Alisa Douer

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Alisa Douer (born 1943 in Tel Aviv , League of Nations mandate for Palestine ) is an Israeli photographer who works in Austria.

Life

Alisa Douer graduated from the "Academy of Applied Arts" in Tel Aviv in 1971 . She received her doctorate in Arabic studies from the University of Vienna in 2012 .

Since 1973 Douer has been working as a photographer for portrait photography, photo reports and photo documentation, as an exhibition designer and director in Vienna . In 1991 she carried out a project with 700 artists and writers who had fled Vienna during the Nazi era .

Douer organizes exhibitions, photo books and film documentaries.

Exhibitions, writings

  • with Ursula Seeber: Time gives the pictures: writers who had Austria at home . Exhibition catalog. Vienna: Documentation Center for Modern Austrian Literature, 1992
  • How far is Vienna: Latin America as an exile for Austrian writers and artists . Exhibition catalog. Vienna: Picus, 1995
  • New territory. Israeli artists of Austrian origin. Picus, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85452-407-2 (book accompanying the exhibition of the same name).
  • with Ursula Seeber: Women from Vienna . Photo tape. Vienna: Women's Office, 1999
  • Vienna Heldenplatz - Myths and crowds . Exhibition catalog. Vienna: Mandelbaum, 2000
  • Ingolstadt faces . Exhibition catalog. Ingolstadt: City of Ingolstadt, Culture Department, 2000
  • Kladovo - an escape to Palestine . Exhibition catalog. Vienna: Mandelbaum, 2001
  • Women at Work . Exhibition catalog. Vienna: Mandelbaum, 2002 ISBN 978-3-85476-079-5
  • Pictures from India: Indian images . With a contribution by Karin Preisendanz. Vienna: Mandelbaum, 2005 ISBN 978-3-85476-174-7
  • Viennese craftsmanship . Illustrated book. With an essay by Anna Auer. Translation of Karin Hanta. Vienna: Mandelbaum, 2006 ISBN 978-3-85476-199-0
  • Egypt - the lost homeland: the exodus from Egypt, 1947–1967 . Berlin: Logos, 2014 ISBN 978-3-8325-3731-9
  • The Jews of Iraq . Berlin: Logos, 2017 ISBN 978-3-8325-4483-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Short biography in: Margit Franz, Heimo Halbrainer (ed.): Going east - going south: Austrian exile in Asia and Africa . Graz: Clio, 2014 ISBN 978-3-902542-34-2 , p. 695