AEHRENTHAL, Count Alois Lexa von (1854–1912), foreign minister (1906–12) who pursued a more aggressive policy towards South Slav separatism, including the annexation of →Bosnia-Herzegovina: 124.
AERIAL BOMBARDMENT, pioneered in January 1915 by Zeppelin attacks on English coastal towns; denounced by the Grumbler (I, 29): 159f, 164, 227f, 240f, 264, 421, 501, 504, 539, 543f, 580f, 587f.
AGE OF GRANDEUR, leitmotif taken from the colossal painting by Ludwig Koch (1866–1934) entitled Die große Zeit, which transforms the nineteenth-century slogan into a depiction of troops led by →Emperor Franz Joseph, →Conrad von Hötzendorf, and →Kaiser Wilhelm II on horseback, and which presides over the play’s apocalyptic climax (V, 55): xv, xvi, 61, 73, 74, 95, 104, 127, 132, 162, 164, 165, 169f, 212, 255, 299, 325, 329, 340, 420, 470, 497, 517, 520, 539.
ALBANIA (Map F5), occupied by Austro-Hungarian army in 1915 against the wishes of the German High Command: 411ff, 458, 530.
ALBRECHT, Archduke (1897–1955), →Archduke Friedrich’s only son: 275.
ALEXANDRA, Tsarina Feodorovna (1872–1918), m. →Tsar Nicholas II (1894): 360ff.
ALIX OF HESSE →Alexandra Feodorovna.
ALLMER, Anton (1881–1946), “secular” RC priest in →Galicia (1914–15) and Italy (1916–17): 179f.
ALSACE-LORRAINE (Map B3/C3), French provinces annexed by the German Reich in 1871: 352, 503.
ALSERSTRASSE (Plan A1): 427.
AMALFI, Italian battle cruiser, sunk in →Adriatic by German U-boat (July 1915): 142.
AM I TO BE SPARED NOTHING? (Mir bleibt doch nichts erspart), leitmotif, Franz Joseph’s recurrent “lamentatio” (IV, 31): 376, 378f, 390ff.
ANDRIAN ZU WERBURG, Baron Leopold (“Poldi”) von (1875–1951), a member of →Hermann Bahr’s modernist circle in the 1890s, mocked by Kraus for the decadence of his writings; later an influential diplomat and advocate of territorial expansion, ambassador in German-occupied →Warsaw (1915–17), and participant in negotiations at →Brest-Litovsk: 108f, 123.
d’ANNUNZIO, Gabriele (1863–1938), patriotic Italian author who became an aviator during war, dropping propaganda leaflets over Vienna in August 1918: 245, 280.
ANTON GRÜSSER, fictional restaurant, its proprietor an early exponent of irritating interruptions (F 261, October 1908): 204ff.
ANZENGRUBER, Ludwig (1839–1889), dramatist and novelist; Vreni: main character in moralistic drama of peasant life Der Meineidbauer (The Peasant as Perjurer, 1871): 360.
APOLLO, variety and (after 1914) operetta theatre in Gumpendorferstrasse (Plan C4), under →Ben Tibur: 48, 251.
APOSTELGASSE, continuation of Landstrasser Hauptstrasse (Plan F5): 177.
APPONYI, Count Albert Georg von (1846–1933), Hungarian politician, minister of culture and education (1917–18): 485.
ARTSTETTEN (Map E3), village in Lower Austria, site of Hohenberg Castle, residence and final resting place of →Franz Ferdinand and wife →Sophie Chotek: 37, 122.
ARZ VON STRAUSSENBURG (1857–1935), Baron, lieutenant — field marshal, succeeded →Conrad as Chief of Staff (1917): 399.
ASIAGO (Map D4), centre of “Sette comuni” in Vicenza, taken by →Conrad’s army group (9 November 1917), totally destroyed during war: 365f, 420, 479.
ASINARA, island off NW Sardinia (Map C5); prisoner-of-war camp where 5,000
Austro-Hungarian prisoners died in cholera epidemic (1916): 309, 545.
ASQUITH, Herbert Henry (1852–1928), prime minister under whom Britain entered the war: 289.
“A THUND’ROUS ROAR” →“Watch on the Rhine”.
AUERSPERG, Prince Karl (“Cary”, 1859–1927), privy councillor and member of Upper House: 123.
AUFFENBERG VON KOMAROV, Moritz (1852–1928), general, war minister (1911–12), victor at the battle of Komarov (26 August 1914), scapegoat for defeat of Fourth Army at →Lemberg (September 1914): 53, 101ff.
