Wednesday, 11 September | Thursday, 12 September | Friday, 13 September

The event will be streamed live on facebook and YouTube.

9.30-10.15 am
Jessica Payette (Rochester, USA)
Encountering Kraus and Schoenberg in the Twenty-First Century

10.15-11.00 am
Hartmut Krones (Wien, AT)
»[...] als Sozialist | Muß man allen doch wünschen gleichen Anteil am Mist«. Karl Kraus’ Kritik an der sozialdemokratischen Kulturpolitik

11.15 am-12.00 pm
Therese Muxeneder (Wien, AT)
Arnold Schönberg & Karl Kraus. Perspektiven

1.30-2.15 pm
Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer (Bern, CH)
Moses und Vergil, die Reparatur der zerbrochenen Welt und die Verantwortung jüdischer Avantgarde-Künstler. Arnold Schönberg und Hermann Broch im Vergleich.

2.15-3.00 pm
Gerald Krieghofer (Wien, AT)
Karl Kraus und Arnold Schönberg gegen den Nationalbestialismus

3.15-4.30 pm
Discussion
Offene Forschungsfragen zu Kraus und Schönberg: Judentum und Antisemitismus
Matthias Schmidt (Basel, CH) (chair), Gerald Krieghofer (Wien, AT), Therese Muxeneder (Wien, AT), E. Randol Schoenberg (Los Angeles, USA)

4.45-5.45 pm
Book talk “Die Schönberg Challenge”
Christoph Becher in conversation with Markus Böggemann
Wolke Verlag, Hofheim, 2024

On the occasion of the 150^th birthday of Arnold Schönberg and Karl Kraus, an interdisciplinary symposium will follow in the footsteps of two of the most important driving forces of Viennese Modernism. As an advocate of musical evolution, Schönberg embodied the courage to deviate from convention. His literary oeuvre bears witness to the multilayered influence of Kraus’ writings. As a moral arbiter of language, Kraus waged a relentless battle against corrupting newspaper phrases, double standards, and aesthetic uniformity. The symposium will address language criticism and polemics as well as Jewish Vienna, social democratic cultural politics, aspects of reception history, publicity strategies, new ways of listening, and Kraus’s reception of Offenbach.

Cooperation Arnold Schönberg Center and Center for Research on Arnold Schönberg and the Viennese School at the Department of Musicology and Performance Studies of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

No registration required.