MOULIN ROUGE, nightclub in Walfischgasse (Plan C4) behind →Opera: 173.
MÜLLER, Hans (1882–1950), author of patriotic plays (Könige, Burgtheater, 1916) and articles, e.g., “Deutschland steht auf” (“Germany awakes”) in →Neue Freie Presse (25 August 1914); brought unsuccessful case for defamation against Kraus (1918): 93f, 135ff. 186, 254, 399, 507f, 592.
MÜLLER, Robert (1887–1924), journalist, →Serbian correspondent, and reporter for →Mittagszeitung in United States (1909–11). Articles on Roosevelt (1912–13) and Austrian Crown Prince (1914): 252.
MUNKACS, town and Habsburg fortress at south-west edge of →Carpathians: 389.
MUSKETE, Die, illustrated right-wing humorous weekly, popular with army officers: xii, xiv, 76, 109, 110, 197f, 483, 528.
“MY BROWN ISONZO LASSIE” (“Braunes Isonzomädel”), song, music by René Richard Schmal (b. 1897) and lyrics by Egon Schubert: 536.
“MY LITTLE POPPET, APPLE OF MY EYE” (“Puppchen, du mein Augenstern”), popular Viennese song (1912), music by Jean Gilbert (1879–1942) and lyrics by Alfred Schönfeld (1859–1916): 126, 372.
NAREW, lake, source of River Narew, tributary of the Vistula with line of Russian fortresses defending Congress Poland; →Rozan taken by German forces during summer offensive in 1915 (IV, 6): 327.
NÄSTELBERGER, Robert (1887–1942), operetta tenor and film actor: 490.
“NECHLEDIL MARCH”, from →Franz Lehár’s first operetta, Wiener Frauen (The Women of Vienna, 1902): 185.
NEGOTIATED PEACE, “All this talk of a negotiated peace was futile” (IV, 36). During 1917, after the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, there were covert peace negotiations endorsed by the German Reichstag, international socialists, and Pope Benedict XV. On territorial issues such as control of Belgium, Alsace-Lorraine, and Poland the rival governments refused to compromise, and secret peace feelers put out by Austria to France after the accession of →Emperor Karl proved equally abortive (stimulating the febrile rumours dramatized in V, 17): 401f, 418, 458, 461f, 502, 511, 519.
NEITHER HIGH-HANDED NOR FAINTHEARTED, “Far removed from being either high-handed or fainthearted” (“Weit entfernt von Hochmut und von Schwäche”), leitmotif coined by →Neue Freie Presse at time of ultimatum to →Serbia: 52, 55, 165, 308, 367, 385.
NEPALLECK, Wilhelm Friedrich von (1862–1924), director of court protococlass="underline" 36ff, 121.
NEUE FREIE PRESSE, editorial office in Fichtegasse (Plan D4), liberal-leaning but pro-war daily, main target of Kraus’s satire: ix, xi, 29, 30, 31, 53, 57f, 59, 77ff, 86f, 91, 96ff, 125, 165, 168, 175ff, 210, 212, 220f, 222, 240f, 251, 256f, 288ff, 306, 343, 345, 350f, 355, 366, 368, 381, 399, 452, 468, 596.
NEVERMORE, in our translation of “The Ravens” (V, 55), may seem like an arbitrary echo of the celebrated poem by Edgar Allan Poe, but we know from comments in Die Fackel that Kraus admired Poe’s work and was familiar with the poem, whose refrain has a terrifying finality. When Kraus gave his last recital of “The Ravens”, recorded on film, the date was 1934 and a new black-shirted scourge of the battlefields had emerged in the shape of Himmler’s SS: 550.
NEW YORK WORLD, organ of the Democratic Party (from 1860): 285.
NIBELUNGS, mythical Germanic warriors whose exploits, supposedly linking the Rhine with the Danube in a →special relationship, are celebrated in the Nibelungenlied: 66, 107, 138, 174, 259, 591f.
NICHOLAS (Nicholas Nicholaïevitch Romanov, 1856–1929), Grand Duke, head of Russian army (August 1914), relieved of command (September 1915), appointed commander in chief, Army of the Caucasus: 58, 64, 362.
NICHOLAS II, →Tsar.
