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51 (re)forming Vienna’s culture of resistance in the early 1980s to become Dr. Kurt Ostbahn and start his own group, Ostbahn Kurti und die Chefpartie.22 Proletenpassion ff and WerK X “Encore un effort!” [“One more effort!”] —de Sade (1795, 70) Some thirty years later, as Vienna struggled to accommodate waves of refugees pouring into the eu from war-torn locations to its south and east and as the far-right gained momentum both in neighboring countries and in Austria itself, a small, politi- cally progressive theater group looking to put itself on Vienna’s cultural map after relocating to a converted cable factory in the gentrifying outer district of Meidling decided to mount a rous- ing revival of the Schmetterlinge’s “Klassenkampf Oratorium” [“class-struggle oratorio”], which they not only performed in their new theater but also in the Arena. One sees that the Proletenpassion had remained a vibrant part of Austrian protest culture in the reminiscences of director Christine Eder, who helped bring the Proletenpassion back to life in 2015: Die Proletenpassion kenne ich aus meiner Kindheit […] wir haben sie als Kinder rauf und runter gehört, während auf dem Plattenspieler Spielzeugautos Karussell fuhren, die man immer über die Schranke des Tonarms heben musste, damit kein Unfall passierte. Später begegneten mir die Lieder wie- der, meist auf Protestveranstaltungen, spätnachts nach De- mos an Lagerfeuern erklang das Jalava-Lied, von bewegten Gitarreros mit heiserer Stimme dargeboten […] Ich hatte schon seit Jahren den Wunsch, sie aus der gegenwärtigen Sicht neu zu inszenieren. 22 For more on Resetarits’s career, see Ingram and Reisenleitner 2013, 68–75.
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Siting Futurity The “Feel Good” Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna
Title
Siting Futurity
Subtitle
The “Feel Good” Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna
Author
Susan Ingram
Publisher
punctumbooks
Location
New York
Date
2021
Language
English
License
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
ISBN
978-1-953035-48-6
Size
12.6 x 20.2 cm
Pages
224
Keywords
activism, Austria, contemporary art, contemporary theater, protest culture, radicalism, social protest, Vienna
Category
Geographie, Land und Leute

Table of contents

  1. Preface 11
  2. Introduction 19
  3. 1. (Re)Forming Vienna’s Culture of Resistance: The Proletenpassions @ #Arena 39
  4. 2. Converting Kebab and Currency into Community on Planet #Ottakring 57
  5. 3. Lazarus’s Necropolitical Afterlife at Vienna’s #Volkstheater 81
  6. 4. Hardly Homemad(e): #Schlingensief’s Container 101
  7. 5. From Grand Hotels to Tiny Treasures: Wes Anderson and the Ruin Porn Worlds of Yesterday 119
  8. 6. Capitalism, Schizophrenia, and #Vanlife: The Alpine Edukation of Hans Weingarter 143
  9. 7. #Hallstatt: Welcome to Jurassic World 161
  10. Bibliography 189
  11. Filmography 215
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