Joachim Bürgschwentner

Multiethnic mobilization in the Habsburg Monarchy during the First World War: the case of the Kriegsbildkarten series of 1914/15

Joachim Bürgschwentner, City Archive/City Museum, Innsbruck, Austria

 

Joachim Bürgschwentner is an employee at the City Archive/City Museum in Innsbruck, Austria. He is a historian with a focus on the areas of war relief, (visual) media, censorship, propaganda and war art in the First World War. In November 2017 he concluded his PhD at the University of Innsbruck entitled „Zwischen materieller und mentaler Kriegsfürsorge. Die staatliche Produktion von Ansichtskarten in Österreich während des Ersten Weltkriegs (‘Between material and mental war relief. The state-run production of picture postcards in Austria during the First World War’). His publications include an English language article on this topic, ‘War Relief, Patriotism and Art’, published in Austrian Studies 21 (2013). Joachim has a lasting connection to the Wirth Institute: he was a guest researcher in 2006/07; from 2010-2012 he served as a board member and from 2012-2014 as president of the Wirth Alumni Network.

Related links:

Database “Offizielle Ansichten. Datenbank der offiziellen Postkarten zugunsten von Rotem Kreuz, Kriegsfürsorgeamt und Kriegshilfsbüro 1914 – 1918“: https://official-depictions.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/

„Postkarten als Quellen zur Mehrsprachigkeit in der späten Habsburger Monarchie, transcript 2020“ ed. by Karin Almasy, Heinrich Pfandl, Eva Tropper (transcript 2020): https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4998-7/bildspuren-sprachspuren/ 

Database “Postcarding Lower Styria. Nation, Language, and Identities on Picture Postcards 1885-1920”: https://gams.uni-graz.at/context:polos 

Austrian Studies 21 (2013): Cultures at War: Austria-Hungary 1914–1918 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/austrianstudies.21.2013.0099?seq=1