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Marie Jahoda über ihre Rede am 1. Mai 1926 Wien, 1. Mai 1926 My good standing in the school ended abruptly on May 1st, 1926. May 1st was the occasion for huge festivities organised by the social-democratic party which governed Vienna, though not the country. Many thousand people from all districts marched to the sound of bands to the centre and converged on the Rathausplatz where they stood and listened to speeches, mostly by the party bosses, but I too had been asked to make a speech on school reform. I argued with passion against the existing elitist system, for free, state-financed secondary education to the age of 18 for all. A few days later, I was called to the Director of my school who berated me as a traitor, disloyal to my school which had given me so much, altogether contemptible. As a result, my Matura diploma begins with a ›gut‹ in Conduct. ›Gut‹ sounds good, but it was understood that if it was not ›sehr gut‹ for conduct, some dramatic misbehaviour must have occurred. My friends who knew the reason for the ›blemish‹ as well as the Socialdemocratic party thought, of course, differently. Marie Jahoda Albu: Reconstructions. [Keymer, Sussex: Published by the author] 1996, S. 29. © Reinhard Müller -- Graz, im Oktober 2006 |
POLITISCHES ENGAGEMENT Eugenie Schwarzwald Pfadfinderinnen Vereinigung Sozialistischer Mittelschüler Rede zum 1. Mai 1926 Sommerkolonie Otto Bauer Austromarxismus |