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The Braunau Contemporary History Days are a series of conferences organised by the association for contemporary history. Scientifically guided by Andreas Maislinger
, it has annually taken place in Braunau am Inn
since 1992.
aims to involve more topics related to the Innviertel
-region and the bordering Bavaria
. In 2004, the conference dealt with the "Small Border Traffic" alongside the Salzach
-river and the Inn
-river from 1933 to 1938, the "Great Politics" as well as the daily life along the interface of two political systems, whose differences and similarities were pointed out.
Between 23rd and 25th of September 2005, the historical background of the Braunau Parliament of 1705 was analyzed, which united nobility, clergy, bourgeois and farmers under the slogan "Rather die Bavarian-like, than decaying in the Austrian way" (in German: "Lieber bayrisch sterben als österreichisch verderben“) for a short period of time.
In 2006, the conference was devoted to Johann Philipp Palm
, a bookseller from Nuremberg
who was shot in Braunau
on Napoleon's order in August 1806.
In 2007, Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer
(*1894 in Ranshofen; †1957 in New York) was commemorated. He was a prominent state scientist and a diplomat in the League of Nations
and the United Nations
. Despite his commitment for Austria
, he is widely forgotten. During the conference, the Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer Award was awarded to the Trapp Family for their work performed and establishing the Trapp Family Austrian Relief. The laudation was held by the Austrian ambassador Emil Brix
.
On the occasion of the UEFA European Football Championship
in Austria and Switzerland
, the 17th Braunau Contemporary History Days discussed the topic "Fascination Football" in 2008.
, Adolf Burger
, Michel Cullin
, György Dalos
, Madeleine Herren
, Florian Kotanko, Peter Porsch
, Josef Ratzenböck (former Governor of Upper Austria
, Burghart Schmidt
, Klaus Theweleit
, Gottfried Wagner
, Moshe Zimmermann
, Tilman Zülch
, ...
Andreas Maislinger
Andreas Maislinger is an Austrian historian and founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service and Braunau Contemporary History Days.- Studying and learning :...
, it has annually taken place in Braunau am Inn
Braunau am Inn
Braunau am Inn is a town in the Innviertel region of Upper Austria , the north-western state of Austria. It lies about 90 km west of Linz and about 60 km north of Salzburg, on the border with the German state of Bavaria. The population in 2001 was 16,372...
since 1992.
History
During those conferences several topics have been discussed, for example: coping with the past, resistance in dictatorships and other issues related to contemporary history. Since 2004 the association for contemporary historyContemporary history
Contemporary history describes the period timeframe that is without any intervening time closely connected to the present and is a certain perspective of modern history. The term "contemporary history" has been in use at least by the early 19th century. In the widest context of this use,...
aims to involve more topics related to the Innviertel
Innviertel
The Innviertel is a traditional Austrian region south-east of the Inn river. It forms the western part of the state of Upper Austria and borders the German state of Bavaria...
-region and the bordering Bavaria
Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
. In 2004, the conference dealt with the "Small Border Traffic" alongside the Salzach
Salzach
The Salzach is a river in Austria and Germany. It is a right tributary of the Inn and is 225 kilometres in length.The river's name is derived from the German word Salz, meaning "salt". Until the 19th century shipping of salt down the river was an important part of the local economy...
-river and the Inn
Inn River
The Inn is a river in Switzerland, Austria and Germany. It is a right tributary of the Danube and is approximately 500km long. The highest point of its drainage basin is the summit of Piz Bernina, at 4,049 metres.- Geography :...
-river from 1933 to 1938, the "Great Politics" as well as the daily life along the interface of two political systems, whose differences and similarities were pointed out.
Between 23rd and 25th of September 2005, the historical background of the Braunau Parliament of 1705 was analyzed, which united nobility, clergy, bourgeois and farmers under the slogan "Rather die Bavarian-like, than decaying in the Austrian way" (in German: "Lieber bayrisch sterben als österreichisch verderben“) for a short period of time.
In 2006, the conference was devoted to Johann Philipp Palm
Johann Philipp Palm
Johann Philipp Palm or Johannes Philipp Palm was a German bookseller executed during the Napoleonic Wars.He was born at Schorndorf in Württemberg...
