Association for the promotion and research of anti-fascist literature

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Association for the Promotion and Research of Antifascist Literature
(Antiflit)
purpose Research and dissemination of the literature of exile and resistance
Chair: Herbert Staud
Establishment date: 1983
Seat : Vienna
Website: www.theodorkramer.at/antiflit

The association for the promotion and research of anti-fascist literature was founded in Vienna in 1983 . He took on the task of promoting and researching the often forgotten literature of exile and resistance from Austria . The first writers to be worked on were Jura Soyfer , Berthold Viertel , Theodor Kramer and Else Feldmann . Many of the authors were published in the book series Antifascist Literature and Exile Literature - Studies and Texts .

history

The association emerged from the since 1979 existing and Konstantin Kaiser founded Working Group Anti-Fascist literature . The work group also included Siglinde Bolbecher , Herbert Staud, Gerhard Scheit , Peter Roessler, Erna Wipplinger, Angelika Sternegg, Harald Sattek and others. Events on the subject of exile literature were organized, at which the band Butterflies often appeared in the accompanying program .

The association was founded on March 24, 1983 with the traveling exhibition Theodor Kramer 1897-1958. Active poet in exile , which the then Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky opened in the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance .

This was followed in 1985 by the exhibitions Cabaret and Satire in the Resistance 1933–1945 and in 1988 Viertels Welt. The poet, essayist, director Berthold Viertel in the Austrian Theater Museum.

Since then the association has organized a number of larger and smaller symposia. In 2001 he has z. B. in cooperation with the Austrian PEN Club , the campaign against anti-Semitism in Austria and the Theodor Kramer Society, a conference with the aim of a better overview of the research work on exile in Austria and the current state of research was carried out.

In November 2014, the association played a leading role in the organization of the international conference The Destruction of Working-class Culture by Fascism and National Socialism (in memory of Herbert Exenberger ) . In the run-up to the conference, on the initiative of the association, the holdings of the Herbert Exenberger collection for the association of socialist writers were processed electronically and archivally. The collection includes materials on around 50 writers, including David Josef Bach , Fritz Brügel , Else Feldmann, Oskar Maria Graf , Adele Jellinek , Theodor Kramer, and Käthe Leichter . Directories and documents are freely accessible on the Internet.

Anti-fascist literature and exile literature

Since 1988, the association's activities have focused on the book series Antifascist Literature and Exile Literature - Studies and Texts . 23 volumes have appeared so far, in the publishing house for social criticism , Döcker publishing house , Deuticke publishing house , Mandelbaum publishing house and in the publishing house of the Theodor Kramer society. The association acts as editor or co-editor for the publications.

Works in the series Antifascist Literature and Exile Literature

Board

  • Herbert Staud
  • Constantine Kaiser
  • Judith Aistleitner

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prizes of the City of Vienna for science and public education. Archive report of the town hall correspondence from December 4, 2007. In: wien.gv.at. December 4, 2007, accessed April 9, 2018 .
  2. ↑ cf. On Austria's anti-fascist literature 1933–1945. In: Aufrisse. Journal for Political Education. Volume 3, No. 2, 1982.
  3. ^ Verlag der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft: Author portrait Konstantin Kaiser
  4. ^ Maria Sporrer: Exhibition about the forgotten worker poet Theodor Kramer. The greatest after Alfons Petzold. In: Arbeiter-Zeitung of March 26, 1983, p. 16.
  5. ↑ Erwin Chvojka, Konstantin Kaiser: Maybe I had it easy because it was difficult. Theodor Kramer 1897-1958. A life chronicle. Verlag der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft, Vienna 1997, p. 110.
  6. ↑ Cabaret and Satire in the Resistance 1933–1945. In: Communications from the Institute for Science and Art. 40 Vol. 1-2 / 1985. (pdf)
  7. ↑ Funding - National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism
  8. ^ The destruction of working-class culture by fascism and National Socialism (in memoriam Herbert Exenberger).
  9. ^ Herbert Exenberger's archive for the union of socialist writers. In: theodorkramer.at . Retrieved November 7, 2019.