Austrian Travel Writing

Edited by Florian Krobb and Caitriona Leahy

Austrian Studies 31

Modern Humanities Research Association

23 February 2024

ISBN: 978-1-839541-06-3 (paperback)

Access online: At Project MUSE


This issue of Austrian Studies assembles articles that represent the great variety of travel writing by authors from Austria and the Habsburg lands. Contributions investigate examples of ‘heroic’ exploratory travel of the 19th century and its colonialist implications, journalistic and impressionistic narratives from the fin-de-siècle to the 1940s, and private and ‘official’ notation by prominent and lesser known authors. Writings of classical modernism demonstrate how optimistic, horizon-expanding travel endured, but also how changing political circumstances and cultural norms undermined the confident optimism of traditional travel narratives. Diversifying perspectives, including those of female travellers, as well as new means of expression and aesthetic innovation progressively challenged old certainties. The range of the genre of travel writing is illustrated by contributions on Bohemian spas, the medium of the Lied cycle and notations by emigrants in transit, while the legacy of the covid-19 pandemic and the future of travel in a climate-changed world are to the fore in analyses of travel writing today.

Contents:

1-15

Austrian Travel Writing between the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries: Introduction
Florian Krobb
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919420

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16-35

Don't Go! Some Agoraphobic Postulates for a Post-Travel World Derived from Ingeborg Bachmann's 'Probleme Probleme'
Rachel Magshamhráin
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919421

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36-49

'Costa Rica, der ruhigste und glücklichste von sämmtlichen Freistaaten des spanischen Amerika': Karl von Scherzer and Moritz Wagner in Central America and their Texts about Costa Rica, 1854–1855
Laurin Blecha
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919422

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50-67

'Embodied Temporality': Travelling to the Bohemian Spas in the Late Nineteenth Century
Jana Hunter
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919423

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68-87

Robert Scheu's 'Englische Reise' (1898)
Gilbert J. Carr
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919424

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88-105

Alma Karlin and Alice Schalek Look East: Travel Writing by Central European Women in the Interwar Period
Christian Drobe
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919425

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106-120

Writing from the Periphery: Alma Karlin's Autobiography, Travel Writing and the Journey towards Self-Discovery
Nicole Perry
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919426

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121-138

'Reisen ist Rast in der Unruhe der Welt': Stefan Zweig as homo viator
Aleksandra Tobiasz
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919427

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139-153

The Libyan Desert as a Space of Experience: Richard A. Bermann as Chronicler of the 1933 Almásy-Expedition
Andreas Stuhlmann
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919428

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154-173

'Sehnsucht wonach?': Ernst Krenek's Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen op. 62 as Travel Writing
Florian Krobb
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919429

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174-193

'Obrigado tausendfach!': Portugal—a Country of Transit through the Eyes of Austrian Refugees
Katrin Sippel
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919430

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194-210

Fallmeister Franza: Journeys of Mastery in Ransmayr and Bachmann
Conor Brennan
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919431

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211-214

Review of Markéta Křížová and Jitka Malečková (eds), Central Europe and the Non-European World in the Long 19th Century; Michael Falser, Habsburgs Going Global: The Austro-Hungarian Concession in Tientsin/Tianjin in China (1901–1917)
Matthew Stibbe
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919432

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214-216

Review of Keiron Pim, Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth
Andrew Barker
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919433

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216-218

Review of Walter Schübler, Bibiana Amon. Eine Spurensuche
Andrew Barker
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919434

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218-221

Review of Gertrude Enderle-Burcel (ed.), Heinrich Wildner Tagebücher 1938–1944 ("Heute geht es gegen die Juden, morgen kann es gegen die anderen gehen…"); Roman Eccher et al. (ed.), Das Tagebuch von Heinrich Wildner 1945 ("Ich bestelle Sie hiemit zur Leitung des Außenamtes,…"); Roman Eccher et al. (ed.), Das Tagebuch von Heinrich Wildner 1946 ("...freilich werden wir im neuen Jahr noch nicht frei werden..."); Elisabeth Gmoser et al. (ed.), Das Tagebuch von Heinrich Wildner 1947 ("Man ist noch immer nervös. Wir sind sehr scharf bewacht"); Ernst Aichinger et al. (ed.), Das Tagebuch von Heinrich Wildner 1948 ("Es regiert der Planet Pallawatsch"); Josef Litschauer et al. (ed.), Das Tagebuch von Heinrich Wildner 1949 ("Wie soll das weiter gehen?")
R. Knight
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919435

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221-223

Review of Klaus Kastberger and David J. Wimmer (ed.), Glitches, Bots und Strahlenkatzen. Gegenwart bei Clemens J. Setz
Heide Kunzelmann
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919436

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223-225

Review of Carolin Duttlinger, Attention and Distraction in Modern German Literature, Thought, and Culture
J. J. Long
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919437

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225-227

Review of Nicole Robertson, Arthur Schnitzler in Great Britain: An Examination of Power and Translation
Martin Anton Müller
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919438

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227-228

Review of Andrea Capovilla (ed.), Marlen Haushofer: Texte und Kontexte
Anna Richards
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919439

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229-231

Review of Sigurd Paul Scheichl, Literatur in Österreich und Südtirol: Ein Panorama in 30 Aufsätzen
Barbara Siller
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919440

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231-233

Review of Mark H. Gelber (ed.), The Legacy of Ruth Klüger and the End of the Auschwitz Century
Jonathan Skolnik
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919441

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233-235

Review of Irma Trattner, Margareta Berger-Hamerschlag: Eine vergessene Künstlerin im Londoner Exil
Andrea Capovilla
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919442

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235-236

Review of Rosie Goldsmith (ed.), The Austrian Riveter: Writing from Austria
Birgit Lang
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919443

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237-238

Review of Norbert Christian Wolf, Glanz und Elend der Aufklärung in Wien: Voraussetzungen—Institutionen—Texte
Ritchie Robertson
doi:10.1353/aus.2023.a919444

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Bibliography entry:

Krobb, Florian, and Caitriona Leahy (eds), Austrian Travel Writing (= Austrian Studies, 31 (2024))

First footnote reference: 35 Austrian Travel Writing, ed. by Florian Krobb and Caitriona Leahy (= Austrian Studies, 31 (2024)), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Krobb and Leahy, p. 47.

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Bibliography entry:

Krobb, Florian, and Caitriona Leahy (eds). 2024. Austrian Travel Writing (= Austrian Studies, 31)

Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Krobb and Leahy 2024: 21).

Example footnote reference: 35 Krobb and Leahy 2024: 21.

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