Rainbow parade
The Rainbow Parade is a political demonstration and a colorful parade that takes place annually in Vienna on the Ringstrasse . It is committed to equal rights for gays and lesbians and thus corresponds to the events that are known in Germany as Christopher Street Day . This parade is the most important event of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender movement in Austria .
description
The first rainbow parade took place on June 29, 1996, organized by the Austrian Lesbian and Gay Forum . The idea for the name of the parade came from Mario Soldo , the police registration was carried out by Christian Michelides , and Andreas Brunner , Günter Strobl and Hannes Sulzenbacher were also significantly involved in the organization . The Rainbow Parade is held on a Saturday at the end of June / beginning of July each year. In 2001 and 2019, Vienna was the host city of EuroPride , the rainbow parade was run as the EuroPride Parade in those years. The parade has been organized by the HOSI Vienna (Homosexual Initiative Vienna) association since 2003 , after the CSD association responsible for it went bankrupt.
The Rainbow Parade has been supported by the City of Vienna since 2004. It leads from the city park over the quay and ring to the Museumsquartier , Heldenplatz or Schwarzenbergplatz , where the closing event takes place. This makes it one of the few demonstrations that go on the ring counterclockwise or the direction of travel, i.e. the other way around [ sic ]. The idea of demonstrating “the other way around” on Vienna's Ringstrasse is also in connection with the lesbian and gay festival “ Vienna is the other way around . The Festival of Temptations from the Other Shore ”(1996-2004), which derives its name from the official advertising slogan of the city of“ Vienna is different ”.
Every year over 100,000 people take part as demonstrators or visitors. Afterwards, the celebration will be celebrated as a final rally on a square near the ring (Heldenplatz, Karlsplatz, Schwarzenbergplatz), at which prominent politicians and musical show guests will perform. In 2016 Christian Kern also came to the parade in his role as Federal Chancellor . At the EuroPride Parade 2019 , Federal President Van der Bellen and Vienna Mayor Michael Ludwig came . In 2020 the event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
Fixed points
- On Morzinplatz , a minute's silence was placed several times at the memorial for the victims of Nazi tyranny and a wreath was laid; because at this point which was located in the former Hotel Metropol Gestapo -Leitstelle where victims interrogated and fingerprinted were treated. Since 2003, the “Moment of Remembrance” has been remembering not only the victims of National Socialism but also those who died of AIDS and the victims of homophobic violence.
- In 1999, as part of the Rainbow Parade on June 19, the ÖLSF added a six-meter-long bar in front of the memorial to the existing memorial on Morzinplatz, which showed the forgotten corners. This was intended to commemorate the forgotten groups of victims - the homosexual and transgender victims of National Socialism. Hannes Sulzenbacher had the idea, the artistic execution came from Karin Krahl, the design and implementation were from the Austrian Lesbian and Gay Forum and the Rainbow Parade (CSD Vienna). After a competition decision in March 2006, a separate memorial was to be erected on this site in 2007. So far, summer 2009, the implementation has not been implemented. In April 2009 it was announced that “a new project was being examined. Without a jury, without public discussion and without the participation of the community. "
- Almost every year, Hermes Phettberg , who used to be chauffeured reading the newspaper in a Fiaker and is now traveling in a Velotaxi , is with us almost every year .
Events
The rainbow parades always take place on a Saturday, usually around June 27th.
