New Publication

"Käthe Schirmacher: Agitation und autobiografische Praxis zwischen radikaler Frauenbewegung und völkischer Politik" was published in April 2018 in Böhlau Verlag.

Under this LINK the book is now available online as Open Access!

You can find the book announcement HERE.

 Book Presentation

The project team is pleased to invite you to the presentation of the newly published book:

Johanna Gehmacher, Elisa Heinrich, Corinna Oesch
Käthe Schirmacher: Agitation und autobiografische Praxis zwischen radikaler Frauenbewegung und völkischer Politik

--> publisher's book announcement

The journalist, writer and lecture traveler Käthe Schirmacher (1865-1930) is presented in this volume as an exemplary protagonist of the transition of European societies around 1900. The transnational agitator, who positioned herself as a 'modern woman' and lived in intimate relationships with women, becomes visible in her extensive legacy as a narrator of her own life, who repeatedly autobiographically redesigned herself in changing constellations.

As a speaker, the "radical feminist Dr. Käthe Schirmacher from Paris", who also appeared regularly in Vienna before the First World War, attracted a broad audience - this also applied to the repertoire lectures of the Vienna Urania read out by actors, to which coloured "skioptic images" were projected. "Die Frau im öffentlichen Leben", a "projection piece" by Käthe Schirmacher from 1903, will be performed again in excerpts as part of the book presentation.


When? Thursday May 17th 2018, 7 p.m.
Where? Dachsaal of the Urania, Uraniastraße 1, 1010 Wien

Program

Welcoming address
Maria Mesner (Department of Contemporary History)
Waltraud Moritz (Böhlau Verlag)
Christian H. Stifter (Österreichisches Volkshochschularchiv)

Introduction
Johanna Gehmacher, Elisa Heinrich, Corinna Oesch

Käthe Schirmacher in Arenen der Frauenbewegung und des Nationalismus
Dietlind Hüchtker (Leipzig/Berlin)

„Die Frau im öffentlichen Leben“
"Projection piece with scioptic images, Vienna 1903/08, Prag 1905
Noemi Fischer (Wien)

Afterwards there will be refreshments and music
Djs Renée Winter und Stefan Geissler

Hosted and supported by: 
Böhlau-Verlag, Fakultätsschwerpunkt der Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät, Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Projekt Käthe Schirmacher), Forschungsverbund Gender & Agency, Institut für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Wien, Österreichisches Volkshochschularchiv, Referat Genderforschung der Universität Wien, Urania Wien