{"id":26826,"date":"2018-03-25T12:55:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T10:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meonline.hu\/?p=26826"},"modified":"2018-03-25T12:58:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T10:58:05","slug":"ket-20-szazadi-asszony-oroksege-becsben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meonline.hu\/en\/magyar-epitomuveszet-hirek\/kiallitasok\/ket-20-szazadi-asszony-oroksege-becsben\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legacy of Two Women of the 20th Century in Vienna"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brigitte Hamann’s legacy
\nVienna City Library, 2 June 2017 \u2013 26 January 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Text: Gy\u00f6rgy Szeg\u0151 <\/strong>
\nPhotos: Rathausbiblitothek Wien<\/strong><\/p>\n

On October 4, 2016, historian and biographer Brigitte Hamann died of one of the most popular scientists in Austria, indeed German-speaking countries. She wrote her credo in a text for the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1995: “It is a pleasure to be a historian in Austria: public and private archives are crammed to the attics with often untreated sources from earlier centuries, can always make important discoveries. ”
\nThe success of their 1982 Sisi biography was based on such a find, for Hamann was the first to evaluate Empress Elisabeth’s literary estate, which has been in the Swiss Federal Archives since the early 1950s as an unopened time capsule. Hamann’s sense of the importance of unique material is reflected above all in a tremendous private collection. In the course of her life, she brought together autographs, manuscripts, documents of life and photographs with as much passion as expertise, which are connected with her focus on the House of Habsburg, such as Empress Elisabeth, Maximilian of Mexico and Crown Prince Rudolf. On the other hand, they represented important sources for “Hitler’s Vienna” or their occupation with the family of Richard Wagner.
\nHer collection also includes correspondence from icons from literature, music and science such as Alexander von Humboldt, Thomas Mann and Richard Strauss, not to mention the purchase contract for the villa by Arthur Schnitzler or the birthday book Ernst von Hesse-Warteggs.
\nIn addition, she bought many unique bundles at auctions and saved irreplaceable papers to many biographies spilled by the times, such as from the time of exile. These include the splinter discounts of the cartoonist Erich Andreas Gold, the journalist Karl Mautner and the jazz musician Fritz Szanto. They had fled to the US in 1938, to Colombia and to Shanghai – and were brought to their careers.
\nBrigitte Hamann acquired all these and other materials with the aim of publishing them in book form. The exhibition of the Vienna City Library in the town hall, which opens and presents these exciting time capsules for the first time under the title \u00bbSo beautiful can be science!\u00ab, Is doing what it was denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t