During the years about 1900, the city of Vienna was not only the political capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but also the centre of intense cultural activity. In the field of letters there appeared a group of young Viennese artists and intellectuals, such as most prominently Arthur Schnitzler and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. However, the attractive power of Vienna at this period should be put into perspective, considering for instance the rivalry with other major cultural centres such as Berlin, Paris or Budapest. The perception of Vienna as the main centre – partly due to a later mythical construction – should therefore be redefined as a complex phenome-non determined by the dynamic relationship inside a multipolar constellation of European major cities.
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Méry, Marie-Claire: Die Zentralität von Wien im Fin de siècle. Wirklichkeit oder Mythos?. <http://www.germanistik.ch/publikation.php? id=Die_Zentralitaet_von_Wien_im_Fin_de_siecle> (Publiziert März 2013)
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Méry, Marie-Claire: Die Zentralität von Wien im Fin de siècle. Wirklichkeit oder Mythos?. In: Michael Stolz, Laurent Cassagnau, Daniel Meyer und Nathalie Schnitzer (Hg.): Germanistik in der Schweiz (GiS) Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Akademischen Gesellschaft für Germanistik. Heft 10/2013. Bern: germanistik.ch 2013, S.255-266