Hofmannsthal

englisch‘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aesthetic and socio-historical context of European modernist culture and, in addition to the publication of previously unpublished correspondence, offers contributions by renowned scholars on literature, the visual arts, philosophy, psychology, politics, dance and theatre at the turn of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:

Rudolf Kassner on his 150th birthday on 11th September 2023.

Unpublished letters from six decades

Annotated and commented on by Klaus E. Bohnenkamp

Miriam Schabinger: Oedipus after Sophocles and before Freud—Hofmannsthal's ‘Fairy Tale of the 672nd Night’

Maximilian Bergengruen: In a ‘waking dream’—Split personality and demonology in Hofmannsthal's ‘Oedipus and the Sphinx’

Traian-Ioan Geanӑ: Hieroglyph, cipher, thing, symbol—Hieroglyphic discourse and double symbolism in Hofmannsthal's ‘Conversation on Poems’

Günter Schnitzler:Hugo von Hofmannsthal and music

Antonia Eder: Eigenzeiten und Raumsemantik—Hofmannsthal's textual art as libretti for Strauss

Peter W. Marx: Gaining new ideas in the prism of tradition—Hofmannsthal and Reinhardt's joint theatre work