Abstract:

Max Frisch writes in his Die Chinesiche Mauer: Hier ist mein Plan – Fürchtet euch nicht vor der Zukunft, ... Wir werden jede Zukunft verhindern. (The Chinese wall: Here is my plan – Don’t be afraid of the future, ... We will prevent any future at all.)

Different to emperor of China in this farce who claims that there has to become established something new – namely the Chinese wall – such that everything can remain the same all over the time in the future due to the prevention of the future, the Austrian political monuments demonstrate the illusion of the existence of a future by the prevention of freedom of sciences and freedom of conscience in sciences. It is said that these issues are much too expensive and also too less frequented if compared with traffic frequencies on highways or reading frequencies of boulevard magazines. However, both the Chinese wall and the Austrian Law of Universities 2002 are political monuments and both have the same effect on the given realities – now and in the future.

In this opening lecture I focus on the how the changes of the organisation of higher education at universities and of the organisation of sciences and research were performed.

Why does the how matter, is the question to answer. And it provides the answer to the question: Will there be a future, a future we are not afraid of?