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Österreichische Mediathek, akustische Chronik
http://www.akustische-chronik.at/
Österreichische Mediathek, akustische Chronik is an online mulitmedia timeline of 20th-century Austrian history displayed through audio excerpts, photographs, scanned images and videos. There are some extremely valuable historical materials here, which will particularly serve teachers and students and should be of interest to researchers and members of the public. The audio files are in German except for one audio recording of Sigmund Freud speaking mainly in English; there is also a later audio recording of Freud describing his 1939 emigration from Austria to Britain to flee the Nazis. Famous figures predominate, ranging from Emperor Franz Joseph I to Hitler, but there are plenty of important but less well-known Austrian personalities here, such as actors, writers, composers, scientists and politicians. The site also posts contemporary recordings of popular music and scanned images of stamps and coins. Entries on figures such as Austria's first astronaut, Franz Viehbö̈ck, broaden the offerings beyond cultural history. Each year has an individual timeline available in a menu at the bottom of the main chronology. This is a resource that stands apart from the rest in terms of its creative presentation and outstanding archival materials.
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Lernet-Holenia homepage
http://www.lernet-holenia.com/
This is a website devoted to one of Austria's most significant 20th-century writers, Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897-1976). Having come of age in a noble family during a period when the Habsburg Empire collapsed, the works by this prolific author convey 'the image of an Austria haunted by the social and political elements of the lost ... Empire.' The site also takes note of Lernet-Holenia's preoccupation with Austrian national identity, Central European culture and monarchy, and his warnings against Nazism and Communism, which filled the subsequent power vacuum. As such, the site should serve Austrian Cultural Studies and German Studies specialists as well as historians of Habsburg and Austrian history to equal advantage. The site has recent news of upcoming and recent academic events and publications related to the author. It lists the members of the international academic association which focuses on Lernet-Holenia and a new, unrelated, research centre based at the Phantastischen Bibliothek in the German city of Wetzlar. There is a good short biography of the writer on the site, along with a number of book and primary source excerpts; reviews; articles; primary and secondary source bibliographies; a filmography; and lists of television and radio productions of the writer's work. The site gives links to books which may be purchased online through cooperation with an online book retailer. Finally, there is a short list of links, mainly related to Austrian Cultural Studies.
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