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Austrijska književna scena 2019.

Author(s): Vahidin Preljević / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1-4/2020

Nema sumnje da će za austrijsku kao i književnost njemačkog govornog područja u cjelini 2019. godina sigurno biti zabilježena kao jedna od značajnijih u njenoj novijoj historiji. Protekle godine je Peter Handke kao drugi Austrijanac, nakon Elfriede Jelinek, dobio Nobelovu nagradu za književnost. Dakako Elias Canetti, inače rođen kao sefardski Jevrej u bugarskom Ruseu, također se ponekad pribraja austrijskoj književnosti, iako se u Nobelovom komitetu vodio kao britanski državljanin. Handkeova nagrada je zbog političkog djelovanja autora u bivšoj Jugoslaviji izazvala kontroverze i veliku književnu debatu svjetskih razmjera, dakako i u njemačkom govornom području, te je podsjetila na staro pitanje šta književnost zapravo smije, gdje su granice umjetnosti u odnosu na historijsku istinu i političko-ideološku manipulaciju. O toj raspravi, u kojoj je i u našim i u austrijskim i njemačkim medijima sudjelovao i potpisnik ovih redova, već se dosta pisalo, a vjerovatno će njeni efekti uključujući i paralelne reakcije na govor Saše Stanišića na Frankfurtskom sajmu knjiga, sada preći na akademsku razinu i postati predmet književnopovijesnih proučavanja.

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Ka koida Kaffee. Ein bibliographischer Kommentar zum Wiener Kaffeehaus als Desiderat der literatur‑wissenschaftlichen Gedächtnisforschung

Author(s): Markus Grill / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2020

Man könnte meinen, dass zum Wiener Kaffeehaus längst alles gesagt sei. Die zahl losen Bücher scheinen altes Wissen seit Jahrzehnten zu reproduzieren. Es liegt nahe, die nachhaltige Präsenz des Themas durch erfolgreiches Marketing zu erklären, das sich das simple Traditionsbewusstsein und Nostalgiebedürfnis der Menschen zunutze macht. Der Mythos vom Wiener Kaffeehaus wäre demnach ein reines Markenprodukt. Den unbestrittenen wirtschaftlichen Zusammenhängen liegen allerdings geschichts mächtige Prozesse kultureller Sinnkonstruktion ursächlich zugrunde. Sie zu negieren bedeutet, einen anti wissenschaftlichen Abwehrmechanismus von Gesellschaften zu bedienen. Er soll die Integrität ihrer erfundenen Traditionen vor kritischem Zugriff schützen. Tatsächlich ist die wiederkehrende Rede vom Wiener Kaffeehaus Ausdruck einer kollektiven Verständigung über die gemeinsame Geschichte der Nation Öster reich und damit auch über die Bedingungen der Zusammengehörigkeit zu ihr und über die Selbst- und Fremdbilder von ihr. Diese identitätsstiftende Wirkungskraft des Wiener Kaffeehauses ist bis heute nicht ergründet.

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BECOMING THE POSTHUMAN: THE DESTABILISATION OF THE SUBJECT IN THOMAS GLAVINIC’S NIGHT WORK

Author(s): Branka B. Ognjanović / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

The paper provides an insight into the destabilisation of the subject and the emergence of the posthuman condition in the novel Night Work (Die Arbeit der Nacht, 2006) by Austrian writer Thomas Glavinic. The first part briefly discusses previous analyses of the novel and the definitions of posthumanism as an umbrella term for a heterogeneous theory dedicated to the questions of what follows after the re-consideration of the humanist ideals and after decentring the human. The posthuman is interpreted as non-fixed, in the state of constant reconstruction as opposed to the humanist subject’s fixedness and integrity. The analysis examines the ‘uncanny’ setting of the novel and the power of survival in the face of death, which becomes the protagonist’s point of demise and divergence from consciousness and rationality. The urban environment devoid of all organic life replaces the Other applied traditionally to other humans. The Sleeper as the nightly doppelgänger and the filming of the environment further add to the transgression of the boundaries between material and immaterial, the living and the non-living, the real and the dreamlike/artificial, and ultimately determine the protagonist’s posthuman existence in the state of ‘becoming’ rather than ‘being’.

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Die Konstruktion Österreichs in der polnischen Germanistik

Author(s): Gabriela Ociepa / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2008

The article makes an attempt at reconstruction of a distinct research course in the German studies in Poland, focusing on Austrian literature. Apart from the significance of the image of Austria and the contemporary Austrian literature created in this way, the article discusses primarily the historical development of this research direction.

