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Paths Out of the Apocalypse
Paths out of the Apocalypse uses violence as a prism through which to investigate the profound social, cultural, and political changes experienced by (post-) Habsburg Central Europe during and immediately after the Great War. It compares attitudes toward, and experiences and practices of,physical violence in the mostly Czech-speaking territories of Bohemia and Moravia, the German-speaking territories that would constitute the Republic of Austria after 1918, and the mostly German-speaking region of South Tyrol. Based on research in national and local archives and copious secondaryliterature, the study argues that, in the context of total war, physical violence became a predominant means of co...
Baldur von Schirach
Though three of his four grandparents were from America and the first language he learned at home was English, Baldur von Schirach became one of the Third Reich’s most influential individuals. He joined the Nazi Party as early as 1925 at the age of eighteen and three years later became a member of its National Leadership. He also married Henriette, the daughter of Hitler’s personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann. Von Schirach continued to rise through the ranks of the Nazi Party, reaching the rank of SA-Gruppenführer. It was as the leader of the Hitler Youth organization, however, for which von Schirach is best remembered, becoming Reichsführer of the Hitler Youth on 16 June 1932, and...
In the Shadow of the Great War
Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This collection explores the various forms of violence these nations confronted during this period, which effectively transformed the region into a laboratory for state-building. Employing a bottom-up approach to understanding everyday life, these studies trace the contours of individual and mass violence in the interwar era while illuminating their effects upon politics, intellectual developments, and the arts.
Postwar Amateur Film Practices in a Transnational Perspective
Amateur film and amateur media practices have attracted increasing interest in recent decades in the context of the "visual turn". Questions of agency, participatory and political/militant film practices, and of representations of "self" and "other" are of interest as well as the institutions and networks of amateur productions. This special issue of "zeitgeschichte" contributes to this field of research by examining international and transnational developments of amateur films in the period after the Second World War. The collected contributions analyze national specifics and regional shapings of practices as well as cultural constructions in amateur film and video, they trace transnational entanglements of amateur media and tackle cross-border amateur filmmaking and internationally and globally shared discursive references and uses of metaphors in video activism. The authors elaborate parallels to organizational structures in amateur film practices in specific sociopolitical and cultural contexts and discuss aspects of memory and the appropriation of hegemonic visual cultures in individual film practices.
From the Austrian Empire to Communist East Central Europe
The Centers for Austrian Studies, founded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research since the 1970s, play an important role for the Austrian as well as the international scientific community. Their tasks are to promote studies on Austria and Central Europe in their host nations as well as to give Austrian students the possibility to conduct research abroad and to get in touch with the local scientific community. This volume contains reports on the activities of these Institutions in the academic year 2009/2010 and working papers of their most promising PhD students. The research presented in this volume covers various aspects of Central European history in Moderns Times, ranging from the sixteenth century to the present.
Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism
Debates on the role of Christian Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe too often remain strongly tied to national historiographies. With the edited collection the contributing authors aim to reconstruct Christian Democracy’s role in the fall of Communism from a bird's-eye perspective by covering the entire region and by taking “third-way” options in the broader political imaginary of late-Cold War Europe into account. The book’s twelve chapters present the most recent insights on this topic and connect scholarship on the Iron Curtain’s collapse with scholarship on political Catholicism. Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism offers the reader a two-fold perspective. The fi...
Environmentalism in Central and Southeastern Europe
Consisting of 12 chapters, the book presents the rise and development of environmentalism, environmental history as a discipline, and the history of environmental movements in the Central and South Eastern European region from an international point of view. The chapters—written by scholars from Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Slovakia, Romania, Serbia, Greece and Turkey—cover a wide range of topics including the creation of protected areas, increasing environmental consciousness, the evolution of humanity’s relationship toward the environment, and perceptions of environmentalism by different disciplines. This international approach highlights the region’s complex development from...
Gedächtnisort der Republik
Das Heldendenkmal im Äußeren Burgtor der Wiener Hofburg ist der zentrale Ort staatlich-militärischen Gedenkens der Republik Österreich. Die Gedenkstätte für die Gefallenen des Ersten Weltkriegs und die Habsburgische Armee wurde 1934 als Prestigeprojekt des Dollfuß-Schuschnigg-Regimes errichtet. Nach 1945 werden hier die geschichtspolitischen Widersprüche und Konflikte der Zweiten Republik manifest. Das offizielle Österreich gedachte hier sowohl der im Zweiten Weltkrieg gefallenen Wehrmachtssoldaten als auch dem Widerstand gegen das NS-Regime. Die konfliktreiche Geschichte des zentralen Gedächtnisortes der Republik bis zur gegenwärtigen Neugestaltung wird mit in den Beiträgen von Dieter A. Binder, Stefan Gugerel, Richard Hufschmied, Richard Kurdiovsky, Richard Lein, Peter Pirker, Anna Stuhlpfarrer und Heidemarie Uhl rekonstruiert.
ErinnerungsORTE weiter denken
Heidemarie Uhl war eine renommierte Wissenschaftlerin, Vermittlerin, Ideengeberin, Netzwerkerin und Projektleiterin sowie eine unermüdliche Mentorin, die jungen Wissenschaftler*innen unprätentiös half, ihren Weg zu finden. Für all dies soll diese Publikation eine Würdigung sein. Der vorliegende Beitragsband war als Festschrift für Heidemarie Uhl geplant und sollte ihr Mitte September 2023, rund um ihren 67. Geburtstag, übergeben werden. Mitte August erreichte die Herausgeber*innen völlig unerwartet und viel zu früh die Nachricht von ihrem Tod. Daher ist aus der "Festschrift für" trauriger- und schmerzhafterweise ein Band "in memoriam" Heidemarie Uhl geworden. Die Publikation mit Beiträgen von Kolleg*innen und Freund*innen, Wegefährt*innen und Schüler*innen setzt sich mit dem Forschungsfeld Uhls auseinander: den Erinnerungskulturen und Geschichtspolitiken. Dabei werden unterschiedliche nationale und internationale "Erinnerungsorte" (durchaus im Sinne von topographischen Orten) auf einer mentalen Karte beleuchtet.
Politik und Militär im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
***Angaben zur beteiligten Person Tepperberg: Direktor des Wiener Kriegsarchivs.
