- Vienna City Library
- 2018
- Vienna, Austria
- Software Development, Implementation, Support & Maintenance
- Multimediastations
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The Vienna City Administration 1938
The Vienna City Library took the year 2018 as an opportunity to take a look at the Vienna city administration after the “Anschluss” in March 1938 as part of an exhibition. Using the media stations developed and implemented by NOUS, this view can be taken from two perspectives: from that of public perception with the more or less well-known images of propaganda, representation, repression and persecution, but also from that of city officials. The 16 stations, 6 of which are interactive media stations, deal with a wide variety of facets of municipal action. The timeline spans from the "Anschluss" in March 1938 to the introduction of the Gau Constitution by the "Ostmarkgesetz" in May 1939. The exhibition thematically - which is almost exclusively fed by the archive of the Vienna City, deals with the temporary phenomena of that time, such as the incorporation of 97 Lower Austrian towns of "Greater Vienna" or the leasing of Viennese properties for the operation of the Mauthausen concentration camp as well as the changes in the magistrate that are still valid today, such as the establishment of the City of Vienna's cultural office or the creation of civil registry offices. Other elements of the exhibition offered a look at the topography of the town hall during the Nazi era (hall-way in front of the library) and deal with continuities and discontinuities in the work of the library in 1938/2018 (foyer).