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Trenuci u Grčkoj

Author(s): Hugo von Hofmannsthal / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 26/2021

Short story by Hugo von Hofmannsthal ("Trenuci u Grčkoj")

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Der verlorene Dichter Josef Reif

Author(s): Erich Unglaub / Language(s): German Issue: 17/2020

The writers from the provinces of old Austria have earned only individually the interest of the literary science. Apart from the Prague School, only few German-Bohemian authors have crossed the threshold of recognition. With the scientific inclusion of the German-Moravian authors, one has cast an important glance into another literary landscape, although thus the writers from Northern Moravia enjoyed attention. The German-speaking literature of Southern Moravia awaits comparable research. One emphatically refers to the poet Josef Reif (1891 – 1971) from Brno as a lyrical author, whose work is highly respected by his contemporaries, but it has never been collected. A tightly-knit characterization of person and work requires a new starting point. A first list of published works is added.

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Zum hundertjährigen Marlen Haushofer Jubiläum. Die Zeiterfahrung in Haushofers Roman "Die Wand"

Author(s): Beate Petra Kory / Language(s): German Issue: 17/2020

On the occasion of Marlen Haushofer’s 100th birthday on 11 April 2020, the present paper concentrates upon her most important text, her novel The Wall, published in 1963. After a short outline of the diverging interpretive approaches and the elucidation of the structure of the novel as well as the multiple functions of the narrative report, the paper focuses on the basic existential situation of the novel and the protagonist’s perception of time, which changes essentially throughout the novel. The wall isolates the female protagonist from her former life so that there emerge two different time levels: on the one hand her life before the wall and on the other hand her new life after the detachment from civilization. The present paper describes her replacement of chronologically measurable time and her integration into the universal context of nature. Finally, the concept of the end time is analyzed.

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Der große Fall? Die Rezeption Peter Handkes in Ungarn bis nach dem Nobelpreis

Author(s): Gábor Kerekes / Language(s): German Issue: 17/2020

This paper gives an overview of the reception of the works of the Austrian author Peter Handke in Hungary from the beginning up to the year 2020. In the communist times, in the times of the so-called „Peoples Republic of Hungary“ Peter Handke belonged to the group of modern Western authors who were not compatible with the cultural policy of the Hungarian state. Over years it was a great effort of Hungarian intellectuals to introduce and establish Handke in Hungary as a relevant contemporary author with a growing number of published Hungarian translations of his works from the 1970s until 1990. Interestingly with the political changes of the years 1989/90 the interest in Handke and his oeuvre seemed to vanish. In the years 1991–2019, there were no book publications of his works in Hungary, and even after Handke’s winning Nobel prize only one – formerly already published – translation of one of his works was published.

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Überlegungen zur Funktion der Nicht-Orte in Anna Mitgutschs Roman "In fremden Städten"

Author(s): Maria Roxin / Language(s): German Issue: 17/2020

The present paper explores the role of non-places in Anna Mitgutsch’s novel "In fremden Städten"/ "In Foreign Cities". The novel starts in a transit lounge, a non-place according to the French ethnologist and anthropologist Marc Augé. Lilian, the main character, leaves Austria and returns to the USA, her home country. Thus, she hopes to complete her self-image, much affected by her immigration to Europe. Lilian is rejected by Josef’s family from the very beginning because she refuses to undertake the traditional role of a wife and mother. The protagonist tries to rediscover the feeling of belonging and returns to her home country with the hope that she will be able to get over the identity crisis she is faced with. Back in America, she realizes that it is impossible for her to attain the feeling of protection and belonging. She is caught for good in an identity trap, in-between two languages, two continents, and two cultures. Only in non-places such as airports, travel agencies, hotels, trolleybuses, trains, and the holiday home of her sister can Lilian find temporary comfort.

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Monotoniziranje svijeta

Author(s): Stefan Zweig / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 48-49-50/2022

Monotoniziranje svijeta. Najjači duhovni dojam sa svakoga putovanja posljednjih godina, usprkos svakom pojedinačnom usrećenju, tihi je strah od monotoniziranja svijeta. Sve postaje jednoliko u vanjskim oblicima života, sve se nivelira na uniformnu kulturnu shemu. Individualna ponašanja narodā ujednačuju se, nošnje postaju uniformne, običaji internacionalni. Sve se više čini da zemlje ulaze, tako reći, jedna u drugu, ljudi djeluju i žive po jednoj shemi, gradovi izvanjski sve više nalikuju jedan drugome. Pariz je tri četvrtine amerikaniziran, Beč budimpeštiziran: sve više isparava lijepa aroma posebnoga u kulturama, sve brže nestaju boje i ispod napuknutoga sloja firnisa postaje vidljivim čelično obojen držak mehaničkoga pogona, moderni stroj svijeta.

