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> From: Peter Bush [ mailto:[log in to unmask] ]
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> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 10:49:07 +0100
> From: Brigitte Rapp <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sender: Brigitte Rapp <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask], Chrissi Nerantzi
> <[log in to unmask]>, Dag Heyerdahl Larsen
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> Reply-To: Brigitte Rapp <[log in to unmask]>
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>
> Please sign and spread! We need your solidarity. Send back by replyto:
>
> [log in to unmask] (=Gerhard Ruiss, Director of
> Interessengemeinschaft
> österreichischer Autorinnen und Autoren, the Austrian Writers'
> Association)
>
>
> Declaration by: H. C. Artmann, Alfredo Bauer, Ulf Birbaumer, Paul
> Blaha,
> Barbara Büchner, Georg Bydlinski, Milo Dor, Helmut Eisendle, Walter
> Grond, Primavera Gruber, Peter Henisch, Vintila Ivanceanu, Ernst
> Jandl,
> Elfriede Jelinek, Nils Jensen, Gert Jonke, Gerhard Kofler, Ludwig
> Laher,
> Jakov Lind, Heinz Lunzer, Didi Macher, Friederike Mayröcker, Heidi
> Pataki, Michael Pilz, Rosa Pock-Artmann, Doron Rabinovici, Werner
> Richter, Peter Rosei, Utta Roy-Seifert, Gerhard Rühm, Gerhard Ruiss,
> Helmut Seethaler, Heinz Sichrovsky, Bertram Karl Steiner, Christa
> Stippinger, Marlene Streeruwitz, Arthur West, Peter Paul Wiplinger,
> IG
> Autorinnen Autoren, Grazer Autorenversammlung, Übersetzergemeinschaft,
>
> Berufsverband bildender Künstler and many others
> Austria - The Cultural Nation
> We deny the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and Freedom Party (FPÖ)
> coalition
> government's capacities to speak out in the name of culture and art,
> in
> their interest or in favour of their aims. Not only due to a shortage
> of
> professional requirements, but because of the lack of moral
> qualification.
> A party making use of testimonials concerning the loyalty of
> SS-veterans' convictions, of the denial of NS-extermination camps by
> calling them "disciplinary camps", of playing down Third
> Reich-compulsory labour by the term "proper employment policy" and
> speculating with the fascist and national-socialist past as a whole,
> such a party cannot at the same time represent a democratic Austria
> after overcoming fascism and national-socialism. It is the Austrian
> People's Party's acceptance of the Freedom Party as an "ordinary
> party"
> prior to the recent elections and the so-called apology and accepted
> insult to the democratic public "for statements attributed to myself
> (Jörg Haider)" that support the belief in the possibility of such a
> representation.
> Regarding a government with the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP)
> legitimating the Freedom Party (FPÖ) as democratic - which would not
> have been possible by the Freedom Party's own efforts - international
> doubts are fully justified. Months ago these doubts were first
> provoked
> by the Freedom Party's slogan on the occasion of their election party:
>
> "Today Austria belongs to us" (Germany) - "tomorrow Europe" (the whole
>
> world). Phrases like this with their roots in national-socialist and
> fascist propaganda are the usual vocabulary of the Freedom Party. The
> "Third Republic", "Election day is payday", the "March towards Vienna"
>
> and the self description of the FPÖ as a "movement" are only some of
> the
> terms revived during the past 15 years.
> No party in government in any country and no Austrian party except the
>
> ÖVP considers the Freedom Party to be an "ordinary party". We deny
> both
> coalition parties' rights to consider themselves to be the
> representatives
> of a cultural nation.
> Vienna, Feb. 2000
> Supported and signed by:
> Name
> Sector of cultural activities
> Place /Country
> Date
>
>
>
>
> Brigitte Rapp
>
>
> ÜBERSETZERGEMEINSCHAFT
> Seidengasse 13, A-1070 Wien
> Tel:+43-1/526 20 44-52
> Fax: 524 64 35 or 526 20 44 30
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