, a bookseller from Nuremberg
Nuremberg
Nuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...
who was shot in Braunau
Braunau
Braunau may refer to:* Braunau am Inn, Austria* Braunau, Switzerland* Broumov, Czech Republic, also known as "Braunau" in German** the Braunau meteorite of 1847, which fell in Vychodocesky, Czech Republic...
on Napoleon's order in August 1806.
In 2007, Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer
Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer
Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer was a diplomat, journalist, doctor of laws and state.-Early life:...
(*1894 in Ranshofen; †1957 in New York) was commemorated. He was a prominent state scientist and a diplomat in the League of Nations
League of Nations
The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace...
and the United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
. Despite his commitment for Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
, he is widely forgotten. During the conference, the Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer Award was awarded to the Trapp Family for their work performed and establishing the Trapp Family Austrian Relief. The laudation was held by the Austrian ambassador Emil Brix
Emil Brix
Emil Brix is an Austrian diplomat and historian.He studied English and History at the University of Vienna. Since 1982, he worked for the Foreign Service of the Republic Austria....
.
On the occasion of the UEFA European Football Championship
UEFA European Football Championship
The UEFA European Football Championship is the main football competition of the men's national football teams governed by UEFA . Held every four years since 1960, in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the UEFA European Nations Cup, changing to the current...
in Austria and Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
, the 17th Braunau Contemporary History Days discussed the topic "Fascination Football" in 2008.
Topics
- 1992 – "Unwanted Heritage": BautzenBautzenBautzen is a hill-top town in eastern Saxony, Germany, and administrative centre of the eponymous district. It is located on the Spree River. As of 2008, its population is 41,161...
, Braunau am Inn, Dachau, EbenseeEbenseeEbensee is a market town in the Traunviertel region of the Austrian state of Upper Austria, located within the Salzkammergut Mountains at the southern end of the Traunsee. The regional capital Linz lies approximately to the north, nearest towns are Gmunden and Bad Ischl...
, GoriGori, GeorgiaGori is a city in eastern Georgia, which serves as the regional capital of Shida Kartli and the centre of the homonymous administrative district. The name is from Georgian gora , that is, "heap", or "hill"...
, GursGursGurs is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.Gurs was the site of the Camp Gurs concentration camp. Nothing remains of the camp; after World War II, a forest was planted on the site where it stood.-Geography:...
, HartheimSchloss HartheimSchloss Hartheim, located at Alkoven in Upper Austria, some 14 km. from Linz, Austria, became notorious as one of the Nazi Euthanasia killing centers, where the killing program Action T4 took place.The castle was built by Jakob von Aspen in 1600...
, KielceKielceKielce ) is a city in central Poland with 204,891 inhabitants . It is also the capital city of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship since 1999, previously in Kielce Voivodeship...
, MauthausenMauthausenMauthausen is a small market town in Upper Austria, Austria. It is located at about 20 kilometers east of the city of Linz, and has a population of 4,850 .During World War II, it became the site of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp complex....
, OffenhausenOffenhausenOffenhausen is a municipality in the district of Nürnberger Land in Bavaria in Germany....
, Oświęcim, PredappioPredappioPredappio is a town and comune in the province of Forlì-Cesena, in the region of Emilia-Romagna in Italy, with a population of 6,362. The town is best known for being the birthplace of Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943. Mussolini is also buried at Predappio, and his mausoleum is...
, Redl-Zipf, Theresienstadt, VichyVichyVichy is a commune in the department of Allier in Auvergne in central France. It belongs to the historic province of Bourbonnais.It is known as a spa and resort town and was the de facto capital of Vichy France during the World War II Nazi German occupation from 1940 to 1944.The town's inhabitants...
, WeimarWeimarWeimar is a city in Germany famous for its cultural heritage. It is located in the federal state of Thuringia , north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 65,000. The oldest record of the city dates from the year 899...
, WunsiedelWunsiedelWunsiedel is the county town of the Upper Franconian district of Wunsiedel in northeast Bavaria, Germany. The town became well known for its annual Luisenburg Festival and the Rudolf Hess Memorial March held by the Neo-Nazis here until 2005.- Geography :... - 1993 – "Forbidden Contact": Prisoners of War and foreign workers
- 1994 – "Shifted Borders": Things that connect and things that separate
- 1995 – "Necessary betrayal": The Fall Franz JägerstätterFranz JägerstätterBlessed Franz Jägerstätter, O.F.S., was an Austrian conscientious objector during World War II. Jägerstätter was sentenced to death and executed...
