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Braunau Contemporary History Days
The Braunau Contemporary History Days are a series of conferences organised by the ''association for contemporary history''. Scientifically guided by Andreas Maislinger, it has annually taken place in Braunau am Inn since 1992. History During those conferences several topics have been discussed, for example: coping with the past, resistance in dictatorships and other issues related to contemporary history. Since 2004 the association for contemporary history aims to involve more topics related to the Innviertel-region and the bordering Bavaria. In 2004, the conference dealt with the "Small Border Traffic" alongside the Salzach-river and the Inn-river from 1933 to 1938, the "Great Politics" as well as the daily life along the interface of two political systems, whose differences and similarities were pointed out. Between 23 and 25 September 2005, the historical background of the Braunau Parliament of 1705 was analyzed, which united nobility, clergy, bourgeois and farmers under the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Maislinger
Andreas Maislinger (born 26 February 1955 in St. Georgen near Salzburg, Austria) is an Austrian historian and political scientist and founder and chairman of the Austrian Service Abroad, including the Gedenkdienst, the Austrian Social Service and the Austrian Peace Service. He also is the founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award, the Braunau Contemporary History Days and the inventor of the idea of the House of Responsibility regarding the birthplace of Adolf Hitler. Studying and learning Maislinger studied law and political science in Salzburg and political science and eastern-European history in Vienna, with study visits in, amongst others, Frankfurt am Main and Innsbruck. During his studies in Salzburg, Maislinger advocated for Austrian participation in the International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim/Auschwitz; Austrian president Rudolf Kirchschläger declined. Kirchschläger later acknowledged the value of Maislinger's proposal of civilian service for reconcili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trapp Family Austrian Relief
Trapp Family Austrian Relief, Inc. is an initiative founded by Georg von Trapp and Maria von Trapp of the famous Austrian singing family, the Trapp Family. History In January 1947, Major General Harry J. Collins turned to Georg von Trapp and Maria von Trapp in Stowe, Vermont, pleading for help for the Austrian people, having seen the residents of Salzburg suffer when he had arrived there with the famed 42nd Rainbow Division after World War II. The Trapp Family founded the Trapp Family Austrian Relief, Inc. Founders Georg and Maria von Trapp took on the posts of president and vice-president, while Monsignore Dr. Franz Wasner was appointed treasurer. Awards *In 1949 Pope Pius XII awarded Maria Augusta von Trapp the Benemerenti medal as a recognition for the Trapp Family Austrian Relief Inc. *On September 29, 2007, Tizzy von Trapp Walker, daughter of Rupert von Trapp, was honoured on behalf of the Trapp Family with the Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer Award in Braunau am Inn within ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Theweleit
Klaus Theweleit (born 7 February 1942) is a German sociologist and writer. Life Theweleit was born in Ebenrode, East Prussia (now Nesterov, Russia), the son of a railway company worker and a Jewish mother. He wrote the following about his father: "Above all he was a railroader, wholeheartedly, as he used to say, and then a human being. He was a rather good human being and a good fascist. His beatings which he gave away abundantly and brutally as it was usual in his time and with the best of intentions were the first lessons I received on fascism, a fact I only later fully discovered." Theweleit studied German studies and English studies in Kiel and Freiburg. From 1969–1972, he worked as a freelancer for a public radio station (''Südwestfunk''). He wrote his dissertation ''Freikorpsliteratur und der Körper des soldatischen Mannes'' about Freikorps narratives, a sub-literature produced by paramilitaries organized in Freikorps, who, during the early Weimar republic, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burghart Schmidt
Burghart Schmidt (30 November 1942 – 13 February 2022) was a German Philosophy, philosopher. He was professor at Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Education He was born in Wildeshausen, Free State of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Nazi Germany, Germany. Schmidt was educated in biology, chemistry, physics and then philosophy and history of art at the University of Tübingen. He was coworker for many years of Ernst Bloch (philosopher), Ernst Bloch, over whom he submitted later also numerous publications, among them the standard work ''Ernst Bloch'' (1985). From 1968 to 1977 he worked as a scientific coworker of the philosopher and published his complete work at Suhrkamp. After the graduation in 1982 at the University of Tübingen as a ''Dr. phil.'' he wrote his habilitation in 1984 at Leibniz University Hannover. Career Schmidt taught from 1971 to 1975 at the University of Wuppertal, from 1975 to 1997 at Leibniz University Hannover, whose archi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Austria
Upper Austria (german: Oberösterreich ; bar, Obaöstareich) is one of the nine states or of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, and Salzburg. With an area of and 1.49 million inhabitants, Upper Austria is the fourth-largest Austrian state by land area and the third-largest by population. History Origins For a long period of the Middle Ages, much of what would become Upper Austria constituted Traungau, a region of the Duchy of Bavaria. In the mid-13th century, it became known as the Principality above the Enns River ('), this name being first recorded in 1264. (At the time, the term "Upper Austria" also included Tyrol and various scattered Habsburg possessions in South Germany.) Early modern era In 1490, the area was given a measure of independence within the Holy Roman Empire, with the status of a principality. By 1550, there was a Protestant majority. In 1564, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Porsch
