District criminal court, Vienna

Memorial room,                            Ernst Logar 2008

From the 23rd to the 30th of April, during this memorial year, Ernst Logar presents the second part of his exhibition series "The End of Remembrance - Carinthian Partisans" in the former execution room of Nazi Justice, now a memorial room in the district criminal court, Vienna. Here, from 1938 to 1945, more than a thousand men and women from Austria and many other European countries were beheaded because of their political beliefs, nationality or religious faith. Amongst them were 13 Slovenian victims from Zell/ Sele and the neighbouring southern Carinthian communities who were sentenced to death for their resistance against the Nazi regime on the 9th of April 1943 by Roland Freisler, the President of the notorious People's Court in Klagenfurt. They were executed on the 29th of April 1943 in this room in Vienna.

Ernst Logar presses ahead forcefully with this second presentation of "The End of Remembrance" – his examination of the fate of the Carinthian partisans.

While his installation was in place in the Austrian Parliament (Palais Epstein) in January 2008, the artist now, by choosing another venue heavy with Vienna's history, allows Carinthian Slovenian partisans to talk about their lives.

The exhibition opens on the 22nd of April 2008 at 13:30

Introductory remarks by Dr. Ulrike Psenner - President of the District Court for criminal matters, Vienna and Dr. Brigitte Bailer-Galanda - Director of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance

Exhibition dates: 23rd to 30th of April 2008
Opening hours: Mon – Fri 9.00 - 15.30 pm, Sat 10 - 16
Commemoration: on the 29th April 2008  11 am, organised annually by the club "Slovenian students in Vienna"

 

invitation card - exibition (pdf, 160 KB)

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