Blimlinger dismayed by the early death of Hubert Christian Ehalt

2024-01-04 14:39:05

Greens pay tribute to great people’s educators

Vienna (OTS) – Hubert Christian Ehalt died on December 27, 2023 at the age of 75. He was one of the country’s most important popular educators and cultural historians and, with his diverse activities, set milestones in culture and cultural studies.

“Ehalt was a successful popular educator for decades, especially as the inventor of the ever-popular Vienna lectures. Above all, he was also a courageous, great teacher and supporter. Generations of history students remember his seminars at Sophienalpe, where presentations, research and discussions took place. As young students, we always found it a bit strange and at the same time incredibly enriching. As a social historian, he was an enlightener in the best sense of the word,” remembers his former student Eva Blimlinger, culture and science spokeswoman for the Green Party.

In addition to all his journalistic, artistic, scientific and public education work, Ehalt was, above all, a formative and central figure as an official of the city of Vienna for the support and promotion of non-university research, district projects, and art and cultural projects. “Anyone who worked in this field in the 1980s couldn’t ignore Hubert Christian Ehalt. ‘Go to pay’ was the well-known advice when money was needed for a project or a work grant was needed for small research projects. His forewords associated with the funding commitments were legendary. His foresight made numerous innovations in this area possible, which continue to have a lasting impact on the scientific and cultural landscape today,” says Blimlinger.