Germans working in Austria are confronted with several subliminal resentments. Research on nationalism, racism, and diversity has overlooked this topic up to now, as Germans, as well as other Northern American or Western European citizens, are very rarely analysed as marginalized groups. Furthermore, the situation of migrants from geographically, linguistically, and culturally close countries, has received scant attention and been deemed of little importance up to now. The anti-German sentiments in Austria are primarily based on the Austrian self-perception of being non-German as a constitutive element of ‘Austrian-ness’. Related to that, negative attributions ascribed to Germans simultaneously mean a positive attribution of ‘Being Austrian’. Based on a content analysis of ten narrative interviews, conducted with Germans working in Austria, it appears that they permanently experience being categorized as ‘the Germans’, which leads to several types of exclusion, demotion, and also discrimination in the workplace. Differences in hierarchy level and perceived competition seem to moderate this effect. It appears that workplace superiors of Germans tend also to put an emphasis on positive stereotypes related with Germans, whereas Austrian colleagues on the same hierarchy level tend to performatively construct and reproduce ‘Being German’ as a deficit that they associate with negative stereotypes.

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奥地利的反日耳曼主义

在奥地利工作的德国人面临着几种潜意识的怨恨。迄今为止，关于民族主义、种族主义和多样性的研究都忽略了这个话题，因为德国人以及其他北美或西欧公民很少被分析为边缘化群体。此外，来自地理上、语言上和文化上相近国家的移民的情况，迄今很少受到关注，也没有被认为是重要的。奥地利的反德情绪主要基于奥地利人将非德国人视为“奥地利性”的构成要素的自我认知。与此相关的是，对德国人的负面归因同时意味着对“成为奥地利人”的积极归因。基于对在奥地利工作的德国人进行的十次叙事访谈的内容分析，似乎他们永久地被归类为“德国人”，这导致了工作场所中几种类型的排斥、降级和歧视。等级和感知竞争的差异似乎缓和了这种影响。德国人的职场上司似乎也倾向于强调与德国人相关的积极刻板印象，而处于同一层级的奥地利同事倾向于将“成为德国人”作为他们与消极刻板印象相关联的缺陷来进行构建和复制。