HS340 FIN DE SIÈCLE VIENNA 1865-1914 IES Abroad Vienna

DESCRIPTION: The course presents and analyses fin de siècle Vienna in the context of the Habsburg Monarchy and gives insights into the composition and politics of the monarchy. Stress is laid on the analysis of the differentiated society in Vienna which forms the public for artistic production. In this framework the course will place the intellectual and artistic forces in Habsburg Vienna around the turn of the century. A central role in the course play site visits which are also eye openers for the students.

CREDITS: 3 credits

CONTACT HOURS: 45 hours

LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: English

METHOD OF PRESENTATION: Lectures, tours, discussions

REQUIRED WORK AND FORM OF ASSESSMENT: Attendance, participation in class discussions, midterm exam, final exam, term paper

 Course participation - 20%  Midterm Exam - 20%  Final Exam - 30%  Research Paper - 30%

LEARNING OUTCOMES: By the end of the course students will be able to:  understand the complex situation of fin-de-siècle Vienna  have basic information in different fields (psychoanalysis, fine arts, architecture etc.)  see all the specific themes in the context of historical and social developments-

ATTENDANCE POLICY: IES Vienna requires attendance at all class sessions, including field study excursions, internship meetings, scheduled rehearsals, and all tests and exams. Attendance will be taken for every class. If a student misses more than two classes without an excuse, the final grade will be reduced by one-third of a letter grade (for example, A- to B+) for every additional unexcused absence.

Excused absences are permitted only when: 1) a student is ill (health issues), 2) when class is held on a recognized religious holiday traditionally observed by the particular student, or 3) in the case of a grave incident affecting family members; 4) Exceptions may be made for conflicting academic commitments, but only in writing and only well in advance of missed class time.

Please refer to IES Vienna Attendance Policy for details on how to get your absences excused.

CONTENT:

Week Content Assignments

Week 1 General introduction Tuesday, 1. What is fin-de-siècle? September 18 2. The forming of the Habsburg Monarchy

Thursday, Territories and economic basis of the Habsburg REQUIRED READINGS September 20 Monarchy Johnston, 76-87 Beller, History of Austria 124-196 Vienna in the 19th century

Week 2 Demographic development - Industrialization and its Tuesday, impact on society and politics September 25

Thursday, The social situation I REQUIRED READING September 27 1. The Habsburg emperor and his court Janik, 33-66

Week 3 The social situation II Tuesday, 2. The multinational nobility in the Habsburg October 2 Empire 3. The second society 4. The bourgeoisie

Thursday, NO CLASS October 4

Week 4 The social situation III Tuesday, 1. The underprivileged classes of society October 9 (petite bourgeoisie, peasants, workers, outsiders of society) 2. Education

Thursday, The Jewish population REQUIRED READING October 11 Beller, Vienna and the Jews 11-70, 165-206

Week 5 Struggle for political participation REQUIRED READING Tuesday, (Constitutionalism) Schorske, 116-180 October 16

Thursday, Parties: Liberals, Parties of Christian Socialists, Social October 18 Democrats and German Nationalists

Week 6 The role of women and the beginning of female REQUIRED READING Tuesday, emancipation Paletschek, Sylvia and Pietrow-Ennker, Bianka. October 23 Women´s emancipation movements in the nineteenth century (pdf on moodle)

Thursday, Midterm Test October 25

Week 7 City planning and urban modernisation REQUIRED READING Tuesday, Vienna in the 19th century Schorske, 24-115 November 6

Thursday, Architecture and Fine Arts - General introduction to REQUIRED READING November 8 field trips Pippal, 133-209; The architecture of the Ringstraße, Otto Wagner and Lehne, 89-109 his school - Adolf Loos

Weekend Excursions! Excursions

November 10 & 11

Week 8 New “revolutionary” movements in fine arts REQUIRED READINGS Tuesday, Johnston, 141-155 November 13 Vergo, 18-178

Thursday, Scientific progress in Vienna (2nd Viennese School of REQUIRED READINGS November 15 Medicine, Otto Weininger, Ludwig Wittgenstein) Johnston 167-201 Janik 167-201

Week 9 Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler Tuesday, November 20

Thursday, Classical music versus operetta and Waltz (social REQUIRED READING November 22 approach to new forms of music) I Johnston 128-140, see the book of Endler

Week 10 Classical music versus operetta and Waltz (social Tuesday, approach to new forms of music) II November 27

Thursday, Aspects of fin de siècle literature (discussion of REQUIRED READING November 29 papers) Janik 67-91, see the book of Daviau

Week 11 Summing up: The late Habsburg Monarchy in a Tuesday, European context - Was the Habsburg Monarchy a December 4 Great Power?

Week 12 Final Exam

COURSE-RELATED TRIPS:  Wienmuseum Karlsplatz  Walking tour in Vienna Ringstrasse, Sezession, Art Deco Houses  Museum of Applied Arts  Museumsquartier

REQUIRED READINGS:  Beller, Steven. A concise history of Austria. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press 2006.  Beller, Steven. Vienna and the Jews, 1867 – 1938. A cultural history. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press 1989.  Daviau, Donald. Major Figures of Turn of the Century Austrian Literature. Riverside, CA, 1991.  Endler, Franz. Vienna, A Guide to its Music. Vienna, 1989.  Janik, A., and S. Toulmin. Wittgenstein’s Vienna. New York, 1973.  Johnston, William. The Austrian Mind: An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.  Lehne, Inge, and Lonnie Johnson. Vienna- The Past in the Present: A Historical Survey. 2nd ed.Vienna: Österreichischer Bundesverlag, 1995.  Pippal, Martina. A short Histroy of Art in Vienna. München: Beck 2001.  Schorske, Carl E. Fin de Siècle Vienna. Politics and Culture. New York: Knopf, 1980.  Vergo, Peter. Art in Vienna 1898-1918. New York, 1981.

RECOMMENDED READINGS:  Clare, George. Last Waltz in Vienna: The Destruction of a Jewish Family 1842-1942. London: Macmillan,1981.  Hanak, Peter. The Garden and the Workshop. Essays on the Cultural History of Vienna and Budapest. Princeton, 1998.  Kann, Robert A. A History of the Habsburg Empire: 1526-1918. Berkeley: University of California Press,1974.  Morton, Frederic. A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1979.  Rosenblit, Marsha. The Jews of Vienna 1867-1914: Assimilation and Identity. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983.  Segen, Harold. The Vienna Coffeehouse. Indiana University Press, 1993.  Timms, E., and R. Robertson. Vienna 1900. Edinburgh, 1990.