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Contents Acknowledgments ix Foreword xi Introduction: Biographies of the Austrian State Problem 1 1. The Problem of the Austrian State and People(s) 4 2. Empire and Austrian Identity 13 3. The Biographies 16 Part One: Ernest von Koerber (Heinrich Friedjung): The Problem of the Austrian State 29 1. Heinrich Friedjung: History and Identity 30 Friedjung on Koerber 39 2. Ernest von Koerber and the Austrian State Problem 42 Koerber’s Solution to the Austrian Problem 43 The Constitutional Reform Plan 49 The Administrative Reform Plan 55 The Question of Imperial Unity 57 3. Koerber in Context 59 Koerber and the Imperial Regime 60 Koerber and the Problem of German Nationalism 63 Koerber’s Second Minister Presidency (1916) 67 4. Heinrich Friedjung: History and Politics 71 5. Conclusion 80 Part Two: Hugo von Hofmannsthal (Leopold von Andrian): The Problem of the Austrian Culture 105 1. Understanding Hofmannsthal 109 Hofmannsthal’s Political Engagement 112 2. Guardians of Austrian Culture: Hofmannsthal and Andrian 120 Andrian, Hofmannsthal, and the Austrian Identity 120 Der Rosenkavalier 127 3. Hofmannsthal in the Great War 134 The Poet in These Times of War 136 The Austrian Library 138 Andrian at War (Preusse und Österreicher I) 142 Hofmannsthal and Mitteleuropa (Preusse und Österreicher II) 149 Der Schwierige (Preusse und Österreicher III) 153 4. Austrian Identity after the Empire 159 Arabella, or the Reconciliation of Austria with the Slavic East 162 Andrian and the Creation of an Austrian Nation 163 5. Conclusion 165 Part Three: Josef Redlich (Karl Renner): The Problem of the Austrian People(s) 187 1. The Problem of the Austrian State and Empire 189 Josef Redlich’s Das österreichische Staats- und Reichsproblem 193 Karl Renner’s Nationalitätenbundesstaat 198 2. Democracy and Empire 203 Redlich and the Allure of Empire 205 Renner and the Reassertion of Empire 211 3. The Administrative Reform Commission (1911–1914) 216 4. War as the Solution to the Austrian Problem (1914–1918) 230 Karl Renner and Mitteleuropa 231 Josef Redlich and the Transformation of the Austrian Problem 237 5. The End of the Austrian Problem 245 Conclusion 269 Sources and Literature 273 Index 297 ...