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»You're not really dead, are you?« The move from pretending to play, to pretend play. The development of symbolic capacity in a child that suffered early deprivation and traumatisation This article deals with the consequences of early childhood traumatisation on the development of a boy, the development of his symbolic capacity in the course of child psychotherapy in the ambulant clinic »die Boje« in Vienna, and the challenges facing the therapeutic technique with this deprived and traumatised child. In the first part of the paper, I address theoretical concepts concerning the early mother-child dyad, early traumatisation, and the effects of these on the development of symbolic functioning. I then link these theories with the clinical case material. In the second part, the theoretical considerations of Anne Alvarez, who in her work with disturbed children distinguishes between three levels of psychological states which need differing technical approaches, are examined in terms of their relevance to my clinical material: the three-phase treatment of the boy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article comprises two sections. The first section opens with an explanation of why the work concerned with supplementing and completing the existing regesta of Sigismund of Luxembourg's charters, which was started at Regesta Imperii in 2004, was abandoned in favour of a comprehensive revision. Following this, the paper gives a description of the development of the various projects in Vienna, Brno and Munich from 2004 to 2022, the progress which has already been made, both with regards to archival research and to the work on the abstracts themselves, as well as current plans for the future of the project. The first section concludes with an overview of how the guidelines for the creation of abstracts used in the Sigismund Project have evolved during this time. The second section of this paper includes the current version of these guidelines, which was written by the author himself in 2019. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Compared to the Habsburg era, when Yiddish writings were hardly printed in Bukovina - due to the centralized policy of Vienna and the openness towards integration and assimilation on the part of numerous Bukovinian Jews, as well as because of the status of Yiddish as the language of uneducated Jews - the Yiddish printing industry, as well as the Yiddish libraries didn't develop until the early 1920s, simultaneously with the emergence of national identity concepts. This paper is based on descriptive research and discusses the importance of these institutions in shaping trajectories of cultural, national and linguistic identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our paper examines the network-related strategies that the social groups apply in the course of establishing and embedding so-called "housing commons" and discusses related potentials and limitations. To this end, we focus on the Austrian umbrella organization "habiTAT" and the first two "habiTAT" projects in Vienna "SchloR" and "Bikes and Rails". The social capital approach provides together with spatiality related elements of social movements the conceptual embedding. The results of the analysis show that the housing projects have made explicit use of translocal networks in order to collectivise housing successfully. On this basis, the projects contribute -- far beyond their own needs -- to the establishment of a (trans-)local knowledge and expert network across commons, and the commoners provide thought-provoking impulses for the repoliticisation of non-profit social housing policy in Vienna and Austria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with the question, which strategy local long-term residents develop to deal with gentrification when they are not negatively "affected" by it, i.e., not exposed to forms of displacement, local social isolation, resistance or conflict. The central argument is that habitual adaptation processes are possible for those living in the gentrified area for a long time and that they themselves are subsequently involved in processes of unconscious -- and thus "hidden" -- gentrification. Theoretically, the practice of hidden gentrification is elaborated on the one hand with the concept of the "metropolitan habitus" and on the other hand with a "spatial" extension of the Bourdieusien types of capital, namely "residential capital". The practices of hidden gentrification are empirically examined with reflexive photography for the gentrified Viennese inner city district of Neubau. Gentrification processes in Vienna provide a special context, where both, new population moves in and long-term residents can stay put through structural measures such as social housing or rent regulations. Habitual adaptation and practices of hidden gentrification within the middle class can be interpreted as a strategy for social reproduction to maintain or improve their positions in social and appropriated physical space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Apart from SC Hakoah and the Amateure (later Austria) no other Viennese football club of the first division had more Jewish members (sportsmen/sportswomen and officials) than the »First Vienna Football Club 1894«. In the period between the foundation of the club in 1894 and the National Socialist assumption of power in Austria in 1938, one third of the officials and many of the football players of the First Vienna Football Club - who were the pioneers of Austrian football - were Jews or Jewish converts. Jews especially dominated in the Club's leading positions and important functions. The First Vienna Football Club has not yet been researched in detail, which means that most academics remain unaware of the high level of Jewish participation in it. My paper aims at closing this knowledge gap and looks at the reasons for the substantial participation of Jews in the football club. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper shows the specific features of mortality in Vienna city in the 19th century. As a data source 5 parish registers were used. A detailed analysis of the causes of death reveals the reasons for the „epidemiological change" from the transition period of proto-industrialisation to the end of industrialisation. The mortality and their development is a useful indicator to describe changes of the urban health conditions when it is differentiated by age and cause of death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]