In his journalistic work, the 98-year-old journalist and contemporary witness Hellmut Butterweck has dealt intensively with the National Socialist evil spirit and its continuing effects in the Second Republic.
Expelled from school, forcibly recruited to work in the German war industry in 1944 and suspected of sabotage, Butterweck evaded service in the German Wehrmacht. From 1948 onwards, he wrote reviews, commentaries, satires, reportages and essays on various topics for numerous media, as well as articles on contemporary history and statements against anti-democratic, anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi tendencies. For many years, Butterweck was responsible for contemporary history, literature and theatre criticism in the weekly newspaper \u201eDie Furche\u201c and also wrote plays, radio plays and novels<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His work has earned him the Vienna Art Fund Prize, the Theodor K\u00f6rner Prize, the City of Vienna Prize for Journalism and the Theodor Kramer Prize in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hellmut Butterweck's recently published book \u201cM\u00f6glichkeiten\u201d is also about the Nazi legacy. The scenario of the novel: Hitler has won the war thanks to the \u201emiracle weapon\u201c, but after the celebrations for his 100th birthday, the Nazi empire collapses. It bids farewell in a similar way to the GDR a few months later in real history: people are fed up, take to the streets and bring down the state in a bloodless manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fact that Hitler is long dead is a state secret and he is constantly being replaced by doubles: old fools who think they are him and whom \u201eBig Little\u201c keeps in stock in the Vienna Fools' Tower. Now everything is exposed and Reichsmarschall Kraut can only proclaim democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This enchantingly narrated, burlesque plot finds its tender counterpart in the love story between the SS man Horst and the Jewish woman Esther. It causes his memorised image of Nazi history to collapse with a crash.
Hellmut Butterweck's novel is a wild game with \u201ePOSSIBILITIES\u201c that the world has been spared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About the author Hellmut Butterweck: Introduction: Reading: Musical accompaniment: Hellmut Butterweck Was w\u00e4re gewesen, wenn Hitler den Krieg gewonnen h\u00e4tte? Der heute 98 j\u00e4hrige Journalist und Zeitzeuge Hellmut Butterweck hat sich in seinem publizistischen Werk intensiv mit dem nationalsozialistischen Ungeist und seinem Weiterwirken in der Zweiten Republik besch\u00e4ftigt.Aus der Schule hinausgeworfen, 1944 zur Arbeit in der deutschen Kriegsindustrie zwangsrekrutiert und der Sabotage verd\u00e4chtigt, entzog sich Butterweck […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10824,"template":"","format":[29],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"schwerpunkt":[38],"class_list":["post-10823","kreisky_event","type-kreisky_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","schwerpunkt-demokratie-diversitaet-und-zusammenhalt","format-podiumsdiskussion"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Rudolf Scholten<\/strong>, President of the Bruno Kreisky Forum<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Richard Pils<\/strong>, Publisher Library of the Province<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cornelius Obonya<\/strong>, chamber actor<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gernot Winischhofer<\/strong>, Violin
Endre Guran<\/strong>, Viola<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em><\/strong>Possibilities
<\/em><\/strong>ISBN 978-3-99126-421-7
<\/em><\/strong>Publishing house Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra, 2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"