Werner Anzenberger

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Werner Anzenberger (2019)

Werner Anzenberger (born September 8, 1962 in Leoben ) is an Austrian lawyer , historian and writer. He currently acts as the head of the social affairs and social policy department and as the head of the branch offices of the Styrian Chamber of Labor and Employees as well as the state and deputy federal chairman of the SPÖ's forefield organization, the Bund Sozialistischer Freiheitskampf [ Socialist Freedom Fighters ] . Anzenberger uses the pseudonym Peter Veran for his literary work.

education and profession

In 1981 Anzenberger graduated from the BG / BRG Leoben I. He then began a diploma and doctoral degree in law at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz , which he completed with his doctorate in 1988. His dissertation was entitled “Financial Criminal Law and the Human Rights Convention”. Subsequently, Anzenberger studied history until 1998, also at the Karl Franzens University in Graz. In 1995 he completed his master’s degree with a thesis on Karl Kraus and his ambivalent attitude to democracy . With his dissertation “Casa de Austria Republicana. House of Austria in Literature and Politics ”, Anzenberger completed his doctorate in the humanities .

Anzenberger began his professional career in 1988 at the Leoben Chamber of Labor. In 1999 he was promoted to head of the branch office. Since 2008 he has been head of the social affairs and social policy department and head of the branch offices of the Styrian Chamber of Labor.

Journalistic and public work

To date, Anzenberger has published numerous legal, political and historical monographs, essays and contributions in collective works. The main focus of his historical research is on the history of National Socialism and the history of Austrofascism . He is considered to be one of the pioneers in coming to terms with the resistance against the Nazi regime in Styria . Another research focus is the history of Austrian social democracy and its work in the First Republic . The social democratic February uprising , which he interpreted as "resistance for a democracy", plays a special role within this complex of topics . Anzenberger also deals with the history of the Styrian Chamber of Labor. To mark its anniversary, he published a commemorative publication entitled “100 Years of Justice”.

Anzenberger published his first novel on February 12, 2020 under the pseudonym Peter Veran. It was the grotesque "Plea of ​​a Martyr". In this work, the state chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is brought to justice and tries to justify his work. In a sprawling monologue, he unmasked himself. His disdain for democracy and the rule of law is sometimes expressed in an involuntarily funny way. After his novel was published, Anzenberger went on a reading tour that led through numerous Austrian cities. However, some planned readings had to be canceled due to the Corona crisis. The tour should be continued in September 2020. Outside Austria, the book was presented at the Leipzig Book Fair, among other places. “The Plea of ​​a Martyr” received mostly positive reviews. The Kleine Zeitung described it as light-footed, entertaining and yet oppressive. Anzenberger's skillful portrayal of the cruel comedy of deeply bourgeois fascization was praised by the Junge Welt . The review appeared on the front page of the literature supplement in June 2020. The editor-in-chief Florian Felix Weyh from Kulturradio Deutschland compared Peter Veran with Helmut Qualtinger, the editor-in-chief Hannes Nagel of “Das FlugblattI / Musenblatt” with Kurt Tucholsky. The book reached number five on the Austria-wide bestseller list.

On February 12, he regularly gives lectures and speeches all over Austria, mostly to a social democratic audience. Often the life and work of the executed SDAP politician Koloman Wallisch receive special attention. In the historical discourse between 1934 and 1938, Anzenberger is a strong advocate of the term “ Austrofascism ”.

In October 2008, he gave a speech on the occasion of the inauguration of the newly designed Leoben memorial for the victims of National Socialism. In November 2018, on Anzenberger's initiative, the first Stolperstein was laid in honor of the local resistance fighter Simon Trevisani. In September 2019, the project continued with the laying of seven stumbling blocks in honor of victims of the Holocaust. As early as April 2018, Anzenberger, together with the Mayor of Leoben, Kurt Wallner, presented additional boards that refer to the National Socialist sentiments of Hans Kloepfer , Ottokar Kernstock and Friedrich Mayer-Beck, after whom streets are named. A similar project is currently being implemented in Bruck an der Mur in cooperation with Mayor Peter Koch.

