Cafe Rosa
The Café Rosa was a non-commercial coffee house in the ninth district of Alsergrund in Vienna . It was opened on May 7, 2011 and operated by the ÖH Uni Vienna . It was founded in order to offer students a place to “stay, to network politically, to study and to hold events” without being forced to consume. It should also promote “political engagement outside of political parties and organizations” and “to those who are not open In the evenings and on weekends it is possible for students, the ÖH Uni Wien (and its various levels of representation) and external organizations to hold events in the "Café Rosa". ”In March 2012, it became known that the café lacks the financial means to manage the To continue operations, which sparked a heated media debate. Until the pub was officially closed in October 2013, the university's ÖH invested more than half a million euros.
history
The left-dominated ÖH Uni Vienna, represented by Green & Alternative Students (GRAS), the Association of Socialist Students of Austria (VSStÖ) and the Communist Student Association - Left List (KSV-Lili), decided to open a café that upholds principles, to prevent discrimination : “grassroots democracy, feminist, anti-sexist, progressive, anti-discriminatory, anti-racist, emancipatory, ecologically sustainable, anti-fascist, anti-nationalist, anti-clerical, anti-patriarchal, anti-heteronormative, anti-capitalist and solidary”. Some of these principles were also contained in the statutes of the ÖH Uni Wien. The majority of the exclusion criteria are no longer included in the statutes from October 2014. The name "Rosa" was chosen to refer to the work of politically active women such as Rosa Luxemburg , Rosa Mayreder or Rosa Manus .
In March 2012 the café was closed.
criticism
Shortly after the opening in 2011, the Austrian Cartell Association turned to the Ombudsman for Equal Treatment in a job advertisement for the café about the requirement “ anti-clerical ” . This filed a criminal complaint “for violating the requirement of non-discriminatory job advertisements based on religion or belief and age .” The district administration issued a warning and stated that “neither a young age nor an anti-clerical attitude is an essential and decisive professional requirement for the activities sought. "
The Action Community (AG), the Young Liberals (JuLis) and the Ring of Freedom Students (RFS) described the procedure as a waste of money. The fact that the coffee house was not founded as a corporation but as an association also caused criticism. In spring 2012, the AG and RFS accused that there was no transparency in the café's budget and that it was already insolvent. In addition, the RFS filed a complaint against the ÖH University of Vienna on suspicion of infidelity. In the summer of 2015, the public prosecutor closed the case. A vote against the chairwoman of the Federal Representation, Janine Wulz (GRAS), who was the association's treasurer at the time , was unsuccessful. In May 2012, the Café Rosa was occupied by students, a few days later it was cleared again. In June 2012, the Federal Ministry of Science and Research determined by means of a notice that the coffee house was not allowed to be run in the form of an association, as the law stipulates that the ÖH must run business operations as corporations.
Since it was closed, the lease has continued until 2016 because it was concluded for five years. The association was formally dissolved. Since one of the two pregnant managing directors was terminated on maternity leave , this will only become effective when the ongoing proceedings at the labor court have been concluded.
No new tenant could be found for the premises until the beginning of January 2013. AG and RFS offered to rent the space for events in order to reduce losses. The ÖH executive of the University of Vienna rejected what was subsequently referred to as discrimination and " negligent impairment of creditors' interests ".
In March 2013, the new ÖH management at the University of Vienna initiated an examination of personal responsibility. At the end of April 2013, the homepage of the café was discontinued by the ÖH and redirected to a graphic of a girl riding a pink unicorn .
In the ÖH election in May 2013, the GRAS at the University of Vienna had to accept a high loss of votes in connection with the café, while the VSStÖ was able to hold votes and became the parliamentary group with the largest number of votes.
A new tenant was found in October 2013.
