Actresses the first eight Speeches of the first female Members read in the Austrian Parliament

Elisabeth Orth, Dorothee Hartinger, Petra Morze and Alexandra Henkel gifts with your reading, a glimpse into the past

Vienna (PK) – in The year 1918 with the Republic proclaimed women’s right to vote is a long and hard battle for political participation, and in part went ahead. „Eight women, seven social-Democrat and Christian-Social, moved, almost to the day – on 4. March 1919 – the first female Deputy in the Austrian Parliament,“ said the Second no-President Doris Bures during her opening address. „You and many fellow players have the fight for their democratic rights in the second half of the 19th century. Century began. To them we owe the General, free, equal, secret, personal and immediate voting rights for women and men. The Talk show us the delicate flower of democracy has struck its roots in the still-so-young First Republic.“ On the eve of the international women’s day, nearly 100 years after the first eight women moved in to the Parliament, were read the first eight Speeches of these Pioneering women in the Parliament.

Bures: „If one of these eight women came out 100 years ago in the historic meeting hall to the lectern, then looked up in a room with 151 men, and only seven women. Today, when a member comes here to this Desk, then to sit still 115 colleagues, but 67 colleagues. But still not the half of it. Today, women are equal before the law and protected from discrimination. But the reality of life of women is another. And it is our job to change that. We need to vehemently stand up for a self-determined and independent life. We must eliminate social and economic disadvantages. Women against poverty in old age preserving, and violence in the own four walls to protect.“

With strong, short words, the deputies argued at the time, in the Parliament their concerns

Dramatised, and with the Verve of the actors, mediated by the individual contributions to the Debate of the time. Between calls, and exhortations of the President to the Countenance and also the strong and committed speeches were part of the reading. Actress Elisabeth Orth, the actor allowed inside, Dorothee Hartinger, Petra Morzé and Alexandra Henkel with your reading of the Speeches of the members of a look back in time. Author and journalist Sibylle Hamann welcomed the guests and led to their Moderation by the evening.

The first words of Mrs Hildegard Burjan, Anna Boschek, Emmy-Friendly, Adelheid Popp, Gabriele Proft, Therese Schlesinger, Amalie Seidel and Mary Tusch remembered a hundred years after their first debates in the Constituent national Assembly, once again, to the then political situation of the young Republic, as well as to the topics, to which the deputies had as the First dedicated. Have been recited to you in the order in which the former members had for the first time, reported to word (between 1919 and 1920).

On the program will be the Talk of Adelheid Popp, were „the abolition of the nobility, the worldly knight and lady of the North, and of certain titles and hurdles“ in the 8. Session, of Emmy-Friendly „a special bread edition in 1919“ in the 9. Session, by Gabriele Proft on „the invalidity of the law of compensation“ in the 11. Session, Amalie Seidl on „the collection of the internal duties and taxes and licence fees for imported consumption tax objects and objects of the state monopoly (Rapporteur),“ in the 15. Session, Anna Boschek „the prohibition of night work of women and young people in industrial Establishments“ in the 12. Session of Hildegard Burjan on „the establishment and accommodation of people’s care facilities“ in the 19th century. Session, of Therese Schlesinger on „measures to resolve the Suppl duck misery“ in the 19th century. Session as well as the speech of Maria flourish about „the pledge of the tobacco monopoly“ in the 58. Session. (Final) mar

NOTE: photos from this reading you can find on the Website of the Parliament www.parlament.gv.at/SERV/FOTO/ARCHIV .

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