Braunau Contemporary History Days

11th Braunau Contemporary History Days: Mayors Gerhard Skiba and Andreas Maislinger and memorial servants remember Righteous Among the Nations in front of the Adolf Hitler birthplace (2002)

16th Braunau Contemporary History Days: Tizzy von Trapp received the Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer Prize (2007) for the Trapp Family Austrian Relief Inc.

22nd Braunau Contemporary History Days: Florian Kotanko reports on the farewell of the kuk Feldjäger Battalion No. 4 from Braunau with an article in the Neue Warte from August 8, 1914 (2013)

The Braunau Contemporary History Days are a conference on contemporary history in the city of Braunau am Inn . Every year a topic of contemporary history is negotiated with lectures and discussions.

history

The contemporary history days in Braunau am Inn came about through an initiative of the political scientist Andreas Maislinger , who was able to organize the first conference in 1992 and then held the scientific management until 2012. Immediately after the first conference, the Association for Contemporary History Braunau was formed , which has been organizing the conference since 1993.

Regional focus since 2004

After conferences on “ coming to terms with the past ”, resistance in dictatorships and other general contemporary history topics, the Association for Contemporary History wants to encourage more engagement with the Innviertel and neighboring Bavaria with the topics of the conferences since 2004 .

In 2004 it was about the "small border traffic" on the Salzach and Inn in the years 1933 to 1938, about "big politics" as well as about everyday life at the interface of two political systems, about differences and similarities.

From 23 to 25 September 2005, the historical background for the “ Braunau Parliament ” 1705 was analyzed, which for a short time united the nobility , clergy , citizens and farmers under the slogan “ Better to die Bavarian than to spoil Austrian ”.

In 2006, the focus was on Johann Philipp Palm : the Nuremberg bookseller was shot on August 26, 1806 on the orders of Napoléon I in Braunau.

In 2007, Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer was remembered. The political scientist , who was born in Ranshofen in 1894 and died in New York in 1957, was a diplomat in the service of the League of Nations and the UN , but is largely forgotten today despite his advocacy of Austria . The Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer Prize of the city of Braunau am Inn was awarded for the first time during the conference .

In 2008 the 17th Braunau Contemporary History Days on the occasion of the European Football Championship in Austria and Switzerland dealt with the fascination of football .

In 2009, former governor Josef Ratzenböck and the German studies specialist Hans Göttler reported on their childhood in the tavern .

Extended perspectives since 2013

Since 2013, the Verein für Zeitgeschichte has not only been responsible for the organization, but also for the positioning of the content.

The time before the First World War, the time between the "Anschluss" of Austria and the beginning of the Second World War, the role of and life in camps were discussed, whereby the topicality of this topic was particularly emphasized by looking at refugee camps. Topics related to visual history, religion and the much-discussed cipher "1968" also led far beyond the region.

subjects

• 1992: 1. Unwanted inheritance: Bautzen , Braunau am Inn , Dachau , Ebensee , Gori , Gurs , Hartheim , Kielce , Mauthausen , Offenhausen , Oswiecim , Predappio , Redl-Zipf , Theresienstadt , Vichy , Weimar , Wunsiedel .
• 1993: 2. Prohibited contact: prisoners of war and foreign workers.
• 1994: 3. Crazy borders: what connects and divides.
• 1995: 4. Necessary betrayal : The Franz Jägerstätter case .
• 1996: 5. Neighbors friends: Germany and German Austria.
• 1997: 6th Go West: Fascination America after 1945.
• 1998: 7. Burdened Names: Names and Politics.
• 1999: 8. Necessary encounters: Albanians , Bosnians , Croats , Roma , Serbs .
• 2000: 9. Separate ways: Germans , Jews , Austrians , Czechs .
• 2001: 10. Distorted Perception: Image and Reality of the Roma and Sinti .
• 2002: 11. Few Righteous ? - Resistance and moral courage in dictatorships .
• 2003: 12. Parallel lives: Braunau am Inn, Broumov , Lavarone .
• 2004: 13. Small border traffic : 1933 to 1938 on the Salzach and Inn.
• 2005: 14th Braunau Parliament. Nobility , clergy , burghers , peasants in 1705.
• 2006: 15th Involuntary hero : Johann Philipp Palm .
• 2007: 16th Peacemakers Manual. To Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer .
• 2008: 17th fascination with football.
• 2009: 18th Reduced World. The pub as a political place.
• 2010: 19th Old City. 750 years of Braunau am Inn.
• 2011: 20th difficult legacy. 19 years after the unwanted inheritance.
• 2012: 21st nobility committed. The responsibility of the nobility then and now.
• 2013: 22. Deceptive Security - On the eve of the First World War
• 2014: 23rd finally German ... - Austria between the Anschluss and war
• 2015: 24th place of destiny, camp
• 2016: 25th Power of Images - Images of Power
• 2017: 26th religion and modernity
• 2018: 27. "1968"
• 2019: 28th respected - outlawed

Speakers

Karl Otmar von Aretin , Ludwig Baumann , Peter Becher , Wolfgang Johannes Bekh , Gerhard Botz , Thomas Brechenmacher , Emil Brix , Walter Brunner , Adolf Burger , Michel Cullin , György Dalos , Georg Denzler , Wacław Długoborski , Winfried Garscha , Roland Girtler , Gabriela von Habsburg , Ulrich Habsburg-Lothringen , Norbert van Handel , Fritz Hausjell , Mozes F. Heinschink , Gregor Henckel-Donnersmarck , Madeleine Herren-Oesch , Fritz Hirzel , Ulrike Kammerhofer-Aggermann , Rudko Kawczynski , Michel Kerautret , Florian Kotanko , Robert Kriechbaumer , Andreas Laun , Oscar winner Branko Lustig , Andreas Maislinger , Ludwig Mehlhorn , Stephanie von Pfuel , Peter Porsch , Gerald Praschl , Edith Rabenstein , Josef Ratzenböck , Hella Schlumberger , Burghart Schmidt , Gerhard Skiba , Klaus Theweleit , Wolfgang Ullrich , Gottfried Wagner , Reinhold Wagnleitner , Moshe Zimmermann , Tilman Zülch , Andreas T. Sturm u. a.

Web links

Commons : Braunauer Zeitgeschichte-Tage  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Web presence of the association for contemporary history

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfred Jungraithmayr : Chance for Braunau. ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Braunauer Rundschau , May 11, 1989. 
2. ↑ Archive page on the Braunauer Zeitgeschichte-Tage from 1992 to 2012 ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. hrb.at by Andreas Maislinger, accessed on October 10, 2013  
3. ^ Klaus Buttinger: Braunau: birthplace of parliament. OÖNachrichten September 24, 2005 ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  
4. ↑ Award ceremony for the Trapp family during the 16th Braunauer Zeitgeschichte-Tage  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  
5. ↑ Giorgi Darsalia: The "great leader" from the small town. In: Mut No. 322, June 1994, pp. 68-73