Kriegserfahrung und Kriegspublizistik bei Rudolf Borchardt und Hugo von Hofmannsthal

[Autom. eng. transl.] This essay reworks the report held at the international conference "Kulturkritik der Wiener Moderne (1890-1938) organized in Venice by the University of Heidelberg and the Ca 'Foscari University from 25 to 27 September 2018. The essay analyzes and compares the war experience and war journalism of two exponents of literary modernity: the Austrian poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the German writer and philologist Rudolf Borchardt, linked together by a long relationship of friendship and artistic collaboration, which is not exempt from any other disagreements and misunderstandings. If the perception of the First World War as an ideological clash between "deutsche Kultur" and "westliche Zivilisation" is initially similar, the position of the two gradually differs during the course of the conflict. This work illustrates affinities and differences, showing the growing discrepancy between the positions taken by the Austrian poet in official publicity and his private notes, and reconstructed endo the phases of this crisis through the testimony offered by Hofmannsthal's correspondence with Eberhard von Bodenhausen, up to the comedy "Der Schwierige" (1917-1920).