Austrian Adult Education Center

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Covered space in front of the Austrian Adult Education Center, in front of a branch of the Floridsdorf Adult Education Center and in front of a branch of the Vienna Libraries in the Großfeldsiedlung in Floridsdorf in Vienna
Archive exhibition in the stairwell
Exhibition poster from the Volksheim Ottakring from 1947 with the names of Mayor Theodor Körner and Federal President Karl Renner

The Austrian Adult Education Center in Vienna - Floridsdorf is the central archive of the Adult Education Centers in Austria . It has also been the corporate archive of Wiener Volkshochschulen GmbH since 2014. The Adult Education Center collects archival material and documents and runs the “ Wolfgang Speiser / Karl R. Stadler Studies Library ”.

In 2018, the educational work of the Austrian Adult Education Centers, which has been carried out for more than 130 years, was recognized as an "essential pillar of the national education system that is indispensable in the Austrian educational system" and the holdings of the Austrian Adult Education Center as valuable from both a national and a supraregional perspective Cultural property and archival material worthy of protection ”placed under monument protection.

history

At meetings of adult education center representatives from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, which took place annually from 1981, the historical development of adult education centers was discussed, especially after 1945. This resulted in an exhibition for Austria on the 100th anniversary in the Vienna City Hall . The intensive research for the exhibition was carried out by Karl Hochwarter, the director of the VHS Wien-Nord at the time. This was followed in December 1987 by the establishment of the Association for the History of Adult Education Centers . The long-standing central secretary of the Association of Viennese People's Education, Wolfgang Speiser , Karl Hochwarter, Karl Foltinek as head of Vienna Municipal Department 7 - Culture, Landtag MP Ernst Steinbach as chairman of the Association of Viennese People's Education and Section Head Hans Altenhuber from the Ministry of Education were involved in the establishment. The association's task was to collect, store and evaluate historical source material, which initiated the establishment of an Austrian Adult Education Center. The Mitteilungsblatt was expanded into a specialist journal and has been published since 1995 under the title trace search . In doing so, the limited handling of Austria's own past and the so-called culture of repression of the Second Republic with regard to the years from 1933 to 1945 were also taken into account at adult education centers. Due to the constant expansion of activities, the archive was transferred as an independent unit from the Association of Viennese Adult Education to the newly created Wiener Volkshochschulen GmbH in 2008. The archive received the German Prize for Innovation in Adult Education (2007) in particular for realizing an online historiography .

The Austrian Adult Education Center has been headed by contemporary historian Christian H. Stifter since 1996.

Stocks

  • Association archives: Wiener Volksbildungsverein from 1887, Urania Wien from 1897 and the Ottakring Volkshochschule from 1901.
  • Association archive: Conference of Adult Education in Austria - KEBÖ from 1972, Association of Austrian Adult Education Centers from 1950, Association of Viennese Adult Education (1949–2008), Die Wiener Volkshochschulen GmbH from 2008, Association of Lower Austrian Adult Education Centers from 1957.
  • Program archive: Event programs from 1887, digital event directory Viennese adult education institutions and adult education centers (1887–1955).
  • Image archive: Photos from the early days of Austrian popular education to the present day, 60,000 glass images from the Urania Vienna photography collection (1898–1945).
  • Poster archive: 2000 posters from 1908.
  • Media archive: films, videos, audio logs
  • Collections: Athenäum Wien (1901–1913) a women's college initiated by Ludo Moritz Hartmann in Vienna in 1900, DOKEB - Documentation System for Adult Education (1974–1997), Federal Agency for Adult Education for Burgenland, Institute for Political Education / Mattersburg (1977–1994) , Haus Ri (e) f (1955–1993), Austrian Society for Political Education from 1994, popular university courses at the University of Vienna (1907–1917).
  • Legacies / bequests / bequests / partial bequests to Hugo Ellenberger (estate), Karl Foltinek (partial estate), Herbert Grau (partial estate), Karl Hochwarter (estate), Josef Lehrl (fragmentary estate), Eduard Leisching (fragmentary estate ), Karl Mark (fragmentary estate ), Wolfgang Speiser (partial estate), Karl R. Stadler (estate), Ferdinand Starmühlner (partial estate).

Chair of the Friends' Association

Web links

Commons : Austrian Archive for Adult Education  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Austrian Adult Education Center, news archive
  2. ↑ Inventory under monument protection. In: further education. THE magazine for adult education, 26th year, 2019, issue 1, p. 6.
  3. ↑ International innovation award for öster. Adult Education Project City Hall Correspondence, November 30, 2007

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