Wilhelm Svoboda

Wilhelm Svoboda (* 1953 in Vienna ) is an Austrian political scientist and essayist.

Life

Svoboda graduated from secondary school in 1977 and also studied political science and ethnology in 1979–1985. In 1985 he received his doctorate from the University of Vienna as Dr. phil. with a dissertation on the subject of the Association of Socialist Middle School Students (VSM) - presentation and analysis of the political activities of the Association 1953-1968 . There are publications on the subject areas of music sociology, political science and contemporary history as well as reviews in the renowned music magazine skug .

Selected works

author

• Revolt and establishment. The history of the Association of Socialist Middle School Students 1953–1973 , Vienna-Cologne-Graz 1986
• Franz Olah . Securing evidence , Vienna 1990
• The party, the republic and the man with the many faces. Oskar Helmer and Austria II. A correction , Böhlaus Zeitgeschichtliche Bibliothek 26, Vienna-Cologne-Graz 1993
• Sandpit games. A history of left radicalism in the 1970s , Vienna 1998, ISBN 3853711340
• Friedrich Gulda . Fragments of a portrait , Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-902157-18-6

Co-author

• with Gerhard Scheit : Orpheus in exile. The expulsion of Austrian music from 1938 to 1945 , anti-fascist literature and exile literature - studies and texts 13, Vienna 1995
• with Gerhard Scheit: Gustav Mahler as enemy. On the anti-Semitic defense of modernity in Austria , special number 2002
• with Gerhard Scheit: meeting point of the modern. Gustav Mahler, Theodor W. Adorno, Viennese Traditions , special number 2010, ISBN 978-3-85449-332-7

Essays

• New social movements in the seventies and eighties , in: Yearbook of the Association for the History of the City of Vienna 1987 (Volume 43)
• Citizens' initiatives in Vienna. How did citizens' initiatives come about, what structure and scope do they have, what do the parties think of them? , The future 9/1988
• Almost a psychosis. Exactly 25 years ago, weekly press reports triggered a crisis surrounding the state police, which led to the overthrow of the interior minister at the time, Franz Olah , Wochenpresse 7/1989
• Mozart - Reason and Sensuality , Aufrisse 4/1990 (co-editor)
• "Oh, the truth is, he's doing well whatever he does." About erotic disorders in Mozart , Aufrisse 4/1990
• Elective affinities. Notes on "involuntary" careers , exercise book 60 (1990)
• with Theodor Venus, "We're back". A documentation on the socialist press policy in Austria at the beginning of the Second Republic , Medien & Zeit 4/1991
• "This work of peace". The foundation "Sozial Friedenswerk" - a charitable organization for the "ostracized" and "disenfranchised" , forum May / June 1992 (first part of the long version of the project "Political Culture in Post-War Austria. On the ideology and political practice of the conservative camp using the example of organizations "Foundation for Social Peace Work" and "Welfare Association of the Glasenbachers", project management: Prof. Hugo Pepper)
• Rudolf Serkin. A biographical sketch , in: Hans-Werner Heister / Karin Heister-Grech / Gerhard Scheit (eds.), Between Enlightenment & Culture Industry. Festschrift for Georg Knepler on his 85th birthday. Volume 3: Music / Society, Hamburg 1993
• Law and justice. The "Gmundner Kreis" and the "Barbed Wire Community" welfare association of the Glasenbacher , Arche 9 - June 1995
• "... fulfilled my duty unconditionally". The internment camp Glasenbach (Camp "Marcus W. Orr") , contemporary history 1–2 / 1995
• "Serving this work of peace is not just a matter for everyone, it is everyone's business!" The "Social Peace Work" foundation - a charitable organization for the "ostracized" and "disenfranchised"? , Contemporary History 11–12 / 1996
• Music and politics in Vienna. The confrontation with the "cosmopolitans" and "formalists" in the Soviet Union in 1947 and their reflection in the magazines Österreichisches Tagebuch and Weg und Ziel , in: Yearbook of the Association for the History of the City of Vienna 2004
• with Gerhard Scheit : From emotional aesthetics to maintaining identity. From Hanslicks Musikalisch-Schönem and Adorno's "Wintering Attempts" to "Music Care" by the Völkischer Beobachter , ÖMZ 6/2011

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Svoboda in the catalog of the German National Library