EYSLER, Edmund (1874–1949), operetta composer, →Lady-Killer: 493.
FABINI, Ludwig Hermann von (1861–1937), lieutenant field marshal, →“Kaiserjägertod”.
FACKEL, Die (1899–1936, The Torch), revue edited and published by Karl Kraus: ix, x, xii, xiv, xv, xvi, xvii, xix, xx, xxi, 53, 121, 132, 254, 469f, 477f, 596.
FALKENHAYN, Erich von (1861–1922), Prussian minister of war (1913), chief of German General Staff (1914–16) until replaced by →Paul von Hindenburg; army commander at Verdun and →Gorlice (1915), subsequently on Romanian/Turkish and Russian fronts (1916–18): 271, 272.
FANTO, Baby, playboy member of Fanto family: 319f, 399.
FANTO, David (1852–1922), influential industrialist, founder of oil refinery: 133, 399, 511.
FANTO, Frau (probably Gisella, née Goldstein, 1850–1941), wealthy socialite: 575.
FATHERLAND PARTY (Vaterlandspartei, 1917–18), pursued pan-German, nationalistic goals, co-founded by →Admiral Tirpitz after his resignation over failure to secure deployment of High Seas Fleet: 300.
FEIGL (Josef Melbourn, 1857–1935), journalist (→Extrablatt, 1910) and dramatist: 96ff.
FELDKIRCH, Vorarlberg, on border with Switzerland and Liechtenstein (Map C3), headquarters for military censorship and for postal services to and from neutral countries: 530.
FENRIS, wolf in Scandinavian mythology, symbol of all-devouring fire destined to consume the world: 381.
FERDINAND of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, appointed prince of →Bulgaria (1887) on its achieving independence from Ottoman suzerainty, and king (1908–18); entered war on side of Central Powers in 1915: 222.
FESCH, “Poldi”, quintessential Viennese character (cf. Feschak: a dashing man about town): 172, 242, 319f.
FICHTE, Johann Gottlieb (1762–1814), German philosopher. His Discourses to the German Nation (1808) were a foundational text for German nationalism: 107f, 356, 369.
FLAGS, black-red-yellow: German revolutionary colours in 1848 (and again after 1918 and 1949); black-white-red: colours of German Empire, 1871–1918; black-yellow: Habsburg colours (→Schwarz-Gelber): 343, 579.
FLAK (Fliegerabwehrkorps/kanone), acronym for antiaircraft fire (ack-ack): 226.
FLOH, Der, light entertainment magazine: 76.
FLORIANIGASSE (Plan A2), runs from City Hall into →Josefstadt at back of the →Theater in der Josefstadt: 196ff.
FLORIDSDORF, industrialized suburb with large army base (Van Swieten Kaserne), across the Danube in north-west of city: 231.
FOREIGN OFFICE (Ministerium des Äussern, Plan B3): 53, 345ff, 422ff.
FRANK, Liborius Ritter von (1848–1935), commander, Army of the Balkans: 102.
FRANKFURTER ZEITUNG, liberal-democratic daily: 285.
FRANZ FERDINAND, d’Este (1863–1914), Archduke and heir to the throne, whose assassination at Sarajevo furnished a pretext for the First World War, dashing the hope that, on accession, he “might well have put things right without bloodshed” (as the Grumbler puts it in IV, 29): xiv, xvii, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 43, 45, 49, 122f, 377ff, 390, 393f, 485, 597.
FRANZ JOSEPH I (1830–1916), became emperor in 1848, and king of Hungary after →Hungarian Compromise of 1867 (→Royal and Imperial), authorized war in 1914; seen by the Grumbler as a “demon of mediocrity” (IV, 29); →When First I Saw the Light of Day (IV, 31): 37, 56, 57, 64, 66, 74, 102, 104, 121, 123, 125ff, 138, 164, 208, 219, 224, 244, 256, 272, 273, 308, 325, 375ff, 382, 385, 388, 390ff, 413, 455, 485f, 497ff, 533, 592.
FRANZ KARL SALVATOR, Archduke (1893–1918), son of →Franz Salvator: 276.
