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Schult, T. & Popescu, D. I. (2025). Alfred Hrdlicka's Memorial against War and Fascism and Austrian Memory Culture. In: Elana Shapira (Ed.), Austrian Identity and Modernity: Culture and Politics in the 20th Century (pp. 171-181). London: Bloomsbury Academic
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Alfred Hrdlicka's Memorial against War and Fascism and Austrian Memory Culture
2025 (English)In: Austrian Identity and Modernity: Culture and Politics in the 20th Century / [ed] Elana Shapira, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, p. 171-181Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025
Keywords
Austrian Cultural Memory, Holocaust Mmeory, Vienna, Alfred Hrdlicka, Monument, Memorial
National Category
History Art History
Research subject
Art History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-239032 (URN)978-1-350-44193-4 (ISBN)
Available from: 2025-02-04 Created: 2025-02-04 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Schult, T. & Popescu, D. I. (2025). Alfred Hrdlicka's memorial against war and fascism and Austrian memory culture. In: Elana Shapira (Ed.), Austrian Identity and Modernity: Culture and Politics in the 20th Century (pp. 171-181). Bloomsbury Academic
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Alfred Hrdlicka's memorial against war and fascism and Austrian memory culture
2025 (English)In: Austrian Identity and Modernity: Culture and Politics in the 20th Century / [ed] Elana Shapira, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, p. 171-181Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Alfred Hrdlicka’s Memorial against War and Fascism (1988/91) poignantly contradicts Robert Musil’s bon mot regarding the invisible nature of monuments. Yet, should this be a reason for its acclaim? This chapter reflects on why Hrdlicka’s monument came into existence at a specific moment in time and shows why the socio-political climate of the 1980s influenced its prominent placement in one of Vienna’s most prominent public spaces. Coming into existence during a period when the monument genre was under intense scrutiny, Hrdlicka chose to embrace a figurative mode of expression, ensuring his multi-faceted work remains noticeable. Nonetheless, the representation of the Jewish figure—portrayed stereotypically as the eternal victim—continues to be a subject of contention till today. While we recognize the memorial’s strengths, we emphasize the profound concerns arising from the portrayal of the humiliated Jew. Our discussion concludes with an analysis of Ruth Beckermann’s intervention, The Missing Image (2015), shedding light on the evolution of Austrian memory culture over the years. Paradoxically, while Hrdlicka’s contentious memorial endures, Beckermann’s much acclaimed intervention has been dismantled, leaving behind no physical markers of a transformed Austrian commemorative landscape.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Bloomsbury Academic, 2025
National Category
Art History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-239838 (URN)10.5040/9781350441972.0021 (DOI)2-s2.0-85211580829 (Scopus ID)9781350441958 (ISBN)
Available from: 2025-02-26 Created: 2025-02-26 Last updated: 2025-02-26Bibliographically approved
Schult, T. (2024). Brauchen wir das noch, oder kann das weg?. Dialog דו-שיח (137), 35-47
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Brauchen wir das noch, oder kann das weg?
2024 (German)In: Dialog דו-שיח, ISSN 1816-6431, no 137, p. 35-47Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Keywords
Antisemitismus, Christliche Kirchen, Kirchenfenster, Umgang mit der NS-Vergangenheit
National Category
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-236135 (URN)
Available from: 2024-11-28 Created: 2024-11-28 Last updated: 2024-12-02Bibliographically approved
Schult, T. (2024). Demokratische Denkmäler. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kunst und Denkmalpflege, LXXVIII(2), 37-44
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Demokratische Denkmäler
2024 (German)In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kunst und Denkmalpflege, ISSN 0029-9626, Vol. LXXVIII, no 2, p. 37-44Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Abstract [en]

This article is an invitation to think together about what was long considered irreconcilable: democracy and monuments. It shows that “monuments in democracies” are not to be equated with “democratic monuments.” In today’s democracies, we must deal with monuments that we have inherited and that are often fundamentally opposed to our current democratic values. But what kind of monuments do democratic societies need? Through references both to history and to developments in monument creation during the last 40 years, we can see how much the genre has been revitalized and, yes, democratized.

Keywords
Denkmäler, Demokratie, Wien, Olaf Nicolai, Denkmal für die Verfolgten der NS-Justiz
National Category
Art History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-239033 (URN)10.1553/oezkd2024-02s37 (DOI)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2022-02267
Available from: 2025-02-04 Created: 2025-02-04 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Schult, T., Schmahmann, B. & Bengtsen, P. (2024). Editors’ Statement. Public Art Dialogue, 14(2), 85-88
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Editors’ Statement
2024 (English)In: Public Art Dialogue, ISSN 2150-2552, E-ISSN 2150-2560, Vol. 14, no 2, p. 85-88Article in journal (Other academic) Published
National Category
Medical and Health Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-236137 (URN)
Available from: 2024-11-28 Created: 2024-11-28 Last updated: 2024-12-02Bibliographically approved
Schult, T. (2024). Rezensionsessay: Denkmäler und Denkmalstürze in Demokratien [Review]. H-Soz-Kult: Communication and information services for historical research
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Rezensionsessay: Denkmäler und Denkmalstürze in Demokratien
2024 (German)In: H-Soz-Kult: Communication and information services for historical research, E-ISSN 2196-5307Article, book review (Other academic) Published
Abstract [de]

