Association for the promotion and research of anti-fascist literature
Association for the Promotion and Research of Antifascist Literature (Antiflit) |
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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
- Gerhard Scheit: Theater and Revolutionary Humanism. A study on Jura Soyfer , with an afterword by Primus-Heinz Kucher (Volume 1), Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-900351-98-8 .
- Berthold Viertel: Overcoming the superman. Exile writings. Edited by Konstantin Kaiser and Peter Roessler. With glossary, epilogue and register of persons (Volume 2), Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-85115-104-6 .
- Frederick Brainin : The seventh Vienna. Poems , with an afterword by Jörg Thunecke (Volume 3), Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-85115-112-7 .
- Jura Soyfer: Sturmzeit: Letters 1931-1939. Edited by Horst Jarka (Volume 5), Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-85115-140-2 .
- Berthold Viertel: Childhood of a Cherub. Autobiographical Fragments. Edited by Siglinde Bolbecher and Konstantin Kaiser. With glossary, epilogue and register of persons (Volume 4), Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-85115-125-9 .
- Stella Rotenberg : Shards are a finite hoard: selected poetry and prose , edited by Primus-Heinz Kucher and Armin A. Wallas . With illustrations by Yehuda Bacon (Volume 6), Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-85115-147-X .
- Felix Pollak : Signs of Life. Aphorisms and marginalia. Edited by Reinhold Grimm and Sara Pollak (Volume 8), Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-85115-167-4 .
- Else Feldmann: Dandelions. Novel. Edited by Adolf Opel and Marino Valdez . Afterword by Adolf Opel. Image additions by Carry Hauser (Volume 10), Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85115-166-6 .
- Leo Katz : Burning Villages. Novel. With an afterword by Konstantin Kaiser (Volume 7), Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85115-166-6 .
- Berthold Viertel: The gray cloth. Poems. Edited by Konstantin Kaiser and with an afterword by Eberhard Frey (Volume 9), Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85115-174-7 .
- Friedrich Achberger : Vanishing Point 1938: Essays on Austrian Literature between 1918 and 1938 . Edited by Gerhard Scheit. With a foreword by Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler (Volume 12), Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85115-190-9 .
- Robert Lucas : Letters from Corporal Brainscarf. BBC Radio Satires 1940-1945. Edited and with an afterword by Uwe Naumann (Volume 11), Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85115-186-0 .
- Walter Pass , Gerhard Scheit, Wilhelm Svoboda (Ed.): Orpheus in Exile. The expulsion of Austrian music from 1938 to 1945. (Volume 13), Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85115-200-X .
- Ray Eichenbaum : Romek's Odyssey: Youth in the Holocaust . With an afterword by Herbert Kolmer . Translated from the American by Herbert Kolmer and Vladimir Vertlib . With drawings by Thomas Nemec (Volume 14), Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85115-212-3 .
- Alfredo Bauer : Witches Trial in Tucumán and other chronicles from the new world , ed., With a preface and a time table provided by Erich Hackl (Volume 18), Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85115-230-1 .
- Bil Spira : The legend of the draftsman. Vienna - Vernet - Groß-Rosen - Paris. Edited by Konstantin Kaiser in collaboration with Vladimir Vertlib. With drawings by the author (Volume 17), Döcker Verlag, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85115-225-5 .
- Siglinde Bolbecher, Konstantin Kaiser (ed.): Lexicon of Austrian exile literature . with the collaboration of Evelyn Adunka, Nina Jacket, Ulrike Oedl (Volume 15), Deuticke Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-216-30548-1 .
- Herbert Exenberger: As if the world was on fire. An anthology of murdered socialist writers (Volume 19), Mandelbaum, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85476-037-X .
- Stefan Pollatschek : Doctor Ascher and his fathers. Historical novel (volume 20), Mandelbaum Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85476-129-5 .
- Konstantin Kaiser, Miguel Herz-Kestranek , Daniela Strigl (eds.): In which language do you dream ?. Austrian exillyric. Anthology (Volume 21), Verlag der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-901602-25-2 .
- Alfredo Bauer: The predecessors. Novel cycle. Ed. + Epilogue Monika Tschuggnall (Volume 22), Verlag der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-901602-46-7 .
- Ulrich Becher : "I live in the apocalypse". Letters to parents. Ed. + Introduction Martin Roda Becher in collaboration with Marina Sommer and Dieter Häner, (Volume 23) Verlag der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-901602-39-9 .
- Manfred Wieninger : The banality of the good. Feldwebel Anton Schmid (Volume 24), Verlag der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-901602-56-6 .
- Claudia Maurer Zenck : Reason for persecution: "Gypsies". Unknown musicians and their fate in the “Third Reich” (Volume 25), Verlag der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-901602-65-8 .
- Elisabeth Freundlich : The murder of a city called Stanislau. Nazi extermination policy in Poland 1939–1945 (Volume 26), Verlag der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-901602-66-5 .
Board
- Herbert Staud
- Constantine Kaiser
- Judith Aistleitner
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ 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 .
- ↑ cf. On Austria's anti-fascist literature 1933–1945. In: Aufrisse. Journal for Political Education. Volume 3, No. 2, 1982.
- ^ Verlag der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft: Author portrait Konstantin Kaiser
- ^ Maria Sporrer: Exhibition about the forgotten worker poet Theodor Kramer. The greatest after Alfons Petzold. In: Arbeiter-Zeitung of March 26, 1983, p. 16.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Cabaret and Satire in the Resistance 1933–1945. In: Communications from the Institute for Science and Art. 40 Vol. 1-2 / 1985. (pdf)
- ↑ Funding - National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism
- ^ The destruction of working-class culture by fascism and National Socialism (in memoriam Herbert Exenberger).
- ^ Herbert Exenberger's archive for the union of socialist writers. In: theodorkramer.at . Retrieved November 7, 2019.