Susanne Kowarc

Susanne Kowarc (born 1968) is an Austrian contemporary historian and author who has worked on the history of National Socialism in Austria .

activities

Susanne Kowarc completed her studies in 1993 as a Magistra at the University of Vienna with a thesis on the reintegration of victims of Nazi persecution into Austrian post-war society.

She was one of the scientific staff of the 1938 exhibition organized by the DÖW on behalf of the Federal Ministry of the Interior . National Socialist rule in Austria on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the "Anschluss" of Austria to the German Reich in March 1938 and the establishment of the Mauthausen concentration camp in August 1938 Together with the historian Rudolf Kropf from the Johannes Kepler University Linz , she worked on the complex of topics National Socialist architecture and urban planning . The exhibition was on view in Vienna and for a long time in the Mauthausen Memorial.

Kowarc researched the history of the expulsion of Jewish tenants from their apartments in Vienna between 1938 and 1945 and is co-author of the reports " Aryanization " and the restoration of apartments in Vienna published by the Austrian Commission of Historians in 2000 . Another focus of contemporary history is denazification after 1945.

Susanne Kowarc also claims to work as a state-certified tourist guide for Austria ("Austria Guide") and an independent tour guide .

Fonts

• Susanne Kowarc, Robert Holzbauer: Reason for termination: Non-Aryans , Verlag Österreichisches Volkshochschularchiv , Vienna 2001, ISBN 978-3-902167-04-0
  • Susanne Kowarc: The expulsion of Jewish tenants from the Viennese municipal buildings in 1938 and 1939. In: Contributions to the past and present of the IX district , exhibition Reason for termination: Non- Arier in the Alsergrund local history museum , 1998, AU ISSN 0017-9809 (PDF)
• Susanne Kowarc: Kurt Hacker 1920 - 2001: A Viennese suburban child . In: auschwitz information , Institute for Social and Economic History, Johannes Kepler University Linz , 55th edition, December 2001
• Susanne Kowarc, Georg Graf, Eva Blimlinger , Brigitte Bailer-Galanda : "Aryanization" and the restoration of apartments in Vienna. The eviction of Jewish tenants from their apartments and the law on restitution of apartments prevented . Edited by the Austrian Commission of Historians , Volume 14, Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 978-3-205-78240-7
  • 2004 in Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, ISBN 978-3-486-56776-2
• Susanne Kowarc: On the project »The role of the Austrian security administration in restoring a democratic and independent state after 1945«. In: Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider, Winfried R. Garscha (eds.): No "accounting"; Nazi crimes, justice and society in Europe after 1945. Akademische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig / Vienna 1998, ISBN 978-3-931982-06-5 , pp. 307-313
• Kurt Hacker, Susanne Kowarc: The Reintegration of Nazi Victims into Post-War Austrian Society , unpublished phil. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna 1993

Web links

• Official website
• Literature by and about Susanne Kowarc in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Melanie Dejnega: Public recognition and self-images of concentration camp survivors in Austria. Vienna Studies on Contemporary History , Vol. 4. LIT Verlag, Vienna 2012. Bibliography, p. 160
2. ^ Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (DÖW): Exhibition 1938. Nazi rule in Austria → Design / employees
3. ↑ Susanne Kowarc / Rudolf Kropf: National Socialist architecture and urban planning , DÖW
4. ↑ Martyna Czarnowska: Historians' commission provides figures: During the Nazi era, around 60,000 rental apartments were "aryanized" in Vienna. Looted property including tenancy law , Wiener Zeitung, November 2, 2000
5. ↑ Winfried R. Garscha: The role of the security executive in denazification: files and gaps . In: Walter Schuster, Wolfgang Weber (eds.): Denazification in a regional comparison , Archive of the City of Linz, Linz 2004, p. 553, FN3; P. 558, footnote 19. PDF