Braunau Contemporary History Days
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Since 1992 every year symposia take place at the Braunau Contemporary History Days. They are organized by the Society for Contemporary History and the scientific leadership has Dr. Andreas Maislinger.
After symposia about “Coming to terms with the past”, resistance in dictatorships and other themes about general contemporary history, the Society for Contemporary History is going to suggest relating stronger with the “Innviertel” and the near Bayern since 2004.
In 2004 there was talked about the “Local border traffic” from 1933 to 1938 at the rivers Salzach and Inn, about “big politics” and also about the daily life at the interface of two political systems, about differences and common grounds.
The historical background about the “Braunau Parliament in 1705”, which for a short period of time unified Aristocracy, Clergy, Bourgeoisie and Peasantry under the slogan “It’s better to die as a Bavarian than to corrupt as an Austrian”, will be analysed from September 23rd to 25th, 2005.
In 2006 Johann Philipp Palm will be in the focus of interest: Napoleon has the bookseller from Nürnberg (Germany) shot in Braunau on August 26th, 1806.
In 2007 Dr. Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer will be remembered. He was born in Ranshofen in 1894 and died in New York in 1957. The important political scientist was also diplomat for the League of Nations and the UN. For his remarkable efforts for Austria, however, he is mostly forgotten.
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[edit] Symposia since 1992
- 1992 "Unwelcome Heritage": Places connected with unwelcome memories
- 1993 "Forbidden Contact": Prisoners of War, forced labourers and ordinary people
- 1994 "Moving Frontiers": Separating and Connecting
- 1995 "Inevitable Betrayal": The Case Franz Jaegerstaetter
- 1996 "(Un)friendly Neighbours": Germany and Austria
- 1997 "Go West": Fascination USA after 1945
- 1998 "Notorious Names": Names and Politics
- 1999 "Urgent Meeting": Albanians, Bosnians, Croats, Roma people, Serbs
- 2000 "Separate Ways": Germans, Jews, Austrians, Czechs
- 2001 "Distorted Facts": Roma and Sinti Life: Perception and Reality
- 2002 "Too Few Righteous?": Resistance and Courage within Dictatorship
- 2003 "Parallel Lives": Braunau am Inn, Broumov, Lavarone 1893 - 2003
- 2004 "Local Border Traffic": 1933 – 1938 along the Rivers Salzach and Inn
- 2005 "Braunau Parliament": Aristocracy, Clergy, Bourgeoisie, Peasantry 1705 – 2005
- 2006 "Unintentional Hero": Johann Philipp Palm 1806 - 2006
- 2007 "Peacemakers Manual": Dr. Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer 1894-1957
- 2008 "Fascination Football"
[edit] Speaker
Adolf Burger, Roland Girtler, Florian Kotanko, Andreas Maislinger, Gerhard Skiba, Carl Szokoll, Tilman Zülch
[edit] See also
Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service
