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22. 05. 2024

Marie-Noëlle Yazdanpanah: The Magazine "Die Bühne" between Budapest, Vienna, and Prague

 

Am 22. Mai, 17.00 Uhr, spricht Marie-Noëlle Yazdanpanah über die Wiener Illustrierte "Die Bühne" und ihre mitteleuropäischen Verbindungen.

Ort: Prager Außenstelle des Collegium Carolinum (Valentinská 91/1, Praha, 3. Stock)

Der Vortrag wird auch via Zoom übertragen.

 

Collegium Carolinum,
the German Historical Institute Warsaw,
and the Leibniz-Institute for History and Culture in Eastern Europe
in collaboration with the Masarykův ústav a archiv AV ČR
cordially invite you to the lecture


MMAG. MARIE-NOËLLE YAZDANPANAH (VIENNA)

“We Will Not Rest Until Our Goal of Being a Stage for All the World Is Achieved”.
The Magazine Die Bühne between Budapest, Vienna, and Prague


Wednesday, May 22 2024, 5 p.m.
Valentinská 91/1, 3rd Floor
The lecture will be streamed via Zoom as well, please contact
florian.ruttner@collegium-carolinum.de


Particularly in the early years, Die Bühne (= stage) claimed to be a platform for the widest possible readership and explicitly took a cosmopolitan (and quite grand) perspective. With an eye on international developments, the magazine presented a modern, urban lifestyle.
In the 1930s, Die Bühne reduced its popular cultural diversity but, unlike other Austrian magazines, remained (largely) true to its open, liberal-democratic stance. This was largely due to the contributors, editors, and owners: The magazine was founded in 1924 and published by Hungarian journalist and emigre Imre Békessy, widely known for his disputes over unethical practices, but at the same time instrumental in the introduction of modern journalism in Austria.
After his resignation in 1926, the Austrian government became involved in the Vernay publishing house, which printed Békessy’s media. Around this time until 1938, the Czechoslovak Orbis publishing house became the – more or less silent – majority owner as part of a government strategy.
The lecture examines how the Bühne’s claim to be up-to-date and cosmopolitan developed over the years, from pre-depression democratic Austria to the Dollfuß-Schuschnigg regime, focusing on the possible influence of the respective ownership structures and contributors. What, e. g., did the Czechoslovak government expect from its involvement in the Vernay publishing house – and a Lifestyle magazine?

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Marie-Noëlle Yazdanpanah is a cultural historian in Vienna, focusing on visual history, and urban and gender history with an emphasis on the 1920s and 1930s. Since 2010 researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History in Vienna (i.e. for the “Red Vienna Sourcebook” and in the project “Practices of Educational Film in Austria”, funded by the Austrian Science Fund). She is also active in exhibitions and educational projects (i.e. “Red Vienna”, Wien Museum 2019).
Currently, she is working on “Visual Culture in the Illustrated Magazine Die Bühne”.
Recent publications: Gut Weekend. The weekend without men? Staging gender roles in the magazine Die Bühne, in Zeitgeschichte 1/2023; Through Ice and Snow. Mountain Films as Educational Films in the 1920s and 1930s, in TMG – Journal for Media History 1/2023.