Dream and Reality

The exhibition "Dream and Reality" - organised in 1985 by the Vienna Museum, then shown in the Künstlerhaus, Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York - has shaped the international understanding of the Viennese century. Within the framework of the conference "Empire, Socialism and Jews" leading scholars continue to think about the fundamental themes of the exhibition and ask about the connections between socialist traditions of postnational federation, Jewish affinity for the Habsburg monarchy and the continuities between the Habsburgs and Austrian history.

16.30–18.15 Uhr
Panel: Discovering Fin-de-siècle Vienna, Forgetting the Monarchy?

Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University
Carl Schorske and the American Imagination of Vienna 1900

Heidemarie Uhl, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Traum und Wirklichkeit:The Austrian Invention of Vienna 1900

Discussion: Sylvia Mattl-Wurm, Wienbibliothek in Rathaus

18.30–19 Uhr
Keynote: Malachi Hacohen, Duke University
Empire, Socialism & Jews: Rewriting the Monarchy into Austrian History

19–20 Uhr
Roundtable: Erhard Busek, ehem. Politiker, Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi, Journalistin, Helmut Konrad, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Doron Rabinovici, Schriftsteller

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