Abstract (eng)
The Lamberg family was an Austrian noble family with a widely spread family tree. Through their example, forms and essential points of media used, can be traced through centuries. Soon after World War I the decline of the Lamberg family began, which had previously succeeded to climb a remarkable career ladder from minor nobility to the rank of princes.
Self-assurance, Self-fashioning, written memory and its production, were essential components of everyday aristocratic life. Key aspects of some of the manuscript sources were self-presentation, representation and the recollectional moment. Those writings had the task to immortalize the author and to preserve his heritage for posterity. Aristocratic self-assurance did not only include certain types of texts but also visual media. In case of the Lamberg family these ranged from registers of birth to a prestigious tournament book, to an ancestral portrait gallery or to an important testamentary donation, called the Lamberg donation.
This work deals mainly with the questions of the different types of media used to transmit certain content, which forms they took and how they reacted to different recollectional media of the family, like burial sites or art collections. Which events should be kept in mind and which contents were significant? The social advancement of the family is mainly mirrored in visual media used and less in their handwritten texts.