List of blocked authors and books

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The list of blocked authors and books. Relevant for the book trade and libraries was published in January 1946 by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education (BMfU) and comprised a total of 66 paginated pages on which over two thousand works by around 1600 authors were listed.

Purpose and content

With the list, which had been circulating since the summer of 1945, the BMfU intended to ban the reprint, sale and lending of already existing Nazi literature . Further measures such as B. Professional bans were not intended, it served as a disposal aid for libraries, libraries and the book trade. The printing of the small brown cardboard edition was carried out by Carl Ueberreuter , Vienna IX, Alserstraße 24.

The list followed a simple alphabetical order principle, which also simply records keywords. The list began with Abenteuer, Abfahren !, Achenach Oskar R., Achleitner Richard , Adler Hermann , Ahlers Rudolf and ended with: Zur Beek Gottfried, two hundred and twenty recipes, twin Ernst A. Some authors were only mentioned once, some several times, by some authors all works were banned, such as B. by Hans Grimm , Karl Haushofer , Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer , Martin Lezius or Alja Rachmanowa . Well-known authors such as Ernst Jünger , from whom everything but two works was forbidden, were also on the list. It is noticeable that names were often misspelled.

Also in January 1946, an eight-page document was published, also published by the Federal Ministry for Education, the “Supplements to the list of blocked authors and books. Relevant for bookshops and libraries ” , on which there was a page with corrections on p. 8, which, however, referred to orthographical errors and incorrect titles of some authors and not to a content correction. Although the editions - both the actual “list” and the “supplements” - were relatively large, only a few copies of the first editions in private ownership exist today. The denazification of the Austrian literature business was continued by the Prohibition Act of 1947 and the Central Commission to combat Nazi literature set up from April 1948 to 1949 .

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  1. ↑ Karin Gradwohl-Schlacher: New beginning and restoration. P. 3 (PDF; 360 kB)
  2. ↑ Karin Gradwohl-Schlacher: New beginning and restoration. P. 2 (PDF; 360 kB)
  3. ↑ Claudia Wagner: The Central Commission to Combat Nazi Literature. Literature cleaning in Austrian. (PDF; 612 kB) In: Messages from the Society for Book Research in Austria. Vienna edition 2005-1, pp. 36–39.