By Fatima Felicitas Naqvi-Peters
After Kurt Waldheim's election as president in 1986, Austria's "founding" fable turned the article of a lot feedback. whereas victimhood had previously served as an explanatory paradigm for the nation's old improvement, complicity with Nazism without notice looked to be a extra persuasive version. Austrian paintings from the eighties and nineties deals a extra nuanced viewpoint in this dramatic shift. rather than an inexorable chasm, a curious oscillation among viewing oneself as fascism's sufferer and its wrongdoer turns into obvious. In exposing the "victim-and-perpetrator" rhetoric with all its power difficulties, the works lower than dialogue have created what could turn into the second one Republic's lasting cultural legacy.
The dissertation starts with Thomas Bernhard's scandal-provoking Heldenplatz (1988). The play makes use of a court docket version: the Austrian viewers stands accused of fascist leanings by means of Jewish characters who themselves reveal authoritarian characteristics. Wolfgang Murnberger's movie, Himmel oder Hölle (1990), examines the conflicting calls for of state and Heimat (one's neighborhood or local background), in addition to the transmission of an ethos of victimhood to later post-war generations. Robert Menasse's Selige Zeiten, brüchige Welt (1992) maintains this engagement with the place of origin by means of returning us to Austria's fin-de-siècle. the radical demonstrates how Freud's sufferer narratives, omnipresent in nationwide psycho-histories, determine within the gendering of Austria as a malevolent magna mater. Michael Haneke's movie, Benny's Video (1992), increases the problem of cultural imperialism and its violent side-effects in a society that represses the earlier. eventually, Christoph Ransmayr's 1995 novel, Morbus Kitahara , drawing at the Vienna memorial debates, pessimistically assesses the act of commemoration and means that empathy with fascism's sufferers may be taken too a long way.
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