Continuities and Discontinuities of the Habsburg Legacy in East-Central European Discourses since 1918

Abstract

The article shows how the Polish theater director and translator Jan Nepomucen Kamiński (1777–1855) uses his Polish translation of the drama Hedwig by the now forgotten German author Theodor Körner (1791–1813) to prepare his later drama elaboration of the 1768 Koliyivshchyna. Scholars of the Polish Romantic literature usually associate Kamiński’s Helena with Seweryn Goszczyński’s well-known long poem Zamek kaniowski (The Kanijw Castle; 1828). This paper simultaneously references the larger context of this theme like Michał Suchorowski’s drama Wanda Potocka, which Kamiński’s treatment has significantly influenced. These literary testimonies also prove that the underlying historical event from central Ukraine saw a great response in Galicia.