- 1996 – "Friendly neighbours":Germany and the German Austria
- 1997 – "Go West": Fascination USA after 1945
- 1998 – "Burdened Names": Names and Politics
- 1999 – "Necessary meetings": AlbaniansAlbaniansAlbanians are a nation and ethnic group native to Albania and neighbouring countries. They speak the Albanian language. More than half of all Albanians live in Albania and Kosovo...
, BosniansBosniansBosnians are people who reside in, or come from, Bosnia and Herzegovina. By the modern state definition a Bosnian can be anyone who holds citizenship of the state. This includes, but is not limited to, members of the constituent ethnic groups of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosniaks, Bosnian Serbs and...
, Croatians, Romanies, SerbsSerbsThe Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in... - 2000 – "Separated ways": GermansGermansThe Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
, JewsJewsThe Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...
, AustriansAustriansAustrians are a nation and ethnic group, consisting of the population of the Republic of Austria and its historical predecessor states who share a common Austrian culture and Austrian descent....
, Czechs - 2001 – "Distorted Perception": Image and Reality of the SintiSintiSinti or Sinta or Sinte is the name of a Romani or Gypsy population in Europe. Traditionally nomadic, today only a small percentage of the group remains unsettled...
and Roma People - 2002 – "Few righteous ones?": Resistance and moral courage in dictatorships
- 2003 – "Parallel Lives": Braunau am Inn, BroumovBroumovBroumov is a town in the Czech Republic, in the Náchod District of the Hradec Králové Region near the Polish border. The municipality at the small Stěnava River is the center of the Broumovsko area, along with the adjacent Adršpach-Teplice Rocks, a protected area popular with mountain...
, LavaroneLavaroneLavarone is a comune in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about 20 km southeast of Trento... - 2004 – "Small Border Transit": from 1933 to 1938 alongside the SalzachSalzachThe Salzach is a river in Austria and Germany. It is a right tributary of the Inn and is 225 kilometres in length.The river's name is derived from the German word Salz, meaning "salt". Until the 19th century shipping of salt down the river was an important part of the local economy...
and InnInn RiverThe Inn is a river in Switzerland, Austria and Germany. It is a right tributary of the Danube and is approximately 500km long. The highest point of its drainage basin is the summit of Piz Bernina, at 4,049 metres.- Geography :... - 2005 – "Parliament of Braunau": Nobility, Clergy, Bourgeois, Farmers in 1705
- 2006 – "Involuntary Hero": Johann Philipp PalmJohann Philipp PalmJohann Philipp Palm or Johannes Philipp Palm was a German bookseller executed during the Napoleonic Wars.He was born at Schorndorf in Württemberg...
- 2007 – "Peacemakers Manual": Dr. Egon Ranshofen-WertheimerEgon Ranshofen-WertheimerEgon Ranshofen-Wertheimer was a diplomat, journalist, doctor of laws and state.-Early life:...
- 2008 - "Fascination Football"
- 2009 - "A minimized world - tavernsTavernA tavern is a place of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and be served food, and in some cases, where travelers receive lodging....
acting as political locations" - 2010 - "Old city": 750 years Braunau am Inn
- 2011 - "Difficult Heritage": BerchtesgadenBerchtesgadenBerchtesgaden is a municipality in the German Bavarian Alps. It is located in the south district of Berchtesgadener Land in Bavaria, near the border with Austria, some 30 km south of Salzburg and 180 km southeast of Munich...
, Braunau am InnBraunau am InnBraunau am Inn is a town in the Innviertel region of Upper Austria , the north-western state of Austria. It lies about 90 km west of Linz and about 60 km north of Salzburg, on the border with the German state of Bavaria. The population in 2001 was 16,372...
, DachauDachauDachau is a town in Upper Bavaria, in the southern part of Germany. It is a major district town—a Große Kreisstadt—of the administrative region of Upper Bavaria, about 20 km north-west of Munich. It is now a popular residential area for people working in Munich with roughly 40,000 inhabitants...