AUGUSTA, Archduchess (1875–1964), m. →Josef August (1893), active in nursing the wounded: 309.
AUSTRIAN FACE, satirical leitmotif symbolized by the Frontispiece Kraus chose for his play, a postcard showing “grinning faces, both civilians and officers proud of their honour, crowding around the corpse of →Caesare Battisti to make sure they get their picture on the postcard” (IV, 29). The leitmotiv ironizes the title of →Felix Salten’s Das österreichische Antlitz (1910), a collection of sentimental essays about Austria: 307f, 309, 324, 382f, 421, 488f, 549.
AUSTRIAN OFFICER TO HIS PREGNANT WIFE (V, 33). This letter was written to Mary Dobrzensky by her husband, Count Anton Dobrzensky von Dobrzenicz, who was killed in action when their son was barely six months old (see Timms, Karl Kraus — Apocalyptic Satirist, vol. 2, 191).
AUTOMOBILE CORPS, open to those who put their vehicle at the service of the army, thereby avoiding front-line duty: 81, 120.
BADEN (Map E3), thermal spa and holiday resort in Viennese Woods. Army →headquarters (January 1917): 95, 399.
BAGHDAD, goal for German-financed 1,600-kilometre railway project (begun 1903, completed 1940) to link Berlin with oil interests in Iraq; a source of political concern for other imperialist nations: 503, 586.
BAHR, Hermann (1863–1934), critic and man of letters, trend-setter of the Young Vienna circle, the demolition of whose habitat, Café Griensteidl, in 1897 prompted Kraus’s first satirical pamphlet, Die demolirte Literatur. Bahr’s book on the “blessings of war”, Kriegssegen (1915), included his “Open Letter” celebrating →Hofmannsthal’s valour in the field at a time when the poet had a safe desk job in Vienna: 107ff.
BANKVEREIN (Wiener Bankverein), large Viennese bank: 34.
BARTA, Colonel Emil (b. 1866), military judge: 389.
BATTISTI, Caesare (1875–1916), editor of Social-Democratic daily Il Popolo in Trento and member of the Austrian parliament; joined Italian army (autumn 1914), captured by the Austrians after Italy entered war and hanged as a traitor: xvi, 252, 383ff, 549.
BAUER, Julius (1853–1941), music critic and librettist who collaborated with →Franz Lehár: 399.
BAUER, Ludwig (1876–1935), dramatist; war correspondent in Balkan wars (1912–13); then Swiss correspondent for newspapers in Vienna: 118.
BECK, Count Friedrich von Beck-Rzikowsky (1830–1920), intimate of →Franz Joseph, chief of Austrian General Staff (1881–1906): 391.
BELGRADE (Map F4), capital of the Kingdom of →Serbia; briefly occupied by Austro-Hungarian troops (December 1914), heavily bombarded (February 1915), under aerial attack (June 1915), reoccupied by Austro-Hungarian troops (October 1915 until end of war): x, xi, xiv, 36, 38, 53, 57f, 59, 63, 64, 214f, 308, 413, 498.
BELVEDERE, Viennese residence of →Franz Ferdinand, Baroque palace in park south of city centre, built for →Prince Eugene: 40, 122.
BENEDEK, Ludwig (1804–1881), army commander, resigned after losing Battle of Königgrätz against Prussia in 1866: 101.
BENEDIKT Moriz (1849–1920), editor in chief of →Neue Freie Presse; revered by loyal readers as “the Editor” or simply “Him”: 31, 50, 53, 54, 55, 77ff, 87, 92, 118, 142, 191, 251, 288, 290, 356, 360, 367f, 381, 444f, 448, 468, 570ff, 595ff.
BENEDICT XV (1854–1922), elected pope in 1914: 141f, 147, 190f, 573.
BERCHTOLD, Countess Ferdinandine (1868–1955), m. →Leopold Berchtold (1893): 233.
BERCHTOLD, Count Leopold (“Poldi”, 1863–1942), foreign minister (1912–15), responsible for ultimatum to →Serbia in July 1914; forced to resign in January 1915 after frustration of attempts to conciliate Italy: 62, 64f, 78, 306ff, 423, 592.
BERGER, HOHENFELS-, Stella (1857–1920), actress: 98.
BERLINER TAGEBLATT (B.T.), Liberal daily, published by Rudolf Mosse: 436, 461.