Austria As Theater And Ideology: The Meaning Of The Salzburg Festival; Author: Steinberg, Michael P.; Paperback

Author: Steinberg, Michael P.
Paperback; 7 B&w Photographs
288 pages
Published: November 2000
Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801486920

In this highly regarded book, Michael P. Steinberg investigates the goals and meanings of the Salzburg Festival from its origins in the wake of defeat in World War I and the collapse of theHabsburg Empire. He focuses on those aspects that reveal with special clarity the interplay between the Festival's history and the larger problems of Austrian and German ideology and identity. In thePreface to the Cornell Paperbacks edition, Steinberg explores the latest chapter in the Austrian culture wars.Offers insights into various aspects of the culture which shaped the Salzburg Festival, integrating political history, biography, drama, opera analyses and a critique of ideology. The author shows how the festival sought to embody the paradox of nationalist cosmopolitanism.