Research Catalog

Title

The Vienna coffeehouse wits, 1890-1938 / translated, edited, and with an introduction by Harold B. Segel.

Publication

West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

Segel, Harold B., 1930-

Description

xiii, 390 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

Segel's extensive introduction provides a wealth of information concerning the social, political, and cultural background of turn-of-the-century Vienna. The eight artists assembled here are concerned with their world, Austria and particularly Vienna. They exchange ideas, argue, gossip, tell stories, read each other's works and even write in the coffeehouse.

Subjects

• Vienna (Austria) > Humor
• Vienna (Austria) > Literary collections
• Austrian wit and humor > Austria > Vienna > Translations into English
• Austrian prose literature > Austria > Vienna > Translations into English
• Austrian prose literature > 20th century > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• Humor.
• Literary collections.
• Translations.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: The Vienna Coffeehouse in Society and Culture -- Hermann Bahr -- The Overcoming of Naturalism -- Red Trees -- Karl Kraus -- The Demolished Literature -- An Evening with the Bulgarian Royal Couple -- S.M. -- The Question of Crete -- Don Munz -- From the Wastepaper Basket -- Rabbits with Jewish Dialect -- Peter Altenberg -- How I Came to Be -- How I Became a "Writer" -- In Munich -- Little Things -- Perfection -- Peter Altenberg as Collector -- Picture Postcards -- Picture Postcards -- The Hotel Room -- Decorating a Room -- Checkpoint -- So Should It Always Be -- Reserved Table -- Reserved Table -- The Reserved Table -- Rules for My Reserved Table -- Episode -- Perfume -- Domestic Servants -- Late-Summer Afternoon -- The Twins -- Dialogue -- Nineteen -- Theater Evening -- Japanese Paper, Vegetable Fiber -- Dogs -- Flirt -- Venice -- The Primitive -- From Prodromos -- The Kidney -- Vienna's Hygiene -- Letter to Grete Wiesenthal, the Dancer -- Letter to the Dancer -- Mental Hospital -- Felix Salten -- Peter Altenberg -- The Vienna Route -- Pleasures of the Night -- Handwriting and Work -- Egon Friedell -- The Panama Hat -- Vienna the "Theater City" -- The Austrian Spirit -- The Cabaret -- The Story of the Fledermaus -- Cabaret Fledermaus -- Haresu -- How I Came to Haresu -- When I Was a Stage Director -- What Is a Theatrical Tour? -- The Practical Art of Living -- Alfred Polgar -- The Viennese Feuilleton -- Leonhard Has an Experience -- Small World -- Posters -- Theater Evening 1915 -- Vienna, December 1918 -- In the Telephone Booth -- Beethoven Masks -- Looking Down on the Orchestra -- Good Eating -- Theory of the Cafe Central -- Girls -- Rigoletto -- Interview -- I Can't Read Novels -- The Small Form -- The Loos Case -- It Doesn't Pay to Die -- Meeting -- In a Tight Spot -- The Suit -- The Female Table Companion -- Marionette Theater -- Higher Mathematics -- Anton Kuh -- Spirit of the Age in the Literary Cafe -- Melange = Milk + Coffee -- Vienna without Newspapers -- The Awful Jokesters -- Zarathustra's Ape (Karl Kraus) -- The Second on the Right -- The Bohemian -- The Arrest of Adolf Loos -- Central and Herrenhof -- The Dog Who Became a Coffeehouse Regular -- Lenin and Demel -- Adventures of a Monocle -- From Physiognomics: Observations -- Cabaret Nonsense -- The World of the Variety Theater -- Diary of a Hotel Guest -- Sanatorium Diary -- Edmund Wengraf -- Biographical Sketch -- Coffeehouse and Literature.

ISBN

• 1557530335
• 9781557530332
• 1557530343
• 9781557530349
• 9781557530646
• 1557530645

LCCN

92024804

OCLC

• ocm26302157
• 26302157
• SCSB-2001340

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library