Von Angesicht zu Angesicht im Kalten Krieg. Österreichs besuchsdiplomatische Interaktionen zwischen Ost und West 1960 bis 1983

Searching for an Alternative Austrian Cultural Diplomacy: Wolfgang Kraus with Heinrich Drimmel

“…72 Indeed, the cultural Besuchsdiplomatie of the Gesellschaft Roundtable Discussions, with their face-to-face meetings among literary elites, always well-covered by the European media, might be seen as recycling the strengths of the Vienna Summit. 73 But seeing the Roundtable Discussions this way would do an injustice to their intent. It would reinject the clash of two state apparatuses, the Soviet Communist and the American capitalist, into an event premised on the belief that the state itself constituted the problem.…”