{"id":529,"date":"2023-10-16T20:11:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T18:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/?p=529"},"modified":"2023-10-17T00:24:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T22:24:11","slug":"radomir-luza-prize-2023-awarded-to-brett-e-sterling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Radomir Luza Prize 2023 awarded to Brett E. Sterling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This prize, namend after the distinguished historian Radom\u00edr Lu\u017ea, was initiated 2012 by by the American Friends of the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance<\/em> and Center Austria<\/a>: the Austrian Marshall Plan Center for European Studies of the University of New Orleans<\/em>. After a startup financing by the University of New Orleans, a subsidy given by the Austrian Future Funds<\/a> secured the awarding of an annual prize of $1,000 for several years. Since 2020 this prize has been hosted by the German Studies Association<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prize is named after Radom\u00edr Lu\u017ea, who was professor for European and German history at Tulane University, New Orleans, for more than 25 years. He had published the first academic studies about Nazi persecution and resistance in Austria: \u201cAustro-German Relations in the Anschluss Era\u201d (1975) and \u201cThe resistance in Austria, 1938-1945\u201d (1984). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The awarding ceremony is part of the annual conferences of the German Studies Association. It is one of the prizes awarded during the banquet of the organization which took place this year on 6 October at Le Centre Sheraton Montreal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s prize was awarded to Brett E. Sterling<\/strong> for his book \u201cHermann Broch and Mass Hysteria. Theory and Representation in the Age of Extremes\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his laudatory speech Andreas Kranebitter, director of the D\u00d6W, quoted from the motivation of the Luza Prize Committee of the American Friends of the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Brett E. Sterling\u2019s book is an innovative volume on the work of Austrian writer Hermann Broch (born 1886 in Vienna, died 1951 in New Haven, CT). His analysis convincingly contextualizes Broch\u2019s forgotten manuscript not only within the author\u2019s oeuvre as a whole, but also within the sociological literature on \u201cthe mass\u201d. Noteworthy as well is the book\u2019s scholarly accuracy. By including the writings of Gustave Le Bon, Theodor Geiger, Sigmund Freud, and others in his analysis, Sterling also exposes the scope and the limits of Broch\u2019s innovativeness. He also attempts, albeit cautiously, to update Broch\u2019s analyses for the Trump phenomenon. The work, also due to its stylistic brilliance, was unanimously rated as absolutely worthy of distinction by the reviewers and the Prize Committee.\u2019<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brett E. Sterling & Andreas Kranebitter, Montreal, QC, 6 Oct. 2023 (photo: Jim Walker, Camden House)
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This prize, namend after the distinguished historian Radom\u00edr Lu\u017ea, was initiated 2012 by by the American Friends of the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance and Center Austria: the Austrian Marshall Plan Center for European Studies of the University of New Orleans. After a startup financing by the University of New Orleans, a subsidy given by … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austrianresistance.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}