Die Konventionen des bürgerlichen Denkmals bildeten sich nach der Französischen Revolution heraus. Bei den Stadtumwandlungen des 19. Jahrhunderts gehörte das Denkmal auf den neu angelegten Plätzen und in den Parks einfach dazu. Inflationär wurden Denkmäler in die expandierenden Städte gepflanzt (Shanken, Life, S. 92, S. 132–135) – von London bis Kapstadt wurden so Schriftsteller, Komponisten und Erfinder geehrt. Dieses Inventar umgibt sich mit einer Aura des schon immer Dagewesenen und insistiert auf Bleiberecht.

Keywords
Denkmäler, Denkmalsturz, Demokratie
National Category
Art History
Research subject
Art History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-226590 (URN)
Note

Publicerad 2024-02-13

Available from: 2024-02-13 Created: 2024-02-13 Last updated: 2024-02-15Bibliographically approved
Schult, T. (2024). Sait It with a Flower? POLIN's Daffodils Campaign. In: Diana I. Popescu (Ed.), Public Engagement with Holocaust Sites in Poland: (pp. 45-70). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Sait It with a Flower? POLIN's Daffodils Campaign
2024 (English)In: Public Engagement with Holocaust Sites in Poland / [ed] Diana I. Popescu, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, p. 45-70Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter looks at one outreach campaign of POLIN—the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, The Daffodils Campaign, which annually commemorates the Warsaw ghetto uprising in 1943. My analysis is guided by media and culture scholar Stephen Duncombe’s model to assess the impact of activist art, and rests on comprehensive audience reception studies conducted between 2016 and 2018. The chapter explains how the campaign works, what effects it has on those distributing the flower and those accepting it. It thus brings insights into the campaign’s aim to ensure that the Holocaust receives and maintains a prominent place in Polish memory culture and anchors an awareness of the one thousand years of Jewish presence on Polish territories. Through the use of surveys, I interrogate to what extent the proclaimed aims meet with the way people react to and experience this socio-educational campaign.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
Series
The Holocaust and its Contexts, ISSN 2731-5711, E-ISSN 2731-572X
Keywords
Holocaust Memory, Poland, Polin, Audience reception studies, Museum outreach activities
National Category
Art History
Research subject
Art History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-230979 (URN)10.1007/978-3-031-53004-3_3 (DOI)2-s2.0-85198333925 (Scopus ID)978-3-031-53003-6 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-06-13 Created: 2024-06-13 Last updated: 2024-08-29Bibliographically approved
Schult, T. (2023). Denkmalsuche. In: Richard Hufschmied; Karin Liebhart; Dirk Rupnow; Monika Sommer (Ed.), ErinnerungsORTE weiter denken: In memoriam Heidemarie Uhl (pp. 45-56). Wien: Böhlau
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Denkmalsuche
2023 (German)In: ErinnerungsORTE weiter denken: In memoriam Heidemarie Uhl / [ed] Richard Hufschmied; Karin Liebhart; Dirk Rupnow; Monika Sommer, Wien: Böhlau, 2023, p. 45-56Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Wien: Böhlau, 2023
Keywords
Denkmäler, Heidemarien Uhl, Wien
National Category
Architecture History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-227191 (URN)978-3-205-21870-8 (ISBN)
Available from: 2024-03-04 Created: 2024-03-04 Last updated: 2025-02-24Bibliographically approved
Schult, T. (2022). Denkmäler in der Demokratie / Demokratische Denkmäler. Wien
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Denkmäler in der Demokratie / Demokratische Denkmäler
2022 (German)Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Place, publisher, year, pages
Wien: , 2022
Keywords
Denkmäler, Demokratie
National Category
Political Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-212197 (URN)
Available from: 2022-12-02 Created: 2022-12-02 Last updated: 2023-02-07Bibliographically approved
Schult, T. (2022). Making Monuments Matter in 21st Century Democracies. In: Annika Enqvist; Karolina Modig; Rebecka Katz Thor; Joanna Zawieja (Ed.), Public Memory, Public Art: Reflections on Monuments and Memorial Art Today (pp. 37-45). Stockholm: Statens konstråd
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Making Monuments Matter in 21st Century Democracies
2022 (English)In: Public Memory, Public Art: Reflections on Monuments and Memorial Art Today / [ed] Annika Enqvist; Karolina Modig; Rebecka Katz Thor; Joanna Zawieja, Stockholm: Statens konstråd , 2022, p. 37-45Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Statens konstråd, 2022
Keywords
monuments, memorials, democracy
National Category
Art History
Research subject
Art History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-212149 (URN)978-91-986720-7-7 (ISBN)
Available from: 2022-12-02 Created: 2022-12-02 Last updated: 2022-12-06Bibliographically approved
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ORCID iD: ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0003-2396-7153

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