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The Botstiber Podcast

Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies

The Habsburg Empire may have collapsed following WWI, but the impacts left by the diverse multilingual state continue to affect the world, today. The Botstiber Podcast brings together historians, politicians, authors and more to help illustrate the connections shared by the various lands of the former Habsburg Empire and the United States.

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38:16

Nina Kaiser

The Botstiber Podcast ·

2023/12/07

Joining the episode from the University of Graz in southern Austria, Nina Kaiser discusses the important contributions made to criminology and evidence law by the Austrian jurist Hans Gross and his American contemporary, John Henry Wigmore. Supported by the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies, Kaiser's groundbreaking research also analyzes the intellectual relationship shared by Gross and Wigmore, and its impacts on both sides of the Atlantic.__________You can find more from Nina

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17:34

Christmas in Vienna Pt.1 | St. Nikolaus, Krampus and...

The Botstiber Podcast ·

2023/12/04

In this, the inaugural Botstiber Christmas special, ten individuals from across Austria share with us their experiences from the country's many Christmastime festivities. Join us, as their stories take us from bustling Christmas markets in Salzburg to cozy, alpine cottages visited by Saint Nicholas and the dreaded Krampus.Part one of Christmas in Vienna brings us to December 5th and 6th, also known as Krampus Day and Nikolaus Day. For those of us on the nice list, there may be a visit from

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51:39

If Passports Could Talk #2 | Gerald Steinacher

The Botstiber Podcast ·

2023/11/17

In this episode, Austrian-American guest Gerald Steinacher takes us on a journey from the mountain peaks of Tyrol to the Great Plains of Nebraska. Along the way, Steinacher has contributed greatly to the field of Austrian-American studies. Currently the James A. Rawley Professor of History at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Steinacher has published multiple works on topics such as the Holocaust, Fascism and Denazification.If you enjoyed the episode and would like to hear more from Gerald

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66:54

Lilly Maier

The Botstiber Podcast ·

2023/10/20

Join host Luke Morgante for an engaging conversation with Viennese historian and author, Lilly Maier. In the episode, Lilly and Luke discuss the incredible life story of Arthur Kern, a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust who, after being forced to separate from his family, escaped to the United States as a child.Arthur and Lilly's stories became interconnected in 2003 when he returned to his childhood home in Vienna for the first time since fleeing — a turn-of-the-century apartment where young Lilly

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40:20

If Passports Could Talk #1 | Günter Bischof

The Botstiber Podcast ·

2023/10/11

In this captivating narrative podcast episode, we embark on a journey through the remarkable life of Austrian-American historian Günter Bischof.Raised in the alpine village of Mellau, Austria, Bischof's path to becoming a renowned historian is a tale of transcontinental exploration. We follow him from his academic origins in Europe, where he earned his master's degree at the University of Innsbruck, to his transformative move to the United States, where he became a naturalized American citizen,

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51:41

Larry Wolff

The Botstiber Podcast ·

2023/08/22

When Austro-Hungarian Emperor Karl and Empress Zita embarked on their exile from Austria in 1919, it marked the conclusion of the Habsburg family's rule over Europe after several hundred years. In this episode, historian and author Larry Wolff joins Luke Morgante of the Botstiber Institute to underline the significance of this transition, and how Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss' fictitious opera, Die Frau Ohne Schatten (1919), reflected the sociopolitical changes that were rapidly

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56:29

Tara Zahra

The Botstiber Podcast ·

2023/02/21

A professor of modern European history and the Habsburg monarchy at the University of Chicago, Tara Zahra joins this episode of The Botstiber Podcast to discuss the concepts of globalism and anti-globalism, as they evolved throughout the early 20th century.Important figures and norm-shattering events of the era helped shape international sentiment in a rapidly globalizing world. Listen in to learn more about them and how they may inform us of similar issues, today.Intro/Outro Song: "Rosen aus dem

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35:52

Kirsten Krick-Aigner w/ Guest Host Jacqueline Vansant

The Botstiber Podcast ·

2022/11/18

Originally Recorded: 2021Special guest host Jacqueline Vansant, professor emerita of German at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, discusses different research perspectives examining Austrian-Jewish Child Migration during WWII. In "Epistolary Rescue in Austrian Children and Youth Fleeing Nazi Austria" with Kirsten Krick-Aigner, adolescent agency is featured as well as the diversity of archival resources available in the record of Marianne Winter and her family's migration.

