Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Idea by Hofmannsthal Hugo von;Luft David S.;

Author:Hofmannsthal, Hugo von;Luft, David S.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781557535900
Publisher: Baker & Taylor Publisher Services (BTPS)

Notes

1 Hugo von Hofmannsthal, “Österreich im Spiegel seiner Dichtung,” in Reden und Aufsätze, vol. 2, 1914–1924, 13–25. See also Prosa, vol. 3, 333–49. First printing: Neue Freie Presse (Vienna), November 15 and 16, 1916. Hofmannsthal first gave this lecture on July 7, 1916, in Warsaw, and then on October 21, 1916, in the Urania in Vienna. He presented the same lecture in 1917 in Berlin, Zurich, and Munich.

2 Joseph Lanner (1801–1843) was a Viennese composer who helped to make the waltz fashionable.

3 Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758–1832) was a German composer and a friend of Goethe.

4 Ludwig Anzengruber (1839–1889) was one of the leading writers of liberal Austria.

5 Peter Rosegger (1843–1918) was an Austrian writer from Styria.

6 Amme means wet-nurse or nurse maid. An Ammenmärchen is a fairytale.

7 An ancient Bohemian legend about a worthy ruler and his talented daughters.

8 Leopoldstadt is the second district in Vienna. Before the Nazi persecutions it had been home to a large Jewish community.

9 Traum ein Leben (1831). Hofmannsthal was strongly influenced by the work of the seventeenth-century Spanish playwright Calderón, whose La vido es sueño [Life is a Dream] Grillparzer translated in 1816.

10 August von Kotzebue (1761–1819) was a writer and prominent political figure, whose assassination by Karl Sand in 1819 led to the imposition of the Carlsbad Decrees by Metternich.

11 Gottfried Keller (1819–1890) was a Swiss writer and contemporary of Stifter, best known for his novel, Green Henry.

12 Eduard Mörike (1804–1875) was a German writer known for his poetry and novellas.

13 An Austro-Hungarian army group under the command of General Pflanzer-Baltin during the First World War.

14 Hofmannsthal is referring to Der Hexenmeister, a work of 1871 by Adolf Pichler (1819–1900), an Austrian writer and geologist.

15 A vade mecum is a guidebook, in the sense of a handbook.

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