Author: Wiener Institut für Kultur- und Zeitgeschichte

VIENNA 1900

Post author By Wiener Institut für Kultur- und Zeitgeschichte
Post date 23. April 2024

Birth of a Visionary Movement

A CONFERENCE

MAY 2 & May 3, 2024

Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 East 52nd Street, 10022 New York

Vienna 1900 has become a hallmark for the city’s outstanding innovative capacities in formulating modern thought and highlighting the paradoxes of modernity. Renowned experts from Austria, the US and Great Britain will present the latest research on this topic and reflect on potentialities for cultural and societal innovation in the 2020s.

ORF Topos

from left to right: Linda G. Mills, president of NYU; Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Vienna Executive City Councilor for Cultural Affairs and Science; Prof. Oliver Rathkolb, University of Vienna; Helga Rabl-Stadler, former President of the Salzburg Festival; Misha Glenny, Rector of the Instititue for Human Sciences, Vienna
Welcome speech by the Rector of the University of Vienna, Sebastian Schütze. from left to right: Linda G. Mills, President of NYU; Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Vienna Executive City Councilor for Cultural Affairs and Science; Prof. Oliver Rathkolb, University of Vienna; Helga Rabl-Stadler, former President of the Salzburg Festival; Misha Glenny, Rector of the Instititue for Human Sciences, Vienna
Welcome speech by the Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum NY, Susanne Keppler-Schlesinger. from left to right: the President of NYU, Linda G. Mills; and the Vienna Executive City Councilor for Cultural Affairs and Science, Veronica Kaup-Hasler
in the audience, among others (from left to right): Conductor Maria Alsop, Prof. Denise Kandel, Prof. Eric Kandel, Dr. Lydia Rathkolb, Dr. Claus Müller
first panel on music, from left to right: Prof. Christian Glanz, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna; Prof. Rubén Gallo, Princeton University; Leon Botstein, President of Bard College; moderator Gerald Heidegger, chief editor TOPOS, ORF.at
second panel on design and architecture, from left to right: Richard Cockett, The Economist, London; Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, MAK Vienna; moderator Oliver Rathkolb, University of Vienna; Mechtild Widrich, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Anita Kern, German University in Cairo
third panel on psychoanalysis and literature, from left to right: Daniela Finzi, Scientific Director of the Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna; Prof. Alys George, Stanford University and ifk fellow; George Makari, Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, NY; Katharina Prager, Vienna City Library at the Town Hall; and moderator Gerald Heidegger, chief editor TOPOS, ORF.at
from left to right: Daniela Finzi, Scientific Director of the Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna; Prof. Alys George, Stanford University and ifk fellow; George Makari, Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, NY; Katharina Prager, Vienna City Library at the Town Hall; and moderator Gerald Heidegger, chief editor TOPOS, ORF.at
from left to right: Susanne Keppler-Schlesinger, Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York; Misha Glenny, Rector of the Instititue for Human Sciences, Vienna; Helga Rabl-Stadler, former President of the Salzburg Festival; Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Vienna Executive City Councilor for Cultural Affairs and Science; Sebastian Schütze, Rector of the University of Vienna; Oliver Rathkolb, University of Vienna; Melina Tsiamos, Austrian Cultural Forum New York
Evening Concert performed by Soprano Lydia Rathkolb (right), former soloist Vienna State Opera and pianist Thomas Lausmann (left), The Metropolitan Opera

The two-day conference features three events:

Opening Panel on May 2, 2024 at 6.30 PM
Morning Panels on May 3, 2024 from 9 AM to 2.15 PM
Concert: The Long Impact of Viennese Modernism – Children’s Songs And Forbidden Songs from Persecuted Composers on May 3, 2024 at 6.30 PM

Videos of the conference events

Opening Panel – May 2, 2024

Panel 1: Viennese Radicalism in Music

Panel 2: New Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution in Vienna pre-1900

Panel 3: Psychoanalysis and Literature

Concert: The Long Impact of Viennese Modernism

A two-day conference of the Vienna Institute for Cultural and Contemporary History and Arts (VICCA), the Vienna Library in the Town Hall, and topos.ORF.at (The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation), in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum New York.

Funded by:

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Vienna Pre-1900

Post author By Wiener Institut für Kultur- und Zeitgeschichte
Post date 7. March 2024

Expert-Interview Series at ORF RadioKulturhaus

Oliver Rathkolb and ORF-Journalist Katharina Gruber conduct a series of interviews with experts of various fields – from medicine and politics to art – on how they assess the changes their disciplines went through in Vienna pre-1900, and the consequent affects on modernism.

About the Series

© ORF. Radio Kulturhaus Cafe, January 22nd 2024; left to right: Oliver Rathkolb, Daniela Finzi, Herwig Czech, Katharina Gruber
© ORF. Radio Kulturhaus Cafe, March 20th, 2024; left to right: Bettina Hering and Nobert Christian Wolf
© ORF. Radio Kulturhaus Cafe, March 20th, 2024; left to right: Oliver Rathkolb, Bettina Hering, Nobert Christian Wolf, Katharina Gruber
© ORF. Radio Kulturhaus Cafe, April 22nd 2024; left to right: Oliver Rathkolb, Barbara Boisits, Christian Glanz, Katharina Gruber
© ORF. Radio Kulturhaus Cafe, June 10th, 2024; left to right: Peter Eigner and Hans Petschar

Media-Coverage:

ORF Topos on the first interview with Herwig Czech and Daniela Finzi, including a video recording of the whole discussion

ORF news on the interview with Bettina Hering and Norbert Christian Wolf

ORF Topos on the interview with Bettina Hering and Norbert Christian Wolf, including a video recording of the whole discussion

ORF Topos on the interview with Barbara Boisits and Christian Glanz, including an audio recording of the whole discussion

ORF Topos on the interview with Peter Eigner and Hans Petschar, including a video recording of the whole discussion

ORF Topos on the interview with Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel and Johannes Wieniniger, including a video recording of the whole discussion

Program:

22.01.2024: Herwig Czech (Medizinische Universität Wien) and Daniela Finzi (Sigmund Freud Museum Wien) on The History of Medicine and Psychoanalysis

20.03.2024: Bettina Hering (Vienna) and Nobert Christian Wolf (Universität Wien) on Literature

22.04.2024: Barbara Boisits (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) and Christian Glanz (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien) on Music

10.06.2024: Peter Eigner (Universität Wien) and Hans Petschar (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) on Economic and political framework of art 1900

26.09.2024: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel (Museum für angewandte Kunst) and Johannes Wieninger (Vienna) on Applied Arts and Design

17.10.2024: Monika Platzer (Architekturzentrum Wien) and Werner Telesko (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) on Art and Architecture

21.11.2024: Katharina Prager (Wienbibliothek im Rathaus) and Andrea Winkelbauer (Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wien) on Women artists and salonières in Vienna pre-1900

11.02.2025: Johannes Feichtinger (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) and Marianne Klemun (Institut für Geschichte) on The History of Science (rescheduled from 10.12.2024)

In cooperation with ORF TOPOS, Ö1, and in collaboration with ORF RadioKulturhaus

Funded by:

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Democracy has a future

Post author By Wiener Institut für Kultur- und Zeitgeschichte
Post date 1. March 2024

Matinée im Burgtheater, March 17th, 2024

Ensemble-members of the Vienna Burgtheater – Annamária Láng, Tobias Moretti, Martin Schwab und Marie-Luise Stockinger – present excerpts from literary texts by contemporary authors of eight European countries which were part of two studies (2019, 2022) on authoritarian attitudes and democracy. The results of the latter study (2022) – a survey on views on national history, democracy and its principles, and authoritarianism in their respective conutries and Europe at large – will be presented, followed by an expert panel discussion.

Live Recording, March 17^th at the Vienna Burgtheater

Jean-Baptiste Del Amo (France)
Sabine Gruber (Italy)
Michal Hvorecký (Slovakia)
Dorota Masłowska (Poland)
Terézia Mora (Hungary)
Kathrin Röggla (Germany)
Antonia Scurati (Italy)
Gerhild Steinbuch (Austria)
Tena Štivičić (UK)

Panel discussion: Misha Glenny (Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences, IWM), Cathrin Kahlweit (Correspondent Süddeutsche Zeitung for Central- and Eastern Europe, Political Scientist), Sylvia Kritzinger (Professor at the Department of Government, University of Vienna) and Oliver Rathkolb (Professor at the Department of Contemporary History, University of Vienna, and Chairman of the Vienna Institute for Cultural and Contemporary History and Arts, VICCA)

Moderated by Markus Müller-Schinwald (Ö1)

Webseries – Online Readings

An interview between representatives of the Burgtheater (Sebastian Huber and Rita Czapka) and Oliver Ratkolb

pdf (in German, English version to be published in autumn 2024)

Media Coverage

Ö1

TOPOS article

Frankfurter Rundschau 1, 2, 3

In cooperation with the Burgtheater and the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna

Sponsors:
Alfred Landecker Foundation Berlin; Fritz Bauer Institute Frankfurt/Main, Association for the Academic Reappraisal of Contemporary History; Culture Department of the City of Vienna; National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism, and Zukunftsfonds.

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Anything Goes – The Role of Music in Society

Post author By Wiener Institut für Kultur- und Zeitgeschichte
Post date 29. February 2024

*Dancing bar in Baden-Baden by Max Beckmann*, 1923

Panel Discussion at Carnegie Hall

As part of a panel of experts of cultural history and art– which he helped put together – Oliver Rathkolb joins a discussion with Larry Diamond, Daniel Froschauer, Nadine Rossol und Franz Welser on the arts and what they can tell and predict about their time, as well as its politics and society. The discussion aims to compare the current conditions with those of the “anything-goes” society of the 1920s, which ultimately led to the fall of democracy and a rise of authoritarianism.