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Die drückende Last der Mittelmässigkeit: Betrachtungen zu Robert Schneiders Roman Die Offenbarung

Author(s): Maria Roxin / Language(s): German Issue: 60/2022

The Austrian writer Robert Schneider had significant success with his first novel Schlafes Bruder/ Brother of Sleep, which sold about one million copies and was translated into over 36 languages. The following novels were not nearly as successful, although they had a favourable reception from the reading public. This paper explores how Schneider describes the destructive dimensions of ideals in his sixth and so far latest novel, Die Offenbarung/ The Revelation. Whereas most of Schneider’s characters are usually geniuses and thus outsiders or misfits, Jakob Kemper, the protagonist of the novel Die Offenbarung, is characterized precisely by the lack of any feature that could take him out of anonymity. Kemperʼs fear of being ordinary generates an endless number of failures. His whole existence is described as a long chain of humiliating personal and professional situations, defeats, and rejections. At the same time, this novel represents Robert Schneider’s attempt to reply with self-irony and disarming humour to his vocal critics, who often placed his works at the edge of trivial literature.

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Ментори та Інґеборґ Бахман: письменницька майстерня успішного старту

Author(s): Yulia Isapchuk / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 106/2022

The article studies the image of a mentor for the development of a novice author on the example of the work of the successful Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973). The role of a tutor is analysed from her first texts to the status of a Viennese intellectual in the middle of the 20th century. The direct influence of older writers and artists from the same generation on the formation of her author’s style is gradually investigated. The figure of the first mentor, the Carinthian writer and teacher Joseph Friedrich Perkonig is emphasized in the example of her early story “The Cross of Hondich” („Das Honditschkreuz”, 1943/1944) and “Letters to Felician” („Briefe an Felician”, 1946). The figure of the second mentor, the Austrian repatriate writer Hans Weigel and his writing workshop (“Group 50”) is examined. Attention is focused on H. Weigel’s autobiographical novel “Unfinished Symphony” („Unvollendete Symphonie”, 1951) and I. Bachman’s first novel “Nameless City” („Stadt ohne Namen”) on his consulting during 1947–1952. Attention is turned to the I. Bachman’s acquaintance with Paul Celan in Vienna, started the artistic dialogue between two young authors: the collection of poems “Deferred Time” („Die gestundete Zeit”, 1953) and “Invocation to the Big Dipper” („Anrufung des großen Bären”, 1956) by I. Bachman and “Poppy and Memory” („Mohn und Gedächtnis”, 1952) by P. Celan. The parallel correspondence of the author with H. Weigel and P. Celan is also compared. We study the role of Hans Werner Richter, the leader of the prominent “Group 47”, whose prize (1953) finally convinced the young author to become a professional writer. Communication with the German composer Hans Werner Henze is stressed as a coexistence of “twins in spirit” and successful intermedial tandem.

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HEIMATLOSIGKEIT IN DEN ERZÄHLUNGEN VON INGEBORG BACHMANN

Author(s): Mersiha Škrgić / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2022

Ingeborg Bachmann’s works deal with the topic of losing homeland through the metaphor of the house of Austria, which the author presents as the true homeland or rather the dream homeland of her protagonists. Her idea of the House of Austria is linked to the Habsburg Empire and developed partly as a result of its fall and partly as a result of a lack of identification with post-war Austria. In the novels Malina and Der Fall Franza, for example, we see a longing for the former connection between Austria and Hungary as the answer to the discontent with the post-war country. Similar wishful thinking can be found in Bachmann’s short stories and poetry, which is the reason to examine why Bachmann’s characters feel at loss regarding their homeland and mother tongue in two short stories from Simultaneous.

