Gudrun Hauer

Gudrun Hauer ( July 8, 1953 in Linz - November 4, 2015 in Vienna ) was an Austrian political scientist , journalist and feminist as well as lesbian and gay activist . She was editor-in-chief of the feminist magazine an.schlag until 1998 and editor-in-chief of the HOSI central organ Lambda-Nachrichten from 2005 until her death .

life and work

Even during her studies in political science , German , history and psychology at the University of Salzburg , which she completed with a doctorate in 1987, Hauer was active in politics and journalism. Among other things, she took part in the first women's demonstrations on March 8 in the 1970s and was involved in the HOSI Vienna in the 1980s . Her university teachers included Erika Weinzierl , Anton Pelinka , Gerhard Botz , Igor Caruso and Ernst Bornemann . They wrote his dissertation on Selected theories of fascism early thirties (The social fascism theory of the Comintern in the version of the XI. ECCI -Plenums of 1931, Leon Trotsky and Wilhelm Reich ).

When she demonstrated on November 24, 1988 on Albertinaplatz in Vienna - on the occasion of the unveiling of Hrdlicka's memorial against war and fascism - the banner was forcibly torn from her and Alfred Guggenheim by several police officers, thousands of homosexual concentration camp victims awaiting rehabilitation . Hauer and Guggenheim lodged a complaint with the Constitutional Court (VfGH), which dismissed the complaints as unfounded: "Correctly, the police authority would have assessed conduct that could endanger the conduct of a lawful meeting as a disruption of public order." The Constitutional Court appealed to the Administrative Court (VwGH). However, the proceedings before this were not followed up. Hauer and Guggenheim then lodged a complaint with the European Commission for Human Rights , which was finally declared inadmissible in 1993.

In 1995 Hauer took part in the International Human Rights Tribunal 50 Years of the Second Republic, 50 Years of Persecution of Lesbians and Gays , organized by the Austrian Lesbian and Gay Forum and HOSI Vienna in the Republican Club , headed by Freda Meissner-Blau and Gerhard Oberschlick . She was responsible for the charge in Count III. Compensation for Nazi persecution.

From 1994 until her retirement in 2013, Hauer taught at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Vienna . She held her office hours during the semester in Café Berg . She also had lectureships at the universities of Salzburg , Innsbruck and Klagenfurt on lesbian and gay research , as well as feminist political science - strongly interdisciplinary , with connections to contemporary history , psychoanalysis and literary studies .

On the occasion of a vernissage by the photographer Petra Paul in the Viennese women's café in autumn 2004, Paul and Hauer read excerpts from their emails sent to each other: “These opened up amusing, witty and linguistically written insights into the private sphere of the two authors, which were also quite surprising to their own circle of friends. By the way, various clichés of the lesbian scene were taken on the satirical scoop. "

In 2005, on the 200th anniversary of Friedrich Schiller's death, she protested against the fact that “premises at the University of Vienna were made available for groups and events that violate existing legal provisions in the sense of the prohibition of National Socialist re-employment.” The ring of freedom students saw this as “freedom of teaching and science at the university [...] through people like Fräulein Dr. Hauer endangered ”and threatened with legal action.

She named Radclyffe Hall's Well of Solitude (1928) as her favorite book .

function

• 1992–1996 chairwoman of the Austrian Society for Sex Research

Publications (excerpt)

• Together with Kurt Krickler : Pink love under the Red Star: On the situation of lesbians and gays in Eastern Europe . Hamburg: Spring Awakening published by Libertarian Association 1984
• (Ed. Together with Michael Handl and Kurt Krickler): Homosexuality in Austria . Vienna 1989
• (Ed. Together with Dieter Schmutzer): The Lambda Reader: Journalism the other way around. Vienna: Edition Regenbogen 1996
• Brave new worlds for women? Feminist Utopias in 20th Century Literature. In: Political Utopias in the Gender and Modernization Context. Austrian Journal for Political Science 29 (2000), Issue 1, 59–74
• Together with Elisabeth Perchinig: Homosexualities in Austria. About the connections between political identity and practice. Pilot study. Vienna 2000 (unedited research report on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Science and Transport )
• Lesbians and National Socialism: Blind Spots in the Fascism Theory Discussion. In: From life. Accompanying publication to the exhibition on the National Socialist persecution of homosexuals in Vienna 1938–45. Lambda-Nachrichten special issue June 2001, pp. 46–52 (updated version of the article in: Barbara Hey / Ronald Pallier / Roswith Roth (eds.): Que (e) r Think. Female / male homosexuality and science. Innsbruck: Studienverlag 1997, Pp. 142-156). Also online: from life
• Together with Elisabeth Perchinig: Gender research from the perspective of gay and lesbian studies: contributions from an interdisciplinary perspective. Vienna 2002 (unedited research report on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture / research project within the framework of the research focus Gender Studies of the Department of Social Sciences, Perspectives on transdisciplinary gender research)
• Female homosexuality in Austria 1945–2004: An overview of lesbian history and research. Vienna: Evangelical Academy 2004 (research report on behalf of MA 7, cultural department of the City of Vienna , science and research funding)
• Hauer, Gudrun: Female homosexuality in the Nazi era. In: Baumgartner, Andreas / Bauz, Ingrid / Winkler, Jean-Marie (eds.): Between mother cross and gas chamber. Perpetrators and fellow travelers or resistance and persecution ?, Contributions to the international symposium “Women in Mauthausen Concentration Camp” on May 4, 2006. Vienna: edition Mauthausen 2008, pp. 27–33; 167-171.
• Hauer, Gudrun: Erica Fischer's “Aimée and Jaguar”: an analysis of selected examples from the history of reception. In: Frietsch, Elke / Herkommer, Christina (ed.): National Socialism and Gender. On the politicization and aestheticization of the body, “race” and sexuality in the “Third Reich” and after 1945. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2009, pp. 395–411.
• Hauer, Gudrun: National Socialism and Homosexuality. Comments on the "lesbian victim discourse". In: Froihofer, Maria / Murlasits, Elke / Taxacher, Eva (eds.): L [i] even and desire between gender and identity. Vienna 2010, pp. 132–139.
• Hauer, Gudrun: The Nazi State - an Forced Heterosexual / Heteronormative Construct? In: Schwartz, Michael (ed.): Homosexuals in National Socialism: New research perspectives on the life situations of lesbian, gay, bi-, trans- and intersex people 1933 to 1945. Contemporary history in conversation, Vol. 18. Ed. By the Institute for Contemporary History. Munich / Vienna: De Gruyter / Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag 2014, pp. 27–33.

Web links

• an.schlag 10/2003 , interview with Gudrun Hauer, accessed on February 20, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HOSI Vienna mourns the loss of long-term employee Gudrun Hauer. Retrieved November 4, 2015.
2. ↑ European Commission for Human Rights , Declaration of Admissibility of October 13, 1993, accessed on February 20, 2014
3. ↑ Lambda Nachrichten , 4/2004: Reading Cat Attack, accessed on February 21, 2014
4. ↑ ^{a b} twoday , fraternity members in the NIG: threat of legal action against Dr. ⁱⁿ Gudrun Hauer, accessed on February 20, 2014
5. ↑ Löwenherz bookstore , Gudrun Hauer: My favorite book, accessed on February 20, 2014