Helga Embacher
Helga Embacher (* 1959 in Bischofshofen ) is an Austrian historian.
Life
From 1978 to 1984 Helga Embacher studied history, German, psychology / philosophy and pedagogy at the universities in Salzburg and Vienna . In 1993 she received her doctorate with a thesis on the reconstruction of individual and collective Jewish identities in Austria after 1945 . 1987/1988 she was a research assistant at the University of Linz . In 1988 she received a foreign scholarship from the Federal Ministry of Science for Israel and in 1989 a Fulbright scholarship to New York. From 1994 to 1996 she did various research stays in Israel, Shanghai and Hong Kong. In 1997 she was Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis.
In 1997 she became a research assistant at the University of Salzburg, where she qualified as a professor for contemporary history in 2001 with the thesis Broken Identities: Victims / Perpetrators / Accomplices - Research on Anti-Semitism, National Socialism and the aftermath of the Shoah .
From 1999 to 2001 she worked on the historians' commission of the Republic of Austria (chairman Clemens Jabloner ) on the subject of restitution and Jewish organizations using the example of the Israelite cultural community and Austrian-Jewish exile organizations .
From September 2003 to January 2004 she was Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. In the summer semester of 2004 she was visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck at the Institute for Political Science.
Publications
- Arrived: Bischofshofner immigrants tell stories . Edition Tandem, Salzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-902606-61-7 .
- The restitution negotiations with Austria from the perspective of Jewish organizations and the Israelite religious community . Oldenbourg, Vienna, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56802-7 .
- Heinz Dopsch (Ed.): Jews in Salzburg: history, cultures, fates . Pustet, Salzburg 2002, ISBN 3-7025-0449-4 .
- Contested memory. The Wehrmacht Exhibition in Salzburg . Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7017-1159-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Helga Embacher in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of Helga Embacher at the University of Salzburg
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Embacher, Helga |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bischofshofen |