NIESE, Hansi (1875–1934), popular Viennese actress: 218f.
NIETZSCHE, Friedrich (1844–1900), German philosopher and “good European”, whose ideas were, on the one side, traduced (The Will to Power [1906], selectively edited by his sister, seeming to advocate the value-free power politics he deplored), and on the other, demonized (decontextualized lurid metaphors such as the “blond beast” and the “superman” attributed to the arrogant Prussian soldier whom Nietzsche considered a contemptible automaton): 161, 292, 295, 400f.
NO ONE ESCAPES ME (Mir kommt keiner aus—Wiener Kunst-Film, January 1917), comedy detective film, featuring →Hubert Marischka: 372.
NORDDEUTSCHE ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG, Berlin daily: 152.
NORTHCLIFFE, Viscount Alfred Charles William Harmsworth (1865–1922), founded Daily Mail (1896), acquired Times (1906), leading vehicles for anti-German agitation: 332, 596.
NOTHNAGEL, Hermann (1841–1905), professor of medicine, University of Vienna: 315.
NOYON, in northern France, occupied by Germans (September 1914–March 1917): 431.
NUREMBERG (Map D3), German city rumoured to have been targeted by French planes before declaration of war — a classic example of falsehood in wartime: 64, 345.
NYÁRI, Rudi (“the Gipsy count”), famous Roma musician (with brother violinist Joszi) and composer of Gipsy songs: 419.
OBERNDORFF, Count Alfred von (1870–1963), German ambassador to Bulgaria (1916–18): 343ff.
ODELGA, Anna (1863–1944), m. Baron Adolf Odelga (1851–1915), high official in Ministry of Defence (1884–1907): 235.
“OFF WE GO TO FAR-OFF PLACES!” (“Hinaus in die Ferne!”) (1814), marching song in Napoleonic wars, music and words by Albert Methfessel (1785–1869): 75.
OH, AMALIA, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? (Ach, Amalia, was haste blos gemacht? — Luxfilm, Berlin, January 1917), hit comedy film: 372.
“ON ETERNAL PEACE” (“Zum ewigen Frieden”), poem by Kraus inspired by →Immanuel Kant’s essay of 1795, in →Die Fackel, F 474–83, May 1918: 478.
“ON THE BANKS OF THE MANZANARES” (“Am Manzanares”), song, music by Adolf Jensen (1837–1879) and lyrics by Emanuel Geibel (1815–1884): 526.
OPERA (Café De l’Opera), in Operngasse (Plan C4): 102.
OPERA HOUSE (Plan C4): 172f.
OPPENHEIMER, symbolic name for influential financier, probably derived from Jewish court financier and army contractor Samuel Oppenheimer (1630–1703): 120.
ORSINI-ROSENBERG, Count Maximilian (1846–1922), general, privy councillor, and court chamberlain: 41.
ORTELSBURG, town in East Prussia on south-west edge of →Masurian Lakes: 236.
OSTDEUTSCHE POST, probably Viennese Ostdeutsche Rundschau, German-nationalist, anti-Semitic daily: 259.
OTTAKRING, suburb west of Vienna, site of army kitchens (V, 38): 481.
“OUR OLD FRIEND NOAH KNEW WHAT’S BEST” (“Der olle Noah hats doch gewusst”), slow march from operetta Die Faschingsfee (1917), music by Emmerich Kálmán (1882–1953), libretto by Rudolf Österreicher (1881–1966) and Alfred Maria Willner (1859–1929): 517.
“O YOU, MY AUSTRIA” (“O du mein Österreich”), song (1849), music by Franz von Suppé (1819–1895) and words by Anton von Klesheim (1812–1884): 315.
PALLFY, probably Aline, member of princely family. The Palais Pallfy on Josephsplatz (Plan B3/B4) was used as a hospital during the war: 63, 124, 319.
PARMA, Prince Elias von (1880–1959), half-brother of →Empress Zita, chief of staff of Fifty-seventh Infantry Division (September 1916), participated in →Isonzo battles: 531.
PARROT (Cabaret Nachtlicht, 1906–8, then Bradys Wintergarten), cabaret in Ballgasse (Plan C4), so called after its insignia, also shorthand for its regular clientele of archdukes: 483.