Between 1914 and 1918, around 1,500 films were produced in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy – a far greater number than previously assumed. Many of them were produced to entertain and not for war propaganda purposes. A comprehensive filmography now provides an unparalleled empirical basis and unravels some of the myths. Continue reading “Silent witnesses of a world war”
Eleven regimental languages and countless dialects: the Habsburg army was a Babel of languages. In a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, the historian Tamara Scheer explored how the Emperor, the army, soldiers and the military bureaucracy coped with this linguistic diversity. Her conclusion: in an imaginative and flexible way. Continue reading “Linguistic strife in times of war”
They were born in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, migrated, wrote manifold texts going against the grain of mainstream society in the 19th and early 20th centuries and have been widely ignored by literary history: with the support of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, the German studies scholar Alexandra Millner researched migrant women writers and assembled them […] Continue reading “Women’s voices against prejudice under the monarchy”