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Die effektiven Konsuln Österreich (-Ungarns) v. 1825-1918
(2017)
I report about education and duties of Austrian consuls from 1825-1918 and their biographies.
Die Donau ist die Form
(2017)
The monography traces the complex relationships between political discourses on the Danube and the aestheticization of the river landscape. It shows the making of the idea of a united Danube region paralleled by the ...
Der „jüdisch-christliche“ Dialog veränderte die Theologie
(2016)
The volume presents a collection of papers which clearly document a theological paradigm shift during the decades after World War II. Protestant, Catholic and Jewish experts from various specialist fields of theology, such ...
Von Katterburg zu Schönbrunn
(2004)
In 1996, the Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn were inscribed on the World Heritage List. In inscribing Schönbrunn, the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO recognised that "the Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn in Vienna - ...
WeXel oder Die Musik einer Landschaft
(2014)
Traditional music of the Wechsel, styrian-lower austrian border region, 100 kms south of Vienna. Volume 1 „The religious song“ sung during the farmer’s traditional two-night corpse-watch at the bier in the house of the ...
The Thun-Hohenstein University Reforms 1849–1860
(2017)
The book gathers 14 articles on the reforms of the Austrian University system from 1848 to 1860 named after Leo Thun Hohenstein. The reforms mark a turning point in the history of the Austrian educational landscape. The ...
Im Dienste einer Staatsidee
(2013)
Until today, the death of Charles VI and Maria Theresia’s ascending the throne 1740 is seen as a major turning point in Austrian history. But now is the question of whether in different “layers” and “rooms” without doubt ...
Das englische Geschäft mit der Nachtigall
(2017)
This books deals with the Italian opera business in nineteenth century-London. A special emphasis lies on the opera singers as the most important protagonists of the London system. This special role will be examined through ...
Ein Bürger unter Bauern?
(2017)
The hundred years from 1750 to 1850 were characterised by great changes, often associated with even greater catchphrases. In this study, these profound and radical changes are being looked at from a special point of view, ...
European Voices III
(2017)
Local multipart music practices are based on the intentionally distinct and coordinated participation of music makers in the performing act. Following the rules of interaction while promoting at the same time their personal ...
Die Thun-Hohenstein’sche Universitätsreformen 1849–1860
(2017)
The book gathers 14 articles on the reforms of the Austrian University system from 1848 to 1860 named after Leo Thun Hohenstein. The reforms mark a turning point in the history of the Austrian educational landscape. The ...
Ester Boserup’s Legacy on Sustainability
(2014)
Arising from a scientific conference marking the 100th anniversary of her birth, this book honors the life and work of the social scientist and diplomat Ester Boserup, who blazed new trails in her interdisciplinary approach ...
Regesten Kaiser Sigismunds (1410-1437), Band 2
(2016)
The volume contains the edition of 180 abstracts of the charters and letters from the archives and libraries in West, North and East Bohemia, issued by Emperor Sigismund (1410-1437).
It is the second volume of the planned ...
Rückkehr unerwünscht
(2014)
"Rückkehr unerwünscht" (Return Undesired) is the first systematic study on deportation in the Habsburg empire. The measures taken against protestants, deviants and losers in the modernisation process are both delineated ...
Regesten Kaiser Friedrichs III. (1440-1493) nach Archiven und Bibliotheken geordnet
(2014)
This volume of abstracts of charters Emperor Frederick´s III in the series Regesta Imperii focusses on the last decade of his rule, in particular on the years between 1483 and 1488. They are based on the original charters ...
Musik und Melancholie im Werk Heimito von Doderers
(2012)
The present book consists of two parts, thus embodying the “two forces” that Bakhtin sees at play in every work of art: form and content. They are accorded equal weight. With regard to form, the book explores the various ...
Wien - Geschichte einer Stadt
(2006)
This volume is the last and final part of a trilogy on a detailed history of Vienna. It covers the period from 1790 until the present times. For the decisive forces as well as the inhabitants of the city this era of the ...
Wien - Geschichte einer Stadt
(2003)
This volume is the second part of a trilogy on a detailed history of Vienna. It covers the period from the First Turkish Siege (1529) to the death of the Emperor Joseph II (1790). During these centuries the Habsburg dynasty ...
Schlachtfelder
(2016)
Taking the province of Niederdonau as an example, this pioneer study highlights everyday fields-of-force between National Socialism and agrarian society in which rural actors competed for resources among themselves and ...
Kakanien als Gesellschaftskonstruktion
(2011)
This monograph (professorial dissertation FU Berlin 2009) undertakes an interpretation of the entirety of Musil's monumental novel by placing the focus on its socio-analytical critique of contemporary society. It adapts ...
Die Tagebücher des Grafen Egbert Belcredi 1850-1894
(2016)
The edition includes the diaries of Count Egbert Belcredi from 1850 until his death in 1894. Belcredi – who was the brother of Austrian Prime Minister Richard Belcredi (1865-67) – was an outspoken Conservative, with links ...
