Franzl im Occupationsgebiet – Anmerkungen zu Bosnien- -Herzegowina aus der Sicht eines „mährischen“ Schriftstellers
“Franzl in Occupation Zone” – Notes to Bosnia-Herzegovina from the Perspective of a “Moravian” writer

Summary/Abstract: In the collection of poems entitled “Franzl in the Occupation Zone” the Moravian-German writer Emanuel Hans SAX (1847–1897) describes the border territory between Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro. The Austrian soldier Franzl writes poems and letters home to Tyrolia to his fiancée Annerl. His verses show – sometimes humourosly, sometimes melancholically – how he perceives the landscape, people and foreign culture. The image of the Other and Otherness which can be found in this literary piece is a form of cultural evidence, that illustrates the view of Habsburgic hegemony on its most distant and – as it seemed not only to SAX – “wildest” periphery.

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