Christian Rapp (Author)

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Christian Rapp (* 1964 in Vienna ) is an Austrian author, cultural scientist and exhibition curator .

Life

Christian Rapp studied theater and media studies and art history at the University of Vienna . From 1988 to 1990 he was the culture editor of "AZ" and the Kurier . Since 1990 Christian Rapp has been active as an exhibition curator with a focus on urban history, contemporary history, transport and tourism history. He curated exhibitions for the Vienna Technical Museum , the Vienna Museum , the Jewish Museum Vienna , the Lower Austrian State Exhibition and others. In 1995 he got into high intoxication with his work . The German mountain film about Dr. phil. PhD. Since 2002 he has been a lecturer at the Institute for European Ethnology at the University of Vienna. From 2004 to 2008 he had a teaching position in the postgraduate course “ECM Exhibition and Cultural Communication Management” at the University of Applied Arts Vienna .

In 2003 he founded "rapp & wimberger, culture and media projects" with Nadia Rapp-Wimberger.

On January 1, 2018, he succeeded Stefan Karner as scientific director at the House of History in Lower Austria .

Fonts

  • High altitude rush. The German mountain film. Special number, Vienna around 1997, ISBN 3-85449-108-5 .
  • with Ulrike Felber, Elke Krasny : Smart Exports. Austria at the world exhibitions 1851–2000. Brandstätter, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85498-068-X .
  • with Wolfgang Kos (ed.): Old Vienna: the city that never was. Czernin, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7076-0193-5 .
  • with Nadia Rapp-Wimberger: Work, collect, multiply. From the first Austrian Spar-Casse to Erste Bank. Brandstätter, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85498-404-9 .
  • (Ed.): Changing lanes. Vienna is learning to drive. Brandstätter, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-902510-84-6 (exhibition catalog: Technisches Museum, Vienna, October 12, 2006 - February 28, 2007)
  • with Elke Doppler, Sándor Békési (ed.): At the pulse of the city. 2000 years Karlsplatz. Czernin, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-7076-0279-1 .
  • with Matthias Beitl, Nadia Rapp-Wimberger (eds.): Whoever has, who has. An illustrated story of saving. Metro, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-902517-96-8 .
  • with Markus Kristan: What does the Viennese look forward to when they come home from vacation? Anchor bread. The story of a great bakery. Brandstätter, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85033-555-3 .
  • with Nadia Rapp-Wimberger: Bad Ischl - With and without Kaiser. Brandstätter, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-85033-991-9 .
  • with Hannes Leidinger : Hitler. Formative years. Childhood and Adolescence 1889–1914. Residence, Salzburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-7017-3500-6 .

Exhibitions

  • with Elke Krasny , Nadia Rapp-Wimberger: From Samoa to the Isonzo. The photographer and travel journalist Alice Schalk. Jewish Museum Vienna, 1999.
  • with Gertraud Liesenfeld, Klara Löffler, Michael Weese: doing nothing. About strolling, pausing, turning the blue and idling. Austrian Museum of Folklore Vienna, 2000.
  • with Wolfgang Kos : Alt Wien. The city that never was. Vienna Museum 2004.
  • Changing lanes - Vienna learns to drive. Technical Museum Vienna 2005.
  • with Nadia Rapp-Wimberger: Austrian Riviera - Vienna discovers the sea. Vienna Museum 2013.
  • with Peter Fritz u. a .: Jubilation and misery - living with the Great War 1914–1918. Schallaburg 2014.
  • Transport Museum Remise 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Christian Rapp ( Memento from May 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in a press release from the Schallaburg
  2. Christian Rapp ( Memento from May 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on salamun.com
  3. Rapp becomes the new head of the House of History at noe.orf.at, November 23, 2017, accessed on November 24, 2017.