Statement of costs and income
| date | description | costs |
|---|---|---|
| until 06/2011 | Release a | 165,000.00 |
| modification | 80,000.00 | |
| grants | 80,000.00 | |
| commission | 9,499.00 | |
| deposit | 20,000.00 | |
| Event and advertising costs | 3,496.46 | |
| fees | 1,159.20 | |
| electricity | 1,970.00 | |
| rental fee | 12,180.00 | |
| Others | 485.10 | |
| vacancy | 7,372.55 | |
| clerk | 6,785.00 | |
| total | -387,947.31 | |
| 07/2011 - 06/2012 | grants | 45,000.00 |
| materials | 39.99 | |
| Electricity gas | 15,403.41 | |
| phone | 371.96 | |
| domain | 14.90 | |
| rental fee | 36,872.36 | |
| Legal assistance | 2,634.77 | |
| clerk | 11,200.00 | |
| total | -111,580.29 | |
| 07/2012 - 06/2013 | rental fee | 37,927.26 |
| Electricity gas | 3,380.79 | |
| phone | 549.58 | |
| open invoices | 2,456.25 | |
| Cleaning work | 258.60 | |
| Preparation of expert reports | 4,800.00 | |
| clerk | 5,600.00 | |
| total | -54,972.48 | |
| 07/2013 - 10/2013 | rental fee | 12,957.20 |
| Electricity gas | 371.50 | |
| phone | 171.92 | |
| Maintenance thermal bath | 144.00 | |
| Maintenance ventilation | 2,160.00 | |
| estate agents | 1,200.00 | |
| Subsidy Association | 3,000.00 | |
| clerk | 1,680.00 | |
| total | -21,684.62 | |
| From opening to closing | description | revenue |
| Deposit repayment | 10,000.00 | |
| Replacement of new tenants b | 30,000.00 | |
| Dissolution of the association's credit | 2,000.00 | |
| total | 41,500.00 |
| total cost | -534,184.70 |
|---|
List of costs for transfer 2011 and income from transfer 2013:
| description | Transfer costs 2011 a | Income from transfer fees 2013 b |
|---|---|---|
| Remodeling of the business premises | 85,205.78 | 13,000.00 |
| Local facility (lighting) | 4,656.48 | 1,000.00 |
| Glass partition including door | 4,950.00 | 1,000.00 |
| Local facility (café-bar) | 52,320.00 | 12,000.00 |
| TV 1 | 371.20 | 0.00 |
| TV 2 | 236.00 | 0.00 |
| Music system | 460.58 | 0.00 |
| Cash register system | 2,736.00 | 0.00 |
| coffee machine | 11,264.03 | 3,000.00 |
| total | -162,200.08 | 30,000.00 |
Source: Cafe Rosa final report of the ÖH at the University of Vienna
Web links
- Official website. (No longer available online.) ÖH Uni Wien , archived from the original on March 1, 2013 ; accessed on March 30, 2013 .
Individual evidence
- ^ ÖH Uni Vienna: The Café Rosa opens its doors. ÖH Uni Wien , accessed on February 1, 2013 .
- ^ Café Rosa - documents for the press conference of the ÖH Uni Vienna. (PDF; 636 kB) (No longer available online.) ÖH Uni Wien , March 15, 2012, p. 3 , archived from the original on May 2, 2013 ; Retrieved May 3, 2013 .
- ^ A b Sebastian Howorka, David Bogner: Business plan Café Rosa. (PDF; 807 kB) in cooperation with the management of Café Rosa and the ÖH Uni Vienna. ÖH Uni Vienna , December 6, 2011, p. 7 f. , accessed May 3, 2013 .
- ^ A b Lisa Aigner: Café Rosa: Anti-capitalist attempt failed. DerStandard.at , March 7, 2012, accessed on March 28, 2013 .
- ^ Cafe Rosa: Bankrupt vultures over anti-capitalist restaurant? DiePresse.com , March 2, 2012, accessed on March 28, 2013 .
- ↑ Failed Café Rosa has already devoured half a million euros. derstandard.at , February 16, 2015, accessed on April 5, 2015 .
- ^ Statutes of the ÖH Uni Wien. (PDF; 153 kB) (No longer available online.) ÖH Uni Wien , November 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 3, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Statutes of the Student Union at the University of Vienna (as of October 2014). (PDF; 170 kB) ÖH Uni Wien , accessed on September 3, 2017 .
- ↑ What is the pink? (No longer available online.) Café Rosa, archived from the original on April 2, 2013 ; Retrieved May 3, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Café Rosa is history. derStandard.at , October 16, 2013, accessed on October 19, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Michael Leitner, Mathias Slezak, Sebastian Wedl: "Studibeisl with party book". derStandard.at , July 8, 2011, accessed May 5, 2013 .
- ↑ Brigitte Pechar: Looking for anti-clerical waiters - How far can equal treatment go? In: Wiener Zeitung . May 17, 2011, p. 3 ( wienerzeitung.at [accessed on May 5, 2013]).
- ↑ Federal Minister for Women and Public Service in the Federal Chancellery Austria (Ed.): Equal Treatment Report for the Private Sector 2010 and 2011 . Part II, 2012, p. 75 ( Austrian Parliament [PDF; accessed on August 21, 2017]).
- ↑ Café Rosa - a moral picture. (No longer available online.) AktionGemeinschaft , archived from the original on April 1, 2013 ; accessed on March 28, 2013 .
- ↑ julis.at. (No longer available online.) Young Liberals Austria , formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 2, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Mailings to Café Rosa. (No longer available online.) Ring Freedom Student , archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 28, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Central Register of Associations. Federal Ministry of the Interior , accessed on March 28, 2013 (ZVR number 148801493).
