“I NO LONGER RECOGNIZE POLITICAL PARTIES, I RECOGNIZE ONLY GERMANS”, declaration by Wilhelm II to German parliament (3 August 1914): 494.
INTERESSANTE BLATT, Das, illustrated weekly: 35, 76, 109, 118, 130.
“IN THE GRAVEYARD AT LA BASSÉE” (“Auf dem Friedhof La Bassée”), song, music by Erwin Kurz and words by Klabund (1890–1928); battle at La Bassée and Arras (autumn 1915): 534.
IPHIGENIE AUF TAURIS →Goethe.
IRON POST (Stock im Eisen-Platz, Plan C3), into which journeymen passing through Vienna supposedly had to drive a nail, hence a metal-bound tree trunk: 73, 172f.
IRON WARRIOR, adaptation of →Iron Post, the proceeds going to benefit soldiers, widows, and orphans; erected on →Kärntnerring/Schwarzenbergplatz (Plan D5) in March 1915, near City Hall since 1918: 73, 169, 172, 233, 238, 254, 454.
ISABELLA, Archduchess (1856–1931), m. →Friedrich (1878): 275.
ISABELLA MARIA, Archduchess (1888–1973), daughter of →Isabella: 275.
ISCHL, Bad (Map D3), spa in Salzkammergut, summer residence of →Franz Joseph: 57, 64, 379, 393, 398, 497.
ISONZO (Map D4), river in Venetia, where Italian territory protruded into Austria; 12 battles fought along this front between Austria-Hungary and Italy (June 1915–December 1917). Italian territorial ambition towards Trieste weighed against fear of Austrian attack in rear through Trentino, advocated by →Conrad: 202, 243, 334ff, 354, 402, 487, 528, 534, 549.
ISONZO (Die zehnte Isonzoschlacht), film (→Sascha Film, 1917): 584.
IVANGOROD (Map F2), Russian stronghold on Vistula, taken by Central Powers (August 1915): 176, 369.
“JACKO, JACKO, DON’T YOU DARE” (“Schackerl, Schackerl trau di net”), Viennese song, music by Theodor Wollitz (1875–1937) and lyrics by Armin Berg (1875–1956): 535f.
JANOV, small town north of →Lemberg; Kaiser Wilhelm’s meeting with →Ganghofer occurred when Lemberg was once again occupied by Central Powers (summer 1915): 124ff.
JANOWITZ, Franz (1892–1917), Austrian poet, close friend of Karl Kraus, killed in battle: 511f.
JEAN PAUL (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, 1763–1825), German novelist. The balloon ascent is described in Kampanertal (1797): 159, 164.
JEWISH NAMES, sometimes offensive, as when allotted in late eighteenth century by military commission under imperial decree in →Galicia and →Bukovina; alternatively, “poetic” during later Jewish emancipation (Abendrot/evening glow, Rosenberg/rose mountain); based on either transposed first names (Hein, Ornstein), professed characteristics (Aufrichtig/honest, Brauchbar/useful; Gutwillig/well-meaning; Vortrefflich/splendid; Lustig/funny), place names (→Polacco/Pollack/Pollak, Mannheimer, Oppenheimer, Katzenellenbogen, Koritschoner, Krotoschiner, Geiringer), or animals (Löw, Wolf, Fuchs, Katz, Fischl, Biach < It. biacco/adder); sometimes parodied by Kraus (Schlechtigkeit/Badness, Schakal/Jackal, Walross/walrus; Kornfeld/Cornfield).
JEWISH REFUGEES. The Jewish refugee selling newspapers (II, 1) has fled from the war-torn eastern provinces. By October 1915 there were at least 137,000 refugees in Vienna, of whom 77,000 were Jews. This scene dramatizes the cynical responses of profiteers such as →Eisig Rubel, exploiting the wartime shortages to make a fast buck: 168.
JOSEF AUGUST, Archduke (1872–1962), field marshal in Honvéd infantry, commanded Seventh Corps on Russian and Hungarian front, led armistice talks: 275, 533.
JOSEF FERDINAND (1872–1942), Archduke; corps commander of Fourth Army in →Galicia (1914–16), relieved of command after Russian victory at →Lutsk: 111, 274, 275, 531.
JOSEFSTADT, central residential district behind City Hall (Rathaus, Plan A2/A3), known especially for →Theater in der Josefstadt: 231.
