3157) "Veza" Taubner-Calderon (or Veza Canetti (1897-1963) - Writer , Republic of Austria: "Austria's Unsung Heroines Coin Series - Homeland of Great Daughters”: Second Coin in the Series is a €50 Gold Proof Coin honouring the Writer: Date/Year of Coin issue: 2024:
The Austrian Mint has begun a Gold Coin Collector Coin Series titled - “Austria’s Unsung Heroines,” which focusses on the many contributions of Austrian women in the disciplines of Art and Science. The name of the Series has since been changed to - "Homeland of Great Daughters".
"Austria’s Unsung Heroines"/"Homeland of the Great Daughters" is dedicated to five of Austria’s great women who received far too little attention for their achievements in the arts and sciences.
Back then, studying at university was the exception rather than the rule for women, as was the unbiased assessment of their work.
The stories of how these five remarkable women managed to excel in environments that were still the preserve of men are often moving and show just how much strength of character, tenacity and self-belief were needed for talented women to accomplish their goals in very challenging circumstances.
The series also focusses on the obstacles they had to overcome, as well as highlighting the successes of the five women featured in their respective different fields of occupation.
One hundred years ago, studying at university was the exception rather than the rule for women, and despite excelling in scholarly endeavours, employment wasn’t always guaranteed, as it was perceived women should endeavour to become good wives and mothers rather than work outside the home.
Austria’s "Unsung Heroines"/"Homeland of the Great Daughters" is dedicated to five of Austria’s great women who received far too little attention for their achievements in the arts and sciences.
The series explores what it meant to be a creative and talented woman in Austria during the late-19th and early-20th centuries, looks at the obstacles they had to overcome and highlights the successes of the women featured in their five different fields.
The stories of how these five remarkable women managed to excel in environments that were still the preserve of men are often moving and show just how much strength of character, tenacity and self-belief were needed for talented women to accomplish their goals in very challenging circumstances.
The series, when completed, will include the following:
Through their irrepressible struggle for self-realisation - Tina Blau - painter (2023), Veza Canetti - author (2024), Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky - architect (2025), Hilde Loewe-Flatter - musician (2026) and Lise Meitner - scientist (2027) challenged the prevailing gender norms of the time, whether they intended to or not, and are still role models today.
About "Veza" Taubner-Calderon (Veza Canetti - or Veza Canetti (1897-1963) - Writer:
The second coin in the series "Austria's Unsung Heroines"/"Homeland of Great Daughters" is dedicated to Veza Canetti (1897 to 1963), an author of the first half of the 20th century who was only honoured at the end of the 20th century.
The Invisible One:
At the beginning of the 1930s, she was more respected in the Viennese cultural scene than her husband, Elias Canetti, who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
From the 1990s onwards, she became a much-received writer. But what happened to Veza Canetti in the intervening decades?
After the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in 1938, the Canettis fled into exile in Great Britain.
For a long time, it led a precarious existence there. In addition to her jobs, Veza Canetti continued to write prose. But a career as a writer did not succeed.
As a collaborator and artistic advisor to her husband, she worked in secret. It was limited to the role of the invisible good spirit.
Much later, Elias Canetti made the following statement about the genesis of "Mass and Power": "Veza's intellectual part in it is as great as mine. There's not a syllable in it that we haven't considered and discussed together."
Thus, Veza Canetti can be seen as an unrewarded co-author of this philosophical work.
When Elias Canetti became world famous, incidentally only after Veza's death in 1963, his wife's work became very quiet.
When her own work was (re)discovered – before that, her evocative pseudonyms had to be deciphered: Veza Magd, Martha Murner and Veronika Knecht – she was recognized as an important author.
What and how did Veza Canetti write?
Her novel "The Yellow Road", for example, is set in Ferdinandstrasse in Vienna's Leopoldstadt district, the street of leather merchants and ordinary people.
In 1989, Elias Canetti wrote a preface: "Today, to my joy, I see that there are connoisseurs who do justice to this book. Anyone who experienced that time sixty years ago in Vienna will find themselves in it like in no other book. It is a surprise that difficult things can be said so easily and floatingly, that they become more urgent. I would like to call it the 'sideways' method, which touches on what is important in apparent haste, without saying it outright. But she touches it so skilfully that you take it with you without noticing it."
What was not granted to the Venetiana Taubner-Calderon in Vienna in 1897 for decades, happened to her posthumously at the end of the 20th century: it was read.
The Commemorative Coin:
In a vertical direction, the text "REPUBLIK OSTERREICH" ("Republic of Austria") is placed to the left of the portrait with the denomination and year of issue - "50 EURO 2024" shown on the lower periphery.
Her name "VEZA CANETTI" is also shown in a vertical direction and positioned to the right of her portrait.
The specifications of the Gold Coin are:
Country: "REPUBLIK OSTERREICH" ("Republic of Austria"); Date/Year of Coin issue: 17.01.2024; Denomination: €50 (Fifty Euro); Coin Series Theme: "Austria's Unsung Heroines/Homeland of Great Daughters"; Coin Theme: "Veza Canetti - Author"; Metal Composition: .986 Fineness Gold (Au); Diameter/Size: 22.00 mm; Weight: 7.89 grams; Coin Quality: Proof (P); Mintage: 20,000 pieces; Mint: Mint of Austria, Vienna; Designers: Helmut Andexlinger and Katherine Kuntner; Certificate of Authenticity (COA): Yes, numbered.
The individual Coin Presentation Case/Box
Collector Case:
Made of solid oak from Austria this ingenious collector ‘tower’ comes in a dark-red protective box.
The tower is divided into five separate discs each with a recess that houses and protects one of the five coins in the Austria’s Unsung Heroines series.
The discs can be fanned out so that collectors can proudly display all their coins at the same time. Cleverly designed and beautifully finished, this superb collector case perfectly complements this most commendable of coin series.
Measurements: height ca. 9 cm, width ca. 8.4 cm, depth ca. 8.4 cm.
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