THE CENTER for AUSTRIAN STUDIES AUSTRIAN STUDIES NEWSMAGAZINE ASN Vol. 25, No. 1 • Spring 2013

in this issue: Nora Berend: Violence and the creation of ethnic identity plus Herb Fantle’s escape from Nazi Vienna and “Assimilation” and the children of Hungarian émigrés FALL2011TOC departments ASN Austrian Studies News from the Center 4 Newsmagazine A farewell to Linda Andrean - Voices of Vienna Volume 25, No. 1 • Spring 2013 Scholarship winner - Austrian History Yearbook, Designed & edited by Daniel Pinkerton Vol. XLIV & more Editorial Assistants: Katie Evans, Garrett Karrberg, Politics & Society 10 Mollie Madden, and Kevin Mummey Interview with Herb Fantle ASN is published twice annually, in spring and fall, and The Arts & Culture 12 is distributed free of charge to interested subscribers as a public service of the Center for Austrian Studies. Franz-Schubert-Institut - ACF’s new exhibit - Interim Director: Klaas van der Sanden Salzburg Festspiele preview & more Program Coordinator: Katie Evans Publications: News & Reviews 16 Editor: Daniel Pinkerton New books by Gerald Stourzh, Paul Lendvai, Send subscription requests or contributions to: Joshua Shanes - Hot off the Presses & more Center for Austrian Studies University of Minnesota Scholars & Scholarship 22 Attn: Austrian Studies Newsmagazine interviews with Nora Berend and Timea Oláh - 314 Social Sciences Building 267 19th Avenue S. Meet the Wirth Institute’s new doctoral fellows - Minneapolis MN 55455 H-Net interfaces with scholarly societies & more Phone: 612-624-9811; fax: 612-626-9004 Website: http://www.cas.umn.edu Editor: [email protected] COVER: Historian Nora Berend (Cambridge University), 2012 Kann Memorial Lecturer. (See interview on p. 24.) Photo by Daniel Pinkerton.

editor’s note Our new colleague and her Central European roots Several stories in this issue discuss aspects Linda Andrean, her contributions, and her new earned an M.A. in political science in 2009 of a CAS reorganization that began last fall. career. from Central European University. Her work The Letter from the Director (p. 3) gives an In this space, I want to introduce you to Katie focused on political communication and new overview and a feature about our longtime Evans, the newest member of the CAS staff. media. administrative manager (p. 4) talks about Katie brings a wealth of education, travel, and Upon graduating, Katie worked first at a experience to the position of program coordina- TV station in Duluth, eventually becoming tor. In this capacity, Katie does many things for a producer. She then moved to the University us. She plans conferences; coordinates publicity, of Texas, San Antonio, where she did her first communications, and outreach; she assists the work in grant management and implementa- director; she proofreads and writes for the ASN. tion. She worked at the University of Minne- Katie is a native of Minneapolis, and yet, sota’s Center for German and European Stud- because her family moved to Duluth—about 3 ies from January 2010 to May 2012. While hours north of the Twin Cities—and she gradu- there, she wrote a cover story on Hungarian ated with a B.A. in international studies from the politics for the spring 2012 ASN. University of Minnesota-Duluth, she considers Katie is fluent in Hungarian, keeps in con- herself a Duluthian. tact with Hungarian friends, and visits Hun- Katie has longstanding ties to Central Europe. gary whenever she can. She traveled through As an undergraduate, she studied at Corvinus the entire country during her stays there. University in Budapest for three semesters, living “Hungary is so small,” she says. “It’s approxi- in Budapest from December of 2001 to August mately one-third the size of Minnesota, so it of 2003. While there, she studied economics and was easy to get to places.” We are excited to history. She interned at the weekly English lan- have her on the CAS team for a wealth of rea- guage newspaper The Budapest Times for the sons, as you can clearly see. We hope you will summer of 2004. welcome her as warmly as we do. Katie Evans She returned to Hungary again in 2008 and Daniel Pinkerton

2 Austrian Studies Newsmagazine LETTERfrom the DIRECTOR CASspring calendar It is 5 degrees Fahrenheit (or, for those readers who prefer Celsius, a chilly -15) in Minnesota and yet we have spring on our 2013 minds at the Center. Spring is a time of transition and change. In my last letter, I Monday, February 4­-Friday, March 1. On-campus talked about the past. In this letter I want visits by four finalists for CAS director. to talk about change and the future. Tuesday, February 26. Lecture. Farid Hafez, We are in spring cleaning mode. We just political science, philosophy of law, University of spent three days going through old, old Vienna. “From Harlem to Hoamatlond/the Alps: Hip files that have accumulated over decades, Hop, Malcolm X and Islamic Activism in Austria.” and we cleaned up. We emptied file cabi- 4:00-5:00 p.m., 710 Social Sciences. Cosponsors: the net after file cabinet, threw many things European Studies Consortium (ESC) and the Institute away, sent some things to the archives, and for Global Studies (IGS). organized the files we needed to save. The Center’s offices look . . . well, they look Monday, March 11. Lecture. John Swanson, history, clean and spacious. Suddenly we have lots University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. “Nostalgic of room. Identities: German Refugees from Hungary on Film.” Of course one finds curiosities and 4:00-5:00 p.m., 710 Social Sciences. Cosponsors: small treasures under the layers of dust ESC, IGS, and the Immigration History Research and debris. Pictures of recently retired col- Center (IHRC). leagues as young men (taken in the 1970s, Tuesday, March 12. Film. Screening of About a when men still ruled the University) with Village/Children of the High Woods, directed by John outlandish ties, odd looking suits with Swanson. Director will be on hand for Q & A after. large lapels, and trousers with bell bot- us to take advantage of efficiencies and 7:00 p.m., 710 Social Sciences. Cosponsors: ESC, toms. We found stacks of carbon paper easily accessible expertise for a whole range IGS, and IHRC. (remember those days?) and old invoices of common administrative tasks. More Friday, March 29. Lecture. Alice Lovejoy, cultural for computers. At some point the Center importantly, it will allow us to work more studies and comparative literature, University of contemplated the purchase of an IBM easily toward scholarly and intellectual col- Minnesota-Twin Cities. “‘A Young Workshop’: Crafting computer with a 40 MB hard drive and a laborations. a Film Culture in the Czechoslovak Army.” 3:00-5:00 printer for the incredible sum of $9,000. The Hub is intended not just as an p.m., 135 Nicholson. Cosponsors: the Department of At those prices I am not surprised we administrative support structure; it also Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and ESC. kept our carbon paper. The treasures, you serves as a facilitator for programmatic wonder? How about several original issues collaborations and efficiencies. The prox- Friday April 5 - Saturday April 6. Symposium. of Die Fackel as published in the early imity of sister centers brings with it easy “Representing Genocide: Media, Law and 1900s by Karl Kraus? We did not throw collaborations. It is paying off already. Next Scholarship.” Friday, Room 20 Mondale Hall; those out. fall we will work hand in hand with the Saturday, Room 50 Mondale Hall. Cosponsors: the All this cleaning is part of an adminis- Center for Holocaust and Genocide Stud- Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and others trative change in the Center. As of a couple ies (CHGS) and with the Human Rights (see p. 8 for complete list of sponsors). of months ago we joined an “Administra- Program (HRP) on a symposium on Polit- Thursday, April 11. Lecture. Berthold Molden, tive Collaborative Service Center” set up ical Extremism and Violence. This is a very history, Marshall Plan Chair, University of New by the College specifically for research timely topic in