Revisiting Austria

Tourism, Space, and National Identity, 1945 to the Present
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-448-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 580 g

Reihe: Austrian and Habsburg Studies

Following the transformations and conflicts of the first half of the twentieth century, Austria’s emergence as an independent democracy heralded a new era of stability and prosperity for the nation. Among the new developments was mass tourism to the nation’s cities, spa towns, and wilderness areas, a phenomenon that would prove immensely influential on the development of a postwar identity. Revisiting Austria incorporates films, marketing materials, literature, and first-person accounts to explore the ways in which tourism has shaped both international and domestic perceptions of Austrian identity even as it has failed to confront the nation’s often violent and troubled history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Graml, Gundolf

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Tourismuswirtschaft, Gastgewerbe
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

Part I: “Where is this Much-Talked-Of Austria?” Remapping Post–World War II Austria

Chapter 1. ‘We Love Our Heimat But We Need Foreigners!’: Tourism and the Reconstruction of Austria 1945–55

Chapter 2. Destination Heimat: Mobilizing Identity Discourses in Counsillor Geiger [Der Hofrat Geiger] (1947)

Chapter 3. German Tourists as Guardians of the Austrian Heimat: Renegotiating German – Austrian Relations in The Forester of the Silver Forest [Echo der Berge/Der Förster vom Silberwald] (1954)



Part II: Dark Places: Tourism and the Representation of Austria’s Involvement in National Socialism and the Holocaust

Chapter 4. Linz09: Tourism and History on a Local, Regional, and European Level

Chapter 5. Alpine Vampires: The Haunted Landscapes of Elfriede Jelinek’s Children of the Dead

Chapter 6. The Blind Shores of Austrian History: Christoph Ransmayr’s Morbus Kitahara

Part III: Austrian Narratives of Place and Identity in the Context of Globalization

Chapter 7. Trapped Bodies, Roaming Fantasies: Mobilizing Constructions of Place and Identity in Florian Flicker’s Suzie Washington

Chapter 8. The Copy and the Original: The Sound of Music and Austrian National Identity

Conclusion: When Austria Moves to China

Über Autor(innen)

Graml, Gundolf
Gundolf Graml is Professor of German and Assistant Dean for Global Learning at Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia.

Gundolf Graml is Professor of German and Assistant Dean for Global Learning at Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia.