Helene Maimann

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Helene Maimann

Helene Maimann (* 1947 in Vienna ) is an Austrian historian , author, exhibition and filmmaker .

Life

After studying history, German literature and philosophy at the University of Vienna , Maimann received his doctorate in 1973 with a thesis on Austrian exile , published in 1975 under the title Politics in the waiting room. Austrian policy of exile in Great Britain 1938–1945 was published. Between 1980 and 1994 she was a lecturer at the Universities of Vienna and Salzburg , as well as visiting professor at the Vienna University of Technology . Maimann directed several large exhibitions on Austrian contemporary history in the 1980s:

  • 1981: The new era moves with us. Working-class culture in Austria 1918–1934.
  • 1984: The cold of February. Austria 1934–1938.
  • 1985: The train of time. Austrian contemporary history 1945–1985.
  • 1988: the first hundred years. Austrian Social Democracy 1888–1988.

The exhibitions attracted attention because of the places where they were presented - a tram depot, a complete railway train and one of the four gasometers in Vienna-Simmerung - as well as their avant-garde and all-media design.

After working for the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft for many years , Maimann started working as an editor for the ORF in 1991 , where she was responsible for the documentary films Nightwatch , Brennpunkt and DOKUmente from 1995 to 2006 . In addition, Maimann published numerous articles and books and in 2005 curated the themes of " National Socialism " and "Exile" in the republic exhibition Das Neue Österreich at the Belvedere in Vienna .

Maimann has been working primarily as a filmmaker and author since 2008 and teaches at the Vienna Film Academy .

Maimann designed numerous features for radio station Ö1 and held talks with, among others, Eric Hobsbawm , Amos Oz (2007), Gerald Stourzh (2009), Lotte Tobisch and Renée Schroeder (2013). In 2010 her documentary The Stars Do Not Go Out. Survival in hiding shown at the Zagreb Jewish Film Festival . 2014 saw the film Arik Brauer. A youth in Vienna at the Jewish Film Festival Vienna had its world premiere, as did Der Riss der Zeit a year later .

Helene Maimann received the Dr.-Karl-Renner-Publizistikpreis in 2011 and the Cross of Honor for Science and Art of the Republic of Austria in 2013 . In 2017 she was awarded the Käthe Leichter State Prize for women's studies, gender studies and equality in the world of work. In 2019 she was awarded the Axel Corti Prize .

Filmography

  • 1994: Uncle Sam and brother Vanya. The legacy of Europe's liberation
  • 1998: a star falls. The Joseph Schmidt story
  • 1999: Freud's world
  • 2000: The Century of Women.
  • 2000: Bruno Kreisky. Light and shadow of an era (together with Paul Lendvai )
  • 2003: I breathe, sing, laugh and cry
  • 2004: Dangerous Skies. The bombing war over Austria
  • 2005: The stars don't go out. Survive in hiding
  • 2007: Gefillte Fisch and Baba Ganusch. A Jewish cooking show
  • 2008: Hannes Androsch. A political portrait
  • 2008: Heavenly Lust and Kosher Sex Or Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Love and Marriage with the Jews
  • 2009: Bar Mitzvah means growing up
  • 2010: fasting. A trip outdoors
  • 2011: Bruno Kreisky. Politics and passion
  • 2011: Pig and mess. About the Jewish joke
  • 2012: The time that remains for us.
  • 2012: Arik Brauer. A youth in Vienna.
  • 2014: Arik Brauer. A youth in Vienna (theatrical version)
  • 2015: The Rift of Time. The expulsion of intelligence and culture
  • 2016: Käthe Leichter. A woman like this
  • 2017: Käthe Leichter. A Woman Like That
  • 2018: The Coudenhove-Kalergis. Europe at heart, at home in the world

Web links

Commons : Helene Maimann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grete Klingenstein, Heinrich Lutz, Gerald Stourzh: Europeanization of the Earth? , Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-48650-531-9 , p. 295.
    Karl R. Stadler, Helmut Konrad (ed.): History as a democratic order. Karl R. Stadler on his 70th birthday. Publication by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History of the Labor Movement, Europaverlag, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-20350-829-X , p. 319.
  2. ↑ Helene Maimann as a guest at the ORF regional studio Burgenland on May 15, 2007 , (accessed on October 25, 2013).
  3. ↑ Stars will never die (jff-zagreb.hr)
  4. ↑ Helene Maimann and Jörg Winter receive the Axel Corti Prize 2019 . OTS notification dated April 11, 2019, accessed April 11, 2019.
  5. ↑ Heavenly lust and kosher sex, 3sat
personal data
SURNAME Maimann, Helene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna