
Controlled Freedom
Allied Cultural Policy in Vienna, 1945-1955
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Published on 14. April 2025
235 pages
978-3-8470-1852-0 (ISBN)
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Following liberation in April 1945, Vienna was characterized by destruction, cold, hunger, and an acute housing shortage. Yet cultural life soon returned: as early as 27 April, Soviet officers ordered its revival. It was not long until the other Allies - France, Britain, and the USA - launched their own cultural campaigns. The many cultural activities under Allied occupation were intended not only to underpin economic and political rebuilding, but also to promote an Austrian national consciousness - a separate self-image independent from Germany. This volume is the first to show the impact of Allied cultural policy in the fields of fine art, film, literature and libraries, music and theatre, press photography, print media, radio, and sport, thereby documenting an achievement that can still be felt today: the creation of a democratic Austrian identity.
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1. Edition 2025
Language
English
Place of publication
Göttingen
Germany
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with 40 figures
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10,88 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-8470-1852-0 (9783847018520)
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Body
- Oliver Rathkolb: Introduction. Allied Cultural Policy in Vienna: Contemporary History Meets Archaeology
- Thomas Angerer: A Dazzling New Beginning. French Cultural Policy in Occupied Vienna, 1945-1955
- Wolfgang Mueller: Soviet Propaganda, Media, and Cultural Policy in Vienna, 1945-1955
- Rebuilding
- The Russian Contribution
- The Cold War
- Assessing Impact
- Manfred Mugrauer: KPÖ Cultural Policy under Soviet Occupation
- The Party of Cultural Reconstruction
- "High Culture" and Working-Class Culture
- The Neues Theater in der Scala
- Party Press and Publishing House Policy
- The RAVAG Russische Stunde
- Soviet Information Centres
- Wien-Film on the Rosenhügel
- Cultural Work in the USIA Factories
- Cultural Cold War
- Oliver Rathkolb: US Occupying Cultural Policy between Denazification, Cold War, and Democratic Reorientation
- Richard Hufschmied: British Cultural Policy in Vienna, 1945-1955. Intentions, Actions, and a Jewish Underground Struggle
- Conclusion
- Johanna Lerchner: The Allied Topography of Vienna
- Insights into the French Topography: The 16th District, Ottakring
- Hotel Regina: American Confiscation
- Wolfgang Duchkowitsch: The Allies and the Press, 1945/46
- 1 Press Policy in the Four Occupation Zones
- 1.1 American
- 1.2 British
- 1.3 French
- 1.4 Soviet
- 2 Allies' newspapers
- 2.1 American
- 2.2 British
- 2.3 French
- 2.4 Soviet
- 3 The Declaration on the Freedom of the Press in Austria
- 4 Press Reactions
- 5 Monitoring the Declaration
- Marion Krammer / Margarethe Szeless: Press Photography in the Cold War. Photo Policy in Austria, 1?9?4?5?-?1?9?5?5
- "The editors have followed the instructions" - Soviet photographic propaganda in the Welt-Illustrierte
- "We do not ridicule the Russians directly" - American Visual Propaganda Policy at the Wiener Kurier
- "Pavement propaganda" - the Cold War in Public Spaces
- Wolfgang Pensold: Radio between the Zones
- Karin Moser: Allied Film Policy between Cooperation, Control, Enlightenment, and Self-interest
- Cooperation and Opposition
- Self-images
- Conclusion
- Agnes Meisinger: Ready, Set, Go! Allied Sport and the Revival of Sporting Events in Vienna, 1945-1955
- New Beginnings
- The Allies' Influence on Sport in Vienna
- Sport among the Allied Forces
- Sport as a Genre of Entertainment
- Conclusion
- Veronika Floch: "Our souls approach, understand, and agree with one another through admiration of the work of art." Allied Cultural Policy and Visual Art in Vienna, 1945-1955
- "Paris à Vienne": The French Allies' Cultural Policy
- The British Council and the British Allies' Cultural Policy
- Between Figurative Art and Abstraction: The American Allies' Cultural Policy
- "Soviet art is realistic art." The Soviet Allies' Cultural Policy
- The Art Club and Cold War Tensions
- Monika Knofler: Art as a Weapon - on the Allies' Exhibitions Policy
- Monika Platzer: Architecture in Four Acts, 1945-1955
- Britain
- France
- USA
- USSR
- Postscript
- Markus Stumpf: "Books are undoubtedly not furniture." The Library as a Battleground: Reorientation through Denazification and Book Donations
- Denazification
- Self-cleansing and Attempts to Expand Holdings by Nazi Libraries
- Nazi Libraries for Vienna University Library
- Purging Literature
- The Expansion of Holdings via the Centralization of National Socialist Literature and Book Donations: The Example of the Vienna University Library
- Günther Stocker: The Allies and Austrian Literature
- Denazification
- Remigrants Recalled by the Allies
- Cultural and Literary Magazines
- Publishing Houses
- Propagating One's Own Literature
- Opportunities for Austrian Authors
- The Cold War and Anti-communism
- Peter Roessler: Dramatic Outlooks. The Allies' Dramas on Vienna Stages
- Reversion and Propaganda: Russian Drama
- Modernity and Human Existence: French Drama
- Entertainment and Demasking: British Drama
- The Psyche and Disillusionment: Drama from the USA
- Michael Kraus: Vienna State Opera in Occupied Post-War Austria, 1945-1955
- Christian Glanz: Out of Nowhere? Observations on the Characteristics and Locations of Jazz in Vienna in the Early Post-War Era
- Hans Petschar: Porgy and Bess: A Case Study of the Impact of US Cultural Policy in Vienna, 1945-1955
- Selected Bibliography
- General surveys
- Cultural and media policy
- Exhibitions
- US cultural policy
- Soviet cultural policy
- British cultural policy
- French cultural policy
- Authors
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