„Auf Germanen! Schützet Eure Marken!“

Abstract

The now abundant literature on Germanic legends and the Germanic cult in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has so far mainly focused on Germany. Austrian components, in contrast, have only been mentioned in passing or neglected altogether, unless they were used for comparison. This study aims at contributing to the iconography of Austrian picture postcards by analysing samples from the last decades of the Habsburg monarchy. The now abundant literature on Germanic legends and the Germanic cult in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has so far mainly focused on Germany. Austrian components, in contrast, have only been mentioned in passing or neglected altogether, unless they were used for comparison. This study aims at contributing to the iconography of Austrian picture postcards by analysing samples from the last decades of the Habsburg monarchy.

Keywords

• late Habsburg monarchy
• origin myths
• the ideology of the Germanic cult
• political picture postcards