Volkshochschule Ottakring

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The Ottakring Adult Education Center

The Volkshochschule Ottakring , founded as Volksheim Ottakring , is an adult education institution founded at the beginning of the 20th century by Ludo Moritz Hartmann and Emil Reich in Vienna - Ottakring , which was of great cultural and political importance, especially in the interwar period. The adult education center is a member of the adult education centers in Austria .

history

The Volksheim Ottakring was founded in 1901. In the same year Hartmann joined the Social Democratic Labor Party ( SDAP ). In 1905, Europe's first evening adult education center was established in the Volksheim. The house had distinguished lecturers, its own specialist library, a chemical laboratory with Fritz Feigl , a physical laboratory and an experimental psychological laboratory. Well-known writers such as Alfons Petzold and Fritz Hochwälder received their cultural imprint as autodidacts in the Volksheim Ottakring.

Even after the establishment of the clerical-conservative dictatorship from 1934 to 1938, the Ottakring Volksheim initially remained under relatively liberal leadership despite certain purges and, thanks to Viktor Matejka, remained one of the last focal points of oppositional intellectuals. At that time, however, the Catholic philosopher Leo Gabriel opposed this. After the invasion of the Wehrmacht in 1938 and the annexation of Austria to the German Reich, the "Volksheim Association" was dissolved. Its premises were taken over by the National Socialist organization Kraft durch Freude .

After the end of the Second World War , adult education centers could be resumed in April 1945. The building had survived the bombardment of Vienna as the only one of the large public education centers undamaged. The laboratory equipment, however, was lost. Many of the teachers had been displaced or died. However, the tradition of scientific education could be carried on for a few years.

Even today, the historic building on Ludo-Hartmann-Platz is one of the largest and most important locations of the Vienna Adult Education Centers, with a special focus on educational work with migrants and educational work with young people, as well as extensive offers in the areas of languages ​​and educational qualifications ("Second Educational path ").

management

  • 1909–1913 August Ginzberger
  • 1914–1938 Richard Czwiklitzer
  • 1945–1946 August Weiszmann
  • 1946–1947 Otto Wolf
  • 1947–1952 Wilhelm Bründl
  • 1952–1970 Hans Fellinger
  • 1970–1973 Horst Isak
  • 1973–1988 Peter Schütz
  • 1988–1989 Karl Hochwarter
  • 1990–2011 Michaela Judy
  • 2011–2017 Ilkim Erdost
  • 2017- Thomas Laimer

literature

  • Karl Ziak : Memories of the Ottakringer Volksheim . unpublished typescript, undated (Vienna) undated
  • Emil Reich: 25 years of Volksheim. A Viennese adult education center chronicle . Verlag des Verein Volksheim, Vienna 1926.
  • Hans Fellinger: Half a Century Volksheim. 1905-1955. A commemorative publication for November 5, 1955. Association of Volkshochschule Wien Volksheim, Vienna 1955, 35 pages.
  • Hans Fellinger, Norbert Kutalek: On Viennese national education. Verlag Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1969, 292 pages.
  • Wilhelm Filla : Science for everyone - a contradiction? Knowledge transfer close to the population in Viennese modernism. A historic adult education center model . Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck et al. 2001, ISBN 3-7065-1389-7 , ( series of publications by the Association of Austrian Adult Education Centers 11), ( Volkshochschule edition ), (At the same time: Vienna, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2001).
  • Christian H. Stifter, Intellectual City Expansion. A Brief History of the Vienna Adult Education Centers, 1887-2005 (Encyclopedia of Vienna Knowledge, Vol. III: Volksbildung). Edited by Wiener Vorlesungen - Dialogforum der Stadt Wien, Weitra 2006. ISBN 3-902416-06-8 .
  • Ursula Knittler-Lux (ed.), 100 Years of Viennese National Education - “Education Moves”, Vienna 1987.

Web links

Commons : Volkshochschule Ottakring  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ adulteducation.at personal page on Fritz Feigl, accessed on September 1, 2009

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 24.1 ″  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 2.3 ″  E