“Uninvited, History Entered Our Lives”: The Post-World War I Transitions in Autobiographical Perspective

Abstract

The article deals with the role of autobiographical writings of women intellectuals and their depiction of the post-war transitions. In foreground are the autobiographical texts of ten women (Rosa Mayreder, Zofka Kveder, Marija Jurić Zagorka, Marija Vinski, Anica Lokar, Hilde Spiel, Alma Mahler Werfel, Angela Vode, Salka Viertel, Gusti Jirku Stridsberg) of different nationalities, social groups, generations, professions and classes who through their writing, created a legacy that thematizes the topics of nostalgia, politics, family, war and gender. The article focuses on transnational and gender perspectives of autobiographical writings as a historical source for the early post-Habsburg era.