| No. | meeting | target | comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 29, 1996 | Schottenring | in the direction of travel |
| 2 | June 28, 1997 | Karlsplatz | |
| 3 | 4th July 1998 | Karlsplatz | |
| 4th | June 19, 1999 | Karlsplatz | in the direction of travel |
| 5 | June 17, 2000 | Castle ring | |
| 6th | June 30, 2001 | Heroes' Square | EuroPride Parade |
| 7th | June 29, 2002 | Heroes' Square | |
| 8th | June 28, 2003 | Museum Quarter | |
| 9 | June 26, 2004 | Museum Quarter | |
| 10 | July 2, 2005 | Heroes' Square | |
| 11 | July 1, 2006 | Heroes' Square | |
| 12 | June 30, 2007 | Schwarzenbergplatz | |
| 13 | July 12, 2008 | Heroes' Square | |
| 14th | 4th July 2009 | Schwarzenbergplatz | |
| 15th | July 3, 2010 | Schwarzenbergplatz | |
| 16 | June 18, 2011 | Town Hall Square | in the direction of travel |
| 17th | June 16, 2012 | Town Hall Square | Wiener Ringstrasse in the direction of travel; first complete circumnavigation. |
| 18th | June 15, 2013 | Heroes' Square | against the direction of travel |
| 19th | June 14, 2014 | Town Hall Square | against the direction of travel |
| 20th | 20th June 2015 | Town Hall Square | against the direction of travel |
| 21st | June 18, 2016 | Sigmund Freud Park | in the direction of travel |
| 22nd | 17th June 2017 | Town Hall Square | against the direction of travel |
| 23 | June 16, 2018 | Town Hall Square | against the direction of travel |
| 24 | June 15, 2019 | Town Hall Square | EuroPride Parade, against the direction of travel |
Cultural-scientific backgrounds
A negative change is also ascribed to the protest-oriented event. Too much hustle and bustle and too little political protest are the content of these festivals. The focus would be more on staging diversity. However, the rainbow parade in particular proves that this is not the case. The colorful parade is deliberately staged on Vienna's Ringstrasse as the “Street of the Republic”. “It symbolizes the positioning of Austrian nation building like no other place. Erected in the course of the demolition of Vienna's medieval city walls, the architecture of the Ringstrasse embodies the founding period of the late 19th century, the moment that represented the merging of liberal progress and Habsburg splendor. (...) In view of its importance for the construction of Austrian national identity, the Ringstrasse has always been a preferred place for political mobilization. And since the turn of the century, the boulevard has been the logical place for the public display of social strength. "(Bunzl 2001: 262)
Thus, the Ringstrasse is the political place where demonstrations take place against oppression and for visibility and equality. The rainbow parade makes use of national symbolism and re-occupies it. The heterosexual exclusivity is strongly questioned and criticized. It is of great importance that the place of the Rainbow Parade is the capital Vienna, because symbolic and political power are materialized in it.
For the reasons mentioned, the Ringstrasse was important to the founders as the location for the parade, even if the police and politicians would have preferred to see them in a different location. As a suggestion from the police, the Prater-Hauptallee was also up for discussion.
More parades
In 2010 the first Rainbow Pride Parade took place in Bratislava . Another took place in the following year.
The Gay Pride Parade has been held in Budapest since 1997. A demonstration was also held in 2011. The day before it had been banned by the police because of changing the route. However, this ban was lifted by the court as excessive .
The march for the family is a counterpart .
literature
- Matti Bunzl (2001): The rainbow parade as a cultural phenomenon , in: Wolfgang Förster, Tobias G. Natter, Ines Rieder (ed.): The other view. Lesbian and gay life in Austria. A cultural story . Vienna, ISBN 978-3950146608 , pp. 261-270.
Web links
- Official website
- Entry on 15 years of the Rainbow Parade in the Austria Forum (as a stamp illustration)
- GGG.at Critical report on the Rainbow Parade 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Brunner: About the first rainbow parade . In Lamda news, page 6ff (PDF; 5.5 MB)
- ↑ Rainbow Parade - Successful Festival on the Ring (PDF; 3.6 MB), Lambda Nachrichten 3/2004, p. 7
- ↑ Coronavirus: Rainbow Parade canceled. In: ORF.at . March 23, 2020, accessed March 25, 2020 .
- ↑ OTS broadcast, June 20, 1999: ÖLSF "supplements" the memorial on Morzinplatz and reminds us to commemorate the forgotten groups of victims. , accessed August 24, 2009
- ↑ Kurt Krickler , Lambdanachrichten 4.2006, 13: Rosa Platz für Wien - Errtäne (PDF; 4.1 MB), accessed on August 24, 2009
- ↑ Waiting for the gay memorial at Morzinplatz , article by Marco Schreuder from April 7, 2009, accessed on September 7, 2015.
- ^ Hosi Vienna: Rainbow Parade 2012 ; Retrieved June 17, 2012
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- ↑ [2]
- ↑ Rainbow Parade 2015
- ↑ orf.at - "Visible 2015" at Rainbow Parade . Article dated June 20, 2015, accessed September 7, 2015.
- ↑ 22nd Rainbow Parade - June 17th, 2017. In: Vienna Pride. Retrieved June 17, 2017 .
- ↑ 23rd Rainbow Parade - June 16, 2018. In: Vienna Pride. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .
- ↑ WFischer: Spatial Turn? - Part 3 - Summary of the keynote speech by Andreas Brunner , kakanien.ac.at, February 23, 2007
- ↑ Lesbian and gay rights are still taboo for some Slovaks on Radio Slovakia International from June 8, 2011, accessed on June 9, 2011
- ↑ Gay Pride Parade on Saturday in Hungary in Pester Lloyd on June 19, 2011, accessed on June 21, 2011