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    • 1. Insight(s)
    • 1b. The mdw* at the transition from the First Republic to Austro-fascism from 1931 to 1938
    • 1c. The mdw* during National Socialism from 1938 to 1945
    • 1d. The mdw* in post-Nazism
    • 2. “Simple party member, indispensable, reinstated.” - Denazification at the mdw*
    • 3. “A Moment from Eisler’s Attempts to Return to Vienna”
    • 4. Clemens Krauss’ having conducted a Goldmark piece in 1934 was presented as (questionable) evidence of his denazification
    • 5. “Representative” church music during the Austro-fascism era
    • 6. “Folk Song” and “Battle Cry” - An example of “ideological” practicality in music education
    • 7. Musical popular education at the Department for Church Music in National Socialism
    • 8. The 'Gesundheitsstammbuch' as a measure of hereditary and racial biology
    • 9. Music students: “domestic” - “blind”
    • 10. Expulsion – Escape – Murder. The persecution of members of the mdw* during National Socialism.
    • 11. Franz Schütz in the context of National Socialist cultural policy
    • 12. The “Song of Justice”. mdw* members in the Resistance
    • 13. Landmine detonators at the Acting and Directing Seminar
    • 14. About the history of the mdw University Library (ub.mdw*) – Stolen Sheet Music Prints and Provenance Research
    • 14b. Gustav Maximilian Eduard Donath – The first director of the mdw* University Library (ub.mdw*), National Socialist sympathiser with “mixed race person first-degree“
    • 14c. Curt Otto Rotter – Director of the Library of ”Reichshochschule für Musik Wien“ (University for Music in Vienna)
    • 14d. The pianist and chamber musician Helene Herschel née Steiner
    • 14e. The tenor Erich Fischhof and his escape to Switzerland
    • 14f. “A Newcomer: The Bank Director as Conductor. His Name: Emil Bardach [...]”
    • 14g. Restituted Nazi-looted property: The fortepiano of the “Teutonic Order”
    • 15. Coal shortages, cold breaks and war damage – everyday life at the mdw
    • 16. Violins as icons and objects of speculation - the question of restitutions
    • 17. Continuity or “Necessity”
    • 18. Vienna: The City of Music
    • 19. The “Russian Hour” Opera Studio
    • 20. Outlook
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