Braunauer Zeitgeschichte-Tage

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.

After conferences about the coping with the past, resistance in dictatorships and other topics concerning contemporary history, the association for contemporary history has tried to trigger a stronger preoccupation with the Innviertel and the bordering Bavaria since 2004 through its conferences.

In 2004, the conference dealt with the "Small Border Traffic" alongside the Salzach] and the Inn] 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 also discussed.

From the 23rd to 25 September 2005, the historical background for the "Parliament of Braunau" of 1705 was analysed, which, for a short time, united nobility, clergy, bourgeois and farmers under the slogan "Die Bavarian rather than decay in an Austrian way".

In 2006, the conference was devoted to Johann Philipp Palm: The bookseller from Nuremberg was shot in August 1806 in Braunau on Napoleon I's orders.

In 2007, Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer was commemorated. Born in 1894 in Ranshofen and deceased in 1957 in New York, the prominent state scientist was diplomat of the League of Nations and the United Nations. Despite his espousal of Austria, he is widely forgotten. During the conference, the Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer Award was given to the Trapp Family. The laudation was delivered by the ambassador Emil Brix.On the occasion of the UEFA European Football Championship in Austria and Switzerland, the 17th Braunau Contemporary History Days will deal with the topic "Fascination Football" in 2008.

Topics

* 1992 – "Unwanted Heritage": Bautzen, Braunau am Inn, Dachau, Ebensee,Gori, Gurs, Hartheim, Kielce, Mauthausen, Offenhausen, Oświęcim, Predappio, Redl-Zipf, Theresienstadt, Vichy, Weimar, Wunsiedel
* 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 Jägerstätter
* 1996 – "Friendly neighbours":Germany and the German Austria
* 1997 – "Go West": Fascination USA after 1945
* 1998 – "Burdened Names": Names and Politics
* 1999 – "Necessary meetings": Albanians, Bosnians, Croatians, Romanies, Serbs
* 2000 – "Separated ways": Germans, Jews, Austrians, Czechs
* 2001 – "Distorted Perception": Image and Reality of the Sinti and Roma People
* 2002 – "Few righteous ones?": Resistance and moral courage in dictatorships
* 2003 – "Parallel Lives": Braunau am Inn, Broumov, Lavarone
* 2004 – "Small Border Transit": from 1933 to 1938 alongside the Salzach and Inn
* 2005 – "Parliament of Braunau": Nobility, Clergy, Bourgeois, Farmers in 1705
* 2006 – "Involuntary Hero": Johann Philipp Palm
* 2007 – "Peacemakers Manual": Dr. Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer
* 2008 - "Fascination Football"

External links

* http://www.hrb.at/bzt/
* http://www.hrb.at/bzt/doc/links/bztreferenten.htm]