by Therese Garstenauer | May 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
This is a find from the compilation of the laws, decrees and decisions and legal requirements of the local council, city council, municipal council of the City of Vienna, 1919. Obviously, the media were a trifle less complex then. “Berichtigung unwahrer...
by Therese Garstenauer | May 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
This is a project dealing predominantly with the past. Yet, sometimes one has to work for the future, too – e.g. by proposing a session named “Bureaucratic Interactions” for the European Social Science History Conference 2018, as I did yesterday. If the...
by Therese Garstenauer | Apr 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
To my surprise, I found an advertisement for the presentation of my project I will give at the department of Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna this Wednesday (9.00 a.m., anybody?) in the Vienna weekly newspaper FALTER . Surprise 1: that it is in...
by Therese Garstenauer | Apr 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
Yesterday I had the pleasure to meet Karl Megner in person. Being the author of the seminal works “Beamte. Wirtschafts- und sozialgeschichtliche Aspekte des k.k. Beamtentums” (Wien 1985) and “Beamtenmetropole Wien 1500-1938: Bausteine zu einer...
by Therese Garstenauer | Mar 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
The alleged tendency of civil servants to avoid work has become a topic of numerous works of fiction and popular jokes (e.g.: “How do civil servants play Mikado?” “The first one to move loses!”). In his lampoon from 1925 titled “The Extermination of the Civil...