Author: Wiener Institut für Kultur- und Zeitgeschichte

Ensemble-members of the Vienna Burgtheater – Annamária Láng, Tobias Moretti, Martin Schwab und Marie-Luise Stockinger – present excerpts from literary texts by contemporary authors of eight European countries which were part of two studies (2019, 2022) on authoritarian attitudes and democracy. The results of the latter study (2022) – a survey on views on national history, democracy and its principles, and authoritarianism in their respective conutries and Europe at large – will be presented, followed by an expert panel discussion.

Jean-Baptiste Del Amo (France)
Sabine Gruber (Italy)
Michal Hvorecký (Slovakia)
Dorota Masłowska (Poland)
Terézia Mora (Hungary)
Kathrin Röggla (Germany)
Antonia Scurati (Italy)
Gerhild Steinbuch (Austria)
Tena Štivičić (UK)

Panel discussion: Misha Glenny (Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences, IWM), Cathrin Kahlweit (Correspondent Süddeutsche Zeitung for Central- and Eastern Europe, Political Scientist), Sylvia Kritzinger (Professor at the Department of Government, University of Vienna) and Oliver Rathkolb (Professor at the Department of Contemporary History, University of Vienna, and Chairman of the Vienna Institute for Cultural and Contemporary History and Arts, VICCA)

Moderated by Markus Müller-Schinwald (Ö1)

About the Event

pdf (in German, English version to be published in autumn 2024)

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Media Coverage

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Panel Discussion at Carnegie Hall

As part of a panel of experts of cultural history and art– which he helped put together – Oliver Rathkolb joins a discussion with Larry Diamond, Daniel Froschauer, Nadine Rossol und Franz Welser on the arts and what they can tell and predict about their time, as well as its politics and society. The discussion aims to compare the current conditions with those of the “anything-goes” society of the 1920s, which ultimately led to the fall of democracy and a rise of authoritarianism.

Moderated by Sheri Berman

Wednesday. February 28^th 2024 at 5:30 pm

Resnick Education Wing, Carnegie Hall

About the Event

Photo-Exhibition

The photo exhibition “Hans Sima – a political life” reconstructs the life and political work of Carinthia’s governor Hans Sima using selected photographic highlights.

Professor Oliver Rathkolb and Dr. Petra Mayrhofer are curating the photo exhibition together with Dr. Andreas Kuchler, Director of the Museum of the City of Villach. It provides insights into the former craft of political press photography in black and white. Photographic self-portraits using cell phone photography were still unknown. Sima planned to give Austria’s southernmost province an active role at the intersection of the three countries Austria, Italy, and the former Yugoslavia. He therefore intensified specific projects within the framework of Alps-Adriatic cooperation. The presentation of this exhibition in four languages is intended to underline this. Representative excerpts from the ORF III documentary “Hans Sima: A politician’s life in turbulent times” complement the presentation. An audio guide in German, English, Italian, and Slovenian facilitates the communication of the content and the participation of visually impaired people.

The new special exhibition of contemporary history on a total of 15 panels can be seen free of charge until the end of the year 2023 in the Alps-Adriatic Media Library of the Villach Chamber of Labor, Kaiser-Josef-Platz 1, 9500 Villach.

Sponsered by Villach :City Museum, Hans Sima Stiftung, and Arbeiterkammer Kärnten