JUDGMENT DAY (probably Das jüngste Gericht), film of catastrophic earthquake (Nordsik-Film, 1916): 584.
JUGEND, Munich weekly which popularised Art Nouveau (“Jugendstil”): 327.
JUTLAND, on north-eastern North Sea (Map C1), only direct encounter between High Seas Fleet under →Reinhard Scheer and British Grand Fleet under Jellicoe (31 May–1 June 1916) with heavy British losses, although its blockade of Germany was not breached: 247, 370.
KAG (Kavallerieausbildungsgruppe), acronym for cavalry training course: 226.
KAISER →Wilhelm II.
KAISERBAR, fashionable bar in Krugerstrasse (Plan C4): 118.
KAISERJÄGERTOD, nickname of →Ludwig von Fabini, commander of Eighth Infantry Division (Kaiserjäger →Imperial Rifles, 1914–16): 338f.
KAISER KARL TECHNICAL SCHOOL (K.k. Staatsrealschule), Radetzkystrasse (Plan E2/F2): 402f.
KIAUTSCHOU, leased to Germany (1898) for commercial development and as naval base; lease cancelled after China (14 August 1914) and Japan (23 August 1914) declared war on Germany: 336.
KANT, Immanuel (1724–1804), German philosopher whose writings inspired Kraus’s ethical radicalism: x, xix, xxii, 107, 264, 332, 404, 593.
KAPPUS, Franz Xaver (1883–1966), corps commandant in →War Press Bureau; author of Kriegsnovellen (War Novellas, 1916) and recipient of Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet: 109.
KARL FRANZ JOSEF (1887–1922), Archduke, became Emperor Karl I in 1916; nephew of →Franz Ferdinand, whose children were excluded from succession because of their father’s morganatic marriage: 176, 180f, 273f, 309, 379, 402f, 431ff, 478ff, 483ff, 493, 517, 519ff.
KARL STEPHAN, Archduke (1860–1933), patron of War Welfare for the Disabled: 276.
KÄRNTNERSTRASSE (Plan C3/C5), main shopping street, running from Karlsplatz beyond →Ring to Stock im Eisen-Platz (→Iron Post) at Stephans-Kirche (→St Stephen’s Cathedral): 29, 47, 168, 172f, 195f, 240, 318, 418, 481, 597.
KASTAN, Castans Panoptikum, Waxworks, Berlin (1877–1922): 435.
KATHI →Schratt.
“KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING”, song composed in 1914 by Ivor Novello to words by Lena Guilbert Ford; English equivalent of →“In der Heimat”: 57, 374.
KERENSKI, Alexander Feodorovitch (1881–1970), Russian minister of war responsible for failed “Kerenski Offensive” (1917), prime minister in Provisional Government from July 1917 until ousted by October Revolution: 354.
KERNSTOCK, Ottokar (1848–1928), Styrian priest and author of patriotic poems: 184, 282f.
KERR, Alfred (1867–1948), journalist and prominent theatre critic on →Berliner Tageblatt, criticized by Kraus for writing nationalistic poems during the war: 270.
“KISSING IS NO SIN” (“Küssen ist keine Sünd”), waltz from operetta Bruder Straubinger (1903) by →Edmund Eysler (1874–1949), popularized by →Alexander Girardi: 490.
KLADDERADATSCH (“crash, bang, wallop”), popular Berlin satirical weekly (1848–1944): 396.
KLEIN, Ernst (1876–1951), journalist on →Neue Freie Presse and in →War Press Bureau, author of novel An den Ufern der Drina (On the Banks of the →Drina, 1915): 68.
KLEINE WITZBLATT, Das, humorous weekly: 34.
KLUCK, Alexander von (1846–1934), Prussian general, commander of First Army halted on the Marne (9 September 1914); ordered reprisals against Belgian francs-tireurs including mass execution of civilians: 247.
KNACKFUSS, Hermann (1848–1915), German painter and critic: 126.
KNESEBECK, Frau von, probably wife of Prussian field marshal Karl Friedrich Knesebeck (1768–1848): 461.
KOCH, Ludwig (1866–1934), painter of the vast celebratory canvas In This Age of Grandeur (→age of grandeur): 325.
KOHLFÜRST, Armin (1880–1932), lieutenant attached to →War Press Bureau: 120.