»Vienna. The Pearl of the Reich« Planning for Hitler
On the exhibition The 2015 spring and summer exhibition in the Architekturzentrum Wien is devoted to the presentation of building…
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
© Architekturzentrum Wien, Sammlung / „Führervorlage“ für die Neugestaltung von Wien, 1941
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)
Subject to alteration (17.02.2015)
