Burgermeister Dr. Karl Lueger und seine Beziehungen zur Kunst.(Review) (book review)
Germanic Review, The, June, 2000 by VON DASSANOWSKY, ROBERT
Gunther Berger. Burgermeister Dr. Karl Lueger und seine Beziehungen zur Kunst. Frankfurt a.M: Peter Lang, 1998. 395 pp.
The image of the maverick mayor of Vienna, Karl Lueger, whose historical significance is based on his charismatic Christian-Social populism and his innovative leadership, has been among the more provocative and controversial subjects in the popular discourse of Second Republic Austria. Although his name continues to label a portion of Vienna's grand Ringstra[Beta]e and he is celebrated by monuments, there is also a popular media and even intellectual reticence to deal with Lueger as a major influence in the city's history. What surfaces in this evasion, one surpassed only by the difficulty in dealing with Standestaat leaders Engelbert...
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