Symposium

Symposium: In the Spotlight: Vienna in National Socialism

Sat 11.04.2015, 10:00-18:00

Symposium: In the Spotlight: Vienna in National Socialism
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On the occasion of the exhibition a day-long symposium will be held that aims at directing attention to recent research. On the basis of an interdisciplinary approach, the intention is to present for discussion questions about the architectural and cultural-historical themes relevant during the National Socialist era.

The Symposium will be held in German.

PROGRAMME
09:00 Registration

10:00 Dietmar Steiner, Welcome address

10:10 Ingrid Holzschuh and Monika Platzer, Introduction

10:20 Matthias Marschik (Historian and Cultural Theoretician): The “other” of our history? A poetry album of National Socialism

11:00 Petra Svatek (Historian): The city as a research object: spatial research at the University of Vienna 1938 – 1945

11:40 Birgit Johler (Cultural Theoretician): “The Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art, Vienna. A house of German ‘Volkstum’ in the South-East.”

12:20 Discussion with: Birgit Johler, Matthias Marschik and Petra Svatek

13:00 Lunch break

14:00 Rosemarie Burgstaller (Historian): Strategies for presenting visual stereotypes of enemies: NS hate exhibitions in Vienna

14:40 Constanze Klaps (Architect): The staged illusion. Temporary architecture of National Socialism in Vienna

15:20 Break

15:50 Timo Nüßlein (Architecture Historian): “… like a marvel from Arabian Nights” – on the influence of Vienna’s Ringstraße buildings on Hitler’s ideas about architecture

16:30 Bernd Kreuzer (Historian and Spatial Planner): The Reichsautobahn in the “Ostmark”: Spatial planning, transportation planning and the promise of individual motorised mobility

17:10 Discussion with: Rosemarie Burgstaller, Constanze Klaps, Bernd Kreuzer and Timo Nüßlein

18:00 End of the symposium

Moderated by: Ingrid Holzschuh and Monika Platzer

Organisation Symposium:
Karoline Mayer, Az W (mayer@azw.at, +43 1 522 31 15-28)

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Rosemarie Burgstaller (Historian)
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Constanze Klaps (Architect)
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Timo Nüßlein (Architecture Historian)
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Bernd Kreuzer (Historian and Spatial Planner)
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Birgit Johler (Cultural Theoretician)
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Ingrid Holzschuh, curator of the exhibition
Ingrid Holzschuh, curator of the exhibition
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Matthias Marschik (Historian and Cultural Theoretician)
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Matthias Marschik, Historiker und Kulturwissenschafter und Monika Platzer, Kuratorin
Matthias Marschik (Historian and Cultural Theoretician) and Monika Platzer (curator)
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Bernhard Hachleitner and Klaus Steiner
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Monika Platzer, curator of the exhibition »Vienna. The Pearl of the Reich« Planning for Hitler
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Petra Svatek (Historian)
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