Herbert Exenberger

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Herbert Exenberger (born August 14, 1943 in Vienna ; † October 8, 2009 there ) was an Austrian librarian and publicist .

Life

Herbert Exenberger learned the profession of electromechanic and initially worked for the Viennese electricity company . He then embarked on the second educational path , passed the public librarianship test and became head of a branch of the Wiener Städtische Libraries . From 1970 until his retirement in 2003 he was the librarian of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW), where he expanded the library into a comprehensive specialist library.

In addition, Exenberger was active in public and adult education; Among other things, he gave numerous lectures on contemporary history topics and designed contemporary history exhibitions. In numerous publications , he dealt in particular with the history of the Jews and with the Nazi victims, whom he called back to consciousness. Exenberger rallied among the members of the Association of Socialist Writers . Many “of the writers did not have an estate, so the Exenberger collection is de facto the only place where is collected whatever could be found by them”.

Exenberger was involved in the association of social democratic freedom fighters, victims of fascism and active anti-fascists ; he was a member of its federal board and was deputy chairman of the Brigittenau district organization of freedom fighters. He was also a volunteer at the Simmering District Museum , had been a member of the Board of Directors of the Restituta Forum since it was founded and was significantly involved in the design of the Restituta documentation Faith against Nazi violence in the Hartmannspital in Vienna .

Exenberger was buried at the Inzersdorfer Friedhof (group 4D, row 5, number 9) in Vienna. A large part of his private archive has since been housed in that of the Theodor Kramer Society and the DÖW.

honors and awards

Herbert Exenberger has received several awards for his work, including the Promotion Prize for Public Education and the Victor-Adler State Prize .

Publications (selection)

author

  • Like the little group of Maccabees. The Jewish community in Simmering 1848–1945 . Mandelbaum, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85476-292-8
    • Review. Heimo Gruber: The Jewish community in Simmering . Herbert Exemberger. in Zs. "Zwischenwelt" 26th vol. H. 3/4, Dec. 2009, p. 60f. (with photo of the book presentation)
  • Josef Hindels : With the pen and the word. A bibliography . Ed .: Association of Social Democratic Freedom Fighters, Victims of Fascism and Active Anti-Fascists, Vienna 2006, without ISBN. (With biographical contribution by Georg Scheuer )
  • Commemoration and reminders in Vienna 1934–1945. Memorials to resistance and persecution, exile, liberation. A documentation . 1st edition, publisher: Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance DÖW, Deuticke, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-216-30330-6 . (With: Heinz Arnberger and others)
  • Reason for termination non-Aryans. The eviction of Jewish tenants from the Viennese municipal housing in the years 1938–1939 . Picus, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85452-292-4 (with: Johann Koss & Brigitte Ungar-Klein)
  • Antifascist city guide . 2nd edition, publisher and publisher: Wiener Bildungsausschuss der SPÖ, Vienna 1986, without ISBN

editor

  • As if the world was on fire. An anthology of murdered socialist writers . Mandelbaum, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85476-037-X
  • Socialist pamphlets 1934–1938. Leaflets, books, brochures, camouflage brochures, scatter and sticky notes . Ed. & Verlag Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance DÖW, Vienna 1979, without ISBN
  • Franz Sachs: "I think I could have achieved a lot more ...". Notes from an Austrian freedom fighter. DÖW, Vienna 1972, without ISBN. (With Selma Steinmetz)

literature

  • Konstantin Kaiser : Herbert Exenberger 1943–2009. In: "Zwischenwelt. Literature, Resistance Exile." Edited by Theodor Kramer Society . Vol. 26, H. 3/4, Dec. 2009 ISSN  1606-4321 P. 51f., With photo
  • Alexander Emanuely , Brigitte Lehmann: The Exenberger Collection: "Association of Socialist Writers", in: ibid. Vol. 29, no. 3, Oct. 2012, p. 38
  • Red tears. The destruction of working-class culture by fascism and national socialism. Results of the international conference of the same name in memoriam Herbert Exenberger 14. – 15. November 2014. Series: Zwischenwelt, 14. Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft, Vienna and Drava Verlag , Klagenfurt 2017 ISBN 9783854358329 (therein: Harald Troch : Herbert Exenberger. Historical research and anti-fascist memory . Pp. 18–22)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "The future of the past" - socially critical intellectuality and literature between war, republic and fascism. A project by the Theodor Kramer Society and the Association for the Promotion and Research of Antifascist Literature
  2. ^ Herbert Exenberger's archive for the association of socialist writers ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ City hall correspondence of November 21, 2003 . With picture; Retrieved June 1, 2010
  4. ↑ u. a. about the plans for the digital recording of many works by the authors of the association, as well as archive material about the association (1933 - early 1934), from 2014
personal data
SURNAME Exenberger, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Exenberger, Herbert Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian librarian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 2009
Place of death Vienna