40 years of Sigmund Freud Museum

Celebrating 40 years of Sigmund Freud Museum

15^th June 2011;  5-10 p.m.

 

Open house with ceremonial address by Otto Kernberg and entertainment programme

Sigmund Freud Museum

Berggasse 19, 1090 Vienna

 

On June 15^th, 2011 the Sigmund Freud Museum celebrates its 40^th birthday. Under the presence of Anna Freud and federal chancellor Bruno Kreisky, Sigmund Freud’s former doctor’s office was opened as a public museum on June 15^th, 1971.

 

On this occasion, the building in Berggasse 19 will be an open house on June 15^th from 5 to 10 p.m. featuring a wide table of events. Otto Kernberg, psychoanalyst from New York will hold a ceremonial address moderated by Martin Engelberg. Reflections of Viennese psychoanalyst Felix de Mendelssohn will demonstrate the scientific perspectives of psychoanalytical thinking in Freud’s living- and working rooms in the 2^nd half of the 20^th century.

 

A video message by president Heinz Fischer as well as speeches by federal chancellor Werner Faymann, city councillor in charge of cultural affairs Andreas Mailath-Pokorny and other renowned personalities of political and scientific life will honour the importance of the museum for Vienna and Austria as well as for the international community.

 

The programme will feature a reading by Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz, a lecture-performance by Gerhard Naujoks as well as musical entertainment, making the house a stage for the artistic analysis of Sigmund Freud. The store front of Berggasse 19 will show the installation “The Wigmakers Visit” by Ann-Sofí Siden from the installation series “A View from Outside- Reloaded”.

 

Entrance is free; on that evening the museum will be opened for the public free of charge

 

Please register under veranstaltung@freud-museum.at or 01-319 15 96-12

 

Detailed programme:

 

Start

17:15    Opening words by director Inge Scholz-Strasser

            Video message by president Heinz Fischer

            Speech by federal chancellor Werner Faymann

            Speech by city councillor in charge of cultural affairs Andreas Mailath-Pokorny

            Speech by member of the national council Katharina Cortolezis-Schlager

            Speech by Franz Kosyna (head of supervisory board, Sigmund Freud Foundation)

Speech by René Alfons Haiden (President Society of Friends of the friend of the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna)

 

18:30    Speech by borough mayor Martina Malyar

           

            Speech by Inge Scholz-Strasser

            Speech by Irene Chambers (Library of Congress, Washington D.C)

Speech by Moshe Zuckermann (Research Director, Sigmund Freud Foundation)

19:15    Introduction by Martin Engelberg

Ceremonial address by Otto Kernberg: “Some major contemporary Controversies within Psychoanalysis”

Famous Last Words by Felix de Mendelssohn (Advisory Committee, Sigmund Freud Foundation)

 

 

20:30	Reading of Sigmund Freud quotations and texts by Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz at the museum	Special guided tour of Anna Freud’s rooms by Roman Krivanek
21:00	Lecture-perfomance “Protocols of the Wednesday society” by Gerhard Naujoks and Lars Schmid at the museum	Trailer “A dangerous Method”(David Cronenberg) Lounge Berggasse

 

Music: Trio from the Ensemble Scholem Alejchen: Yigal Altschuler, Isaak Loberan, and Hanna Melnik