Mark Twain in German-Language Newspapers and PeriodicalsMain MenuIntroduction: About the ProjectIntroductory Remarks on the ProjectCatalog of Newspaper Articlescatalog pageCatalog of Newspaper Articles in Der Deutsche Correspondent, Baltimorecatalog pageReferences to Mark Twain's Writing and Speechesreference pageOverview of Peoplereference pageOverview of Locationsreference pageReference Materialreference toolsEditorial pages (for internal use)project organisationMost Recent Editsproject organisationSample Pathstest path"Ein amerikanischer Humorist." Grenzboten 33 (1874), 306-314 | Entry pageperiodical article, German, pathHolger Kerstenbe319ed8bdb5a4fd7c387ac70fb9bb1beb4a2843Klara Blanke2e76e4a8b5d98452e5fdd97c12e60f016a573238
1media/stirring times in austria-march-1898_thumb.jpg2024-11-12T07:42:49-08:00Klara Blanke2e76e4a8b5d98452e5fdd97c12e60f016a573238397261Illustration of a tumultuous scene in the Austrian parliament on 28th October 1897 from Harper's New Monthly Magazineplain2024-11-12T07:42:50-08:00Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 96, March 1898, p. 532, https://archive.org/details/harpersnew096various/page/532Klara Blanke2e76e4a8b5d98452e5fdd97c12e60f016a573238
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1media/stirring times in austria-march-1898.jpg2021-11-21T06:38:50-08:00Vienna | Visiting Parliament | 28 Oct. 18979plain2024-11-12T07:44:57-08:00-annotation -eventShortly after arriving in Vienna, Mark Twain started to take an interest in local politics. On 28th October 1897, he attended a sitting of the Austro-Hungarian parliament for the first time. He describes it in great detail in his essay "Stirring Times in Austria", first published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine in March 1898 and later republished in the collection How To Tell a Story. Twain writes that the event was constantly disrupted by heckling of the politicians. Curses and threats were made against the speaker and everybody had wooden planks that were banged on the desks to make loud noises. Many sittings of the parliament went like this, making actual debates almost impossible.
