Pilz, KatrinSchätz, JoachimDewald, Christian2024-07-102024-07-102023https://film-history.org/index.php/issues/text/wholeness-and-naturehttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/24205“Federal Educational Institutes” (Bundeserziehungsanstalten) represented the avant-garde of state school reform after WWI in Austria. How does the school cinema of the Bundeserziehungsanstalt Vienna-Breitensee inscribe itself in the reform-pedagogy complex of “wholeness” and “naturalness”? And: What does this mean for teaching practice or the pedagogical dispositif of educational films? As the author will argue, the concept of holistic education puts a wrench into the concept of an educational performance dispositif as narrowed by Frank Kessler to the space and time of educational media performance.engGanzheitReformpädagogikLehrfilmWholenessNaturalnessReform-pedagogy movementEducational filmSchool cinemaInterwar period79110.25969/mediarep/227232627-5848