, Gori, Guenzburg, KielceKielceKielce ) is a city in central Poland with 204,891 inhabitants . It is also the capital city of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship since 1999, previously in Kielce Voivodeship...
, MauthausenMauthausenMauthausen is a small market town in Upper Austria, Austria. It is located at about 20 kilometers east of the city of Linz, and has a population of 4,850 .During World War II, it became the site of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp complex....
, PredappioPredappioPredappio is a town and comune in the province of Forlì-Cesena, in the region of Emilia-Romagna in Italy, with a population of 6,362. The town is best known for being the birthplace of Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943. Mussolini is also buried at Predappio, and his mausoleum is...
et al. - 2012 - "Noblesse Oblige": Responsibility of the aristocracy then and now
Speakers
Emil BrixEmil Brix
Emil Brix is an Austrian diplomat and historian.He studied English and History at the University of Vienna. Since 1982, he worked for the Foreign Service of the Republic Austria....
, Adolf Burger
Adolf Burger
Adolf Burger Adolf Burger Adolf Burger (born August 12, 1917, Kakaslomnic (aka Nagy-Lomnicz, , , Comitate of Szepes, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire) is a Jewish Slovak typographer, memoir writer, and Holocaust survivor involved in Operation Bernhard...
, Michel Cullin
Michel Cullin
Michel Cullin is „Maître de conférences“ at the University of Nice and director of French-Austrian relations at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.- Life :...
, György Dalos
György Dalos
György Dalos is a Hungarian Jewish writer and historian. He is best known for his novel 1985, and The Guest from the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin.-Life:...
, Madeleine Herren
Madeleine Herren
Madeleine Herren-Oesch is a Swiss historian.Madeleine Herren studied history and history of literature at the University of Bern...
, Florian Kotanko, Peter Porsch
Peter Porsch
Peter Porsch is a German politician and a member of the Parliament of Saxony for the far-left party Die Linke. He heads the parliamentary group of his party....
, Josef Ratzenböck (former Governor of Upper Austria
Upper Austria
Upper Austria is one of the nine states or Bundesländer of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders on Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as on the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, and Salzburg...
, Burghart Schmidt
Burghart Schmidt
Burghart Schmidt is a German philosopher. He is currently professor at Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach and the University of Applied Arts Vienna.-Education:...
, Klaus Theweleit
Klaus Theweleit
Klaus Theweleit is a German sociologist and writer.-Life:Theweleit was born in East Prussia, the son of a railway company worker. He wrote the following about his father: "Above all he was a railroader, wholeheartedly, as he used to say, and then a human being. He was a rather good human being and...
, Gottfried Wagner
Gottfried Wagner
Gottfried Wagner is a multimedia director and publicist.Gottfried Wagner is the son of Wolfgang Wagner and a great-grandchild of Richard Wagner. His PhD is about Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. He has concentrated on German culture and politics, as well as Jewish history of the 19th and 20th...
, Moshe Zimmermann
Moshe Zimmermann
Moshe Zimmermann is an Israeli historian and publicist. Since 1986 he is director of the “Richard-Koebner-Center for German History“ at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem...
, Tilman Zülch
Tilman Zülch
Tilman Zülch is a German human rights activist. He is the founder and general secretary of the Society for Threatened Peoples.- Life :...
, ...
See also
- Andreas MaislingerAndreas MaislingerAndreas Maislinger is an Austrian historian and founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service and Braunau Contemporary History Days.- Studying and learning :...
- Austrian Holocaust Memorial ServiceAustrian Holocaust Memorial ServiceThe Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service is an alternative to Austria's compulsory national military service / alternative service founded in 1992. Since 1998 it is part of the Austrian Service Abroad...
- House of ResponsibilityHouse of ResponsibilityThe House of Responsibility is a concept to combine scientific engagement about past, present and future. The house is located in the upper-Austrian town of Braunau am Inn. The former tavern was a cultural center for the Nazi party during the Third Reich...
- Hitler birthplace memorial stoneHitler birthplace memorial stoneThe Hitler birthplace memorial stone is a memorial to victims of the Nazis placed in front of Salzburger Vorstadt 15, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, the building where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889.-Birth house of Hitler:...