Gassergasse cultural center

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The culture and communication center Gassergasse (GaGa) was the first autonomous alternative youth center in Vienna .

history

The GaGa was made available to alternative groups by the municipality of Vienna under Mayor Leopold Gratz ( SPÖ ) and City Councilor for Culture Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner between 1981 and 1983. This was a reaction to the growing youth movement in Vienna (including the Burggarten movement ) and the desire of those responsible to avoid situations like the one in Switzerland, which was “shaken by the youth crisis”. After a delegation from the municipality of Vienna sought advice from Basel , their model and crisis management strategy of an autonomous youth center was adopted.

The building of the former Viennese public kitchen company (WÖK) in the Gassergasse in the 5th district of Vienna (actually Laurenzgasse 1) was made available to the "Association for the creation, promotion and support of self-managed cultural and communication centers" and others Episode, subsidized by the City of Vienna . In 1983 these subsidies amounted to "up to 2.1 million shillings".

The GaGa was opened on May 1st, 1981 in a three day long festival.

Problems with neighbors, right-wing extremists, but also internal problems and conflicts in the Gassergassen movement, repeatedly led to clashes with the police, drug raids and finally to a stop in subsidy payments by the City of Vienna in 1983.

In June 1983, Mayor Leopold Gratz and the district chairman of the 5th district, Walter Johann, decided to clear and demolish the building. Shortly afterwards, on June 27, 1983, the GaGa was evacuated by the police amid violent clashes. 120 arrests were made and many of the squatters were beaten to hospital. Then the house and its inventory were demolished. The restaurant Rotstilzchen was after the demolition of the GAGA an important meeting point for the squatters and other left-wing structures.

Nevertheless, the GaGa myth survived. In the mid-1990s, opera ball demonstrators were still linked by the media to the “alleyway scene”. Political groups like Global 2000 or Greenpeace Austria have their origins in the GaGa.

Reactions to the eviction

  • Demonstration on the afternoon of June 28, 1983 at Schottenring in the 1st district. Shortly after 5:00 p.m., around 70 people attended the unannounced demonstration. “As a result, 56 people were arrested, some of whom had offered passive resistance to the arrest. The arrests were partly made directly at the meeting place and partly in the vicinity, as some participants tried to flee ”.

GaGa and the WUK

After the eviction, some GaGa groups, including punks, moved into the WUK cultural center . This led to disputes, which subsequently led to the establishment of a porter service in the WUK, with the aim of keeping the GaGa people away from the WUK.

timeline

  • 1st - 3rd May 1981: GaGa opens with a 3-day festival.
  • May 11, 1983: Live recording by ZSD at a festival in Gassergasse in April 1983.
  • 1st - 3rd April 1983: Concert weekend "Chaotic Easter"
    • April 1, 1983: Rote Front, Schund, Kleenex Aktiv, ZSD
    • April 2, 1983: Extrem, Rotting Carcass, K 70, The Kalaschnikovs
    • April 3, 1983: Depressed Kids, Inferno , Nikoteens, Dead Nittels
  • ?. June 1983: Decision to evacuate the GaGa by the police
  • June 27, 1983: GaGa is evacuated by the police
  • June 28, 1983: Schottenring demonstration. 56 arrested. "Storm on the police prison"
  • June 28, 1983: Demolition begins at 6:00 a.m.

Projects

A number of projects were carried out in the GaGa:

  • Social service "St. Bernard"
    • Support for released prisoners
    • Punks and homeless youth
  • Autonomous women's projects
    • Prisoner Solidarity Group Schwarzau
  • Working group gays and lesbians (leaves GaGa and establishes the Rosa Lila Villa )
  • Rehearsal rooms for musicians
  • Beisl
    • "Punkbeisl Bunker"
  • Sports group (Taekwondo)
  • Craft groups
    • Joinery
  • Hemp Legalize Activists
  • Cyclist
  • Photo studio
  • Joinery
  • printing house
  • Children's groups
    • Humane environment for children (HUK)
  • Two alternative schools:
    • Ätsch Association for emancipatory education
    • Parents Student Teachers Cooperation (ESL Coop)

Alternative education

Vienna's underground left its mark on education

The extent to which the "GAGAists" broke new ground at the beginning of the 80s is shown by the establishment of the first alternative school forms on the GaGa site, as well as the bringing in of gay groups, which, however, soon became due to intense tensions with the rockers who also lived there moved to the Rosa Lila Villa, which had been made available through negotiation with the City of Vienna, or “occupied” it in a publicly effective manner .

The GaGa accommodated groups of children and alternative schools:

  • ÄTSCH Association for Emancipatory Education (see)
  • Parent-student-teacher cooperative
  • Humane environment for children
  • Children's group I am I
  • Children's group Liniengasse

The Kinderhaus Hofmühlgasse has its origins in the GaGa.

Social services

The community subsidized social services in the GaGa.

  • Railway station social service sent homeless young people to the GaGa

Music and events

The following musicians and groups played in GAGA:

punk

According to Schreibmüller, GaGa plays an important role in the development of the Viennese punk scene.

Punk bands who had rehearsal rooms and / or performances in either the GaGa:

Other music groups / initiatives:

  • MOMENtMUSIK (Austria)
  • Tonau (Austria)
  • Dream dance

Directory of persons

society

  • Umpires
    • Christian Schreibmüller
    • Herbert Loitsch

Schreibmüller, who, in addition to his work as a filmmaker, is still artistically and journalistically at home in the changing Viennese alternative scene, played a key role in the then very experimental "Viennese scene": most recently as chairman of Gassergasse, previously as operator the photo group there. In his opinion, the Gassergasse scene in Margareten, which was founded in the spring of 1981, differed from the WUK in Alsergrund because of its “greater wildness”, not least sparked by the relatively young punk scene there. "These were 17 and 18-year-old boys and girls, some of whom were really very awake artistically," said Schreibmüller in an interview with the town hall correspondence. An important role for the establishment of the “Viennese scene”, which in realiter disintegrated into consistently heterogeneous groups, such as peace activists, rockers or punks, but also gays and lesbians, played an artistic role in the “ Wiener Festwochen Alternative ”, located in former 20s house at the Südbahnhof, set important local impulses for this Europe-wide establishing sub and underground culture.

Residents

This group of 15 to 20 year-olds comprised around 70 to 80 young people and at that time could be seen as the hard core of the Viennese punk scene. According to this study, these came mainly from the "lower working class or the lower class".

Associated

  • Manfred Rakousky
  • Gerald Teufel (photographer)

Media reception

"Other"

  • The GaGa appears in GFL texts - It is allowed to speak ...: eight dossiers for GFL lessons with advanced students

GaGa in the feature film

GaGa in exhibitions

  • 2012 Wien Museum: Occupied! Struggle for freedom since the 70s

Photographs

  • "Sue" in the Wien Museum exhibition
  • In the GaGa

Film documentaries

  • Gassergasse (around 1982) by Alexander Pöpperl. Color, 17 min

Press

  • July 16, 1983 ORF program without a muzzle: viewpoints. Gassergasse This program sparked violent protests.
  • "Gaga" is dragged down after riots. In: Arbeiter-Zeitung. June 28, 1983
  • To clear the "Gassergasse". Opinion. In: Arbeiter-Zeitung. July 2, 1983, p. 4.
  • AZ conversation with Leopold Gratz - giving political content to the peace movement. Division of tasks should provide new momentum. In: Arbeiter-Zeitung. July 2, 1983, p. 5.
  • The end for GAGA and the consequences. In: Arbeiter-Zeitung. July 4, 1983, p. 4.

