Wilhelm Filla
Wilhelm Filla (Award of the Austrian Adult Education TV Prize 2011)
Wilhelm Filla (born May 31, 1947 in Carinthia ; † June 23, 2016 in Vienna ) was an Austrian adult educator.
Life
Filla studied sociology at the University of Vienna . From 1974 to 1979 he was director of the Hietzing Adult Education Center , then until April 2012 General Secretary of the Association of Austrian Adult Education Centers and editor of the magazine Die Österreichische Volkshochschule. Adult Education Magazine . Filla was a lecturer at the University of Graz from 2000 and at the University of Klagenfurt from 2002 .
Awards
- 1982 advancement award for adult education
- 2005: Prize of the City of Vienna for popular education
- 2012: Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 2015: Bruno Kreisky Prize for the political book
Publications
- with Erich Leichtenmüller, Aladar Pfniß: Education for everyone. Festschrift on the occasion of 35 years of the Association of Austrian Adult Education Centers. G. Grasl Publishing House, Baden-Vienna 1985.
- Educator and organizer. the scientist, popular educator and politician Ludo Moritz Hartmann . Association of Wiener Volksbildung, Picus-Verlag, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-85452-234-7 .
- with Elke Gruber, Jurij Jug: Adult Education in the Enlightenment. Association of Austrian Adult Education Centers, Promedia Verlag, Vienna 1996.
- Adult education from 1848 to 1900. Association of Austrian Adult Education Centers, Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck 1998, ISBN 3-7065-1268-8 .
- Science for everyone - a contradiction? Knowledge transfer close to the population in Viennese modernism. A historic adult education center model. Edition Volkshochschule, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7065-1389-7 .
- Knowledge as an opportunity. Adult education between vocational qualification and general education. Association of Austrian Adult Education Centers , Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-902022-24-0 .
Movies
- Robert Streibel : Strong Tobacco - Short film by the VHS Hietzing for the 60th birthday , with Barbara Rett , Wilhelm Filla, Manfred Schindler, Vienna 2007. Online youtube.com 9: 45min
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Filla in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Filla, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian adult educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carinthia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 2016 |
| Place of death | Vienna |