„Für Wien existiere ich litterarisch noch gar nicht.“ Der Berliner Kritiker Leo Berg und die Presse der Donaumetropole

Berlin critic Leo Berg’s (1862–1908) cooperation in the Viennese magazine Die Zeit is an example of the differences and exchange relations between Berlin and Viennese modernity. In spite of his former friendship with the “pope” of Viennese modernity, Hermann Bahr, during the former’s editorship Bahr publishes only three articles in Zeit. These cause partly off ence to the censorship or the literary women’s movement. One last contribution of 1899 discusses Nietzsche’s philosophy. Anti-Semitism probably also stood in the way of a stronger effect of the German Jewish critic in Vienna, expressing itself in a Viennese criticism of his book Der Ubermensch in der modernen Literatur. In letters to the Viennese critic Moriz Necker, Berg from a cultural-pessimistic point of view picks out as a central theme his diffi culties to gain a stronger foothold in the Viennese press scene.