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"Der 28. Juni […] sollte ein denkwürdiger Tag werden." Zu figuralen und lokalen Aspekten der Darstellung eines symbolträchtigen Datums in Ludwig Winders Roman Der Thronfolger und bei einigen anderen Autoren.
| Title in English | June 28 [...] was to become a memorable day: On personal and local aspects of the presentation of the symbolic date in the novel Heir to the Throne by Ludwig Winder and in other authors |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
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| Description | In Ludwig Winder's novel Der Thronfolger, 28 June appears in the novel as the title of two chapters the theme of which is firstly the assassination of the heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand and his wife in 1914 and secondly the renunciation of the throne by Franz Ferdinand for his wife and progeny in 1900. The same date also brings forth the defeat of the Serbs at the Battle of Kosovo on St.Vitus Day (Vidovdan) in 1389. Marginally it is also reminiscent of the Sokol rally in Brno on 27-29 June 1914, for which the masses of southern Slavs travelled from Serbia and Bosnia to Moravia and which in Winder's novel Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand, encounters on their way to Sarajevo. Not only in this narrative interplay of the fateful date, but also in Bruno Brehm's novel Apis and Este and in Joseph Roth's Radetzky March, those Sokol activities are probably the least known and only marginally reflected in Czech fiction on, too. Moravian melancholy, ascribed by Otto Pick to German writers from Moravia in 1927, perhaps goes beyond language and national culture (for example with Rudolf Těsnohlídek) and differs from the much better-known Czech burlesque rendering of the assassination in Sarajevo in Hašek's Schweik. |
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