FRANZ SALVATOR, Archduke (1866–1939), general, inspector general of Public Health Voluntary Service, acting patron of Red Cross: 219, 238, 275, 399, 486, 498, 576.
FREMDENBLATT (1847–1919), semiofficial organ of Foreign Office: 252.
FRENCH GOLD, consignments of bullion reputedly being smuggled across Germany to Russia in August 1914, a rumour that provoked paranoid reactions: 59.
FREUDENAU, racecourse in →Prater: 307.
FRIEDJUNG, Heinrich (1851–1920), patriotic historian; accused members of Croatian Diet of treasonable complicity in →Serbian independence movement (1909, →Slovensky Jug), sued for defamation in celebrated “Friedjung Case” (I, 6): xi, xii, 65ff, 431.
FRIEDRICH, Archduke von Österreich-Toskana, Duke of →Teschen (1856–1936), field marshal, appointed commander in chief of Austro-Hungarian forces in 1914: 111, 113, 176, 208, 216f, 222, 252, 272ff, 308f, 325, 381f, 519.
FRIEND, The, Ludwig von Ficker (1880–1967), founder of bi-monthly journal for art and culture Der Brenner (1910–54), from March 1918 in →Galicia as commandant of company of repatriated →prisoners of war (letter to Kraus dated 17 July 1918, V, 36): 476ff.
FRISCHAUER, Berthold (1851–1924), war correspondent on Bosnian campaign (1878) and companion to →Crown Prince Rudolph on tour through Balkans, later Paris correspondent for the →Neue Freie Presse: 74, 486.
FÜRSTENBERG, Prince Maximilian Egon (1863–1941), hereditary member of Austrian and Prussian Upper House, friend of →Kaiser Wilhelm II: 234.
FÜRSTENKIND, Das (1909), operetta, music by →Franz Lehár and libretto by →Viktor Léon, 170.
GALICIA (Map G3), Habsburg province on the frontier with Russia, scene of fierce battles; home to some two-thirds of all Austrian Jews, many of whom became refugees during the war: 85, 96, 120, 161, 168, 206, 357, 389, 414, 476, 515, 533.
GALLOWS, “an integral part of my play” (IV, 29). The Grumbler’s claim that “under the command of Archduke Friedrich … 11,400, or according to another version 36,000 gallows were erected” may understate the victimization of allegedly disloyal Habsburg minorities, according to the analysis of Anton Holzer, Das Lächeln der Henker (pp. 73–77). The figure 11,400 derives from the diary of Liberal politician Joseph Redlich, but higher numbers were cited by Polish, Ukrainian, and South Slav deputies during debates in the Austrian Parliament after its recall in May 1917. For further details, see Alexander Watson, Ring of Steeclass="underline" Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914–1918 (London, 2014): 142, 156, 309, 381f, 384, 455, 561.
GANGHOFER, Ludwig (1855–1920), author of popular romantic novels and dramas celebrating Bavaria, wartime reporting, poems, and articles: 93, 115, 117f, 124ff, 131, 592.
GARTENBAU Gesellschaft (Horticultural Society, Plan D4), location of restaurant on Parkring; hospital during war: 29, 68, 113, 171, 235, 319, 534.
GEIRINGER, possibly Leo von, banker: 34, 35.
GENTZ, Friedrich von (1764–1832), anti-Bonapartist publicist, main proponent of conservative-legitimist principle in collaboration with Metternich: 368.
GERL, Lieutenant Heinrich (1891–1954), sapper on →River San: 339.
GERMANIC NAMES. In addition to sonorously Teutonic invented names like von Schmettwitz, Bambula von Feldsturm, and Demmer von Drahtverhau, Kraus introduces the names of real-life German nationalists that sound incongruously Slavonic or Slovenian, such as Homolatsch or →Pogatschnigg. This onomastic satire counterbalances the pervasive allusions to →Jewish names.
GERSTHOF, suburb in north-west of city, adjacent to →Grinzing and Viennese Woods.
GINZKEY, Franz Karl (1871–1963), writer, war correspondent, then Rilke’s superior in →War Archive: 172.
GIPSY PRINCESS →Csardasfürstin.