Austrian and German History and Literature

Austrian literature in relation to the broader context of German and Austrian history and literature is a topic I discussed in the early 1980s with Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler, as well as Hilde Spiel and Kurt Fischer, and I have returned to these concerns in various ways since then. As a historian, these questions are particularly interesting to me. In particular, I have always wondered what the relationship of literature is to the broader context of intellectual life—including philosophy, polit..