Other functions, titles and honors

Anzenberger is a board member of the Graz Legal Society, the Mauthausen Committee Austria and vice-president of the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance . Since April 26, 2016 he has been the Styrian regional chairman and deputy federal chairman of the Association of Social Democratic Freedom Fighters, a victim of fascism and active anti-fascists in Styria . In October 2017, Anzenberger received the professional title of Professor from Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen . Since July 27, 2020 he has been city councilor for finances in Bruck an der Mur .

Private

Anzenberger is married and has three children. He lives in Bruck an der Mur .

Publications (selection)

  • Financial criminal law and human rights convention, Vienna 1989.
  • Rejection of a democracy. Karl Kraus and the breach of the constitution, Graz 1997.
  • Casa de Austria Republicana. House of Austria in Literature and Politics, Graz 1999.
  • Bruck / Mur 1934. A region in political resistance, Leoben 1999.
  • Between the lines. The Eisenerz region 1938–1945, Graz 1999. Together with Heimo Halbrainer, Hans-Jürgen Rabko and Gabriela Stieber
  • Contract staff law Styria, Vienna 2002. Together with Sonja Kern
  • Conflict and integration. The Trofaiach / Gai camps 1915–1960, Graz 2003. Ed. with Heimo Halbrainer and Hans-Jürgen Rabko
  • Resistance for a democracy. February 12, 1934, Graz 2004. Together with Martin F. Polaschek
  • Eisenstrasse 1938–1945. Nazi terror - resistance - new memory, Graz 2013. Ed. with Christian Ehetreiber and Heimo Halbrainer
  • Injustice in the sense of the rule of law. Styria in Austrofascism, Graz 2014. Ed. with Heimo Halbrainer
  • Plea of ​​a Martyr, Vienna 2020. (as Peter Veran)
  • Commemorative publication of the Styrian Chamber of Labor. 100 Years of Justice, Graz 2020. Ed. with Anja Grabuschnig and Heimo Halbrainer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.werneranzenberger.at/
  2. ↑ Critical to this point of view expresses himself about Kurt Bauer: The February uprising 1934. Facts and myths. Böhlau Verlag Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2019 ISBN 978-3-205-23231-5 p. 137
  3. ↑ Kronen Zeitung, February 27, 2020.
  4. ↑ Kleine Zeitung, February 12, 2020.
  5. ↑ See among others: https://bgld.arbeiterkammer.at/service/buecherei/veranstaltungen/Peter_Veran.html
  6. ↑ http://www.buecher.at/oesterreich-auf-der-leipziger-buchmesse-2020-14-verlage-am-oesterreichischen-gemeinschaftsstand/
  7. ↑ Kleine Zeitung, February 12, 2020.
  8. ↑ https://www.jungewelt.de/beilage/art/378942
  9. ↑ https://ondemand-mp3.dradio.de/file/dradio/2020/05/09/gespraech_mit_peter_veran_ueber_plaedoyer_eines_drk_20200509_1123_26a63aca.mp3
  10. ↑ http://hannesnagel.de/?p=4234
  11. ↑ Kleine Zeitung, February 29, 2020.
  12. ↑ https://www.mein Bezirk.at/leoben/c-lokales/gedenken-an-koloman-wallisch_a3199950 .
  13. ↑ https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000097857438/koloman-wallisch-und-die-demokratie-eine-zeitgemaesse-auseinandersetzung
  14. ↑ Kleine Zeitung, October 31, 2008.
  15. ↑ https://www.leoben.at/aktuelles/erster-stolperstein-in-leoben-verlege/
  16. ↑ https://www.mein Bezirk.at/leoben/c-lokales/waere-sie-heute-hier-waere-sie-sehr-gluecklich_a3638904
  17. ↑ Kleine Zeitung, April 11, 2018.
  18. ↑ Kleine Zeitung, September 5, 2018.
  19. ↑ http ://www. Freiheitskaempfer.at/?p=1338
  20. ↑ https://www.mein Bezirk.at/leoben/c-lokales/hohe-staatliche-auszeichnung-fuer-werner-anzenberger_a2277325
  21. ↑ https://www.mein Bezirk.at/bruck-an-der-mur/c-politik/peter-koch-wiedergewaehlt_a4167750
  22. ↑ http ://www. Freiheitskaempfer.at/?p=1338
personal data
SURNAME Anzenberger, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Leoben