Jussel affair
The Jussel affair in 1975 concerned a young Vorarlberg teacher who was accused of violating the free democratic basic order in relation to an incident in her art class and who was therefore removed from school service. The affair drew nationwide political and media circles in Austria and is considered a historically relevant occurrence.
Ulrike Jussel graduated from the Pedagogical Academy in 1973 and received a scholarship for talented students. She then taught at a secondary school in Dornbirn - Hatlerdorf . In a drawing lesson on March 6, 1975, the students were asked to design a sheet of paper with a text of their choice. When some students wrote vulgar expressions from the sexual area on paper, Jussel paid no special attention to them. She was then suspended and terminated on March 19 without giving any reason.
Viennese newspapers made the process public. It was picked up by the ORF magazine Teleobjektiv and discussed in the Vorarlberg state parliament . The Austrian Minister of Education Fred Sinowatz invited Jussel to a discussion in Vienna and then intervened personally with Vorarlberg Governor Herbert Keßler on behalf of the young teacher. However, he refused to reinstate the teacher because of the “risk of repetition”.
Jussel then moved to Innsbruck , where he managed the girls' home of the Tyrol Chamber of Labor in Schöpfstrasse for ten years .
literature
- Peter Eppel, Heinrich Lotter: Documentation on Austrian Contemporary History, 1955–1980 Vienna 1982
- Austrian Journal for Political Science 1977, "The Jussel Case"
Web links
- Drawings, photos: Helmut Klapper Collection, Vorarlberg State Library
- Debate in the Vorarlberg state parliament on the Jussel case, 1975 (PDF; 223 kB)
- Brief description of the affair ( memento of July 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Program information on the TV show Panorama on May 24, 2010
Individual evidence
- ^ Kurier, July 12, 1975