Dommusikarchiv Salzburg (A-Sd)
(2018)
This is a catalogue of the musical sources of Salzburg Cathedral between ca. 1670 and 1841, that have survived in the holdings of the Dommusikarchiv at the Archiv der Erzdiözese Salzburg.
Stalins Soldaten in Österreich
(2012)
As Soviet troops first set foot on Austrian territory on March 29, 1945 near Klostermarienberg, they found themselves in a hostile, perplexing and largely unknown world. The Austrians by no means greeted their Eastern ...
Regesten Kaiser Sigismunds (1410-1437), Band 3
(2016)
The volume contains 253 abstracts of 229 Emperor Sigismund’s charters and letters or deperdita and 21 medieval forgeries or highly suspect documents attributed to this ruler from the archives of southern Bohemia.
Alexander Lernet-Holenia und Maria Charlotte Sweceny
(2013)
In the centre of this study stand some 154 letters exchanged between the Austrian writer Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897-1976) and Maria Charlotte ("Lotte") Sweceny (née Stein, 1904-1956), the co-proprietor of the Viennese ...
Diskurse des Kalten Krieges
(2017)
The study analyses Cold War discourses in Austrian post-war literature, a subject that so far has been neglected in Austrian literary history. Through extensive research, 50 mainly unknown or little acknowledged novels, ...
Das Tetraevangelium des Ivan Aleksandăr
(2017)
The first philological edition of the famous Four Gospels of the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Alexander from 1356 with its later liturgical additions, accompanied by studies on the codicology and palaeography, the tsar’s portraits, ...
Die Matrikel der Universität Wien, VIII Band 1746/47-1777/78
(2014)
Register (matriculation book) of the University of Vienna, 1746/47-1777/78 with university records, chronicles and enrollments.
Österreichische Historiker, Band 3
(2019)
The book presents detailed scientific biographies of 13 Austrians historians from the period 1900-1945. It focuses on the scientific work, careers and political activities and their changes
Studien zur Volkskunde Südosteuropas und des mediterranen Raums
(2009)
This volume includes 24 studies on comparative culture analysis in the Southeastern-European and Mediterrean area, as practizised in the "Ethnologia europaea" of Leopold Kretzenbacher, giving an idea of the plurality of ...
Enzyklopädie der slowenischen Kulturgeschichte in Kärnten/Koroška, Band 3: PO-Z
(2016)
The Encyclopaedia of Slovenian cultural history in Carinthia (Austria) is conceaved as a pluridisciplinary and intercultural reference work with over 160 authors, some 1000 entries and in total over 2100 conceptual entries ...
Historische Gärten Österreichs / Bd. 1
(2002)
In the year 1999 the project of the inventarisation of the historic gardens in Austria, financed by the Austrian Science Fund FWF was finished with the manuscript “Historic Gardens in Austria. Gardens and Parks from the ...
Enzyklopädie der slowenischen Kulturgeschichte in Kärnten/Koroška, Band 2: J-PI
(2016)
The Encyclopaedia of Slovenian cultural history in Carinthia (Austria) is conceaved as a pluridisciplinary and intercultural reference work with over 160 authors, some 1000 entries and in total over 2100 conceptual entries ...
Volkserzählungen der Südslaven
(2002)
The hitherto unpublished collection of South Slavic folk tales in German translation in the legacy of Friedrich Salomo Krauss (1859-1938), jewish-croatian ethnography, writer and sexologist, in Los Angeles, is on the one ...
Die Wiener Free-Jazz-Avantgarde: Revolution im Hinterzimmer
(2005)
There are some strange stories heard in Viennese jazz scene. Already in the second half of the 1950s, two art students, who were in touch with painters like Arnulf Rainer, Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Ernst Fuchs, ...
Performanz und Imagination in der Oralkultur Südosteuropas
(2017)
This monograpy analyses forms of performativity in the oral cultures of Southeast-Europe, as gestures, masks and disguising, theatrical customs, popular and professional theatre, as well as forms of imagination, like ...
„Berufsstand“ oder „Stand“?
(2016)
The Constitution of 1 May 1934 saw an attempt made in Austria to create an alternative to parliamentary democracy in the form of an order based on the professional “Stand” (corporation). The failure of this attempt was due ...
Frauen und Geschlechter
(2006)
This volume is an outcome of the FWF project P14853 "Ethnographie - Gender-Perspektive - Antikerezeption". The research project intended to connect ancient ethnography, gender studies and the running methodological debate. ...
Der griechisch-orientalische Religionsfonds der Bukowina 1783-1949
(2020)
A comprehensive secularisation process in the course of the
Josephinian reforms led to a complete restructuring of church assets. As
early as 1783 a Greek-Oriental Religious Fund attributed to the Bukovina
was established. ...