Raymond Blankenhorn: A Delicate Task. Theaters of Diplomacy in Austria

ifk Mondaylecture: Theater and diplomacy have always had something in common: an ambiguous relationship to ›truth‹. This lecture explores the entangled histories of theater and diplomacy over the course of the long 19th century in Vienna, a city on whose cultural and political stages these twin arts of representation came increasingly to mirror and distort one another.