Amerlinghaus

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Amerlinghaus

The Amerlinghaus is a self-managed cultural center that has been located in the former home of Friedrich von Amerling in Vienna - Neubau since the 1970s .

history

The building was erected around 1700. In 1803 the painter Friedrich von Amerling was born in the house. The house was previously called To the Three Hearts , later it was called the Amerlinghaus .

In the summer of 1975, residents of the district occupied several listed Biedermeier houses to prevent demolition, including the Amerlinghaus, which was empty and neglected at the time. After a festival lasting several days, a self-governing center for cultural exchange was set up. After lengthy negotiations with the city council, the house was renovated and handed over to the "Kulturzentrum Spittelberg" association founded for this purpose on April 1, 1978. The Green Party was founded in “Monday” and “Thursday rounds” in the Amerlinghaus. In 1980 the Amerlingbeisl was exempted from self-administration and commercially leased after violent disputes and after the building had been occupied again.

After it opened as a cultural center, the Amerlinghaus u. a. Concerts, cabaret evenings, film screenings, dance events, readings and panel discussions. Political, cultural, senior and youth groups met in the Amerlinghaus, there was also a children's group and, from September 1978, an alternative school . For current use, it says on the website of the house:

The house is active from early to late: German courses for migrants, childcare, intercultural projects in the fields of literature, music, painting, dance and crossover, Roma cultural events, improvisation and play-through theater, left-wing groups that deal with political theory and practice, self-organized Meetings of senior citizens, self-help groups and self-empowerment projects in various subject areas such as precarization, marginalization, migration, social repression, the right to the city ... Marxism congresses, literary events, critical film evenings, legal advice and much more can be found in the cultural center. Over 50 groups, initiatives and projects regularly use the in-house resources. In addition, there is a wide circle of selective users.

While other squatted houses in Vienna (Aegidigasse and Spalowskigasse) were cleared by the police , the Amerlinghaus has been preserved as a self-governing facility to this day.

Web links

Commons : Amerlinghaus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Christoph Reinprecht: Five years of Amerlinghaus. An approach to alternative culture in Vienna . Vienna: 1983.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Heinz Jankowsky: New building, Vienna's 7th district . Sutton, 2002; ISBN 3897024721 ; P. 33.
  2. ↑ a b Barbara Sichtermann, Kai Sichtermann: This is our house. A story of the squatting . Structure digital, 2017; ISBN 384121164X .
  3. ↑ Georg Friesenbichler: Our wild years. The seventies in Austria . Vienna / Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau, 2008; ISBN 978-3-205-78151-6 ; P. 112.
  4. ↑ Julia Fellinger, Doris Jecel, Stefan Kammerer: The emergence of the art and culture quarter in the Spittelberg district. In: Andrea Grisold, Elfie Miklautz , Andreas Resch (eds.): Kreativ in Wien. Fourteen case studies in the field of tension between economics and art . Vienna / Berlin: Lit, 2011; ISBN 978-3-643-50292-6 ; here p. 281.
  5. ↑ Georg Fingerlos: The Free Schools of Vienna since the 1970s ( Unsereschulen.at )
  6. ↑ The cultural center ( amerlinghaus.at )


Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 11.2 "  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 15.8"  E