VIENNA

[Readings in the Course Packet are marked “CP”]

WEEK 1)

I. MODERN CITY / CAPITAL OF AN IMPOSSIBLE COUNTRY

(1) Tue., Sep. 7

Introduction: An impossible country?

The multiethnic Habsburg Empire [CP]

Short history timeline [CP]

(2) Thu., Sep. 9

READ FOR TODAY:

Robert Musil, “Kakania” (from The Man without Qualities, 1930) [CP]

Hugo von Hofmannsthal, “Austrian vs. Prussian” [CP]

Carl E. Schorske, pp. XVII-XXIX

WEEK 2)

(3) Tue., Sep. 14

Vienna's Ringstraße

Map of inner city [CP]

Schorske, pp. 24-62

(4) Thu., Sep. 16

Ernst Mach and “Jung Wien”

Ernst Mach, from The Analysis of Sensations (1886) [CP]

Hugo von Hofmannsthal, “Stanzas in Terza Rima” (1894) [CP]

WEEK 3)

II. SIGNS OF CRISIS

(5) Tue., Sep. 21

Urban avant-gardes: the “Kaffeehaus” culture

Schorske, pp. 3-23;

Alfred Polgar; Stefan Zweig on Viennese coffee houses [CP]

“The missing women of Vienna” [CP]

(6) Thu., Sep. 23

“Young Vienna”

Hofmannsthal, Prologue to Anatol (1892) [CP]

Arthur Schnitzler, “Die Frage an das Schicksal,” from Anatol (1892) [CP]

Hofmannsthal, Death and the Fool (1893) [CP]

Karl Kraus, “Demolished Literature” (1897) [CP]

WEEK 4)

(7) Tue., Sep. 28

Fine Arts: the “Sezession”

Schorske, pp. 208-225

Schnitzler, La Ronde (Plays and Stories, pp. 53-116)

(8) Thu., Sep. 30

Identity

Musil, Young Toerless, (1906), part 1 (to p. 87 -- “too difficult for you for the time being”.)

WEEK 5)

(9) Tue., Oct. 5

Musil, Young Toerless (1906), part 2 (pp. 87 - 159)

(10) Thu., Oct. 7

In class:

VIDEO: Young Toerless (Der junge Törleß, Volker Schlöndorff, 1965; 87 min.)

Short Fall Break (Oct. 9 -12) —

WEEK 6)

(11) Thu., Oct. 14

Musical traditions of the Habsburg Empire (Bruckner, Mahler)

Mahler, “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” (text by Friedrich Rückert) [CP]

WEEK 7)

(12) Tue., Oct. 19

-- FIRST PAPER DUE –

Johann Strauss, Die Fledermaus (1872), info and synopsis [CP]

Johnston on the waltz [CP]

(13) Thu., Oct. 21

Social Conditions and Ethnic Conflicts

Brigitte Hamann, “The Social Question,” Hitler’s Vienna [CP]

Janik/Toulmin on the housing crisis in turn-of-the-century Vienna [CP]

Zweig on prostitution [CP]

Hamann, “Czechs in Vienna,” Hitler’s Vienna [CP]

WEEK 8)

(14) Tue., Oct. 26

Urban Modernism

Schorske, pp. 62-110

III. PLEASURE AND NOSTALGIA

(15) Thu., Oct. 28

Sexuality and Art: Gustav Klimt

Schorske, pp. 225-278

WEEK 9)

(16) Tue., Nov. 2

Arthur Schnitzler, Flirtations (Plays and Stories, pp. 1-52)

(17) Thu., Nov. 4

Richard Strauss/Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Der Rosenkavalier (1911), Act 1

WEEK 10)

(18) Tue., Nov. 9

R. Strauss/Hofmannsthal, Der Rosenkavalier (1911), Acts 2 & 3

Schorske, pp. 279-319

IV. PSYCHOLOGICAL MAN

(19) Thu., Nov. 11

Sigmund Freud, Autobiographical Study

WEEK 11)

(20) Tue., Nov. 16

Arthur Schnitzler, “Lieutenant Gustl” (1900), Plays and Stories, pp. 249-279.

Zweig on dueling [CP]

Schorske, pp. 181-207

V. CENTRIFUGAL FORCES

(21) Thu., Nov. 18

Language Crisis:

H. v. Hofmannsthal,“A Letter” [excerpts] (1902) [CP]

Johnston on Ludwig Wittgenstein [CP]

Le Rider, “The Viennese Identity Crisis” [CP]

THANKSGIVING BREAK (Nov. 20 – 28) —

WEEK 12)

(22) Tue., Nov. 30

The Crisis of Austrian Liberalism (Georg von Schönerer, Karl Lueger)

Schorske, pp. 116-146

Hitler on Vienna, from Mein Kampf [short excerpt in CP]

-- SECOND PAPER DUE --

(23) Thu., Dec. 2

Anti-Semitism and Zionism

Theodor Herzl, “The Solution of the Jewish Question” (1896) [CP]

Schorske, pp. 146-175

VI. REORIENTATIONS

WEEK 13)

(24) Tue., Dec. 7

Revolution in Art: Kokoschka & Schiele

Schorske, pp. 322-344

Revolution in Music: Schönberg, Berg, Webern

Schorske, pp. 344-364

(25) Thu., Dec. 9

A Pioneer in Pacifism:

Bertha von Suttner, Lay down your Arms! [CP]

WEEK 14)

VII. THE DREAM IS OVER

(26) Tue., Dec. 14

Discussion of film / “Joyful Apocalypse?”

Morton on Vienna 1913/14 [CP]

Stefan Zweig on the Redl Affair [CP]

Karl Kraus, “In These Great Times” [CP]

Georg Trakl, “Grodek” [CP

Afternoon:

VIDEO, Oberst Redl (Colonel Redl, Istvan Szabo, 1985; 144 min.)