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28. Alexander Krakauer (1866–1894) was born in Hungary. He attended the Technische
Hochschule in Vienna and received a musical education at the same time. His compo-
sitions were interpreted by the most famous and important Volkssänger of his time, such
as Edmund Guschelbauer (1839–1912) and Alexander Girardi (1850–1918). At the
end of his life, he was plagued by a lung disease that he wanted to have cured in the spa
town of Bad Gleichenberg. He died on his journey there. See Th
eophil Antonicek and
Alexander Krakauer, “Skizze einer Würdigung,” in Volksmusik – Wandel und Deutung:
Festschrift Walter Deutsch zum 75. Geburtstag, ed. Gerlinde Haid, Ursula Hemetek, and
Rudolf Pietsch (Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2000), 566–67.
29. Antonicek and Krakauer, “Skizze einer Würdigung,” 567–68.
30. Th
ere may have been a diff erence here between Vienna and Berlin, where a positive
portrayal of family played a prime role, at least in the performances held at the Herrn-
feld Th eater. See Stefan Hofmann, “Bürgerlicher Habitus und jüdische Zugehörigkeit:
Das Herrnfeld-Th eater um 1900,” Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts 12 (2013):
446.
31. See Daniel Boyarin, Unheroic Conduct: Th
e Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the
Jewish Man (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 33–80. See also chapter 4
of this study.
32. Marline Otte also discusses this point, if perhaps from another perspective, in her path-
breaking study Jewish Identities in German Popular Entertainment, 1890–1933 (Cam-
bridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 15–16.
33. Anna Drabek, et al., Das österreichische Judentum: Voraussetzungen und Geschichte (Vi-
enna: Jugend und Volk, 1982). In particular, see also the Studia Judaica Austriaca series
published by the Association of the Österreichisches Jüdisches Museum Eisenstadt (Aus-
trian Jewish Museum Einsenstadt).
34. Former UN secretary general Kurt Waldheim ran for president of Austria in 1986. Over
the course of his campaign, it was made public that he concealed in his biography certain
aspects of his past, namely that he had been an offi
cer in the German Wehrmacht during
World War II. Waldheim’s actions and the fact that large parts of the Austrian govern-
ment and the Austrian public defended him provoked fi
erce criticism from outside the
country, in particular from the World Jewish Congress. On this, see Cornelius Lehn-
guth, Waldheim und die Folgen: Der parteipolitische Umgang mit dem Nationalsozialismus
in Österreich (Frankfurt: Campus, 2013), 91–152.
35. For more on the initial activities of the Jewish Museum, see “Das Jüdische Museum der
Stadt Wien 1993/94. Chronik,” in Wiener Jahrbuch für jüdische Geschichte, Kultur und
Museumswesen (Vienna: Christian Brandstätter, 1994/95), 187–93.
36. Gerald Lamprecht, “Die österreichischen jüdischen Museen im zeitgeschichtlichen Kon-
text,” in Zeitgeschichte ausstellen in Österreich: Museen – Gedenkstätten – Ausstellungen, ed.
Dirk Rupnow and Heidemarie Uhl (Vienna: Böhlau, 2011), 217–20 [213–35].
37. Gerhard Bodendorfer, “Ein Forschungsinstitut für ‘Jüdische Kulturgeschichte’ in Salz-
burg?!,” in Jüdische Studien: Refl exionen zu Th eorie und Praxis eines wissenschaftlichen
Feldes, ed. Klaus Hödl (Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2003), 51–72.
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Entangled Entertainers
Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
- Title
- Entangled Entertainers
- Subtitle
- Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
- Author
- Klaus Hödl
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Date
- 2019
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-1-78920-031-7
- Size
- 14.86 x 23.2 cm
- Pages
- 196
- Categories
- Geschichte Vor 1918
- International
Table of contents
- Introduction 1
- 1. Jews in Viennese Popular Culture around 1900 as Research Topic 13
- 2. Jewish Volkssänger and Musical Performers in Vienna around 1900 44
- 3. Jewishness and the Viennese Volkssänger 78
- 4. Jewish Spaces of Retreat at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 121
- 5. From Difference to Similarity 148
- Conclusion 163
- Bibliography 166
- Index 179