Wolfgang Johannes Bandion

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Wolfgang Johannes Bandion , also Wolfgang J. Bandion (* 1950 in Vienna ), is an Austrian historian .

Life

Bandion studied history , philosophy and art history in Vienna and Rome . He has been active in popular education since 1969, published numerous articles on cultural history and was press officer for the Austrian Student Exchange Service at the University of Vienna from 1976 to 1983 . From 1977 to 1986 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine "Brief aus Österreich", which is sent to all foreign graduates of Austrian universities and art schools.

Since 1969 he has been active in adult education in Vienna and gave lectures at the adult education centers in Vienna Urania, Vienna-West and Favoriten. He led thousands of tours through Vienna's city center. He worked closely with Hugo Ellenberger , the founder of Aktion Urlaub in Vienna .

Bandion was a professor at the Religious Education Academy of the Archdiocese of Vienna (head of the seminar for Christian local history) and the University of Applied Arts Vienna as well as at the HLA Baden. Bandion was President of the International Friedrich Hebbel Society in Vienna from 2004 to 2008.

Act

Wolfgang Bandion is a board member of the Austrian camp community Mauthausen as well as an Austrian delegate in the Comité International de Mauthausen . In 2006 he was awarded the Silver Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital of Vienna for his contribution to Viennese cultural life, in particular for his commitment as a member of the board of the Austrian camp community Mauthausen .

Bandion is a member of the Austrian PEN Club and board member of the old Austro-Mexican Society (organization of the Mexican Days in Vienna in the 1980s). Since 1988 he has been President of the Clemens Maria Hofbauer Committee with the then patronage SD Prince Franz Josef II von und zu Liechtenstein. He is also president of the Steinwand am Attersee sailing club, Upper Austria, and is committed to the preservation of traditional wooden boats.

Since 1971 Bandion has been a member of the Catholic student associations KaV Norica Wien in the ÖCV , since 1977 a member of the Catholic Austrian Landsmannschaft Starhemberg WIEN in the KÖL and the KAV Capitolina Rome in the CV . In 2011 he was honored with the Order of Merit al merito by the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .

Fonts

  • with Hugo Ellenberger: 16 walks through Vienna's city center. Vienna 1984.
  • with Gernot Eder, Karl A. Wucherer-Huldenfeld, Hugo Bogensberger and Wilhelm Zauner : attempt to talk about God. Desolated. Press 1987, ISBN 3-85326-831-5 .
  • Stone witnesses of faith. The holy places of the city of Vienna. Herold, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-7008-0375-3 .
  • with Siegfried Goldberger: The Imperial Crypt . Triumph of the past. Universitätsverlag, 1990, ISBN 0-423-32980-4 .
  • Am Hof ​​Church Vienna. (= Christian art centers in Austria. No. 201). Salzburg 1991.
  • St. Jakob-Penzing Church. (= Christian art centers in Austria. No. 229). Salzburg 1993.
  • Johann Gruber - Mauthausen-Gusen - April 7, 1944. 1995, ISBN 3-85114-206-3 .
  • Ramacher & simplicity. Summit storm and swimming pool - the magic of the material. Exhibition catalog. blue-yellow gallery, Niederösterr. Landesmuseum, Vienna 1996.
  • with Sophie Geretsegger and Adolf Frohner: Mauthausen Violence: Catalog for the exhibition of the master class for painting / Adolf Frohner "Violence" in the Mauthausen Memorial. Federal Ministry of the Interior 1998, ISBN 3-9500867-0-6 .
  • with Stephan Hilge and Cathrine Stukhard: Remembering. (Memorial book about Mauthausen and its subcamps), with contributions by Federal President Dr. Thomas Klestil , Simon Wiesenthal and Ilse Aichinger . Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-9500907-0-3 . (German, English, French, Italian, Russian)
  • with Bernhard A. Böhler (Ed.): Reflexionen Otto Mauer: Discoverer and supporter of the Austrian avant-garde after 1945. Archbishop's Cathedral and Diocesan Museum, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-902034-00-9 .
  • Church of St. Barbara Central Greek Catholic Parish. Salzburg 1999.
  • 125 years of the House of Mercy. Vienna 2000.
  • Giving memory a future. Exhibition catalog for Havana, Cuba, ed. Österr. Camp community Mauthausen, Vienna 2002. (German / Spanish)
  • Gasper Jemec. Do not deny anything about yourself (Deny Nothing in Yourself, Ne zanikaj nicesar svojega). Exhibition catalog. Ljubljana (Laibach) 2002.
  • House of Mercy. Fate of women and children in the Third Reich after the expropriation. Vienna 2002.
  • Andrej Jemec - Light and colors of hope (Svetloba in barve upanja, Light and colors of Hope). Exhibition catalog. Ljubljana 2006.
  • To find Austria. Soundings at Vienna's Heldenplatz (Finding Austria: Soundings from Vienna's Heldenplatz, Alla scoperta dell'Austria Heldenplatz: riflessioni in un luogo molto Viennese). Vienna 2006.
  • The Apostolic Nunciature in Vienna. 2nd, improved edition. Vienna 2006.
  • 50 years of Malteser Hospitaldienst Austria. Vienna 2007.
  • with Andreas Pacher: Theresianumgasse 31. The Apostolic Nunciature in Vienna . Vienna 2018. With a foreword by the Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Peter Zurbriggen .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Distinguished personalities of Viennese cultural life" , City of Vienna , May 17, 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Bandion, Wolfgang Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bandion, Wolfgang J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna