Burggarten movement

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Lawn clearance in the Burggarten (2010)

The Burggarten movement in Vienna had the freedom of the Burggarten meadow as a principle goal.

history

In Vienna in the 1970s and 1980s, there was a lack of space for young people to hold events or simply to meet (free of charge). At that time it was not allowed to enter Vienna's public lawns, as well as those of the Burggarten.

In the spring of 1979, the Kronen Zeitung in particular reported "public drug consumption, duck murder and sex orgies" that the Burggarten was developing into a meeting place for "hippies" and "freaks" and that the lawn was being stepped on more and more often despite the ban.

As a result, police officers from the nearby guard room began to clear the lawn and the young people to "occupy" it regularly. The Burggarten movement / "Movement for freedom from lawns" was born.

“It was about something that is taken for granted today. That one was allowed to sit in the meadow. The wild Burggarten kids wanted that and did it, the authorities, above all the then rigid, tourist cultural heritage-minded municipality of Vienna did not want that. "
“There were real wars, lies, punitive actions and arrests, which resulted in several demos, occupations and actions by the Burggarten movement. B. also paralyzed the Ringstrasse. "
“Not only the community, but also the media played this little thing as a kind of Austrian RAF [note. Red Army Faction ], and criminalized harmless and legitimate concerns (which are now taken for granted) in an outrageous and downright criminal way. "
"Demonstrative lawn occupations ..." and subsequent "... evictions by the executive and evasion of the concreted area in front of the palm house were the recurring forms of the subsequent disputes that lasted for months ..." (WL 1981, p 49, lower case in the original) of the emerging Burggarten movement with the executive. One day a week they met in the castle garden to "... play a bit of cat and mouse with the police"

According to Suttner, demonstrations took place every Saturday from May to October 1979.

Around 200 to 300 demonstrators took part in the demos. Average age 15 and 16 years. Supported by the arena and other groups, the movement held meetings and events both in the Amerlinghaus cultural center and in the arena.

Over time, in addition to the youth squatters' demand for freedom from lawns in the Burggarten, the students also formulated political and socially critical demands and content-related focal points: the desire to use public open spaces and a cultural and communication center where young people hang out and their political and realize social ideas. stood out from the hedonistic wishes and demands of part of the Burggarten movement.

"For Robert Misik , the Burggarten movement was one of the key episodes of the time in which a youth movement was formed in Vienna that began in 1979" ... to conquer public space, to establish its own spaces ... "(Misik 2007, P. 15) and to conduct socially critical discussions in public space. "

timeline

  • Mid-1979: first demonstrations
  • September 15, 1979: First major police operation. Protesters are locked in by the police in the Burggarten. Activists are allowed to inform visitors about the events in the Burggarten from the stage of a Nina Hagen concert in Vienna.
  • September 16, 1979: Nina Hagen appears in person in the Burggarten.
  • September 22, 1979: The Open Day (Vienna) in the Vienna City Hall is attended by activists and an appointment is negotiated with Mayor Leopold Gratz .
  • September 29, 1979: Activist delegation meets with Vienna City Councilor Schieder for negotiations.
  • October 20, 1979 the movement bursts an “ideas market” of the ÖVP in the Phorushalle and occupies them in a row.
  • October 26, 1979: Last demonstration for this year.
  • March 15, 1980: Unregistered "Indian Festival" in the Burggarten with around 500 participants. Police evacuation and arrest of 10 people
  • May 1, 1980: Burggarten is occupied spontaneously. Demonstration with arrests
  • May 3, 1980: Demonstration at the ÖVP Wiener Stadtfest with further arrests
  • Summer 1980: two activists of the Burggarten movement sentenced to fines for spraying slogans on the Gloriette in Schönbrunn.
  • October 26, 1980: Large, registered demonstration in the Burggarten (only registered)
  • November 1980: ".. Temporary re-occupation of the Amerlinghaus in the seventh district with criticism of the commercial use of the house, which since the first occupation in the summer of 1975 was partly used as a self-administered youth and cultural center. Then the Burggarten movement slowly began to dissolve. "
  • Spring 1981: Demonstration (last) in the 1st district
  • May 1, 1981: Demonstration on Stephansplatz to distract from a planned occupation on Judenplatz . Occupation fails, demo moves through to the ring (1000 activists) and back to Rotenturmstrasse . Windows are thrown in, 102 people arrested including four German "ringleaders" and "terrorist professionals". The only banner "Be high, be free, terror must be included" is exploited by the press.
  • March 8, 1981: Demonstration with 1000 people
  • March 23, 1981: Representatives of the municipality of Vienna hand over the keys to the GaGa ( Kulturzentrum Gassergasse )
  • May 1981: Parts of the Burggarten movement move to the Gassergasse cultural center

Media reception

Film documentaries

  • Burggarten (1980) Media Workshop Vienna. b / w, 18 min: "The film was made as part of a project by Medienwerkstatt Wien (at the time of production" Verein Medienzentren (Vienna) ") for the Wiener Festwochen 1980. As part of the" Videowochenschau (Vienna) ", the Medienwerkstatt presented offside the official media activities of groups and initiatives of the so-called "alternative movements", including in a mobile video bus. The media workshop offered technical and logistical support. An integral idea of ​​the project was the self-portrayal of the initiatives or their greatest possible participation in the production of the videos. "Burggarten" used documentary material from various participants and observers of the events between spring and autumn 1979, which was viewed, selected and structured by an activist of the "Burggarten Movement". The production was used at several youth events. "
  • Video ARTE “Sarah In Vienna: Freedom for the Burggarten”

Press

  • Without a muzzle , episode 433, youth on the sidelines. Aired April 29, 1984
  • Without a muzzle , episode 452, 1985 - The year of youth. Aired January 13, 1985
  • Without a muzzle , episodes 514, 514 - LAST EPISODE - Highlights from 20 years of “Without a muzzle” Broadcast on September 20, 1987

Exhibitions

  • 2012 Wien Museum: Occupied! Struggle for freedom since the 70s.

further reading

  • Andreas Suttner : "Concrete burns": Squatters and self-government in Berlin, Vienna and Zurich in the 80s. LIT-Verlag, Vienna / Berlin / Münster 2011
  • Robert Foltin: And we are still moving: social movements in Austria . Edition Grundrisse, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-9501925-0-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Robert Foltin: And we are still moving: social movements in Austria . Edition Grundrisse, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-9501925-0-6 , p. 129.
  2. ↑ a b Georg Friesenbichler: Our wild years: the seventies in Austria . Böhlau Verlag Vienna, 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-78151-6 , p. 222–.
  3. ↑ Andreas Rotifer: The Burggarten, the freaks and the press , ORF FM4.
  4. ↑ a b c L. Wieger: Social movement in public space. Diploma thesis, 2010, p. 36
  5. ↑ Andreas Suttner: "Concrete burns": Squatters and self-government in Berlin, Vienna and Zurich in the 80s . Lit, 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-50260-5 , p. 268.
  6. ^ A b Andreas Suttner: "Concrete burns": Squatters and self-administration in Berlin, Vienna and Zurich in the 80s . Lit, 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-50260-5 , p. 268.
  7. ↑ Nina Hagen "inspired" the Burggarten occupiers. In: Arbeiter-Zeitung. September 17, 1979, p. 1 , accessed April 2, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Nina in the Burggarten: and again whirling and beating. In: Arbeiterzeitung. September 17, 1979, p. 5 , accessed April 2, 2014 .
  9. ^ In front of the town hall a storm in a water glass. In: Arbeiterzeitung. September 30, 1979, p. 7 , accessed April 2, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Christiane Wagner: Only after the end of the occupation did the rubber clubs "dance". In: Arbeiterzeitung. October 22, 1979, p. 5 , accessed April 2, 2014 .
  11. ↑ a b c Wieger, L. 2010, “Social Movement in Public Space”, diploma thesis, p. 37
  12. ^ Tumult at Vienna VP City Festival. In: Arbeiterzeitung. May 5, 1980, p. 8 , accessed April 2, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Georg Friesenbichler: Our wild years: the seventies in Austria . Böhlau Verlag Vienna, 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-78151-6 , p. 224–.
  14. ↑ Amerlinghaus Kulturzentrum Spittelberg in Amerlinghaus ( memento of the original from February 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.amerlinghaus.at
  15. ^ A b Robert Foltin: And we are still moving: social movements in Austria . Edition Grundrisse, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-9501925-0-6 , p. 130.
  16. ^ Burggarten , video from 1979/80 on StadtFilmWien, accessed on April 3, 2014
  17. ^ Sarah in Vienna: Freedom for the Burggarten , Arte , first broadcast on August 18, 2011, 10:24 am, accessed on April 3, 2014
  18. ↑ Kerstin Madner: themes and values of the ORF youth magazines "Okay" and "without a muzzle," A comparison of two TV Audience broadcasts of the 1980s; Master thesis. (PDF; 78 kB) June 2011, p. 273 , accessed on April 2, 2014 .
  19. ↑ Kerstin Madner: themes and values of the ORF youth magazines "Okay" and "without a muzzle," A comparison of two TV Audience broadcasts of the 1980s; Master thesis. (PDF; 78 kB) June 2011, p. 277 , accessed on April 2, 2014 .
  20. ↑ Kerstin Madner: themes and values of the ORF youth magazines "Okay" and "without a muzzle," A comparison of two TV Audience broadcasts of the 1980s; Master thesis. (PDF; 78 kB) June 2011, p. 302 , accessed on April 2, 2014 .
  21. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 17, 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. Wien Museum website  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wienmuseum.at
  22. ↑ http://issuu.com/wienmuseum/docs/wien_museum_ausstellungskatalog_bes?e=8579064/4277269 Wien Museum exhibition catalog