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UNHEIMLICHES MAUTHAUSEN. ZU LYDIA HAIDERS ROMANEN

Author(s): Joanna Jabłkowska / Language(s): German Issue: 40/2019

Lydia Haider, is a young Austrian writer, whose work is in line with two tendencies characteristic for Austrian Literature. Haider describes Austrian province from a position of critical distance, focusing on the critique of language and attempts to thematize the lack of reckoning with national socialist past in specific Austrian contexts. The article analyses two novels by Haider: congregationand rotten. The novels foreground the discussion on the denial of the Nazi crimes on the lands surrounding Mauthausen Concentration Camp. The main question posed in the article is whether Haider could be called a inheritor of the critical “Heimatliteratur”. It is also important to investigate whether the young author offers new aesthetic solutions, adequate for contemporary perspective from which we can view the unsettled Nazi past.

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„DIE OHNMACHT IST EIN SYNDROM VON DEM ÖSTERREICH.“ HEIMAT- UND SOZIALMISERE IN DEN STÜCKEN VON THOMAS ARZT

Author(s): Günther A. Höfler / Language(s): German Issue: 40/2019

With reference to two plays by Thomas Arzt (Die Neigung des Peter Rosegger, Totes Gebirge), this paper examines how attitudes in contemporary Austria are represented in literature. The analysis focuses on the playwright’s poetical originality in presenting conventional themes like homeland, social misery and the Austrian sense of apocalypse. It will be argued that the transformative playing with dramatic genres, intertextuality, significant idioms and local song material is in fact a farce exposing current circumstances and mentalities.

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„ENTWURZELT & UMGETOPFT“. DAS LITERARISCHE POTENTIAL DER MEHRSPRACHIGKEIT BEI JULYA RABINOWICH

Author(s): Sanna SCHULTE / Language(s): German Issue: 40/2019

The author and interpreter Julya Rabinowich describes herself as “Janus in Babylon” and characterizes her multilingualism not only as a mediating competence, but also as a changing identity: “Spaltköpfig wird man. Doppelzüngig. Mehrgesichtig” (Rabinowich 2009: 58). Playing with one’s own identities, with lies and truth, with past and future, seems to be the best prerequisite for writing. This contribution examines the poetic potential of exophony using Julya Rabinowich’s novel Spaltkopf, which is read as a draft of a multidimensional identity conflict. In comparison with multilingual perspectives and exophonic spellings by Yoko Tawada, Herta Müller, Dragica Rajčić, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Saša Stanišić and Semier Insayif, the tilting effects between metaphorical and literal readings are particularly focused.

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PJEVAJ MI OVOG DANA

Author(s): F. Kurt Svatek / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 3-4/2022

Poetry by Kurt F. Svatek: "Pjevaj mi ovog dana".

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THE PROBLEM OF AGGRESSION IN THE SURROUNDING REALITY AND LITERATURE ON THE EXAMPLE OF ELFRIEDE JELINEK'S NOVEL "DIE KLAVIERSPIELERIN"

Author(s): Łukasz Kominek / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

The purpose of this article is to explore the North Atlantic Alliance's efforts to adapt to new threats created by the Russian Federation and to forecast future actions, which may be undertaken in this area. The following research problem was formulated in the work: What actions is and may be taken by the North Atlantic Alliance in the future to adapt to new threats created by the Russian Federation? In the course of the research process, it was determined that the new challenges and threats to the North Atlantic Alliance arise from the Russian Federation's efforts to revise the international order, through economic rivalry and political pressure with the key role of military force, as the basis for achieving strategic foreign policy goals. Military force is used by Russia both in the form of symmetrical military actions and hybrid forms of influence. The war in Ukraine has shown that the Russian Federation is capable and ready to conduct open armed conflict. The evolution of threats allows to assume that armed force will be the main argument used by Russia to achieve its strategic goals over the next decade. NATO's adaptation to the challenges of the international security environment consists primarily of expanding Allied deterrence and defense capabilities, increasing the quantity and quality of the armed forces deployed on the Alliance's eastern flank, conceptual and organizational changes that will adapt the North Atlantic Alliance's operations to the challenges and threats created by the Russian Federation. It is presumed that NATO's future adaptation activities may be related to increasing defense spending by member states, intensifying the process of acquiring equipment and armaments and developing the capabilities of NATO's armed forces in nuclear deterrence and the use of precision-guided weapons.

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RAJNER MARIJA RILKE (1875–1926)

Author(s): Rainer Maria Rilke / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 12/2006

Poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke: "Samo smo usta".

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PETER LANDERL

Author(s): Peter Landerl / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 14/2006

Short story by Peter Landerl: "Život u običnom svetu".

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