Arnold Schönberg and summer retreat antisemitism in the Salzkammergut
Online memorial exhibition
Away with the Jews!
Object #20
Away with the Jews!
External letters, Mattsee, 21 June, in
Neue Warte am Inn 41/25 (25 June 1921), p. 4
Austrian National Library, Vienna
An insider leaked a situation report to the Neue Warte am Inn weekly newspaper published in Braunau on 21 June, which was printed in that paper’s 25 June issue. That “medium of advocacy of the peasantry and industry” had been a platform for years for disseminating German National slogans, extoling “useful antisemitism” as an effective tool for expelling Jews. This report appeared five days prior to more mentions in Viennese and Prague newspapers.
(Away with the Jews!) In 1920, Mattsee successfully kept the seasonal location free from Jews, and the summer guests were very thankful – and it should be the same this year. However, the Jew [Heinrich] Schönberg, the husband married in a civil ceremony to Miss Berta Ott, unexpectedly succeeded in lodging a dozen Hebrews in Mattsee. Therefore, last Sunday the local council unanimously resolved a protest rally against admitting Jews, thus warding off defilement of good Mattsee, the Jew-free seasonal location. One should not think that Christians would condescend to remove the Redeemer’s image from their dwellings in order to grant lodgings to Jews. If the local council’s protest is effective, a course of action will be expected from the affronted populace.
Cf. Therese Muxeneder: Arnold Schönbergs Konfrontationen mit Antisemitismus (III), in: Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Center 16/2019. Edited by Eike Feß and Therese Muxeneder. Wien 2019, p. 165–254
Introduction
This year’s tourist season in Mattsee
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Heinrich Schönberg with his wife Berta and his daughter Margit
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Come visit me
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Villa Nora
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It’s lovely here
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Harmonielehre
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A popular vacation destination
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Arrogance and Oriental Allures
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Row-boating
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Summer retreat free of Jews
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He is in good humor
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Heil Salzburg! Salzburg wants the Anschluss!
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How are you and yours in Mattsee?
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You will be pleased with me
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Kaiser-Elisabeth-Bahn
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Convivial gatherings
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Antisemitic scandals
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For rent to Aryans
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Disharmony
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Away with the Jews!
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They are doing well there
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Arnold Schönberg: Felix Greissle
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Arnold Schönberg: Harmonielehre
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Arnold Schönberg: the theory of coherence
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It must be splendid there
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I am not staying a day longer
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Threat in his own house
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Anti-Jewish proclamations
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The composer’s baptismal certificate
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Arnold Schönberg: on Zemlinsky
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The Jewish colony in Mattsee
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That outrageous, incredible thing
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The community physician
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An Aryan summer vacationer
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A summer retreat free of Jews
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Einstein’s propaganda speech
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The revolting press notice
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Sedition
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Antisemitic racial attitude
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All is calm within me
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Imaginary and material damage
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Guests of Max Ott
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Guests of Max Ott
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Arrival in Traunkirchen
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Departure
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Very ugly at the end
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Domestic and foreign newspapers
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Villa Josef
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Arnold and Mathilde Schönberg
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Shaken awake
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Such circumstances
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Arnold Schönberg: Baroness Löwenthal
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Traunkirchen
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Arnold Schönberg: Prelude
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A ridiculous matter
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Hegemony in the sphere of music
Object #55