Peter Porsch (born 15 October 1944 in Vienna) is a German academic and politician. From 1990 till 2009 he was a member of the Parliament of Saxony for the far-left party Die Linke. He headed the parliamentary group of his party between 1994 and 2009. Biography He was raised in Austria, but settled in the German Democratic Republic in 1973, taking East German citizenship in 1979. From 1970 until the 1980s he was an informant for the Stasi under the code name '' IM Christoph'', as was later established by the Commissioner for the Stasi Archives. In the 1973 he took a job at the "Karl Marx University" (as it was then known) in Leipzig, initially as a research assistant and later as a senior researcher in the Department for German Studies / Linguistics, which he had already studied for his first degree at Vienna University from 1962 till 1968. He pursued his academic career at Leipzig for more than three decades, obtaining his habilitation in 1981 for work on "Text evaluation as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Branko Lustig
Branko Lustig (10 June 1932 – 14 November 2019) was a Croatian film producer best known for winning Academy Awards for Best Picture for ''Schindler's List'' and '' Gladiator''. He is the only person born in the territory of present-day Croatia to have won two Academy Awards. Early life Lustig was born in Osijek, Kingdom of Yugoslavia to a Croatian Jewish family. His father, Mirko, was head-waiter at an Osijek Café Central, and his mother, Vilma (Gütter), was a housewife. Lustig's grandparents, unlike his parents, were religious and he regularly attended the local synagogue with them. During World War II, as a child he was imprisoned for two years in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Most members of his family perished in the death camps throughout Europe, including his grandmother who was killed in the gas chamber, while his father was killed in Čakovec on 15 March 1945. Lustig's mother survived the Holocaust and was reunited with him after the war. On the day of the liberati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeleine Herren
Madeleine Herren-Oesch (born 26 January 1956 in Bern) is a Swiss historian. Madeleine Herren-Oesch studied history and German literature at the University of Bern. She wrote her licentiate about "Aspekte cisleithanischer Sozialpolitik" (''Aspects of the Cisleithanian Social Policy'') and in 1989 her dissertation about "Internationale Sozialpolitik vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg aus der Perspektive der Dritten Französischen Republik" (''International pre-World War I Social Policy from the perspective of the French Third Republic''). In 1997 she was promoted to professor with "Hintertüren zur Macht - Internationalismus und modernisierungsorientierte Außenpolitik in Belgien, der Schweiz und den USA 1865–1914" (Internationalism and modernized foreign policy in Belgium, Switzerland and the United States 1865–1914). Between 2004 and 2013, Madeleine Herren-Oesch was professor for modern history at the University of Heidelberg. Since April 2013 she has been director of the Institute for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
György Dalos
György Dalos (born 23 September 1943) is a Hungarian Jewish writer and historian. He is best known for his novel '' 1985'', and ''The Guest from the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin''. Life Dalos was born in Budapest and spent his childhood with his grandparents, as his father had died in 1945 in a labor camp, where he had been sent to as a Jew during World War II. From 1962 to 1967, he studied history at the Lomonossov University in Moscow. He then returned to his native town Budapest to work as a museologist. In 1968, Dalos was accused of "Maoist activities" and was handed seven months prison on probation and a Berufsverbot (professional disqualification) and a publication ban; due to that, he worked as a translator. In 1977, he was among the founders of the opposition movement against the Communist regime of Hungary. In 1988/89 he was co-editor of the East German underground opposition paper ''Ostkreuz''. From 1995 to 1999, Dalos was head of the Institute for Hungar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Cullin
Michel Cullin (17 September 1944 – 3 March 2020) was ''"Maître de conférences“'' at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, University of Nice and director of France, French-Austrian relations at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. Life Cullin was born in Paris. After he earned his degrees in political science and German studies (1962–65) in Paris, Michel Cullin became ''"Assistant de français“'' at the "Theresianum-school" in Vienna (1966–1967). Between 1967-69 he was ''"Lecteur de français“'' at the University of Vienna. After working at the ''Geschwister-Scholl-Institute'' and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (1969–71) he became ''"Assistant d’allemand“'' (1971–76), ''"Maître- assistant de civilisation autrichienne“'' (1976–80) and later ''"Maître de conférences de civilisation autrichienne“'' (1980–82) at the University of Orléans. In 1977 he earned a doctoral degree in ''"études allemandes contemporaines“'' (1977). Furtherm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Burger
Adolf Burger (12 August 1917 – 6 December 2016) was a Slovak Jewish typographer, memoir writer, and Holocaust survivor involved in Operation Bernhard. The film ''The Counterfeiters'', based largely on his memoirs, won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Life Adolf Burger was born to a Jewish family in Kakaslomnic, then a mostly ethnic German village in the High Tatras region, Spiš County. His father died when Adolf was 4½, after which his mother, four siblings, and two grandparents moved to the nearby town of Poprad. He entered apprenticeship with a local printer and typesetter at the age of fourteen. His mother remarried a Christian, which gave her the status of a non-Jew in Slovakia after the introduction of anti-Jewish laws by the beginning of World War II. The organization Hashomer Hatzair helped Burger's siblings to emigrate to the British Mandate of Palestine before Adolf Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews materialized. Adolf Burger did not j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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