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44:04

Tim Corbett w/ Guest Host Jacqueline Vansant

The Botstiber Podcast ·

2022/11/18

Originally Recorded: 2021

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45:25

Swen Steinberg w/ Guest Host Jacqueline Vansant

The Botstiber Podcast ·

2022/11/18

Originally Recorded: 2021Special guest host Jacqueline Vansant, professor emerita of German at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, discusses different research perspectives examining Austrian-Jewish Child Migration during WWII. In Early Refugee Studies in Austrian Children and Youth Fleeing Nazi Austria with Swen Steinberg, the conversation features the research questionnaires from Ernst Papanek's graduate work. Papanek rescued almost 300 children during WWII, and he further sought to understand

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49:21

Thomas Antonic

The Botstiber Podcast ·

2022/11/18

Originally Recorded: 2021In this podcast, Thomas Antonic discusses the life and work of Austrian-American Beat poet ruth weiss. His film about weiss, "One More Step West Is the Sea," won New York Independent Cinema's 2021 Best International Documentary Feature Award.

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65:58

Lilly Maier

The Botstiber Podcast ·

2022/11/18

Originally Recorded: 2021Lilly Maier is the author of Ernst Papanek biography, "Auf Wiedersehen, Kinder!: Ernst Papanek. Revolutionär, Reformpädagoge und Retter jüdischer Kinder." In this podcast, she discusses the remarkable life of the Viennese-born socialist and educator who saved the lives of almost 300 children from the Nazis.

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45:14

Alison Clarke

The Botstiber Podcast ·

2022/11/18

Originally Recorded: 2021Prof. Alison J. Clarke discusses her book, "Victor Papanek: Designer for the Real World," a biography of social design's Austrian-American trailblazer. Victor Papanek wrote "Design for the Real World," a book that augured the ascent of socially and ecologically sustainable design movements many years later. Published in 1971, the impact and relevance of his book persists globally. Prof. Clarke argues that Papanek's Austrian and émigré experiences are significant for

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41:23

Christiane Tewinkel

The Botstiber Podcast ·

2022/11/18

Originally Recorded: 2021Dr. Christiane Tewinkel discusses her musicology research as related to Theodor Leschetizky and his American students. Born in Galicia in 1830, Theodor Leschetizky, a pianist and composer himself, became internationally famous as a piano teacher with over 1,000 students. Of these, 350-400 were American.Although Leschetizky had enormous influence during his time, his personal records had never been studied. That is, until now. Christiane Tewinkel traveled to the Leschetizky

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71:32

Katherine E. Sorrels

The Botstiber Podcast ·

2022/11/18

Originally Recorded: 2021The Camphill Movement is a global network of intentional communities for abled and intellectually disabled people. With over 100 communities today, Camphill began in 1939 after Dr. Karl Koenig, his wife Tilla, and a group of volunteers—all having fled Nazi-occupied Vienna in 1938—rejoined in Aberdeen, Scotland. There they undertook the care of Austrian- and German-Jewish refugee children, as well as British children with disabilities. From that first Camphill Special School,

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62:29

Michael Burri

The Botstiber Podcast ·

2022/11/18

Originally Recorded: 2020Clemens von Pirquet, an Austrian pediatrician and scientist, held a prominent role in the international post-WWI humanitarian relief efforts during Austria’s hunger crisis. Pirquet directed his unique, scientific-based system of nutrition (no cocoa here, please) with the support of the American Relief Administration. As a result of this transatlantic partnership, hundreds of thousands of Austrian children were saved from starvation.Pirquet is primarily remembered today for

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28:25

Vic Huber

The Botstiber Podcast ·

2022/11/18

Original Recording: 2019Vic Huber is an American Honorary Consul in Vienna and the Programme Director of the Austro-American Society in Vienna. He shares his own personal story about growing up in post-war Vienna and his lifelong journey with American culture with Jonathan Singerton.

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32:54

Kurt Bednar

The Botstiber Podcast ·

2022/11/18

Originally Recorded: 2019In his book, The Paper War between the United States and Austria-Hungary, historian Kurt Bednar looks at the final years of the Habsburg Monarchy through an American lens. He discusses the research for his book, his findings, and his views on one of the most pivotal chapters in Austrian-American relations with Jonathan Singerton.

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30:41

Marion Romberg

The Botstiber Podcast ·

2022/11/18

Originally Recorded: 2019Marion Romberg discusses how the image of America (with feather crowns, parrots, and crocodiles) was popularized in early modern times with Jonathan Singerton. Marion Romberg is a research associate at the Department of Habsburg and Balkan Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria), the network editor of the Habsburg Discussion Network, and a Member of the Board of Directors for the Austrian Society for 18th Century Studies.

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22:18

William O'Reilly

The Botstiber Podcast ·

2022/11/18

Originally Recorded: 2019William O’Reilly, senior lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge and full-time fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at the Central European University, discusses his research for his forthcoming book, Selling Souls, with Jonathan Singerton. Early human traffickers, soul-sellers (Seelenverkäufer) were in the business of enlisting and conveying German-speaking migrants to North America and Central and Eastern Europe in the seventeenth and

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