Hellmut Butterweck

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Hellmut Butterweck (* 1927 in Vienna ) is an Austrian science journalist and theater critic.

Life

Shaped by his experience as a slave laborer in the German armaments industry , he wrote numerous essays, glosses, satires and reports against anti-democratic, anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi tendencies after the war, published a. a. in the Austrian weekly newspaper Die Furche . Until 1992 he was a theater critic and head of the science and contemporary history department, and after his retirement he was still in charge of the book department.

From the early 1960s Hellmuth Butterweck wrote plays, radio plays and books. In 1982 the “Miracle of Vienna” was premiered in the Theater in der Josefstadt and translated into Hebrew and Russian and in 2005 his scenic documentation “Three Years for a Tooth” was shown in the large jury court room in Vienna, in Mauthausen and Ebensee , at concentration camp locations in the Nazi era. His books, too, are characterized by dealing with inhumanity as a central theme: for example, “Convicted and pardoned - Austria and its Nazi criminals”, “The Nuremberg Trial. A demystification ”, the novel“ Dead in Interrogation ”about the first Austrian miscarriage of justice with an anti-Semitic background after the Second World War, or“ The Revenge of Money - From Limits to Growth and the End of Neoliberalism ”. In 2016 “National Socialists before the People's Court ” appeared; Hellmuth Butterweck not only created a very vivid picture of a highly emotional, but almost completely forgotten confrontation of the Austrian judiciary with Nazi crimes, but also opened up a surprisingly new perspective on everyday life during the Nazi era.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • as editor: ¿Salud! Health projects in Latin America (= On the subject. 1993, 4, ZDB -ID 2269823-1 ). Institute for International Cooperation, Vienna 1993.
  • as editor with Robert Streibel : Taboo and History. On the culture of collective memory. Picus-Verlag, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85452-254-1 .
  • as editor: 30 years of IIZ. The way to the specialist organization for integrated rural development (= On the subject. 1994, 1). Institute for International Cooperation, Vienna 1994.
  • as editor: VODP. Village-oriented rural development programs (= On the subject. 1994, 3). Institute for International Cooperation, Vienna 1994.
  • as editor: Nicaragua. The alternative is education. (= On the subject. 1994, 4). Institute for International Cooperation, Vienna 1994.
  • Work without the need to grow. Essay on resources, the environment, work, capital. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1995, ISBN 3-593-35333-4 .
  • Austria's cardinals. From Anton Gruscha to Christoph Schönborn. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-8000-3764-5 .
  • Condemned and pardoned. Austria and its Nazi criminals. Czernin, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7076-0126-9 .
  • The Nuremberg Trial. A demystification. Czernin, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7076-0058-0 .
  • Dead under interrogation. Novel. Picus-Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85452-628-5 .
  • The revenge of money. About growth limits and the end of neoliberalism. Adatia-Verlag, Sankt Augustin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940461-04-9 .
  • National Socialists before the Vienna People's Court. Austria's struggle for justice 1945–1955 in contemporary public perception , 800 pages, with a foreword by Oliver Rathkolb , Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck 2016, ISBN 978-3-7065-5480-0 .
  • State, wake up! Why the economy needs an external regulator. Böhlau, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-205-23262-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Hellmut Butterweck in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Butterweck, Hellmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna