Hofmannsthal

‘Hofmannsthal – Jahrbuch zur europäischen Moderne’ has been published since 1993 and is considered the most important organ of Hofmannsthal research. It places the works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929) in the aesthetic and socio-historical context of European modernist culture and, in addition to the publication of previously unpublished correspondence, offers contributions by renowned scholars on literature, the visual arts, philosophy, psychology, politics, dance and theatre at the turn of the century.

Contents of this year‘s volume:

Katja Kaluga
Letters from Hugo von Hofmannsthal to Karl Kraus

Marco Rispoli
Hofmannsthal and Fortuny

Julia Jennifer Beine
Jakob Bidermann's ‘Cenodoxus’

Klaus E. Bohnenkamp
Letters from Rudolf Kassner to André Gide

Juliane Vogel
Perpetual beginning and incessant figuration in Hofmannsthal

Sabine Schneider
Hofmannsthal's work on genre knowledge

Mathias Mayer
Hofmannsthal's ‘Book of Friends’

Sigrid Nieberle
Hofmannsthal's reading instructions

Michael Woll
Integration and disintegration in Hofmannsthal's work

Jürgen Sandhop
Hofmannsthal's review of Henri-Frédéric Amiel's Fragments d'un journal intime

Susanne Klingenstein
Hofmannsthal attends a Yiddish play in Czortków

Virginia Wild
Landscape Experiences in Hofmannsthal's ‘The Letters of the Returnee’

Anna Lindner
Hofmannsthal's Influence on Schnitzler's ‘The Lonely Way’

Robert Leucht
Villa Karma, an Experiment in Viennese Modernism

Leonhard M. Fiedler
Kafka's Flowers