Karl Kraus - The Last Days of Mankind

DURAZZO (Map F5), capital (1913–21) and main port of Albania, occupied by Italy (late 1914), taken by Austro-Hungarian troops (February 1916): 182, 358.

EDWARD VII (1841–1910), British monarch who initiated the Anglo-French →Entente and made similar overtures to Franz Joseph at →Bad Ischl in 1907 and 1908: 396.

EGGER-LIENZ, Albin (1868–1926), Tyrolean painter specializing in battle scenes: 139.

EISNER v. EISENHOF, Baron Angelo (1857–1938), ubiquitous society figure, conservative publicist, editor of Die Information , providing confidential diplomatic and financial news: 42, 43, 121, 180, 235, 506.

EISNER VON BUBNA, Colonel Wilhelm (1875–1926), head of War Archive (1916), commandant of War Press Bureau (1917–18): 444.

“EMIL, YOU’RE A TRUE BERLINER” (“Emil du bist eene Pflanze”), waltz (1908) by Wilhelm Aletter (1867–1934): 435.

ENGELHORN , German magazine specializing in sentimental stories; publisher of a series of popular novels: 110.

ENTENTE, military alliance led by Britain, France, and Russia, later joined by Italy and other nations.

ERNST, Otto (Otto Ernst Schmidt, 1862–1926), German writer of sentimental stories. Allusions to “Brief an Herrn Gabriele →d’Annunzio” (Open Letter to d’Annunzio), in Gewittersegen (The Blessed Storm), Ein Kriegsbuch (1915); “Sonntag eines Deutschen” (A German Sunday), in Vom geruhigen Leben, Humoristische Plaudereien (1908); “An die Zeitknicker” (On Time-Twisters) and “Anna Menzel”, in Vom Strande des Lebens (1908); “Weihnachtsepistel” (Christmas Celebration), in Stimmen des Mittags (1903): 126, 279ff.

ERTL, Emil (1860–1935), author of regional and historical novels: 326.

ESTE →Franz Ferdinand.

EUGEN, Archduke (1863–1954), commander Balkan forces (1914), in command of failed offensive in Trentino (Map D4) after Italy’s entry into war (1915), field marshal (1916): 275, 486.

EUGENE, Prince of Savoy (1663–1736), adoptive Austrian hero (“der edle Ritter”), ally of Marlborough against French, governor of Austrian Netherlands, victories over Ottomans at Peterwardein (1716), Belgrade (1717); →“Prince Eugene March”: 493.

EUROPA, Café, →Riedl: 102.

EXCHANGE PROFESSOR, especially between Germany and United States, after foundation of Theodore Roosevelt Chair in Berlin and Kaiser Wilhelm Chair at Columbia University (1906).

EXNER, Wilhelm Franz (1840–1931), erstwhile head of Institute of Applied Technology, initiator of “Artificial Limbs Appeal”, member of Austrian Upper Chamber: 44, 232, 506.

EXPANSION AND INTENSIFICATION of alliance, euphemism (transformed into satirical leitmotif) for the domination of Germany over Austria-Hungary after meeting of two emperors in Spa, Belgium, May 1918 (V, 9), following the failure of Emperor Karl’s attempt to conclude a →separate peace (→negotiated peace). Kraus provocatively hinted at the parallel between this relationship and the humiliation of China in its Military Convention of 30 May 1918 with pro-Entente Japan: 428ff, 437f, 525.

EXTRABLATT ( Illustriertes Neues Extrablatt ), sensationalist Viennese daily, noted for political satire: 102, 105 (→Schiller misquotation: “entleibt”, lifeless—“entlaubt”, leafless; a “Blatt” is a newspaper, a leaf, or a hand at cards).

EYSLER, Edmund (1874–1949), operetta composer, → Lady-Killer: 493.

FABINI, Ludwig Hermann von (1861–1937), lieutenant field marshal, →“Kaiserjägertod”.

FACKEL, Die (1899–1936, The Torch ), revue edited and published by Karl Kraus: ix, x, xii, xiv, xv, xvi, xvii, xix, xx, xxi, 53, 121, 132, 254, 469f, 477f, 596.

