OE5ØWWL is a special call sign of Wolfgang in 2005
In the year 2005 I can use a special call sign by replacing the area number of my call sign by "50", as all Austrian amateurs can do during the year 2005.
So I hope to contact you as OE5ØWWL! You'll find the same operator for OE5WWL, OE1WWL, OE4WWL, and OE50WWL!
This number 50 represents fifty years, but not for the anniversary of my beloved XYL.
In Austria the year 2005 is a Jubilee Year with numerous themes, symposiums and exhibitions.
The Jubilee Year is officially inaugurated with a festive event in the Austrian Parliament on 14 January 2005.
Another celebration will be held at Belvedere Palace on 15 May 2005 to commemorate “50 Years State Treaty“, in which also the foreign ministers of the signatory states USA, Great Britain, France and Russia will participate.
The Austrian Gallery at Belvedere will show the large-scale exhibition “The New Austria“ from 16 May to 1 November 2005.
At Palais Porcia the Austrian State Archives will present the show “60 Years Second Republic of Austria.
From reconstruction to the European Union“ (14 March to 1 July 2005).
The State Hall of Austria’s National Library will host from 28 April to 27 October the exhibition “The Young Republic.
Every-day pictures from Austria between 1945 and 1955“.
The Austrian Media Library offers the Internet exhibition “staatsvertrag.at“, which will be online from April onwards.
The Museum of Military History dedicates a touring exhibition to the subject “50 Years Federal Army“.
Traditional commemorative events at memorials in the former concentration camps and in Vienna dedicated to 7/8 May form part of remembrance.
Literary and theatre programmes dealing with subjects like persecution, exile, mass murder and atonement will be offered throughout 2005.
The Jewish Museum describes the exhibition “Jetzt ist er bös, der Tennenbaum“ as an “experiment about the Second Republic and its Jews“, running from 20 April to 4 June 2005.
Numerous jubilee activities will be staged by Film Archives Austria.
The Film Archives present in May and June on open-air screens at the historic and epoch-making Viennese squares Heldenplatz and Schwarzenbergplatz: “1945 – 1955 – 1995.
The Second Republic in Newsreels“.
A retrospective of feature films 1946 to 1955 will be offered between May and June at Vienna’s Metro-Kino.
In April and May 2005 Augarten Flakturm will present an exhibition and film installations titled “1945 – 1955: Austria’s Audiovisual Memory“.
In Salzburg an exhibition will be dedicated to “Austrian Photography from 1945 to 2005“ at Museum der Moderne in autumn 2005.
“Analyses of Conditions“ is the title of a “MAK NITE special” in ten sequences at the Museum for Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna on ten Tuesdays from May to October.
The “10th anniversary of Austria’s EU accession“ will be in the limelight of the “European Congress“ at Vienna’s Hofburg from 25 to 27 February.
It will address the future prospects of the EU.
The event will be rounded off by a morning performance at Vienna’s Burgtheater spotlighting the democratic perspectives of Europe.
An educational project is dedicated to oral history“: pupils aged 6 to 18 years investigate every-day and modern history in the framework of a photo and writing competition titled “Austria Album 1955“.
A “Quiz about Austria“ focusing on the history and consequences of the Austrian State Treaty is geared to schools.
Austria’s cultural festival abroad in September 2005 will be dedicated to exploring questions and answers regarding the subject “Austria in the 3rd millennium.
Image and Identity“.
In commemoration of “Bertha von Suttner – 100th anniversary of the Peace Nobel Prize“ a touring exhibition committed to “Austria’s peace policy in the 21st century“ will be shown in all states with Peace Nobel Prize Laureates.
The office of the Secretary of State for the Arts Franz Morak pulls the strings of all activities of the Jubilee Year.
As Morak told the daily “Wiener Zeitung” he wished that by the end of 2004 “we should know more about ourselves – and also realise that we live in a country worth living in.
And that this self-assurance will also allow us to meet future challenges“.
The value of jubilees of this kind was in fact that they served as a “springboard to the future”.
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