著者

青地 伯水

出版者

滋賀大学経済学会

雑誌

彦根論叢 (ISSN:03875989)

巻号頁・発行日

no.第386号, pp.66-79, 2010-12

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This paper aims at clarifying Grillparzer’s political view in King Ottkars Lucky and End.Grillparzer is generally regarded as a liberalistic constitutional monarchist under the influence of the Enlightenment. However, he is neither liberalistic nor constitutional in this work. In the 13th Century, the king of Bohemia Ottokar II is defeated in the war against the Emperor Rudolf I and dies. The hero Rudolf, who worships the Roman Catholic Church and is a Feudalist based on the Lehn system, becomes the founder of the Hapsburg Monarchy. Grillparzer, who finds similarity in the lives of Ottkar and Napoleon I, describes Napoleon’s life in this drama. After the death of the modern individualist Napoleon, who trusted solely in his talents and endeavors in the continual pursuit of victory, the Hapsburg Monarchy remained firmly in Austria. In 1823, after the century of the Enlightenment, it is the medieval order ORDO that Grillparzer praises. In the view of Grillparzer, who describes Rudolf as an ideal emperor, the Hapsburg Monarchy should rely on medieval faith and domination. Because he finds his Utopia in a world before the Renaissance and Reformation, he is considered a Conservative Revolutionist such asHugo von Hofmannsthal who lives in the fin de siecle and hopes for the eternal domination of the Hapsburg Monarchy.