Биографично и автобиографично изследване в Австрия и Словакия
A Biographical and Autobiographical Investigation in Austria and Slovakia

Summary/Abstract: We have chosen the topic “Biographical and Autobiographical research between intimacy and public” because of the very character of the source. An autobiography presents a source between the public and the private sphere – it mirrors the experience of the men and women, who are at the same time a part of macro-structures and it is able to show how they manage their lives in these macro-structures. In our paper we concentrated not only on the source itself, but also on our own academic environment, which means Bratislava and Vienna. We started with the thesis that the autobiographical and biographical research combining the levels of privacy and public must be seen in the connection with the situation concerning the sources in general. With other words, we are trying to find the links between wider public conditions, academic backgrounds and the person of the researcher and the object/subject in his research. We thought that the best way how to cope with our research question is to make some interviews with researchers from both countries that work with these particular sources, and recognised some similarities but of course also differences. Our interview partners represented generally spoken two generations, one born in the 1950ies, the second one a bit younger, born in the mid 1960ies – mid 1970ies. They are mostly women (with only one exception). Starting by the similar features the connection of the general, common level and a personal level is fascinating for most of the scholars dealing with the autobiographical and biographical research – it is shown in their narrations - always recollecting the stories that happened during the work with people, the scholars talked about the source through their stories.

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