Association Dichterstein Offenhausen

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The Dichterstein Offenhausen association was a right-wing extremist cultural organization in Austria and was officially dissolved in 1999 due to re- involvement with the Nazis .

history

The Dichterstein Offenhausen association was founded in 1963 by the racist and anti-Semitic writer Joseph Hieß . Mirko Jelusich took over the patronage at the foundation ceremony .

The association held regular meetings at the “Dichtersteinanlage” monument near Offenhausen , known as the “Old German Consecration Site” . Annually, during a ceremony, name stones “in honor of German poets” were set into the ring walls and trees were planted. The award of the Joseph Hieß Memorial Prize and the poet's stone shield were also part of the ritual.

Well-known right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis from Germany and abroad such as Gerd Honsik , Bela Ewald Althans and Otto Ernst Remer took part in the meeting. Close contacts also existed with the FPÖ , which tried several times through parliamentary questions to deny the legality of the official action against the association. The association was officially dissolved in 1999 due to re- activating the Nazis .

In close connection with the “Dichterstein Offenhausen” association, there was the “ Working Group for Democratic Politics ”, which has held events with representatives of European right-wing extremist parties in the “Lauber” pub in the center of Offenhausen for decades.

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The Dichtersteinanlage, built from 1963, is located east of the center of Offenhausen on a slope overlooking the town ( location ). On a lawn surrounded by oval quarry stone walls, there are two quarry stone pillars on which - as well as on the surrounding walls - a total of about 450 marble slabs with the names of poets are attached. Political catchphrases such as "Kinship purity", "species awareness" or "loyalty to allegiance" are carved into the steps of the "loyalty staircase" leading to the monument. To the right and left of the foot of the stairs are two “Viking shields”, erected in 1971, with quotations from Schiller and Goethe . Above the entrance is a gate added in 1980 with a quote from Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer, which has since been largely destroyed : "Whoever betrays the spirit betrays his people". After the dissolution of the association, the maintenance of the complex was largely given up, some of the names were painted over by the owner and parts of the complex were damaged by the autonomous .

Bearer of the "poet's stone shield"

Until the dissolution of the association in 1999, the poet's stone shield was awarded to:

Publications

The association accompanied its activities intensively through publications. In the “Offenhausener Reihe” published by Arndt-Verlag , at least 24 volumes were published between 1970 and 1978, mainly by those who carried the poet's stone shield. The annual lectures collected further titles and presented short biographies of the people honored in the annex.

literature

  • Henning Burk : Hitler, Braunau and me. How my great-grandmother could have prevented the war. Westend-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-86489-179-3 , pp. 80–84. [Chapter "The linden tree on the Dichterstein"]
  • Andrea Reiter: The poetry of the 'Dichterstein Offenhausen' as an example of the continuity of anti-modern poetry in Austria after 1945 . In: Zeitgeschichte 18 (5/6 1990), pp. 155–171.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Purtscheller : Aufbruch der Völkische. The brown network . Picus, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85452-239-8 , p. 78.
  2. ^ Association Dichterstein Offenhausen. Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance , accessed on November 17, 2018 .
  3. ^ Karl Müller: Statement on the 'Dichterstein Offenhausen' for the Wels-Land district administration. In: Aurora magazine. March 1998, archived from the original on December 20, 2013 ; accessed on November 17, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Right-wing extremist meeting is to take place at the weekend in Offenhausen: MKÖ and Antifa network are calling for a ban on AFP. Mauthausen Committee Austria , accessed on November 17, 2018 .
  5. ^ AFP meeting in Offenhausen. Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance, October 2005, accessed on November 17, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Purtscheller: Aufbruch der Völkischen. The brown network. Picus Verlag, Vienna 1993, ISBN 978-3-85452-239-3 , p. 75 f.
  7. ↑ Arnold Reinthaler: I am a child from Austria. Retrieved January 11, 2019 (with images).
  8. ↑ Michaela Nöstlinger: The poet's stone Offenhausen . University of Vienna, Vienna 1997, p. 89. [Diploma thesis]

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