Return to Vienna

“In my personal life I lived through different stages. There was one period determined by football, nothing but football; each Sunday we would go to see a match and I myself played in a team. Then came another period: politics. A very strong interest in politics and the attempt to understand this world that I only knew from party names so far. Contrary to today, people at the time had a very good feeling for who was a Jew. Today, with so few Jews around this is no longer so. Types like myself, with black hair and not quite immaculate Greco-Roman nose, were immediately recognized as Jews.” (Franz West)

Keywords

  • DOK Leipzig
  • Location: Vienna
  • Ruth Beckermann
  • activism
  • history
  • national socialism
  • politics
  • sixpackfilm

Director

  • Ruth Beckermann
  • Josef Aichholzer

Documentary, Timeless


1h 31min


16+

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Austria
1983
Franz West (1909-85) remembers his youth in Vienna: the diverse Jewish population the Red Vienna labor movement and the rise of Austrofascism.

Franz West (1909-85) remembers his youth in Vienna: the diverse Jewish population the Red Vienna labor movement and the rise of Austrofascism.


“In my personal life I lived through different stages. There was one period determined by football, nothing but football; each Sunday we would go to see a match and I myself played in a team. Then came another period: politics. A very strong interest in politics and the attempt to understand this world that I only knew from party names so far. Contrary to today, people at the time had a very good feeling for who was a Jew. Today, with so few Jews around this is no longer so. Types like myself, with black hair and not quite immaculate Greco-Roman nose, were immediately recognized as Jews.” (Franz West)

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