Austrian cabaret archive

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Work and user room in the Austrian Cabaret Archive

The Austrian Cabaret Archive (ÖKA), based in Graz, is a special archive and documentation center for Austrian cabaret that is dedicated to the systematic documentation of cabaret , cabaret and satire .

history

The Austrian Cabaret Archive was founded as an association on a private initiative in 1999, built up in May 2000 with the support of the City of Graz Cultural Office and opened on April 1, 2001. In 2004 it already looked like the young archive would be closed after the city of Graz had completely canceled the subsidies for the ÖKA. At the last moment, however, a way out became apparent: The Austrian Cabaret Archive moved to the southeast Styrian municipality of Straden , which offered the ÖKA a new place of activity including an exhibition facility. In 2005 the ÖKA was opened there with an exhibition dedicated to the cabaret artist Fritz Grünbaum who died in the Dachau concentration camp . Eight further exhibitions followed, which, conceived as traveling exhibitions, could also be viewed in Graz, Salzburg , Budapest , Mainz and Bernburg (Saale) . In 2009, despite successful exhibition and publication activities, an increase in users and a massive expansion, the end of the small archive threatened again. After long and tough negotiations, the Austrian Cabaret Archive was able to return to Graz; Since January 2011 it has been housed in the attic of the Graz Literature House on Elisabethstrasse. The premises are provided by the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz and the archive manager Iris Fink is now an employee of the city of Graz and is made available as a subsidy to the Association for the Promotion of the Austrian Cabaret Archive. Projects as well as the maintenance and expansion of the archives will continue to be financed through subsidies and donations.

Tasks and scope of the ÖKA

The purpose and task of the Austrian Cabaret Archive is to preserve the cultural heritage of cabaret and to document its history up to the present, to make it accessible and to prepare it for scientific research and the interested public. This is also done in the context of exhibitions, publications and events. The ÖKA collections, which are constantly being expanded, include a specialist library, an audio and video library, extensive newspaper documentation (from 1901) as well as texts, autographs , sheet music , chansons , programs, photos, posters, magazines and documentary personal papers, etc. by Leo Lukas , Ernst Stankovski , Peter Orthofer , Josef Carl Knaflitsch , Dieter Gogg , Emil Breisach , Gerda Klimek or the Menubeln .

Publications (selection)

  • Fritz Grünbaum and the Viennese cabaret. Biography & Reader , by Hans Veigl, Verlag des Österreichisches Kabarettarchivs, Graz 2019, ISBN 978-3-9504628-8-3
  • "Nice hits and shopping tortures" Leo Lukas: Family trilogy . Edition and literary-sociological analysis with a focus on gender and comedy by Fabian Kleindienst, Verlag ÖKA, Graz 2018, ISBN 978-3-9504628-0-7
  • Touched because shaken. An almanac not only of the Austrian rime scene , edited by Simon Pichler , Verlag ÖKA, Graz 2017, ISBN 978-3-9501427-9-2
  • ... and laughter has its time , cabaret between reconstruction and economic miracle - cabaret in Austria 1945 to 1970 - cultural history of Austrian cabaret, volume 2, by Iris Fink and Hans Veigl , Verlag ÖKA, Graz 2016, ISBN 978-3-9501427-7- 8th
  • Die demolirte Literatur , by Karl Kraus , reprint of the fifth and last book edition in 1989, edited and commented by Hans Veigl, Verlag ÖKA, Graz 2016, ISBN 978-3-9501427-5-4
  • Austrian Parnassus, boarded by a run-down antiquarian , Frey-Sing bei Athanasius & Comp. undated (1842). An outspoken pamphlet about Austria's writers in the March, edited and commented by Hans Veigl, Verlag ÖKA, Graz 2016, ISBN 978-3-9501427-6-1
  • Galgenhumor, small art in the great war , a contribution to the kk entertainment culture 1914 to 1918, by Iris Fink and Hans Veigl, Verlag ÖKA, Graz 2014, ISBN 978-3-9501427-4-7
  • Laughter in the basement, cabaret and cabaret in Vienna 1900 to 1945 , cultural history of Austrian cabaret, volume 1, by Hans Veigl, Verlag ÖKA, Graz 2013, ISBN 978-3-9501427-2-3
  • With Goethe im Nacht-Cabaret , Egon Friedell between cabaret and cultural history, Verlag des ÖKA, Graz 2013, ISBN 978-3-9501427-3-0
  • Banished, burned, forgotten and misunderstood , short biographies on the persecution and expulsion of Austrian cabaret and small stage artists 1933–1945, published by Hans Veigl, Verlag des ÖKA, Graz 2012, ISBN 978-3-9501427-1-6
  • Drafts for a Grünbaum Monument , Fritz Grünbaum and the Wiener Kabarett, by Hans Veigl, Verlag des ÖKA, Graz-Vienna 2001, ISBN 978-3-9501427-0-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Veronika Schmidt: Austrian Cabaret Archive looking for a hostel In: Die Presse , June 6, 2010, accessed on January 12, 2017
  2. ↑ Cabaret archive moves back to Graz In: Kleine Zeitung , October 18, 2010, accessed on January 12, 2017
  3. ↑ Leonhard Steinmann: Exodus of the Austrian Cabaret Archive In: Wiener Zeitung , September 6, 2011, accessed on January 12, 2017
  4. ↑ The cabaret archive remains in Graz , on the website steiermark.orf.at , accessed on January 12, 2017
  5. ^ Austrian cabaret archive reopened , In: Der Standard , from June 5, 2012, accessed on January 12, 2017

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