunschloses unglück Erzählung that has been translated in Serbian as A Misery Without Desires, in 1972, represents a true small literary masterpiece where is, in an intimate confession about the life of a mother who ended her life by taking an overdose of sleeping pills, revealed a whole philosophy of the horror of the emptiness of life on one hand, and the autoreferential aspect of the author himself who gives his poetic insights about the meaning of literature/writing in resisting such a horror, or in overcoming it. The use of expression “horror” is double motivated, that is, it has two meanings: first, it signifies a horror of emptiness that comes up with his mother’s death, and the second, it designates a horror of the mother’s life that the writer tries to depict and narrate. Therefore, the spaces of horror are in the one who narrates and in the one who was the subject of narration. Still, the real question is: do the spaces accumulate or multiply by writing, that is, do they enlarge, or does the writing help in overcoming the fear of them? Although Handke clearly states that “writing didn’t help,” he doesn’t deny that merely describing, as an attempt to find a precise and an adequate depiction of a mental state, brings “some joy” or “it turns the bliss of emptiness into a bliss of memories,” which implies that writing annuls the fear. Horror vacui, or “fear of emptiness,” a term that originates from Aristotle, and the term that the author uses at the end of his novel, implies that a more precise usage/translation would be not fear but horror because the horror is the subject of this lyrical novel A Misery Without Desires. This novel arises in a boiling fusion of a tragic personal event, as a „horror vacui in the consciousness“ and represents an existential drama with “the elements of the horror” that are less of Sartre’s nausea and more of Berdyaev’s sorrow for a high form of life, for the spaces of existence that are beyond dreams and that can be reached by one way only – by desire. Described and defined by a circle (of one life) as a determinant, the novel A Misery Without Desires represents a significant and symbolic full stop that is put in defense of a tragically ended life and on a person’s right to stay alone in the personal misery, without desires to fill the horrors of emptiness with the presence or words of others. That space of stupor that emerged by the mother’s death, as a state of quivered and disturbed consciousness, has been to an extent or temporarily filled with writing as a possible way of overcoming the fear of emptiness that comes with death.

Widerständige Zeitgenossenschaft: Mit mir, ohne mich und Von nah, von fern. Zu „Journal“ und „Jahresbuch“ von Karl-Markus Gauß

Author(s): Frank Thomas Grub / Language(s): German Issue: 1-2/2020

Up till now, Karl-Markus Gauß has published five volumes of what has often been described as “journals”: Mit mir, ohne mich (2002), Von nah, von fern (2003), Zu früh, zu spät (2007), Ruhm am Nachmittag (2012) and Der Alltag der Welt (2015). The emphasis of this paper lies on the first two of these volumes which are labelled respectively as “Ein Journal” and “Ein Jahresbuch”. A special focus lies on thematic continuities, such as the historical and present peripheries of Europe and its populations and questions linked to the construction of identity. Gauß (self-)reflects critically on the historical roots of contemporary phenomena, which are often taken from medial incidents. The study shows aspects of the texts’ construction character. The crossing of boundaries on the thematic level is reflected in the transcending of literary genres: Gauß’ texts merge different genres into new shapes; his narration can be understood as a kind of resistance to cotemporary superficiality.

Die Rezeption von Karl-Markus Gauß in Slowenien

Author(s): Tanja Žigon,Petra Kramberger / Language(s): German Issue: 1-2/2020

This article deals with the reception of the Austrian writer, essayist, columnist, journalist, chronicler, editor, and critic Karl-Markus Gauß in Slovenia. Gauß has received several recognitions of his work, including the European Charles Veillon Essay Prize (Prix Européen de l’Essai Charles Veillon) in 1997, the Austrian Book Trade Honorary Award for Tolerance in Thought and Action (Ehrenpreis des österreichischen Buchhandels für Toleranz in Denken und Handeln) in 2001, and the Austrian Art Prize for Literature (Österreichischer Kunstpreis für Literatur) in 2013, as well as two Slovenian awards: the Portorož International Award Writers Meeting at the Border (Srečanje pisateljev na meji) in 1989, and in 2005 the Vilenica award for outstanding achievement in literature at the twentieth Vilenica International Literary Festival, which brings together authors from Central Europe. This article presents Slovenian translations of Gauß’s works, their reception among critics and readers, and Gauß’s profile in Slovenian culture and literature.

KATASTROPHENSZENARIEN IN KATHRIN RÖGGLAS DIE ALARMBEREITEN

Author(s): Ljiljana S. Aćimović / Language(s): German Issue: 39/2021

In diesem Beitrag wird untersucht, auf welche Weise die österreichische Schriftstellerin Kathrin Röggla in ihrem 2010 veröffentlichten Buch die alarmbereiten das Thema Katastrophe thematisiert. Röggla gehört zu den einflussreichsten und engagiersten Schriftstellerinnen der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. Sie schildert in ihren Werken oft den Ausnahmezustand und die Rolle der öffentlichen Medien im alltäglichen Leben. Die Autorin entwirft immer wieder neue Krisen- und Katastrophenszenarien und nimmt in ihren Texten eine gesellschaftskritische Position ein. Ihre Arbeiten sind oft inter- und transmedial, ihre Themen brandaktuell. Die Fragen, die uns in diesem Beitrag interessieren, sind: welche Krisen- und Katastrophenszenarien die Autorin in diesem Buch thematisiert und welche Mittel sie benutzt, um den gesellschaflichen Krisen- und Katastrophendiskurs zu reflektieren. Besonders interessant ist die Frage der Erzählinstanz, d.h. wer in ihren Texten erzählt, da es hier keinen traditionellen Erzähler gibt. Es soll untersucht werden, aus welcher Position über reale oder potenzielle Katastrophen berichtet wird. Das Ziel dieses Beitrags ist die ersten drei Kapitel sowohl inhaltlich als auch erzähltheoretisch zu analysieren und die gesellschaftliche wie auch sprachliche Intention der Autorin darzustellen.