Abstract
This article explores how Charlotte Glas, a founding member of the Austrian Social Democratic Party and a leading figure in the public sphere during the late imperial period, attempted to advance the cause of workers’ rights and women’s emancipation. Charged with lèse-majesté following a public rally in 1893, and tried before a Viennese court, Glas was forced to confront both the repressive policies of the Habsburg state and the patriarchal practices of her society and her party. Ultimately, Glas chose to subordinate the fight for women’s suffrage to the broader socialist campaign for universal male suffrage. Her dilemmas as a woman, Jew and socialist were captured in the character of Therese Golowski in Arthur Schnitzler’s Der Weg ins Freie.
Highlights
Democratic Party and a leading figure in the public sphere during the late imperial period, attempted to advance the cause of workers’ rights and women’s emancipation
The epithet “great” is justified not least because she served as the model for an important character in Arthur Schnitzler’s roman à clef Der Weg ins Freie, namely Therese Golowski, the radical political agitator who is a member of the Social Democratic Workers’ Party of Austria (SDAPÖ) [4]
This character assumes a paradigmatic position among the assimilated bourgeois Jews in Vienna, whose range of individual responses to the crisis of liberalism and rising anti-Semitism Schnitzler’s novel explores
Summary
Democratic Party and a leading figure in the public sphere during the late imperial period, attempted to advance the cause of workers’ rights and women’s emancipation. The epithet “great” is justified not least because she served as the model for an important character in Arthur Schnitzler’s roman à clef Der Weg ins Freie, namely Therese Golowski, the radical political agitator who is a member of the Social Democratic Workers’ Party of Austria (SDAPÖ) [4].
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