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Audio Recording Interview with Eduard Adler, Austrian Consul General, Chicago, Illinois, part 1

Interview with Eduard Adler, Austrian Consul General, Chicago, Illinois, part 1

About this Item

Title

  • Interview with Eduard Adler, Austrian Consul General, Chicago, Illinois, part 1

Names

  • Hellenberg, Antony, 1938-2000 (Collector)
  • Adler, Eduard (Interviewee)

Created / Published

  • Chicago, Illinois, April 26, 1977

Headings

  • -  German Americans
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Illinois -- Chicago

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Consul Eduard Adler, part 1
  • -  Part 1 of a 2-part interview with Consul Eduard Adler at his Austrian Consular office in the Wrigley Building; themes include the interaction between German and Austrian immigrants in Chicago, and discussion of the range of individuals affected by World War II, now living in America, who identify themselves with Austria; fragments of the interview are transcribed in the additional related object cited in this record; topics include limitations on emigration by the Austrian government; earliest immigrants to America, in the Ebenezer community in Georgia (ca. 1733), 30 miles northwest of Savanna; emigration from the Burgenland to Pennsylvania and Chicago; there was a large emigration from Austria following World War I (1921, 22, 23); then emigration of intellectuals in the 1930s, primarily to the east and west coasts of the U.S.. included Austrian Jews; about Austrian emigration after World War II, on the character and accomplishments of post World War II Austrian emigrants; about the Germans in Austria, the origin of the "exile" (South-east) Germans, e.g., Transylvanians and Danube Swabians; about the origin of U.S. Hutterites in Carinthia; the Donauschwaben are the most active of German-speaking groups in Chicago today; on the role of youth in maintaining ethnic traditions; about the main reasons for the emphasis of the exile German ethnicity: 1) a long tradition of maintaining German heritage, 2) being forced out of their most recent homeland; Gottschee German-Austrians: best known peddlers in Europe, originally from Franconia and Thuringia, educated in Klagenfurt.

Medium

  • audiocassette, C-60

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1981/004: AFS 20549a
  • MBRS Shelflist: RYA 0617
  • Field Project Identifier: CH77-T026-C

Source Collection

  • Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Hellenberg, Antony, and Eduard Adler. Interview with Eduard Adler, Austrian Consul General, Chicago, Illinois, part 1. Chicago, Illinois, 1977. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20549a/.

APA citation style:

Hellenberg, A. & Adler, E. (1977) Interview with Eduard Adler, Austrian Consul General, Chicago, Illinois, part 1. Chicago, Illinois. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20549a/.

MLA citation style:

Hellenberg, Antony, and Eduard Adler. Interview with Eduard Adler, Austrian Consul General, Chicago, Illinois, part 1. Chicago, Illinois, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20549a/>.