No Role to Play and yet part of Austria’s Heritage: the Habsburgs after 1918
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Nossa senhora do Monte, photo from Wiener Bilder of 31 March 1935
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Bruno Kreisky and Otto Habsburg-Lothringen shaking hands on the occasion of a ceremony to mark 50 years of the Pan-European Movement, 1972
Copyright: ÖNB Bildarchiv
Partner: Austrian National Library
Cole, Laurence: Der Habsburger-Mythos, in: Brix, Emil u.a. (Hrsg.): Memoria Austriae I. Menschen, Mythen, Zeiten, Wien 2004, 473-504
Reisacher, Martin: Die Konstruktion des „Staats, den keiner wollte“. Der Transformationsprozess des umstrittenen Gedächtnisorts „Erste Republik“ in einen negativen rhetorischen Topos. Diplomarbeit Wien 2010. Unter: http://othes.univie.ac.at/10190/1/2010-06-07_0252520.pdf (20.06.2014)
Quotes:
„Well, what am I supposed to do? ...": zitiert nach: Scheidl, Hans-Werner: Wahlkampf mit Bruno (1), in: Die Presse vom 30.08.2013. Unter: http://diepresse.com/home/meinung/pizzicato/1446725/Wahlkampf-mit-Bruno-1 (20.06.2014) (Translation)
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Kapitel
- 12 November 1918 as a Site of Memory
- The New State in Search of its National Holiday: 12 November as the Site of Political Dividing Lines
- Austria, the Country without a National Anthem
- Disputed Zones: Monuments and Street Names
- Myths and Narratives: ‘The Rest is Austria!’ … or something like that
- Myths and Narratives: ‘The Reluctant State’ and ‘The State that Nobody Wanted’
- No Role to Play and yet part of Austria’s Heritage: the Habsburgs after 1918
