Chapter 1. “We Love Our Heimat but We Need Foreigners!” Tourism and the Reconstruction of Austria, 1945–55

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction. Tourism, Space, and National Identity 1
6. Part I. “Where Is Th is Much-Talked-Of Austria?” Remapping Post-World War II Austria
7. Chapter 1. “We Love Our Heimat but We Need Foreigners!” Tourism and the Reconstruction of Austria, 1945–55 17
8. Chapter 2. Destination Heimat: Mobilizing Identity Discourses in Der Hofrat Geiger (Privy Councilor Geiger) (1947) 55
9. Chapter 3. German Tourists as Guardians of the Austrian Heimat: Renegotiating German-Austrian Relations in Echo der Berge/ Der Förster vom Silberwald (Echo of the Mountains/Th e Forester of the Silver Wood) (1954) 87
10. Part II. Dark Places: Tourism and the Representation of Austria’s Involvement in National Socialism and the Holocaust
11. Chapter 4. Linz09: Tourism and History on Local, Regional, and European Levels 103
12. Chapter 5. Alpine Vampires: Th e Haunted Landscapes of Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Kinder der Toten (Th e Children of the Dead) (1995) 130
13. Chapter 6. Th e Blind Shores of Austrian History: Christoph Ransmayr’s Morbus Kitahara (Th e Dog King) (1995) 152
14. Part III. Austrian Narratives of Place and Identity in the Context of Globalization
15. Chapter 7. Trapped Bodies, Roaming Fantasies: Mobilizing Constructions of Place and Identity in Florian Flicker’s Suzie Washington (1998) 183
16. Chapter 8. Th e Copy and the Original: Th e Sound of Music (1965) and Austrian National Identity 202
17. Conclusion. When Austria Moves to China 263
18. Index 276