Biographies of Environmentalists in 1970s Lower Austria

This project is based on biographical and narrative interviews with actors who were substantially involved in the environmental activism in 1970s Lower Austria.

Funding

Provincial Archive of Lower Austria

 

Duration

January 2015  March 2017

 

Principal Investigator

Ernst Langthaler

 

Researcher

Ulrich Schwarz

 

Description

The research project Biographies of Environmental Acitivists in Lower Austria stemmed from an initiative by Reinhold Christian and Peter Weish from the Forum Wissenschaft & Umwelt. It includes the conduct, the documentation and the archiving of autobiographical and narrative interviews with persons, who were substantially involved in the environmental activism in 1970s Lower Austria. Two key events auf Austria's enviromentalism were the protests against the planned power plants in Zwentendorf and Hainburg.