Christian Brandstätter

Vienna combines drama and elegance like no other. For centuries the heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the stately city on the Danube, has been defined by vast palaces and imperial grandeur—but behind the Baroque opulence, Vienna is also a place of genteel coffee house culture, epicurean tradition, and a heritage of both delicate and daring music, art, and design, from Johann Strauss to Egon Schiele, from Gustav Mahler to Josef Hoffmann. This volume is a treasure trove of photography from the last 175 years, following the evolution of Vienna from imperial capital to modern metropolis. Like a visual walk through time and cityscape, hundreds of carefully curated pictures trace the developments in Vienna’s built environment and the cultural and historical trends they reflect, whether the urban Gesamtkunstwerk of the 19th-century Ringstrasse or the experiments of “Red Vienna” in the 1920s, when the city had a social democrat government for the first time. Through these remarkable photographs, we discover not only the great landmarks and lesser-known corners of Vienna, but also the ubiquity and the tumult of its history. We see the cultural blossoming of the fin de siècle, when radical innovators such as Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Adolf Loos, and Sigmund Freud turned Vienna into a “laboratory of modernity”; the clashes of 1934; the ascent of Nazi dictatorship; and the horrors writ by the Holocaust in what was once one of the most populous and multi-ethnic cities on earth. More recently, fascinating postwar photographs explore the Vienna of the Third Man, at once a city in ruins and a hub for spies. The book closes with the most recent pictures, celebrating the emergence of today’s Vienna—one of the most attractive cities in Europe, in which rich history once again coexists with international flair and vibrant contemporary culture.

At the turn of the 20th century, Vienna became an epicentre for new thought. A multi-disciplinary environment emerged where music, writing and intellectual thought all flourished, often brought together in the capital’s famous coffee houses. This was the time of Freud and Wittgenstein, of Mahler and Schönberg, and of the Secession (1897–1905), the modern movement led by Klimt, Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser that aimed to bring different arts together in a ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’, a total work of art; of Jugendstil, Vienna’s Art Nouveau; and of the Wiener Werkstätte, the workshop founded in 1903 by Moser and Hoffmann that revolutionized the decorative and graphic arts. There have been many exhibitions and publications devoted to this efflorescence, and even more monographs devoted to its key players. None, however, brings together a selection of visual material from across the different artistic disciplines as significant as this current volume, curated and authored by three leading scholars of the period. The book covers all areas of production: painting and drawing; decorative arts and crafts; applied art and book design; fashion, photography and architecture. In each section the illustrations take the lead, creating an invaluable visual reference point for all those eager to identify a given category of the arts within this period, particularly in the field of the decorative arts, from ceramics to glass, silverwork, furniture, jewelry; and graphic arts, from book design to posters and postcards. There are also many less familiar works in the field of fashion and photography, and a particular focus is given to the role of women in all disciplines of the time.

Das zentrale Thema dieser Arbeit sind Boutique Hotels im deutschsprachigen Raum und deren Erfolgsfaktoren. Eingebettet in drei kleinere Kapitel wird anfangs eine ausf hrliche Begriffsanalyse durchgef hrt, au erdem werden die erw hnten Erfolgsfaktoren f r Boutique-Nischenkonzepte aus strategischer Sicht sowie aus der Marketing- und Management-Perspektive eruiert. Im dritten Abschnitt erfolgt eine Betrachtung des relevanten Marktes, bei der das internationale Wachstumspotenzial von Boutique Hotels im Mittelpunkt steht. Neben unterschiedlichsten Literaturbeitr gen flie en in diesem Zusammenhang vor allem die Erkenntnisse aus einem telefonisch durchgef hrten Expertengespr ch mit Dipl.-Betriebswirt (FH) Michael Widmann, Gesch ftsf hrer der PKF hotelexperts GmbH, in die Ausf hrungen mit ein.Die Abschnitte Innovation" und Konsumentenverhalten" stellen die theoretischen Haupt kapitel dar. W hrend erstere Thematik umfassend wissenschaftlich aufgearbeitet und das Innovationspotenzial von Boutique Hotels genauer unter die Lupe genommen wird, besch ftigt sich letzterer Teil schwerpunktm ig mit den Einflussfaktoren auf das Kauf verhalten von Konsumenten bzw. Touristen.Um Erfolgsfaktoren aus der Sicht des Boutique-Gastes ermitteln zu k nnen, entscheidet sich der Autor bei der Wahl des empirischen Untersuchungsdesigns f r eine qualitative G ste-Motivforschung. Durch Tiefeninterviews kommen die Erwartungen und Bed rfnisse der Kunden zum Vorschein und nicht zuletzt k nnen auch die Motive f r einen Boutique-Hotelaufenthalt ergr ndet werden.Um eine anspruchsvolle Verwertung der theoretischen und empirischen Erkenntnisse zu gew hrleisten, entwickelt der Verfasser dieser Arbeit abschlie end gemeinsam mit dem Gesch ftsf hrer des Hotels Saladina in Vorarlberg, Hannes St tz, ein Konzept zur Standardisierung von Servicequalit t.

Founded in 1903, the Wiener Werkstatte - "Vienna Workshops" - was a movement to unite the fine and applied arts with the goal of creating beautifully designed and crafted objects for every purpose. This illustrated, compact book offers an exhaustive record of the group, showing work from complex, integrated environments, such as Hoffmann's Palais Stoclet in Brussels and Cabaret Fledermaus in Vienna, to individual objects such as enamelled-glass stemware by Otto Prutscher and vibrantly coloured postcards by Oskar Kokoschka.