Archives of the Department of Contemporary History

Collection Officer: Mag. Dr. Herbert Posch

Staff: Dr. Christoph Mentsch l, Eva Hofman, BA and Emily Herkommer, and Marianne Ertl


Contact: archiv.zeitgeschichte@univie.ac.at

News

In 2023, the document archive, the trend/profile archive and the Gustav Spann newspaper clipping collection were handed over by the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Zeitgeschichte to the University of Vienna (Department of Contemporary History).

Current Project

Digitisation

The Department of Contemporary History is currently digitising the historical finding aids of the document archive, as well as checking and supplementing information on the holdings. The aim is to make the finding aids available in digital form.
In addition, the OCR text recognition of the "Gaupresse" archive is being renewed to improve searchability. During this process, all holdings remain accessible to researchers.
The digitisation project was presented at the PHAIDRAcon 2023.

Project team: Eva Hofmann and Emily Herkommer

Archive collections

Gordon Pask-Archive

User support: Marianne Ertl

Picture archive (Bildarchiv)

was handed over to the Austrian National Library in 2009.

Collection Matejka 1920–1980

was handed over to the Vienna Library in 2022.

Microfilms and Periodicals

Available through the Contemporary History Library.

 

 

Contemporary History Library

The Contemporary History Library is an information and documentation centre with a special focus on Austrian/European contemporary history, fascism, national socialism and the Holocaust, the history of science, women's and gender studies, as well as visual contemporary and cultural history. The library's holdings reflect not only the changes in scientific research in theory and method, but also the interests as well as the changes in European and Austrian political and social historical consciousness.