Biography
Josef Frank: Complete Writings, Volume 4 includes the later theoretical writings of the important Austro-Swedish architect and designer Josef Frank (1885–1967), covering the period from 1938 to the early 1950s. In addition to Frank’s essays, Volume 4 will also feature several interpretive essays concerning his work of this period, as well as a long, previously…
Friderike Zweig in American Exile: Cultural Networks and Intellectual Agency, 1940–1971 Although Friderike Maria Zweig (1882–1971) is best known as Stefan Zweig’s first wife, she was herself an accomplished writer, translator, literary agent, and cultural mediator whose work significantly shaped Austrian-American intellectual exchange after her exile to the United States. Drawing on archival materials held…
Red Vienna’s American Dreams This project examines the impact of America and Americana— literary and cultural products that capture the spirit of 1920s-1930s America—on the working-class literary imagination of Red Vienna, and especially in the works of Hugo Bettauer, Hermynia Zur Mühlen, and Felix Salten. At the center of my argument is the thesis that…
Within the frame of the economic migrations of late 19th and early 20th century, two-way communication flows and cultural transfers took place, that contributed to the identity-formation processes both within the United States and within Habsburg Austria. With respect to the Czech migration to the United States, there was the crucial role of Enrique Stanko…