Projects

13 March 2023

Exile equates with translation

The Exil:Trans research group explores the hitherto overlooked trajectories of persons who managed to flee the terror of the Nazi regime and became active as translators in exile. The project raises awareness of the importance of translating as a bridge between different worlds and cultures. A freely accessible database now provides tangible proof of the […] Continue reading

Projects

9 January 2023

Where Cold War warriors talked to one another

The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) was a dialogue and negotiating forum during the Cold War. An international research project with Austrian involvement is now investigating the details of this process and what its significance came to be in the second half of the 1980s. Continue reading

Portrait

16 December 2022

The power of stories untold

By Margit Schwarz-Stiglbauer

The historian Barbara Stelzl-Marx has been studying the repercussions of the Second World War for decades. Unresolved traumas from the war still play out across generations to this day. The war in Ukraine has now imbued what is otherwise a historical perspective with great topicality. Once again, we see a generation of children of war […] Continue reading

Projects

7 June 2022

Between fear and hope

The first quarter of the 20th century brought about lasting change for Europe and its population. So far, little research has been devoted to the frame of mind and the emotions of rural populations in the era surrounding the First World War. The Graz-based historian Harald Heppner and his team are exploring how the rural […] Continue reading

Projects

17 January 2022

The colourful world of early printed works

For three and a half years, the art historian Michael Viktor Schwarz, in collaboration with other scholars, catalogued the illuminations in early printed works in the possession of the Austrian National Library. The project not only provides answers to questions of art history, but also supplies insights into the beginnings of the “book industry” and […] Continue reading

Projects

3 January 2022

A tale of fake plumage and immaculate cookbooks

A team led by the historian Gerhard Ammerer investigated the food culture in the city of Salzburg in the early modern period. What did people eat? Where did the food come from? And what were the differences between the social classes? The Prince-Archbishop’s residence was a hub for trade and trends. Meals at court often […] Continue reading

Projects

2 August 2021

The Cold War as a driver of civil aviation

The relationship between technology, globalisation and the Cold War was at the focus of a three-year research project. The historian Peter Svik was the first to address explicitly the question of how the competition between the two blocs became a driver of technology – and ultimately was also a contributing factor to globalisation. Continue reading

Portrait of the Habsburg envoy Johann Rudolf Schmid zum Schwarzenhorn (1590-1667) with Ottoman scene.

Projects

17 May 2021

No peace without rapprochement

In 1649, the Habsburg envoy Johann Rudolf Schmid zum Schwarzenhorn headed a diplomatic mission to Constantinople. His language proficiency makes his letters and reports particularly valuable and enlightening. A team of historians from Austria and Hungary are currently analysing, for the first time, the entire correspondence, including a travel report that had been assumed lost. […] Continue reading

Interview & Opinion

16 April 2020

Dangerous mix of facts and fiction

Interview: Sonja Burger

The corona crisis is the ideal hotbed for crude conspiracy theories. Claus Oberhauser explains what characterizes them, why change is on the horizon and where one finds parallels to the past. Historian Oberhauser is a co-initiator of an interdisciplinary research network on conspiratorial counter-narratives. Continue reading “Dangerous mix of facts and fiction”

Projects

18 November 2019

Byzantium: new insights into marginalized groups

The dominant impression we have of the Byzantine Empire is that it was a rigid, traditional and luxurious culture. A project on marginalization funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF now shows there were also phases of tolerance towards marginalized groups. This throws a new light on the historical development of this culture in terms […] Continue reading “Byzantium: new insights into marginalized groups”

The Magazine of the Austrian Science Fund FWF

Tag: History