'Open bookcase' at Heinz Heger-Park has been vandalized!

In Vienna a part of a gay memorial has been damaged at the weekend: The "open bookcase"at the Zimmerman Platz in the 9th District was the victim of a vandal act.

In the Saturday night one of the doors in the bookcase Heinz Heger Park was entered and broken. Even with the other "open bookcases in Ottakring and new construction, there was massive damage. Initiator Frank Gassner therefore considers that "there has not been the act of a few drunk idiots', but a planned approach, "says on the Facebook page of the "open bookcase. The damage amounts to several thousand euros and in the course of the week is to be fixed. There is track down the offender is not enough.

The "open bookcase stands in front of the practice of the famous gay general practitioner Horst Schalk. Heinz Heger, namesake of the park at Zimmermannplatz and former residents of the house where is now the practice was persecuted for his homosexuality by the Nazis. He wrote his memories of that time in the book "The men with the pink triangle" down. The "open bookcase" is made ​​of concrete - as a reminder - decorated with pink therefore angles. The practice of Dr. Schalk makes every day a copy of Heger's book for free for the taking in the bookcase.

Passers-by can sit in the "open bookcases" their old books or get new books. Meanwhile, in Vienna there are three "open bookcases, in addition to the carpentry course at another one in new construction and a further Ottakring. Similar initiatives are also in Berlin and Graz.

Source: GGG.at