- ^ Café Rosa: RFS reports ÖH Uni Vienna on suspicion of infidelity. DerStandard.at , March 13, 2012, accessed on March 28, 2013 .
- ↑ Lisa Kogelnik: Investigations into Café Rosa have ended. derStandard.at , January 22, 2016, accessed on January 22, 2016 .
- ^ Motion to vote rejected: Janine Wulz remains ÖH chairwoman. DiePresse.com , April 17, 2012, accessed on March 28, 2013 .
- ↑ Bettina Figl, Barbara Sorge: Burn your money. Wiener Zeitung , May 21, 2012, accessed on March 28, 2013 .
- ↑ Decision BMWF-52.801 / 0003-1 / 6b / 2012. (PDF; 2 MB) (No longer available online.) Federal Ministry of Science and Research , June 18, 2012, archived from the original on March 29, 2013 ; retrieved on March 28, 2013 : "The outsourcing of a commercial enterprise in the form of an association and the failure to obtain a related permit represents a circumvention transaction and therefore illegal action."
- ↑ unlawful operation of ÖH- "Cafe Rosa". Wiener Zeitung , June 20, 2012, accessed on March 28, 2013 .
- ↑ Café Rosa closed, but ÖH has to continue to pay rent . In: The press . Vienna August 28, 2012, p. 10 ( diepresse.com [accessed March 28, 2013]).
- ↑ Lisa Winter: Café Rosa: No tenant, still rent. DerStandard.at , August 28, 2012, accessed on March 28, 2013 .
- ↑ Cafe Rosa: Association cannot be dissolved yet . In: The press . Vienna September 3, 2012, p. 21 ( diepresse.com [accessed on March 28, 2013]): “Because an employee was dismissed on maternity leave, proceedings are pending at the labor court. [...] In a general assembly of the association, the dissolution was decided, but it will only be effective when the ongoing proceedings at the labor court have been concluded. "
- ↑ time in picture-2 . Kübra Atasoy (VSStÖ): "Our managers unexpectedly got pregnant, and one problem was that the place is not suitable for walking areas.", March 12, 2012
- ↑ ... the Cafe Rosa? In: The press . Vienna January 7, 2013, p. 20 ( diepresse.com [accessed March 28, 2013]).
- ↑ Freedom students want to rent the ÖH-Beisl Café Rosa. DerStandard.at , February 21, 2013, accessed on March 28, 2013 : "This offer is only to be seen as a bad joke and crude provocation from the right corner"
- ↑ Aktiongemeinschaft can also imagine renting Cafe Rosa. DerStandard.at , February 22, 2013, accessed on March 28, 2013 : “Preaching equal treatment - practicing discrimination. Apparently for the functionaries of the University of Vienna only those people are 'equal' who also share their left-wing extremist worldview ", the working group criticized in a broadcast the approach of the 'left-wing extremist University of Vienna executive'"
- ^ Café Rosa: FPÖ students are allowed to donate money . In: The press . Vienna April 26, 2013 ( diepresse.com [accessed April 28, 2013]).
- ↑ Elisabeth Gamperl, Sophie Niedenzu: ÖH: financial holes and loose controls . In: The Standard . Vienna March 7, 2013, p. U6 ( derstandard.at [accessed on March 28, 2013]): "Text = An external lawyer is supposed to clarify whether there was illegal action in the case of Rosa. Not only the previous chairperson and the economic advisor are checked, but also all mandataries of the university representative at the time. If the decision is positive, the current ÖH is entitled to compensation from its predecessors in its own parliamentary groups. "
- ↑ Unicorn instead of Café Rosa: Homepage has been discontinued. DiePresse.com , April 29, 2013, accessed on April 30, 2013 (note: deep links are still possible).
- ↑ VP-close AG defends first place . In: The Standard . Vienna May 17, 2013, p. 1 : "The green and alternative students (grass) had to foot the bill for the bankrupt Café Rosa at the University of Vienna with high losses, [...]"
- ↑ Lisa Aigner, Rosa Winkler-Hermaden: ÖH election: AG would like to take over chairmanship as the parliamentary group with the highest number of votes. derStandard.at , May 17, 2013, accessed on May 17, 2013 .
- ↑ Bettina Figl: Greens punished for Café Rosa . In: Wiener Zeitung . May 17, 2013, p. 10 ( wienerzeitung.at [accessed on May 17, 2013] other headline).
- ↑ Bernadette Bayrhammer, Julia Neuhauser: ÖH election: low participation, but plus at individual universities . In: The press . Vienna May 17, 2013, p. 4 : "Cafe Rosa cost voters"
- ↑ The Café Rosa - Final Report of the Students 'Union at the University of Vienna (PDF) Students' Union at the University of Vienna. October 2014. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 3.1 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 32.9 ″ E