Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and Wilhelm Schütte
"Take the path around Prinkipo, my thoughts will accompany you!"
The prison correspondence 1941-1945
Edited by Thomas Flierl
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- Editor
Thomas Flierl
- Publisher
- ISBN
978-3-86732-306-2
- Details
624 pages
numerous colored illustrations
hardcover
German- Price
EUR 35.90 (Austria)
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As an outstanding architect of social modernism and a persecuted communist resistance fighter, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897-2000) is a legendary figure in contemporary Austrian history, who only gained recognition in her home country late in life. What has remained unknown until now is that almost all of the correspondence she kept with her husband Wilhelm Schütte (1900-1968) during her imprisonment (1941-1945) has been preserved. The couple were active in Istanbul from 1938 onwards through the mediation of Bruno Taut. During a courier trip for the KPÖ to Vienna, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky was arrested and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Wilhelm Schütte remained in Istanbul and also resisted - in a hitherto unknown way - the National Socialist regime. Based on the correspondence and on the trial files in the Federal Archives in Berlin, on documents in the Comintern Archives in Moscow, on files of the British Military Intelligence Service in London, on recent research on the resistance of the Communist Party of Austria in those years, and on his own research in Turkey, Thomas Flierl traces the lives of Margarete and Wilhelm Schütte between 1937 and 1945 in an extensive epilogue.
Book presentation as part of the matinee
Friday, September 17, 2021, 11 a.m.*
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vordere Zollamtstraße 7 / Flux 2, 1030 Vienna.
With reading by Ines Frieda Försterling.
An event of Collection and Archive, University of Applied Arts Vienna.