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How the Habsburg heritage has been undermined and sustained in East-Central European Discourses

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In 1918 the Danube Monarchy ceased to exist and its provinces became parts of the Monarchy´s successor states, which increasingly assumed the character of nation-states. The regimes of these countries were usually oblivious and/or hostile to remnants of the erstwhile Austrian rule due to ideological reasons: they treated them as traces of a superimposed imperial power and an alien - democratic, pluralistic, liberal - tradition. Notwithstanding that fact, erasing the Habsburg Empire from maps of Europe did not entail the entire cancelation of its legacy on the former Habsburg territories. Although officially neglected or suppressed, this legacy made itself felt, overtly or tacitly, in discourses present in the public sphere of the countries that superseded the Monarchy.¶

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Baran-Szoltys, Magdalena
Magdalena Baran-Szoltys war Kollegiatin des Doktoratskollegs ¯Das österreichische Galizien und sein multikulturelles Erbe® an der Universität Wien. Die Slawistin, Germanistin und Literaturwissenschaftlerin forscht komparatistisch zur polnischen und deutschsprachigen Literatur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts.

Woldan, Alois
Prof. Dr. Alois Woldan lehrt slawische Literaturen an der Universität Wien und ist ein Spezialist für galizische Literatur in polnischer, ukrainischer und deutscher Sprache.

Wierzejska, Jagoda
Dr Jagoda Wierzejska is a historian of contemporary literature and culture, an adjunct professor in the Department of Literature of the 20th and 21st century at the Faculty of Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland.

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