Fixiert auf die Vergangenheit – die Literaten der Ersten Republik Österreich und Österreich-Ungarn
Looking Backwards – The Austrian Writers of the First Republic and Austria-Hungary

Summary/Abstract: The Austrian republic of 1918 was not accepted emotionally by a majority of its citizens; A. Pelinka has analyzed this indifference of Austria’s intellectuals to the new state. Many writers looked backwards and continued to love Austria-Hungary in her old borders, without necessarily hoping for the return of the dynasty. Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler, Zweig, Csokor, Wildgans are major authors who more or less sentimentally remembered the Habsburg state and were not really interested in the new form of the Austria. Even Juarez und Maximilian by Franz Werfel idealized the Habsburg prince, although it had to be a republican play by the force of the historical facts it is based on. Only Karl Kraus was an enthusiast of the republic from 1918 to its end. In the late 20ies, Jura Soyfer was a decidedly republican writer.

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