Projects

The “Central Office for Jewish Emigration” was located at the present site of the Vienna Chamber of Labor after Austria’s “Anschluss” to Germany in 1938. Under the leadership of Adolf Eichmann, this “office of a new type” was initially responsible for the expulsion, later for the deportation of the Jewish population to the death camps. AK Vienna has now held a competition to design a memorial installation at this place of the perpetrators.

The Theodor Körner prize has been handed out to outstanding young researchers and artists for 66 years. Its history reveals much about the Austrian scientific landscape since the 1950s – and more.

The workers’ movement in Austria was not smashed by the National Socialists in 1938, but already by the Austro-Fascists in 1933/34. For the first time, this project systematically investigates the politically motivated persecution in the years 1933-1938.

The Austro-Marxist Richard Robert Wagner significantly influenced the fields of education and culture. Our aim is to make his contributions accessible to a wider public.

After the First World War the workers’ movement not only managed to achieve enormous social-political improvements. Other major accomplishments were co-determination in companies and the establishment of Arbeiterkammern (Chambers of Labor), which meant an internationally almost unique institutionalization. One project illuminates this process, as well as its history and consequences from a “bottom-up” perspective.