Zwischen “Kriegsgott” und “Operettenfigur”: Inszenierungen militärischer Männlichkeit in der österreichischen Literatur zum Ersten Weltkrieg

This article examines the forms of staging confrontation with the experience of difference in literary texts on World War I, taking into account the unique heterogeneity of the Austrian construction of masculinity and the various forms of competition and rivalry. The subject of the analysis is the problematic constitution of the Austrian male identity stylized as a very “male” German national character, on the one hand, and the integration of “Slavic” or “feminine” elements in the construction of Austrian military masculinity, on the other.