Austrian Identity and Modernity

Elana Shapira is a design and cultural historian and lecturer at the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria. She is the editor of Designing Transformation: Jews and Cultural Identity in Central European Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2021) and co-editor of Émigré Cultures in Design and Architecture (Bloomsbury, 2017).

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Austrian Identity and Modernity, Elana ShapiraPart I Modernity and the Challenge of Pluralism in the House of Austria1. Austrian Identity and the Modern Life of Empire, Malachi Haim Hacohen2. The Exners: A scientific elite, Its Ambivalent Modernism, and Their Cultural Identity, Michael Stöltzner and Veronika Hofer3. Austrian Technology, Austrian Engineers? Transnational Aspects of Nationalism, Modernity, and Technology, Florian Bettel4. Artist Carl Moll and the Idea of an Integrative Viennese Modernism as an Expression of a New Austrian Identity, Cornelia Cabuk5. Design in the Service of the Nation: Berta Zuckerkandl and Gisela Urban and the Shaping of Austrian Public Womanhood, Elana ShapiraPart II Transformation of a Multiethnic Empire into a Democratic Nation State6. Changing Terms of Modernity? From the Required Diversity of Habsburg Austrian Officers to the Desired Homogeneity of Republican Austrian officers, Tamara Scheer7. Republic Celebrations, Workers’ Costume Associations, ‘Social Hiking,’ and the Solidarity of Rafters. Red Vienna and the Austrian Alpine (Federal) States in the First Republic, Werner Michael Schwarz and Georg Spitaler8. The Werkbund Movement in the Austrian States: National and Regional Identities in a Political Landscape, Antje Senarclens De Grancy9. From the Alps to the Metropolis: The Faces of Interwar Austrian Expressionism, Julia SecklehnerPart III The Politics of Austrofascism and Nazism within the Discourses of Identity and Modernity10. “Cultural Wars”: Catholic Church, the Labor Movement and Fascism in Interwar Austria, Florian Wenninger11. Faded Out: National Socialism in the Canon of Modernism. Josef Hoffmann and Oswald Haerdtl’s Roles in the Context of National Socialist Policies in Vienna, Ingrid Holzschuh12. Alfred Hrdlicka’s Memorial against War and Fascism and Austrian Memory Culture, Tanja Schult and Diana I. Popescu13. Fragmented Narratives: Jewish Women Cinema Owners, Restitution Cases, and the Fight against Antisemitism, Monika Kaczek14. Fighting against Fascism and Patriarchy. The “World Movement against Racial Hatred and Human Misery” and the National and International Women Circles of Irene Harand in the 1930s and 1940s, Christian KlöschPart IV The Legacy of Modernity in the Second Republic of Austria15. The Dark Side of Modern Austrian Tourism: Vanishing Jewish Heritage in Velden since 1945, Dieter and Louise Hecht16. Austrian Postwar Cinema between “Restoration” and “Modernism” 1945-1955, Ramón Reichert17. On Slippery Foundations: A Reflection on Austrian Architecture after 1945, Monika Platzer18. What is Austrian Music? The Creation and Discussion of National Music in Austria after 1918, Anita Mayer-HirzbergerIndex

Diverse readers will find this volume instructive and eye-opening. If some of the essays feel frustratingly short, the numerous footnotes offer avenues for further research. It should be added to any library collection of books on modern Austria.