Web links

further reading

  • Robert Foltin : And yet we are moving. Social movements in Austria . edition grundrisse, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-9501925-0-6 .
  • Andreas Suttner: "Concrete burns": Squatters and self-government in Berlin, Vienna and Zurich in the 80s. (= Cultural studies. Volume 31). Lit, Münster et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-50260-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Daniela Derntl: Anarchy & Everyday Life. ORF , September 15, 2010, accessed on March 11, 2014 .
  2. ^ Siegfried Gerlach, Hans-Georg Wehling: Austria . Kohlhammer, 1988, ISBN 3-17-010079-3 ( books.google.com ).
  3. ^ Volume 1, Vienna City Council, Vienna State Parliament: Register of the meetings of the term of office, 1983–1987, Vienna (Austria). Municipal Council, p. 166.
  4. ↑ The self-managed cultural center Gassergasse offers everyone: freedom and responsibility . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 30, 1981, p. 17 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ↑ L. Wieger: Social movement in public space. Diploma thesis 2010.
  6. ↑ a b RIS - Constitutional Court - decision text B488 / 83. Constitutional Court, March 4, 1985, accessed April 14, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Different (than) usual. On the history of the Viennese squatting. (No longer available online.) In: Sozialismus.net. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved April 19, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sozialismus.net
  8. ↑ Large demonstrations in Austria. Democracy Center Vienna, accessed on March 11, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Andrea Grisold, Elfie Miklautz, Andreas Resch (eds.): Kreativ in Wien: fourteen case studies in the field of tension between economy and art.
  10. ↑ ZSD - SMP (Suicide Party) 1983 live @ GAGA Vienna (Chaotic Easter) on YouTube
  11. ↑ Demolition already in progress . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 29, 1983, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  12. ↑ a b WUK reminds of the alternative Viennese scene with a photo show. In: Rathauskorrespondenz. City of Vienna, July 7, 2006, accessed April 14, 2014 .
  13. ↑ a b Kinderhaus Hofmuehlgasse. Retrieved April 19, 2014 .
  14. ↑ ÄTSCH Association for Emancipatory Education. In: aetsch-schule.at. Retrieved January 12, 2015 .
  15. ↑ Austrian Journal for Political Science . tape 14-15 . Europaverlag, 1985, p. 475 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed April 29, 2014]).
  16. ↑ The bad guys : Shit Kibarei. 1981, accessed April 19, 2014 (YouTube Video).
  17. ↑ MOMENT MUSIC history. Retrieved April 19, 2014 .
  18. ↑ Klaus Kamolz: Hermes Phettberg: the crutch as a scepter . Row of oblique heads. Christoph Links Verlag 1996, p. 78.
  19. ↑ weekly press . tape 38 . Kurier newspaper publisher and printer, 1983, p. 38 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed April 19, 2014]).
  20. ↑ Martin Balluch: Denunciation and fragmentation in the animal rights movement. February 4, 2014, accessed April 19, 2014 .
  21. ↑ Herbert Grabner: Punks in the Wiener Gassergasse: Study of the living environment of young 'outsiders'. In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, quarterly journal of the Austrian Society for Sociology, vol. 10, no. 2, 1985, pp. 103-120.
  22. ↑ Herbert Grabner: Punks in the Wiener Gassergasse: Study of the living environment of young 'outsiders'. In: Austrian Journal for Sociology. Quarterly journal of the Austrian Society for Sociology, vol. 10, no. 2, 1985, pp. 103-120, quoted in page 105 Herbert Grabner: Punks in Wiener Gassergasse: Study on the world of young 'outsiders'. In: Austrian Journal for Sociology. Quarterly journal of the Austrian Society for Sociology, vol. 10, no. 2, 1985, pp. 103-120, quoted in Anton Tantner: “Schlurfs” approaches to a subcultural style of Viennese young workers (PDF) Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, 1993, p. 105 .
  23. ↑ Dieter Baacke, Hans-Dieter (Ed.): Qualitative media research: Concepts and tests. 1989, p. 239 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  24. ↑ REAL GREEN The Mariahilfer alternative. Manfred Rakousky. 2010, accessed April 19, 2014 .
  25. ↑ Gerald Teufel's biography. Retrieved April 19, 2014 .
  26. ^ Rudolf de Cillia et al. a .: It is allowed to speak ...: eight dossiers for GFL lessons with advanced students . ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed April 19, 2014]).
  27. ↑ Shortness of breath. Austrian Film Commission, archived from the original on March 11, 2014 ; Retrieved April 19, 2014 .
  28. ↑ Busy! Struggle for freedom since the 70s. Wien Museum website, archived from the original on May 4, 2012 ; Retrieved April 19, 2014 .
  29. ^ Wien Museum: Struggle for the City. Image: "Sue" in the culture and communication center Gassergasse. Retrieved April 19, 2014 .
  30. ^ Wien Museum: Struggle for the City. Retrieved April 19, 2014 .
  31. ^ Social Movement, Film and District Politics. (No longer available online.) Austrian Film Museum, archived from the original on March 17, 2014 ; Retrieved April 19, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmmuseum.at
  32. ↑ Joe Lesnik, Peter Resetarits , Micka Schauer, Christa Tauss: Without a muzzle: Viewpoints. Gassergasse. 1983, accessed April 19, 2014 (documentary film).
  33. ↑ Kerstin Madner: themes and values of the ORF youth magazines "Okay" and "Without muzzle". A comparison of two TV target audience programs from the 1980s . Master thesis. 2011, p. 59 ff . ( othes.univie.ac.at [PDF; accessed on April 19, 2014]).
  34. ↑ "Gaga" is dragged down after riots. In: AZ . June 28, 1983, Retrieved April 19, 2014 .
  35. ↑ To clear the "Gassergasse". In: AZ . July 2, 1983, accessed April 19, 2014 .
  36. ↑ AZ conversation with Leopold Gratz - Giving political content to the peace movement. Division of tasks should provide new momentum. In: AZ . June 2, 1983, Retrieved April 19, 2014 .
  37. ↑ The end of GAGA and the consequences. In: AZ . July 4, 1983, Retrieved April 19, 2014 .

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