Document Type
Honors Project
Abstract
The political writings of Karl Lueger and Georg Ritter von Schönerer, the founders of the Austrian Christian Social and German National Parties, shaped the right-wing political discourse regarding national identity after the Austro-Hungarian Ausgleich in 1867. As Habsburg hegemony in Central Europe crumbled after the First World War, this conservative political discourse concerning Austrian identity was resurrected in the political posters of the Austrian First Republic. Through an examination of Christian Social and German National constructions of national identity in both pre- and post-World War I Austria, this paper seeks to determine the role that conservative constructions of Austrian National identity played in the struggle to form a collective idea of "Austrianness" during the interwar period.
Recommended Citation
Weinshel, Meyer, "An Austrian Identity Crisis: Conservative Thought, Political Posters, and Questions of National Identity during the First Republic." (2012). German and Russian Studies Honors Projects. 8.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/gerrus_honors/8
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