Sissi’s World

Maura E. Hametz is Professor of History at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Her research explores the history of Trieste and the northeastern Adriatic regions since the late 19th century with emphasis on the intersections of politics, culture, economy, law, religion, gender, and ethnicity and nationalism. Her major works include In the Name of Italy (2012) and Making Trieste Italian, 1918-1954 (2005), and she co-edited Jewish Intellectual Women in Central Europe, 1860-2000 (2012). Heidi Schlipphacke is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. Her research focuses on the German Enlightenment and its critique, kinship and family structures, post-war German and Austrian literature and film, and queer and gender studies. She is the author of Nostalgia After Nazism: History, Home and Affect in German and Austrian Literature and Film (2010).

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Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: "Sissi": The Convergence of Memory and Myth
Maura E. Hametz (Old Dominion University, USA) and Heidi Schlipphacke (University of Illinois Chicago, USA)

I. Memory
2. Encounters: Ulrike Truger, Elisabeth – Zwang – Flucht – Freiheit, 1998/99
Christiane Hertel (Bryn Mawr College, USA)
3. The Remains of the Stay: The Corporeal Archive of Empress Elisabeth in the Hofburg
Beth Ann Muellner (College of Wooster, USA)
4. Sisi Redux: The Empress Elisabeth and Her Cult in Post-Communist Hungary
Judith Szapor (McGill University, Canada) and András Lénárt (National Széchényi Library, Hungary)
5. A Place for Sissi in Trieste
Maura E. Hametz (Old Dominion University, USA) and Borut Klabjan (European University Institute in Florence, Italy)
6. Empress Elisabeth and the Painting of Modern Life
Olivia Gruber Florek (Delaware County Community College, USA)
7. Karl Lagerfeld and the Elisabeth Myth
Carolin Maikler (Independent Scholar, Switzerland); Translated by Marieanne Gilliat-Smith
8. Sissi, the Chinese Princess: A Timely and Versatile Post-Mao Icon
Fei-Hsien Wang and Ke-chin Hsia (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)

II. Myth
9. Melancholy Empress: Queering Empire in Ernst Marischka's Sissi Films
Heidi Schlipphacke (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
10. Sisi: A Double Reflection on a “Queer Icon"
Susanne Hochreiter (University of Vienna, Austria)
11. Imagining Austria: Myths of “Sisi” and National Identity in Lilian Faschinger’s Wiener Passion
Anita McChesney (Texas Tech University, USA)
12. Cocteau’s Queen: Sissi between Legend, Spectacle, and History in L’Aigle à deux têtes
Elizabeth Black (Old Dominion University, USA)
13. Fat, Thin, Sad - Victoria, Sissi, Diana and the Fate of Wax Queens
Kate Thomas (Bryn Mawr College, USA)
14. Sisi in the Museum: Exhibits in Vienna and the US
Susanne Kelley (Kennesaw State University, USA)

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