TABLE OF CONTENTS

VOLUME I

HONOURS

FEDERAL PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA
Alexander Van der Bellen

UNESCO
Helga Dostal | UNESCO International Theatre Institute of Austria – President

DIPLOMATS
Ambassador Teresa Indjein | Federal Ministry for European
and International Affairs
International Cultural Relations – Director General 2017–2022

Ambassador Ozan Ceyhun | Republic of Turkey –
Ambassador to the Republic of Austria since 2020

Ambassador Klaus Wölfer | Republic of Austria –
Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey 2012–2017

Ambassador Emil Brix | Vienna School of International Studies –
Director
 

CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS
Pera Museum
M. Özalp Birol | Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Culture and Arts Enterprises – General Manager

Austrian Cultural Forum Istanbul
Romana Königsbrun | Austrian Cultural Forum Istanbul
Director 2015–2019

Austrian Consulate General Istanbul
Paul Jenewein | Republic of Austria, Consulate General in Istanbul
Consul General 2010–2013
 

COOPERATING SCHOLARS
İlber Ortaylı | Galatasaray University Faculty of Law

Günsel Renda | Koç University Department of Archaeology
and Art History

Seyfİ Kenan | Marmara University Atatürk School of Education

Michael Rössner | Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Institute of Cultural Studies and Theatre History – Director 2009–2021

Claudia Römer | University of Vienna,
Department of Near Eastern Studies

Bert G. Fragner | Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Institute of Iranian Studies – Founding Director
 

EDITORIAL

Reinhard Eisendle, Suna Suner, Hans Ernst Weidinger
 

I. DIPLOMACY AS STAGE

From Elçi Hanı to Palais Yeniköy: On the Residences                           1510–1918
of the Emperor’s Diplomatic Representatives in Istanbul
Suna Suner (Vienna)

Friends and Foes: Ambassadorial Receptions                                      1532
at the Ottoman Camp in Niš and Belgrade (1532)
Nevin Zeynep Yelçe (Istanbul)

“The Catholic Ambassador Will Sing the Mass”:                                   1571
Ambassadorial Service and Venetian Celebrations
after the Battle of Lepanto (1571)
Stefan Hanß (Manchester)

Stagings and Strategies: Diplomatic Relations between                        1753, 1757
Denmark and the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century
Bent Holm (Copenhagen)

Entangled Living: Ahmed Resmi Efendi’s Residences                           1763–1764
during His Mission to Prussia in 1763/1764
Irena Fliter (Wolfenbüttel)

‘The Turk as Diplomat Malgré Lui’:                                                      1859
Prince Mehmed Ali’s Visit to Copenhagen, May 1859
Bent Holm (Copenhagen)


INTERLUDIUM I

Des Turcken vaßnnachtspil von Hans Rosenplüt, in:
Des nöthigen Vorraths c.1462 zur Geschichte der deutschen Dramatischen Dichtkunst,
Zweyter Theil ans Licht gestellet von Johann Christoph Gottscheden.
Leipzig, bey Joh. Michael Ludwig Teubern. 1765
Hans Rosenplüt

II. GIFTS AS MEANS OF DIPLOMATIC CULTURE

Childish Tributes: Diplomatic Gifts between Europe                             1588–1599
and the Ottoman Empire around 1600
Florian Kühnel (Göttingen)

Serenate for Hacı Hüseyin Efendi, the First Ottoman Envoy                 1741
to Naples (1741)
Suna Suner (Vienna)

Relazione della venuta di Hagi Hussein effendi inviato                         1741
straordinario della Porta Ottomana, e della pubblica udienza,
che ha avuto dal re nostro signore il giorno 18. settembre 1741

Narrating the Visit of Two Special Guests:                                          1741–1743
The “Ministro del Gran Signore” and the “Wondrous Beast”.
Performing Power and the Politics of Pageantry
at the Court of Charles of Bourbon (1741–1743)
Rosita D’Amora (Lecce)

Gifting through Diplomats: The Cases of the Last Ottoman                  1777–1792
and Polish Extraordinary Envoys
(Seyyid Numan Bey, 1777–1778,
and Franciszek Piotr Potocki, 1789–1792)
Hacer Topaktaş Üstüner (Istanbul)

Opera as a Diplomatic Gift from Italy to Montenegro (1891)                 1891
Tatjana Marković (Vienna)


INTERLUDIUM II

Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben
Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall

III. FROM PROTOCOL TO PAMPHLETS:
     THE CULTURE OF DIPLOMATIC COMMUNICATION

Old and New Trends in the Study of Habsburg-Ottoman
Diplomatic History
Zsuzsanna Cziráki (Szeged/Vienna)

Travelling a Lost World: Recognition and Appropriation                     1554–1562
in Descriptions of the Ottoman Empire by Two Members
of the Habsburg Embassies of 1554–1562
Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen (Copenhagen)

Banqueting at the Seraglio as Described by European                    1600–1700
Diplomats of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Gülgûn Üçel (Istanbul)

Süleyman Ağa’s Diplomatic Visit to France as Portrayed                1669–1670
in the Gazette and in Rhymed Newssheets (1669–1670):
Depiction and Fiction
David Chataignier (Åbo)

The Pamphlet Klagten des Turksen Keysers Sultan Mahomet         1688
gedaan aan Louis de XIV or How the French-Ottoman
Relations are Portrayed by the Habsburgs in the Spanish
Netherlands (1688)
Dirk G. Van Waelderen (Leuven)

European Ambassadors at the Ottoman Court:                             1770–1790
The Imperial Protocol in the Eighteenth Century
Günsel Renda (Istanbul)


INTERLUDIUM III

Chapter III of: Orlando A Biography                                              1928
Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf,
Hogarth Press, London 1928
Virginia Woolf

VOLUME II

IV. TEACHERS, EXPERTS, DRAGOMANS

European Printers in Istanbul in the Eighteenth and Early            1726
Nineteenth Century: İbrahim Müteferrika and Others
Orlin Sabev (Orhan Salih, Sofia)

The Recruitment of European Experts for Service                       1732–1808
in the Ottoman Empire (1732–1808)
Mehmet Alaaddİn Yalçınkaya (Trabzon)

Two Turkish-Language Plays Written by Europeans                   1757, 1810
at the Academy of Oriental Languages in Vienna
printed in 1761 and 1810
Çetİn Sarıkartal (Istanbul)

Interpreting Words, Transmitting Ideas:                                     1776, 1792, 1797
Greek Dragomans of the Ottoman Empire as Translators
of European Theatre in the Eighteenth Century
John Plemmenos (Athens)


INTERLUDIUM IV

Excerpts from: Tagebuch auf der Reise                                     1843
nach Konstantinopel und Griechenland
Franz Grillparzer

V. THEATRE, MUSIC AND ARTS
    AS PART OF POLITICAL INTERACTION

The Mirror of Politics:                                                              1589–1620
Turqueries at the Medici Court (1589–1620)
Maria Alberti (Florence)

Thurn and Taxis and the Orient: Manifestations of the                1534–1686
Exotic in Brussels in the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries
Dirk G. Van Waelderen (Leuven)

“Heroes and Villains”: Habsburg Supremacy over the                 1685–1700
Ottomans in Triumphal Celebrations in the Spanish
Netherlands (1685)
Dirk G. Van Waelderen (Leuven)

Places for the Intercultural Exchange of Music?                        1699, 1700
The Embassies of Ibrahim Pasha to Vienna and of Graf
Wolfgang von Oettingen to Constantinople in 1699 and 1700
Ralf Martin Jäger (Münster)

The Watcher and the Watched: Ottoman Diplomatic Visitors
as Spectator and ‘Performer’ in Eighteenth-Century Europe
B. Babür Turna (Ankara)

What the Envoy Saw: Diplomacy, Theatre and Ahmed Resmî      1758
Efendi’s Embassy to Vienna (1758)
Bruce Alan Brown (Los Angeles, CA)

L’impresario delle Smirne (1759) by Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793),   1759
or the ‘Noble Savage Turk’
Maria Alberti (Florence)

Soliman Second, ou Les Trois Sultanes (1761):                         1761
The Manifestation of Eighteenth-Century French Interest
in the Ottomans
Alİye Fatma Mataracı (Ifrane)

Portrait of an Ottoman Diplomat as a Socialite in Vienna:           1774
The Visit of Süleyman Efendi (1774)
Suna Suner (Vienna)


INTERLUDIUM V

Don Juan
Excerpts from: Cantos I, V and VI
Lord Byron

VI. PORTRAITS OF OTTOMAN
     AND EUROPEAN AMBASSADORS

From the Second Row to the Wide Stage:                                 1619–1637
The Counts of Kuefstein in the Diplomatic Service of the
Imperial Dynasty and Their Impact on Cultural Affairs
Matthias J. Pernerstorfer (Vienna)

The Florentine Alessandro Pini (1653–1717):                             1680–1717
An Able Scientist and Failed Spy Fascinated by Turkey
Davide Baldi (Florence)

The Cultural Role of Ambassadors in Ottoman-British                 1793–1800
Diplomatic Relations (1793–1800)
Mehmet Alaaddİn Yalçınkaya (Trabzon)

Fethi Ahmed Pasha: A Cosmopolitan Ottoman Diplomat            1833–1838
in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Zeynep İnankur (Istanbul)


INTERLUDIUM VI

Ball at the Embassy: Fethi Ahmed Pasha                                  1835
in the Esterhazy Palace in Vienna’s Mariahilf.
Excerpts from:
Vienna and the Austrians; With Some Account of a Journey
Through Swabia, Bavaria, the Tyrol, and the Salzbourg, vol. 2.
London: Richard Bentley, 1838.
Francis Trollope
 

VII. IMAGES OF OTTOMAN-EUROPEAN RELATIONSHIPS
      ON THE AUTRIAN STAGE

The Second Turkish Siege of Vienna (1683)                                1783
Reflected in Its First Centenary: ‘Anniversary Plays’
in the Pálffy Theatre-Library, Vienna
Matthias J. Pernerstorfer (Vienna)

Celebrating Field Marshal Gideon Ernst von Laudon                    1775–1942
(1717–1790) in Theatre, Literature and Music
Michael Hüttler (Vienna) – Tatjana Marković (Vienna)

The Austro-Turkish War of 1788–1791 as Reflected                    1788–1791
in the Library of the Viennese Bibliophile
Max von Portheim (1857–1937)
Reinhard Buchberger (Vienna)

Freemason, Mozart’s Contemporary, and Theatre Director           1799
on the Edge: Franz Kratter’s Der Friede am Pruth (1799).
Cataloguing the Komplex Mauerbach, Vienna
Gabriele C. Pfeiffer (Vienna)


POSTLUDIUM

Der Friede am Pruth. Ein Schauspiel in fünf Aufzügen.               1799
Excerpts from Act II and V
Franz Kratter


LICENZA

Mozart Goes to Constantinople!
The Real Conditions of a Fictitious Journey
Käthe Springer-Dissmann (Vienna)


APPENDIX

Names
Places
Curricula vitae