CSARDASFÜRSTIN (The Gipsy Princess, 1915), operetta, with music by Emmerich Kálmán (1882–1953), libretto by Leo Stein (1861–1921) and Bela Jenbach (1871–1943): 59, 170.
CZERNIN, Count Ottokar von und zu Chudenitz (1872–1932), foreign minister (1916–18) who represented Austria at the Treaty of →Brest-Litovsk, criticized by Kraus for vacilliating between conquest and conciliation: 343, 366, 368.
CZERNOWITZ (Cherniowce, Map G3), capital of Habsburg crown land →Bukovina, occupied by Russian troops (August 1914), retaken by Austrians (October 1914), positional warfare until 1916, taken by Russians during →Brusilov offensive (June 1916), retaken by Central Powers (August 1917): 103, 219, 311, 314, 316.
DALMATIA (Map E4/E5), Austrian crown land: 548.
DANGL, Johann (1870–1944), hotelier and mayor of →Semmering: 182.
DANKL VON KRASNIK, Count Viktor (1854–1941), commander in chief of First Austro-Hungarian Army (1914), regional commander in Tyrol (1915, Map D4): 101ff.
DANZER’S ARMY JOURNAL, military journal (1899ff): 80.
DAVID, Eduard (1863–1930), Social Democrat, German Reichstag deputy (1903–18), first president of Weimar National Assembly (1919): 437.
“DEAR FATHERLAND, SLEEP EASY NOW” (Lieb Vaterland, magst ruhig sein), refrain from →“Watch on the Rhine”: 191.
DEBRECEN (Map F3), main Hungarian livestock market: 341.
DEFENSIVE WAR (Verteidigungskrieg), leitmotif for German and Austrian insistence that, “encircled” by enemies, they are fighting a “holy defensive war”: 92, 145, 190, 220, 266, 284, 302, 308, 332, 359, 429, 455, 518.
DEFREGGER, Franz von (1835–1921), popular Tyrolean genre painter: 139.
DEHMEL, Richard (1863–1920), popular poet, initially gripped by war fever; Kraus quotes from his Kriegs-Brevier (War Anthology, 1917): xix, 184, 286f.
DELBRÜCK, Max (1850–1919), German agricultural chemist: 258.
DEMEL, famous café and confectioner on →Kohlmarkt (Plan B3/C3): 63, 120.
DEUTSCHES VOLKSBLATT, nationalistic, anti-Semitic daily: 243.
“DEUTSCHLAND, DEUTSCHLAND ÜBER ALLES” (“Deutschlandlied”), music by Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) and text by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798–1874), patriotic song that became German national anthem from 1922: 296, 349, 504.
DEUTSCHMEISTER (Hoch- und Deutschmeister), celebrated Viennese “house regiment” of the Habsburgs, with barracks in the Rudolf (Rossauer) Kaserne (Plan B1/C1): 106f, 312, 316, 531.
DOBERDO, plateau above Gulf of Trieste (Map D4), scene of fierce battles between Austro-Hungarian and Italian troops in March 1916 (fifth battle of →Isonzo, when it fell to Italian troops) and August 1916 (sixth battle of Isonzo, when Italians captured →Gorizia). The Grumbler’s reference (III, 41) to “a hundred thousand men” having perished overstates actual losses, but casualties on the Italian front were indeed exceptionally high. Total Austro-Hungarian military deaths during the First World War are estimated at 1.5 million (almost double the figure for Britain): 307, 458.
DOBNER v. DOBENAU, Friedrich (1852–1925), last Lord High Steward to the Habsburgs. 42f, 506, 508.
DOBRUDJA, →Tutrakan, 270.
DOHNA-SCHLODIEN, Count Nikolaus (1879–1965), commander of German cruiser Möwe, which broke through British North Sea blockade in 1916 and attacked merchant shipping in the Atlantic: 416f, 547.
DÖRMANN, Felix (Felix Biedermann, 1870–1928), author, especially of poetry, film scenarios, and operetta librettos (→Walzertraum), also responsible for “Those Serbs and Russian shits,/We’ll hack them all to bits!” (I, 1): 185, 254.
