Interwar Salzburg - Austrian Culture Beyond Vienna

A long-overdue reassessment of post-1918 Salzburg as a distinct Austrian cultural hub that experimented in moving beyond war and empire into a modern, self-consciously inclusive, and international center for European culture. For over 300 years, Salzburg had its own legacy as a city-state at an international crossroads, less stratified than Europe''s colonial capitals and seeking a political identity based in civic participation with its own economy and politics. After World War I, Salzburg became a refuge. Its urban and bucolic spaces staged encounters that had been brutally cut apart by the war; its deep-seated traditions of citizenship, art, and education guided its path. In Interwar Salzburg , contributors from around the globe recover an evolving but now lost vanguard of European culture, fostering not only new identities in visual and performing arts, film, music, and literature, but also a festival culture aimed at cultivating an inclusive public (not an international elite) and a civic culture sharing public institutions, sports, tourism, and a diverse spectrum of cultural identities serving a new European ideal.

About the author

Robert Dassanowsky was Professor at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, an independent film producer, former President of the Austrian Studies Association, and author of Austrian Cinema (2005); New Austrian Film, ed. (2011); World Film Locations: Vienna, ed. (2012); Screening Transcendence: Film under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope 1933–1938 (2018).Katherine Arens is Professor of Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She has published widely on comparative Austrian/German intellectual and cultural histories, most recently Vienna's Dreams of Europe and Belle Necropolis: Ghosts of Imperial Vienna (both 2015), and The Other Kant: Experiments in Embodied Knowledge (with Carlos Amador, forthcoming). She has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Plato Award from the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Arens, Meyer, Robert von Dassanowsky
• Assisted by: Katherine Arens (Editor), Robert von Dassanowsky (Editor), Imke Meyer (Editor), Robert von Dassanowsky (Editor), Imke Meyer (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.08.2025
• EAN: 9798765112571
• ISBN: 9798765112571
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 214 mm x 24 mm
• Series: New Directions in German Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; austria, History of Ideas, European History, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events, Comparative Literature, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Salzburg (state)