'VON UNS AUS BETRACHTET - EBEN VERRÜCKT!': LOUISE VON COBURG, PROFLIGACY, AND FELIX SALTEN'S CAMPAIGN FOR A CIVIL CONSENSUS.

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      Royal scandals intrigued Austrian (and indeed European) society right through the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. In the light of Karl Kraus's commentary and Felix Salten's literary treatment, the case of Princess Louise of Belgium, who left her husband Philipp von Coburg and was institutionalised for six years in 1898 because her adultery and her uncontrolled spending were diagnosed as symptoms of insanity, can be read as an irritant and a challenge to civil society's principles of equality, inclusiveness, and due process. Issues that come to the fore here include the status of sexual morality and financial probity as core civic virtues (as a foray into legal debates on profligacy demonstrates), as well as the duties or failures of agents of civil society such as the legal and medical professions and journalism, to uphold its principles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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      Skandale um Mitglieder von Herrscherhäusern hielten die österreichische (und gesamteuropäische) Öffentlichkeit während des gesamten neunzehnten und frühen zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts in Atem. Im Lichte von Karl Kraus' Satiren und Felix Saltens literarischen Behandlungen gelesen, enthüllt sich der Fall der Prinzessin Louise von Belgien, die ihren Ehemann Philipp von Coburg verließ und 1898 auf Grund von Ehebruchs- und Verschwendungsvorwürfen für sechs Jahre in eine Irrenanstalt eingeliefert wurde, als Herausforderung für die Gleichheits- und Toleranzideale der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft. Auf dem Prüfstand stehen nicht nur Sexualmoral und finanzielle Redlichkeit, sondern auch die Rolle von Medizin, Justiz und Journalismus als Repräsentanten bürgerlicher Prinzipien. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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