“DRAUSSEN IM SCHÖNBRUNNER PARK” (Out there in Schönbrunn Park), song eulogizing the “dear old gentleman” →Franz Joseph from the Singspiel Anno 14 (1914), music by Ralph Benatzky (1887–1967) and text by Fritz Grünbaum (1880–1941): 219, 313, 376.
DRINA, river marking much of the frontier between Austria-Hungary (Bosnia-Herzegovina) and western →Serbia (Map F4/F5), scene of fierce fighting: 68, 110, 543.
DUB, Flora, prominent Viennese socialite who featured regularly in →Neue Freie Presse: 45, 180, 234ff, 507.
DUNCAN, Adam (1731–1804), British naval commander who defeated Dutch at Battle of Camperdown (1797): 350.
DURAZZO (Map F5), capital (1913–21) and main port of Albania, occupied by Italy (late 1914), taken by Austro-Hungarian troops (February 1916): 182, 358.
EDWARD VII (1841–1910), British monarch who initiated the Anglo-French →Entente and made similar overtures to Franz Joseph at →Bad Ischl in 1907 and 1908: 396.
EGGER-LIENZ, Albin (1868–1926), Tyrolean painter specializing in battle scenes: 139.
EISNER v. EISENHOF, Baron Angelo (1857–1938), ubiquitous society figure, conservative publicist, editor of Die Information, providing confidential diplomatic and financial news: 42, 43, 121, 180, 235, 506.
EISNER VON BUBNA, Colonel Wilhelm (1875–1926), head of War Archive (1916), commandant of War Press Bureau (1917–18): 444.
“EMIL, YOU’RE A TRUE BERLINER” (“Emil du bist eene Pflanze”), waltz (1908) by Wilhelm Aletter (1867–1934): 435.
ENGELHORN, German magazine specializing in sentimental stories; publisher of a series of popular novels: 110.
ENTENTE, military alliance led by Britain, France, and Russia, later joined by Italy and other nations.
ERNST, Otto (Otto Ernst Schmidt, 1862–1926), German writer of sentimental stories. Allusions to “Brief an Herrn Gabriele →d’Annunzio” (Open Letter to d’Annunzio), in Gewittersegen (The Blessed Storm), Ein Kriegsbuch (1915); “Sonntag eines Deutschen” (A German Sunday), in Vom geruhigen Leben, Humoristische Plaudereien (1908); “An die Zeitknicker” (On Time-Twisters) and “Anna Menzel”, in Vom Strande des Lebens (1908); “Weihnachtsepistel” (Christmas Celebration), in Stimmen des Mittags (1903): 126, 279ff.
ERTL, Emil (1860–1935), author of regional and historical novels: 326.
ESTE →Franz Ferdinand.
EUGEN, Archduke (1863–1954), commander Balkan forces (1914), in command of failed offensive in Trentino (Map D4) after Italy’s entry into war (1915), field marshal (1916): 275, 486.
EUGENE, Prince of Savoy (1663–1736), adoptive Austrian hero (“der edle Ritter”), ally of Marlborough against French, governor of Austrian Netherlands, victories over Ottomans at Peterwardein (1716), Belgrade (1717); →“Prince Eugene March”: 493.
EUROPA, Café, →Riedclass="underline" 102.
EXCHANGE PROFESSOR, especially between Germany and United States, after foundation of Theodore Roosevelt Chair in Berlin and Kaiser Wilhelm Chair at Columbia University (1906).
EXNER, Wilhelm Franz (1840–1931), erstwhile head of Institute of Applied Technology, initiator of “Artificial Limbs Appeal”, member of Austrian Upper Chamber: 44, 232, 506.
EXPANSION AND INTENSIFICATION of alliance, euphemism (transformed into satirical leitmotif) for the domination of Germany over Austria-Hungary after meeting of two emperors in Spa, Belgium, May 1918 (V, 9), following the failure of Emperor Karl’s attempt to conclude a →separate peace (→negotiated peace). Kraus provocatively hinted at the parallel between this relationship and the humiliation of China in its Military Convention of 30 May 1918 with pro-Entente Japan: 428ff, 437f, 525.
EXTRABLATT (Illustriertes Neues Extrablatt), sensationalist Viennese daily, noted for political satire: 102, 105 (→Schiller misquotation: “entleibt”, lifeless—“entlaubt”, leafless; a “Blatt” is a newspaper, a leaf, or a hand at cards).