Nation, Identität und Antisemitismus

During the 19th century parts of the German-speaking population in the Austro-Hungarian Empire saw themselves as part of a German cultural space. During the 1880s conservative parts of the society combined national and anti-Semitic language in the daily press to distances themselves from political liberalism and to form a national identity discourse. But it was only after the development of the Christian-social political mass-movement that the conncetion of national and anti-Semitic concepts in the daily press formed a national identity discourse on a broader societal level. Until 1914 the support of monarchy and dynasty as well as the use of unambiguously national vocabulary strengthened an Austrian national idea.