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Deborah Holmes: The Wanderer and the City – Feuilleton Writing in "Red Vienna"
The lecture will examine the development of a socialist strand within the Viennese Feuilleton tradition using the example of how the itinerant and homeless were represented in the Arbeiterzeitung between the wars. Caught between the exigencies of political propaganda and literary aspirations, many Feuilletons of the time display creative tension as regards wandering figures and their relationship to the idealised collective that was "Red Vienna". Remnants of Biedermeier Romanticism co-exist uneasily with socialist rhetoric of modernity and progress as Feuilleton journalists are torn between nostalgia for more primitive forms of nomadic life and realistic, socially critical depiction of the homeless. Thus the marginalised wanderer, flotsam of the modern city, reflects both the political and literary dilemmas of the period.
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