Brussels 1900 Vienna

Piet Defraeye, Ph.D. (1994, University of Toronto), Professor Performance Studies (U of Alberta). Publishes on contemporary performance (including Handke and Jeliniek) and directs for the stage. His current research project is on the figure of Patrice Lumumba in cultural discourse.Helga Mitterbauer, Ph.D. (2000, University of Graz), professor of German literature at the Université libre de Bruxelles who has published monographs, volumes, and articles on German/Austrian literature, including Crossing Central Europe (co-ed., 2017).Chris Reyns-Chikuma, Ph.D. (2000, University of Colorado), is a Professor of French Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta (Canada). He has published a book on Neo-japonisme, edited another one on Glénat and written over 50 articles, recently mostly on comics cultures.

• List of Figures and TablesNote on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionBrussels 1900 Vienna: Cultural Transfers 1880–1930Piet Defraeye, Helga Mitterbauer and Chris Reyns-ChikumaPART 1Staging Modernisms1 The Power of Retheatricalization and DepersonalizationMaurice Maeterlinck and Hugo von HofmannsthalAnke Bosse2 Viennese Theatre Critics on Viennese Maeterlinck ProductionsSigurd Paul Scheichl3 Arthur Schnitzler and Theatre in Belgium: 1900–1930Piet DefraeyePART 2Transpositions4 Literary Exchanges from Vienna to Brussels 1880–1920Hubert Roland5 Stefan Zweig as a Mediator and Translator of Emile Verhaeren’s PoetryNorbert Bachleitner6 Concepts of Exoticism in Brussels and Vienna around 1900Szilvia Ritz7 Parallel Campaigns of Cultural RenewalArt Nouveau, Robert Musil, and The Man Without QualitiesAniel GuxholliPART 3Transformations8 Belgian Artists and the Secessionist Battle for Modern ArtInga Rossi-Schrimpf9 Another Modernity? Viennese Art Criticism and the Reception of Belgian Arts and Architecture around 1900Sylvie Arlaud10 Fernand Khnopff, a Painter Columnist in the Viennese PressA London–Vienna Connection via BrusselsClément Dessy11 Kinderkunst between Vienna and Brussels 1900Child Art, Primitivism, and PatronageMegan Brandow-Faller12 Between Brussels and ViennaFrans Masereel’s Transnational Wordless NarrativesChris Reyns-ChikumaPART 4Resonances13 Arnold Schoenberg, La Jeune Belgique, and the Dialectics of (Viennese) ModernismAlexander Carpenter14 Parallels and IntervalsViolinists Intersecting with ModernityGuillaume TardifPART 5Café and Psyche15 About Well-Lit Hullaballoos and Suffocating AirSenses in the Brussels and Viennese Cafés at the Fin-de-SiècleHans Vandevoorde16 Psychoanalysts Through Translation? Julien (Johan) Varendonck (1879–1924) —— Anna Freud (1895–1982)Birgit LangIndex