
Controlled Freedom
Allied Cultural Policy in Vienna, 1945β1955
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Controlled Freedom
Allied Cultural Policy in Vienna, 1945β1955
About this book
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 β France, Britain, and the USA β 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 β 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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Table of contents
- 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, 1945β1955
- Wolfgang Mueller: Soviet Propaganda, Media, and Cultural Policy in Vienna, 1945β1955
- Manfred Mugrauer: KPΓ Cultural Policy under Soviet Occupation
- Oliver Rathkolb: US Occupying Cultural Policy between Denazification, Cold War, and Democratic Reorientation
- Richard Hufschmied: British Cultural Policy in Vienna, 1945β1955. Intentions, Actions, and a Jewish Underground Struggle
- Johanna Lerchner: The Allied Topography of Vienna
- Wolfgang Duchkowitsch: The Allies and the Press, 1945/46
- Marion Krammer / Margarethe Szeless: Press Photography in the Cold War. Photo Policy in Austria, 1β9β4β5βββ1β9β5β5
- Wolfgang Pensold: Radio between the Zones
- Karin Moser: Allied Film Policy between Cooperation, Control, Enlightenment, and Self-interest
- Agnes Meisinger: Ready, Set, Go! Allied Sport and the Revival of Sporting Events in Vienna, 1945β1955
- Veronika Floch: βOur souls approach, understand, and agree with one another through admiration of the work of art.β Allied Cultural Policy and Visual Art in Vienna, 1945β1955
- Monika Knofler: Art as a Weapon β on the Allies' Exhibitions Policy
- Monika Platzer: Architecture in Four Acts, 1945β1955
- Markus Stumpf: βBooks are undoubtedly not furniture.β The Library as a Battleground: Reorientation through Denazification and Book Donations
- GΓΌnther Stocker: The Allies and Austrian Literature
- Peter Roessler: Dramatic Outlooks. The Allies' Dramas on Vienna Stages
- Michael Kraus: Vienna State Opera in Occupied Post-War Austria, 1945β1955
- 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, 1945β1955
- Selected Bibliography
- Authors