Moderated by Sheri Berman

Wednesday. February 28^th 2024 at 5:30 pm

Resnick Education Wing, Carnegie Hall

©Lydia Rathkolb
Left to right: Franz Welser-Möst, Daniel Froschauer, Nadine Rossol, Oliver Rathkolb, Larry Diamond, Sherry Berman

About the Event

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Hans Sima – a political life

Post author By Wiener Institut für Kultur- und Zeitgeschichte
Post date 1. October 2023

Photo-Exhibition

The photo exhibition “Hans Sima – a political life” reconstructs the life and political work of Carinthia’s governor Hans Sima using selected photographic highlights.

Professor Oliver Rathkolb and Dr. Petra Mayrhofer are curating the photo exhibition together with Dr. Andreas Kuchler, Director of the Museum of the City of Villach. It provides insights into the former craft of political press photography in black and white. Photographic self-portraits using cell phone photography were still unknown. Sima planned to give Austria’s southernmost province an active role at the intersection of the three countries Austria, Italy, and the former Yugoslavia. He therefore intensified specific projects within the framework of Alps-Adriatic cooperation. The presentation of this exhibition in four languages is intended to underline this. Representative excerpts from the ORF III documentary “Hans Sima: A politician’s life in turbulent times” complement the presentation. An audio guide in German, English, Italian, and Slovenian facilitates the communication of the content and the participation of visually impaired people.

The new special exhibition of contemporary history on a total of 15 panels can be seen free of charge until the end of the year 2023 in the Alps-Adriatic Media Library of the Villach Chamber of Labor, Kaiser-Josef-Platz 1, 9500 Villach.

Hans Sima Photo Exhibition, AK Bibliothek Villach

Sponsered by Villach :City Museum, Hans Sima Stiftung, and Arbeiterkammer Kärnten

Straussmania

December 31: The Complex History Behind a Vienna Philharmonic Tradition

Post author By Wiener Institut für Kultur- und Zeitgeschichte
Post date 30. December 2022

Oliver Rathkolb

A global event today, the orchestra’s annual New Year’s Concert took shape during dark days in Austrian history.

If the Vienna Philharmonic’s annual New Year’s Concert is a global success, its legacy and reach rest on five pillars: a marvelous orchestra; internationally renowned conductors; a timeless repertoire, by the Strauss family and other composers of the 19th century; a splendid location, the gilded Musikverein; and TV broadcasts watched most recently by some 1.2 million people in 92 countries on five continents. (Full text)

Oliver Rathkolbs article in the New York Times

Rehearsal for the 2023 New Year´s Concert, 29.12.2022.
Copyright: Wiener Philharmoniker / Dieter Nagl

German full text

Die vielen Urspruenge des Neujahrskonzerts Herunterladen

Straussmania

30. December: The Strauss Brothers and the Music Society

Post author By Wiener Institut für Kultur- und Zeitgeschichte
Post date 29. December 2022

Otto Biba

After the city walls of Vienna were torn down and the surrounding moat filled in, a magnificent boulevard was to be built in its place. The Society of Friends of Music (Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde) then received a plot of land from Emperor Franz Joseph I for the construction of a new Music Society (Musikverein) building, since they had grown out of the previous one on Tuchlauben, one of the most distinguished streets of the inner city. (English full text)

The Strauss Brothers and the Music Society

Straussmania

December 29: Birthplace of the waltz king Strauss son

Post author By Wiener Institut für Kultur- und Zeitgeschichte
Post date 29. December 2022

Isabella Sommer

In the noble district of Hietzing, at least according to its name, a coffee house today reminds of a once famous establishment: in “Dommayers Casino” the great composers played in the 19th century – but above all, Johann Strauss junior made his debut as a conductor there at the age of not quite 19, celebrated by the whole of Vienna, and from then on rivaled his famous father. (Full text on ORF Topos)

https://topos.orf.at/straussmania-dommayer100

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28 December: This is how a successful music piece works in 2023.

Post author By Wiener Institut für Kultur- und Zeitgeschichte
Post date 28. December 2022

Gerald Heidegger

If a waltz in the 19th century sometimes wanted to be a symphony in the short space of eight minutes, in the present day the challenges to a song are no less great. Today, one has between 2.10 and 2.40 minutes to bring one’s own composition to the audience, says musician and former song contest participant Cesar Sampson in a Straussmania interview. (Full text on ORF Topos)

https://topos.orf.at/straussmania-song100

Straussmania

27 December: When Vienna became a lagoon city

Post author By Wiener Institut für Kultur- und Zeitgeschichte
Post date 28. December 2022

Christian Glanz

In the last third of the 19th century, entertainment in Vienna increasingly focused on sensation. In its most spectacular form, it offered its own worlds of experience that allowed the public to immerse itself in a different reality. This form of escapism, including the more or less authentic flair of the city that gave it its name, was offered, for example, in “Venice in Vienna. (Full text on ORF Topos)

https://topos.orf.at/straussmania-venedig-in-wien100

Gabor Steiner (ehemals im Besitz von), Fritz Luckhardt (Fotograf), Ansicht aus dem Vergnügungspark “Venedig in Wien” im Prater , 1895, Wien Museum Inv.-Nr. 49616/12, CC0 (https://sammlung.wienmuseum.at/objekt/423688/)