How von Karajan kept his von
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 11:55 am
https://www.theguardian.com/world/201 ... letters
"A Swiss vet is taking the Austrian state to task over its ban of the use of the aristocratic prefix “von” (meaning “of”), which was outlawed 100 years ago following the collapse of the Habsburg empire....
However, the state is known to have granted exception permits, and this is what Von Steiger may be hoping to base his case on. The Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan, who was born in 1908 as a knight in the city of Salzburg, was allowed to continue carrying his “von” under a provision that allows artists to have aliases. But Von Karajan first had to threaten never to appear in Austria again if the state refused to recognise his full name."
james
"A Swiss vet is taking the Austrian state to task over its ban of the use of the aristocratic prefix “von” (meaning “of”), which was outlawed 100 years ago following the collapse of the Habsburg empire....
However, the state is known to have granted exception permits, and this is what Von Steiger may be hoping to base his case on. The Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan, who was born in 1908 as a knight in the city of Salzburg, was allowed to continue carrying his “von” under a provision that allows artists to have aliases. But Von Karajan first had to threaten never to appear in Austria again if the state refused to recognise his full name."
james