Review Essay : Prospects of Progress: Nestroy Re-edited

All quotations are from the edition Sämtliche Werke, ed. by Fritz Brukner and Otto Rommel (15 vols, Vienna, 1924-30).

M.A. Rogers , " 'Dies Österreich ist eine kleine Welt' ", in Austrian Life and Literature 1780-1938, ed. by Peter Branscombe (Edinburgh, 1978), 76.

Johann Nestroy , Sämtliche Werke. Historisch-kritische Ausgabe. Ed. by Jürgen Hein and Johann Hüttner (Vienna, Munich: Jugend und Volk). Johann Nestroy im Bild. Eine Ikonographie. By Heinrich Schwarz, ed. by Johann Hüttner and Otto G. Schindler, 1977. 175 pp. S 480 (subscription price S 384). Briefe. Ed. by Walter Obermaier, 1977. 251 pp. S 220 (subscription price S 176). Neither of the volumes of text announced for publication in 1979 had appeared when this article was prepared for press in February 1979.

E.g. Edward Crankshaw , The Fall of the House of Habsburg ( London, 1970), 180f.; Hellmut Andics, Oesterreich 1804-1975: Oesterreichische Geschichte von der Gründung des Kaiserstaates bis zur Gegenwart, revised edn (4 vols, Vienna, Munich, 1976), i, 163f.

See Johann Christian Schoeller: Karikatur und Satire in Biedermeier und Vormärz, 54. Sonderausstellung des Historischen Museums der Stadt Wien (Vienna, 1978). No. 64 and no. 66 in this catalogue are the originals of items 141 and 197 in Johann Nestroy im Bild; no. 76 is a water-colour of 1841 not recorded by Schwarz. Item 139 in Schwarz, recorded there as "verschollen", appeared in the exhibition (catalogue no. 142); but the whereabouts of items 143, 189 and 208 in Schwarz recorded as being now unknown in the exhibition catalogue (nos 331-3).

Grillparzers Gespräche und die Charakteristiken seiner Persönlichkeit durch die Zeitgenossen, ed. by August Sauer (6 vols, Vienna, 1904-16), vi, 185 (entry no. 1412).

Wiener Lieder und Tänze, ed. by Eduard Kremser (3 vols, Vienna , 1912-25), i, 86f.

Alois Eder , "Litererische Sozialkritik im Vormärz. Nestroys Werk als Quelle der Sozialgeschichte", Beiträge zur historischen Sozialkunde, iii, Heft 3 (1973), 48-53.

Notable exceptions include the chapters on Nestroy in Erich Joachim May, Wiener Volkskomödie und Vormärz (Berlin, 1975), and John R. P. McKenzie's articles "The technique of Verwienerung in Nestroy's Judith und Holofernes", New German Studies, i (1973), 119-32, and "Political Satire in Nestroy's Freiheit in Krähwinkel", to appear in Modern Language Review, Lxxv (1980), the latter of which is the most important recent non-Marxist attempt to deal with the relation of satire and political reality.

Jürgen Hein , "Neuere Nestroyforschung (1967-1973)", Wirkendes Wort, xxv (1975 ), 140-51 (see p. 148).

Ernst Fischer , Von Grillparzer zu Kafka ( Frankfurt a.M., 1975; suhrkamp taschenbuch 284), 157.