Revisiting Austria

Tourism, Space, and National Identity, 1945 to the Present

AvGundolf Graml

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-06-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:395 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Austrian and Habsburg Studies
Antal sidor:292
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781836956631

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Servicesektorn inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

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

Recensioner i media

“Gundolf Graml’s book presents a fresh, enterprising assessment of the role played by tourism in the construction of ‘Austrianness’ under the Second Republic…[It] offers much to mull over and invigorates both tourism and Austrian history with new approaches.” • Journal of Austrian Studies“Revisiting Austria is one of the best works that I have read on the issue of coming to terms with the Nazi past—in this case, Austria’s difficulty in confronting it. The author’s suggestions that this legacy is less repressed than disruptive is a significant contribution.” • Shelley Baranowski, University of Akron“This is an impressive piece of interdisciplinary work, drawing on a range of diverse sources and demonstrating a confident command of the literature. Despite covering quite a lot of ground, it is a pleasurable and easy read.” • Tim Kirk, Newcastle University

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroductionPart I: “Where is this Much-Talked-Of Austria?” Remapping Post–World War II AustriaChapter 1. ‘We Love Our Heimat But We Need Foreigners!’: Tourism and the Reconstruction of Austria 1945–55Chapter 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 HolocaustChapter 4. Linz09: Tourism and History on a Local, Regional, and European LevelChapter 5. Alpine Vampires: The Haunted Landscapes of Elfriede Jelinek’s Children of the DeadChapter 6. The Blind Shores of Austrian History: Christoph Ransmayr’s Morbus KitaharaPart III: Austrian Narratives of Place and Identity in the Context of GlobalizationChapter 7. Trapped Bodies, Roaming Fantasies: Mobilizing Constructions of Place and Identity in Florian Flicker’s Suzie WashingtonChapter 8. The Copy and the Original: The Sound of Music and Austrian National IdentityConclusion: When Austria Moves to China