Arnold Schönberg and summer retreat antisemitism in the Salzkammergut
Online memorial exhibition
Antisemitic racial attitude
Object #39
Antisemitic racial attitude
Arnold Schönberg
Self-portrait
22/X 1921
Pencil on paper
Catalogue raisonné 297-14v
Belmont Publishers, Pacific Palisades
The announcement of a Jew-free summer retreat in Mattsee and other villages in Salzburg Province met with tolerance and reassurance from the Provincial Tourism Association based in the city of Salzburg. In the given circumstances, it is incomprehensible why the attitude bias in the village was kept from Schönberg. Berta Schönberg could not have been unaware of this any more than her husband Heinrich, the composer’s brother, who traditionally stayed in Mattsee in July. Presumably, Heinrich, a Jew who had converted to Protestantism, simply ignored the community’s antisemitic racial attitude.
Maintaining the objective of keeping Mattsee “free from Jews” continued in the following seasons into the early 1930s, the phrase a community tourism slogan; the Salzburger Chronik reported on 1 August 1922 that “again this year, the beautiful health resort succeeded in remaining free of Jews.”
Cf. Therese Muxeneder: Arnold Schönbergs Konfrontationen mit Antisemitismus (III), in: Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Center 16/2019. Edited by Eike Feß and Therese Muxeneder. Wien 2019, p. 165–254

Introduction

This year’s tourist season in Mattsee
Object #1

Heinrich Schönberg with his wife Berta and his daughter Margit
Object #2

Come visit me
Object #3

Villa Nora
Object #4

It’s lovely here
Object #5

Harmonielehre
Object #6

A popular vacation destination
Object #7

Arrogance and Oriental Allures
Object #8

Row-boating
Object #9

Summer retreat free of Jews
Object #10

He is in good humor
Object #11

Heil Salzburg! Salzburg wants the Anschluss!
Object #12

How are you and yours in Mattsee?
Object #13

You will be pleased with me
Object #14

Kaiser-Elisabeth-Bahn
Object #15

Convivial gatherings
Object #16

Antisemitic scandals
Object #17

For rent to Aryans
Object #18

Disharmony
Object #19

Away with the Jews!
Object #20

They are doing well there
Object #21

Arnold Schönberg: Felix Greissle
Object #22

Arnold Schönberg: Harmonielehre
Object #23

Arnold Schönberg: the theory of coherence
Object #24

It must be splendid there
Object #25

I am not staying a day longer
Object #26

Threat in his own house
Object #27

Anti-Jewish proclamations
Object #28

The composer’s baptismal certificate
Object #29

Arnold Schönberg: on Zemlinsky
Object #30

The Jewish colony in Mattsee
Object #31

That outrageous, incredible thing
Object #32

The community physician
Object #33

An Aryan summer vacationer
Object #34

A summer retreat free of Jews
Object #35

Einstein’s propaganda speech
Object #36

The revolting press notice
Object #37

Sedition
Object #38

Antisemitic racial attitude
Object #39

All is calm within me
Object #40

Imaginary and material damage
Object #41

Guests of Max Ott
Object #42a

Guests of Max Ott
Object #42b

Arrival in Traunkirchen
Object #43

Departure
Object #44

Very ugly at the end
Object #45

Domestic and foreign newspapers
Object #46

Villa Josef
Object #47

Arnold and Mathilde Schönberg
Object #48

Shaken awake
Object #49

Such circumstances
Object #50

Arnold Schönberg: Baroness Löwenthal
Object #51

Traunkirchen
Object #52

Arnold Schönberg: Prelude
Object #53

A ridiculous matter
Object #54

Hegemony in the sphere of music
Object #55