Verband der Antiquare Österreichs (VDAÖ)
- Address
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Grünangergasse 4 A
A - 1010 Vienna
Austria - sekretariat@hvb.at
- Website
- https://buecher.at/antiquariate/
- President
- Robert Schoisengeier
- Association Phone
- +43 1 587 73 11
- President Email
- office@burgverlag.com
- President Address
- Antiquariat Burgverlag
Burgring 1
A - 1010 Vienna
The Verband der Antiquare Österreichs (VDAÖ), founded in 1949, joined the League in the same year. With 25 members and Robert Schoisengeier as president, the VDAÖ has hosted several ILAB congresses, book fairs and Presidents' Meetings in Austria, most recently in 2009, when 20 ILAB presidents met in Vienna for four wonderful days and an important meeting during which China and Russia were admitted as new ILAB members.
The Association has its office in the centre of Vienna and is part of the Austrian Association of Publishers and Booksellers, which represents all parts of the Austrian book trade. It includes those Austrian antiquarian booksellers who exclusively or primarily buy and sell antiquarian books, periodicals, prints, autograph letters or music. Like all affiliates of ILAB, the members of the VDAÖ adhere to a strict code of ethics which governs the conduct of business between Austrian and foreign antiquarian booksellers on the one hand, and professionals and private individuals on the other.
The VDAÖ hosted the biennial ILAB Congress in Vienna in 1954, 1996 and 1998. In 1998 the Congress, attended by 243 antiquarians from all over the world, was followed by the 17th International Antiquarian Book Fair, held in the Vienna Hofburg and no less than 111 antiquarian booksellers exhibiting from 16 countries. It was the first ILAB Congress and Book Fair with a website.
In 1972, 1987 and 2009 the VDAÖ hosted two of the most important events in the antiquarian book calendar: the ILAB Presidents' Meeting and the 26th Congress of the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie (AIB), with a partly joint programme that gave all participants the opportunity to interact and make contacts and friendships.
Elections for the Committee are held every three years. In cooperation with the German Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (VDA) and the Vereinigung der Buchantiquare und Kupferstichhändler in der Schweiz (VEBUKU) the VDAÖ organizes annual seminars for rare booksellers, that are held in Munich, Hamburg, Berlin or, 2006, in Vienna.
Since 2008, the International Book Fair BUCH WIEN, organized by the Austrian Publishers and Booksellers Association, has a special a section for Antiquarian Booksellers.
President
Robert Schoisengeier
Term of office
3 years
Committee
Robert Schoisengeier, President (since 2024)
Clemens Paulusch, Vice-President
Board Members: Bernhard Steiner, Peter Truppe and Michael Steinbach
An impression of the Annual Conference in Vienna, May 2021
Past Presidents
Prof. Christian M. Nebehay: 1949 - 1962
Ingo Nebehay: 1962 - 1970
Michael Krieg: 1970 - 1976
Werner Taeuber: 1976 - 1985
Dr. Hansjörg Krug: 1985 - 2000
Hans-Dieter Paulusch: 2000 - 2003
Norbert Donhofer: 2003 - 2012
Dieter Tausch: 2012 - 2015
Michael Steinbach 2015 - 2024
Book Fair
BUCH WIEN: Every year in the 2nd week of November, a number of antiquarian booksellers exhibit at Austria's largest book fair and literary event. BUCH WIEN is organized by the Austrian Publishers and Booksellers Association with a section for antiquarian booksellers.
