CONCERT | A Friendship in Sonats: Korngold & Zeisl

June 27, 2019, 7:30 pm
@Embassy of Austria

The Austrian violinist Johannes Fleischmann and the Swedish pianist Oscar Micaelssonwill present works by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Erich Zeisl. Both musicans had to flee Austria after the seizure of power because of their Jewish faith, however, their paths, were quite different: Korngold celebrated his classical works and his revolutionary successes in American film music, for Zeisl it was a more difficult road, and he never had the kind of success in Hollywood like Korngold.

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EXHIBITION | Ruth Maier, the "Austrian-Norwegian Anne Frank"

Through July 5, 2019
@Embassy of Austria

Through photographs and diary extracts, this exhibition tells the story of the Jewish girlRuth Maier, born in Vienna in 1920. She recorded her everyday life and the increasing persecution of Jews in Austria following the Anschluss in 1938. After witnessing the violent antisemitism of the Kristallnacht Pogrom, Ruth found refuge in Norway while the rest of her family escaped to Great Britain. However, her newfound safety did not last: In 1942, Ruth was arrested and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she was murdered upon arrival. The exhibition will be on view in the Atrium of the Embassy of Austria through July 5.

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EXHIBITION | Towards the American Century: Austrians in the United States

July 18, 2019, 7:00 pm
@Embassy of Austria

The Austrian Embassy and the Austrian Press and Information Service in the United States present the opening of the exhibit and book presentation, as part of an ongoing project, which chronicles Austrian immigration to the United States within the trajectory of historical milestones of Austrian-American relations, from the first Salzburgers on the shores of Georgia in 1734 until today. The project is the result of a cooperation between the Austrian Press and Information Service and the Austrian Marshall Plan Center for European Studies at the University of New Orleans. Ambassador Wolfgang Waldner and co-author Professor Günter Bischof will deliver remarks on the project, followed by a summer reception.

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