奥地利文学界通常把1815年至1848年期间称为毕德麦耶尔时期，把这一时期的文学称为毕德麦耶尔派文学。“毕德麦耶尔”一词源于1855年至1857期间慕尼黑《飞叶》杂志上一诗歌作者的假名，原为庸人、小市民之意。本世纪初，这一富有讽刺意味的概念被用来概括上面提到的三十余年间 The Austrian literary world generally referred to the period of Biddlemeier between 1815 and 1848 and called the literature of this period biedermeier literature. The word “Bidemeier” originated from the pseudonym of a poet’s author on the fly leaf magazine in Munich between 1855 and 1857. It was originally meant for mediocrity and small citizenship. At the beginning of this century, this ironic concept was used to summarize the above mentioned more than thirty years