FALKENHAYN, Erich von (1861–1922), Prussian minister of war (1913), chief of German General Staff (1914–16) until replaced by →Paul von Hindenburg; army commander at Verdun and →Gorlice (1915), subsequently on Romanian/Turkish and Russian fronts (1916–18): 271, 272.

FANTO, Baby, playboy member of Fanto family: 319f, 399.

FANTO, David (1852–1922), influential industrialist, founder of oil refinery: 133, 399, 511.

FANTO, Frau (probably Gisella, née Goldstein, 1850–1941), wealthy socialite: 575.

FATHERLAND PARTY (Vaterlandspartei, 1917–18), pursued pan-German, nationalistic goals, co-founded by →Admiral Tirpitz after his resignation over failure to secure deployment of High Seas Fleet: 300.

FEIGL (Josef Melbourn, 1857–1935), journalist (→ Extrablatt , 1910) and dramatist: 96ff.

FELDKIRCH, Vorarlberg, on border with Switzerland and Liechtenstein (Map C3), headquarters for military censorship and for postal services to and from neutral countries: 530.

FENRIS, wolf in Scandinavian mythology, symbol of all-devouring fire destined to consume the world: 381.

FERDINAND of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, appointed prince of →Bulgaria (1887) on its achieving independence from Ottoman suzerainty, and king (1908–18); entered war on side of Central Powers in 1915: 222.

FESCH, “Poldi”, quintessential Viennese character (cf. Feschak: a dashing man about town): 172, 242, 319f.

FICHTE, Johann Gottlieb (1762–1814), German philosopher. His Discourses to the German Nation (1808) were a foundational text for German nationalism: 107f, 356, 369.

FLAGS, black-red-yellow: German revolutionary colours in 1848 (and again after 1918 and 1949); black-white-red: colours of German Empire, 1871–1918; black-yellow: Habsburg colours (→Schwarz-Gelber): 343, 579.

FLAK (Fliegerabwehrkorps/kanone), acronym for antiaircraft fire (ack-ack): 226.

FLOH, Der , light entertainment magazine: 76.

FLORIANIGASSE (Plan A2), runs from City Hall into →Josefstadt at back of the →Theater in der Josefstadt: 196ff.

FLORIDSDORF, industrialized suburb with large army base (Van Swieten Kaserne), across the Danube in north-west of city: 231.

FOREIGN OFFICE (Ministerium des Äussern, Plan B3): 53, 345ff, 422ff.

FRANK, Liborius Ritter von (1848–1935), commander, Army of the Balkans: 102.

FRANKFURTER ZEITUNG , liberal-democratic daily: 285.

FRANZ FERDINAND, d’Este (1863–1914), Archduke and heir to the throne, whose assassination at Sarajevo furnished a pretext for the First World War, dashing the hope that, on accession, he “might well have put things right without bloodshed” (as the Grumbler puts it in IV, 29): xiv, xvii, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 122f, 377ff, 390, 393f, 485, 597.

FRANZ JOSEPH I (1830–1916), became emperor in 1848, and king of Hungary after →Hungarian Compromise of 1867 (→Royal and Imperial), authorized war in 1914; seen by the Grumbler as a “demon of mediocrity” (IV, 29); → When First I Saw the Light of Day (IV, 31): 37, 56, 57, 64, 66, 74, 102, 104, 121, 123, 125ff, 138, 164, 208, 219, 224, 244, 256, 272, 273, 308, 325, 375ff, 382, 385, 388, 390ff, 413, 455, 485f, 497ff, 533, 592.

FRANZ KARL SALVATOR, Archduke (1893–1918), son of →Franz Salvator: 276.

FRANZ SALVATOR, Archduke (1866–1939), general, inspector general of Public Health Voluntary Service, acting patron of Red Cross: 219, 238, 275, 399, 486, 498, 576.

FREMDENBLATT (1847–1919), semiofficial organ of Foreign Office: 252.

FRENCH GOLD, consignments of bullion reputedly being smuggled across Germany to Russia in August 1914, a rumour that provoked paranoid reactions: 59.

FREUDENAU, racecourse in →Prater: 307.

FRIEDJUNG, Heinrich (1851–1920), patriotic historian; accused members of Croatian Diet of treasonable complicity in →Serbian independence movement (1909, → Slovensky Jug ), sued for defamation in celebrated “Friedjung Case” (I, 6): xi, xii, 65ff, 431.