Basic group theater, film and media studies
The basic group theater, film and media studies (briefly: bagru thewi , until 2007 basic group theater studies , before that at times also institute group theater studies ) is one of the oldest basic groups at the University of Vienna , along with the red stock market crash . Since the mid-1970s, with a few interruptions, she has been the student representative at the Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies , which has been in the Vienna Hofburg since 1943 .
Parts of the student representatives were involved in the kidnapping of industrialist Walter Palmer by the June 2nd Movement in 1977 . The kidnapping was ended bloodlessly after the ransom was paid. Thomas Gratt was sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
During the lifetime of the institute's founders, Heinz Kindermann and Margret Dietrich , the grassroots group actively dealt with their National Socialist past and the motivations for founding the institute in the 1940s. The result of the research was the brochure "Theater Studies and Fascism" published in 1982. In 2009, the basic group published the reader "Theater Studies and Post-Nazism", which deals with the state of the process in view of the 65th anniversary of the institute's founding the year before.
In the elections to the ÖH in the past decades mostly only activists from the grassroots group ran for student representation. In the 2011 ÖH election, the candidates in the base group were able to collect twice as many votes on average as the two opposing candidates.
From 2010 the basic group had its own premises at Berggasse 11 in Vienna - Alsergrund , which they used for events and regular plenary sessions . In the summer of 2013, the company moved to Universitätsstrasse 5 ("U5"). The current focus of work is based on the 13 political principles of the group. In addition to "grassroots democracy" and "anti-hierarchical", this includes feminism , anti-fascism and the campaign against anti-Semitism , homophobia and other forms of discrimination . The group sees itself as basically open and invites interested parties to participate in the weekly plenary session.
The former members of the basic group for theater, film and media studies include the theater maker Gini Müller , the author and cultural scientist Gerhard Scheit , the radio maker Veronika Weidinger ( FM4 ) and numerous later lecturers at the Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies.
literature
- Antifascist Working Group: Theater Studies and Fascism , West Berlin 1982.
- Basic group theater, film and media studies: theater studies and post-Nazism. Reader , Vienna 2009.