Ernst-Kirchweger-Haus

The Ernst Kirchweger House ( EKH ) is an occupied since 1990 in Wien favorites. The building is a far beyond the borders of Vienna also known center of the autonomous scene and is home to some politically, culturally and socially engaged groups and projects. On 7 November 2008 the occupation was declared over after all the groups represented in the House have signed leases.

Almost every day various events such as concerts, readings, discussions, information and consultation evenings. The house was named after the Communists and concentration camp survivors Kirchweger Ernst, who was mortally wounded in 1965 by a right-wing counter-demonstrators at an anti-fascist demonstration.

History

The building in the Wielandgasse 2-4 was in the 1920s (according to Dehio in 1931 ) built by Czech and Slovak workers, designed by Josef Hofbauer and William Baumgarten as Comenius school for children of Slovaks and Czechs in Vienna. It is one of the oldest reinforced concrete buildings of Vienna. The building is also a regular at this time recorded stage was housed with the Wieland theater.

In 1945 the property has possession of the Communist Party of Austria. On June 23, 1990, the house was occupied and named after the Communists and concentration camp survivors Ernst Kirchweger. This had been so badly injured by a right-wing counter-demonstrators that he died a short time later at the 1965 Follow -making during a demonstration against the Nazi and anti-Semitic statements university professor Taras Borodajkewycz. At the time of occupation by the left and autonomous activists and the Turkish club ATIGF a large part of the building was unused for years.

End of October 2004 sold the Communist Party, the Ernst- Kirchweger house to a real estate company whose CEO was accused of contacts with the extreme right and the former member of the neo-Nazi action New Rights (ANR ). This approach triggered massive protests and was due primarily to the financial plight of the CPA, which again had to pay back to the Federal Republic of Germany after a court ruling GDR funds that were illegally flown at her. Numerous initiatives and individuals such as the Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek spoke vehemently for continued autonomous Ernst- Kirchweger house.

Goals / reasons

The common goal of the parties was and is an internationalist anti-fascist center:

Many of the social and political activities of the resident in the home groups and organizations, such as the anarchist "Black Thistle " are, always under surveillance by the Federal Agency for State Protection and Counter Terrorism ( BVT), since compounds as the originators of the failed attack of Ebergassing accepted were.

Current and former projects in the house

  • Archive of Social Movements (now moved )
  • Autonomous Bicycle Workshop
  • BibliothEKH
  • Computer Lab
  • Deserter Advice - Free advice on asylum and alien law questions (now moved )
  • Federation of Workers, workers and young people from Turkey to Austria
  • Airport - social services - emergency shelter for refugees in EKH
  • Woman gangs
  • Woman Writing Workshop
  • Housewives
  • Info maggots ( a Infoladen )
  • Political discussed pub
  • Que ( e ) r- pub ( now moved )
  • Legal assistance pub - Punkerstammtisch for repression of Affected
  • Rosa Antifa (a local anti-fascist group) (now moved )
  • Weird sounds
  • Screen printing workshop
  • (Never now ) TATblatt
  • Association for audiovisual self-determination
  • Vereinslokal
  • Volxbibliothek (now moved )
  • Volxtheater favorites
  • Volxtheaterkarawane
  • Living area
  • Hofbar

Others

Several projects of the house financed by the municipality of Vienna. In addition, there are always discussions in the Vienna city council, as many of these activities are controversial, and in some cases (such as when advising illegal immigrants - undocumented ) operating in legal gray areas. Also make a donation of former Interior Minister Caspar Einem to the TATblatt, which was uncovered by Jörg Haider, to create a scandal became known. This did not materialize. Several activists were arrested after Volxtheaterkarawane anti-globalization protests in Genoa, by the police, which led to a national debate about the disclosure of the secret police data because the dossiers of several persons were forwarded to the Italian authorities.

On October 27, 2013 30 neo-Nazis stormed the premises of the Association ATIGF. They beat a board member of the Communist Trade Union Initiative International ( Comintern ). Then expelled members of the ATIGF the attacker out of the house.

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