Danielle Spera

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Danielle Spera (Vienna 2009)

Danielle Spera (born August 10, 1957 in Vienna ) is an Austrian communication scientist and journalist . She has been the director of the Jewish Museum Vienna since 2010 .

Live and act

Spera has a Jewish father, attended a private Catholic school and later converted to Judaism. She then studied English and French for two semesters at the University of Vienna before switching to journalism and political science. She received her doctorate in 1983, the subject of her dissertation was the election campaigns of the Social Democratic Party in the interwar period. From 1990 to 2002 Spera was a lecturer at the Institute for Journalism at the University of Vienna.

In 1978 - while she was still studying - Spera began working for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation . After two years in the foreign editorial office of Zeit in Bild 2 , she switched to the newsreel , in 1983 she returned to the foreign editorial office. This was followed by trips as a reporter to Central America, Greece and Cyprus before she became an ORF correspondent in the USA in 1987. During her time as a correspondent, the Watch List decision was made against the former Austrian Federal President Kurt Waldheim . In 1988 she returned to the ORF headquarters in Vienna and began to moderate the main news broadcast on ORF, Die Zeit im Bild 1 . She held this position until June 2010. Her moderation partners were Horst Friedrich Mayer , Josef Broukal , Martin Traxl and finally Tarek Leitner . Danielle Spera also moderated the weekly magazine Brennpunkt and represented Zeit im Bild 2. From 1985 to December 2009 she was TV editor's spokeswoman and TV editor's councilor, Dieter Bornemann was elected her successor .

She has been writing for the Jewish culture magazine Nu , of which she is co-founder, since 2000 . From 2006–2008, Danielle Spera held talks with prominent artists in the Walfischgasse municipal theater. In October 2006 she appeared on Literatur im Nebel with Salman Rushdie. She also read children's books by Mira Lobe .

After the management of the Jewish Museum Vienna had been advertised in autumn 2009 , it was announced on November 29, 2009 that she would take over management on July 1, 2010. She prevailed against fourteen other candidates. She was also the preferred candidate for Renate Brauner , who was responsible for Wien Holding , the owner of the museum. Spera's projects included the renovation of the Judenplatz Museum in 2010 and the museum in Dorotheergasse in 2011, each with a new permanent exhibition.

Spera has been married to the psychoanalyst and member of the National Council Martin Engelberg since 1994 and has three children (daughters Rachel and Deborah and son Samuel).

further activities

  • November 2013 until the end of 2019 President of ICOM Austria , successor Bettina Leidl
  • 2013 to 2018 member of the University Council of the Medical University of Innsbruck
  • since 2013 on the program advisory board of ARTE
  • since 2011 on the advisory board of the Nitsch Foundation
  • since 2010 on the artistic-scientific advisory board of ORF III
  • since 2010 on the board of the VWI (Wiener Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies)
  • since 2000 co-founder, editor and author of the Jewish magazine NU

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Displaced in Austria. Jewish refugees since 1945. Vienna Yearbook for Jewish History, Culture and Museums, Volume 11 - 2015/16 (together with Werner Hanak-Lettner). Studienverlag, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-7065-5644-6 .
  • Horowitz. 50 years of human images. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. MHM Michael Horowitz Media, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-9502889-6-4 .
  • Vienna synagogues. A memory. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name (together with Bob Martens, Herbert Peter and Werner Hanak-Lettner). Metroverlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-99300-266-4 .
  • Out and about with Victoria Blitz (together with Hannah Landsmann). Metroverlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-99300-265-7 .
  • Wiesenthal in Vienna. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Metroverlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-901398-79-7 .
  • Lessing shows Lessing. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Residenzverlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-7017-3365-1 .
  • Maya Zack. The Shabbat Room (together with Dr. Werner Hanak-Lettner) . Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-86984-519-7 .
  • Jewish museums between yesterday and tomorrow. Reflections from an involved outside perspective. Vienna Yearbook for Jewish History, Culture and Museum Affairs, Volume 10-2013 / 14 (together with Dr. Werner Hanak-Lettner). Studienverlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7065-5339-1 .
  • Our city! Jewish Vienna to this day. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Vienna 2013 (together with Dr. Werner Hanak-Lettner). ISBN 978-3-901398-70-4 .
  • A good day . Installation Andrew M. Mezvinsky . Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Vienna 2013. ISBN 978-3-901398-69-8 .
  • meeting: everyone. rabinovich revisited. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Vienna 2013.
  • Muzeon . Publication about the Jewish Museum Vienna. Vienna 2012.
  • Jewish geniuses. Warhol's Jews. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Vienna 2012.

Text contributions (selection)

  • Comrade, Jew. We just wanted paradise on earth. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Vienna 2017. ISBN 978-3990501108
  • Helena Rubinstein. The inventor of beauty. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Vienna 2017. ISBN 978-3990501115
  • Architecture of an Existential Threat. Volume of the 'Exhibition Bunker! Architecture of Survival. ' Vienna 2017. ISBN 978-3903101296
  • Buy from Jews! History of a Viennese business culture. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Vienna 2017. ISBN 978-3990500705
  • Trude & Elvis. Vienna - Memphis - Hollywood. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Vienna 2017. ISBN 978-3901398827
  • The better half. Jewish artists before 1938. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Vienna 2016. ISBN 978-3993002749
  • Stars of David. The sound of the 20th century. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Vienna 2016. ISBN 978-3955651367
  • About arriving and staying. In: Die Presse on Sunday , March 20, 2016.
  • Paths to pleasure. Conversation between the Prater and the city. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Vienna 2016. ISBN 978-3993002626
  • The University. A combat zone . Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Vienna 2015. ISBN 978-3711720313
  • Transit. The Iranians in Vienna. Photographs by Christine de Grancy. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Vienna 2015. ISBN 978-3993002190
  • Ringstrasse. A Jewish boulevard. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Vienna 2015. ISBN 978-3850029155
  • Kosher for… Food and Tradition in Judaism . Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Vienna 2014. ISBN 978-3993002008
  • From generation to generation. The new Haggadah by Arik Brauer. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Vienna 2014. ISBN 978-3850028615
  • All MESCHUGGE? Jewish wit and humor . Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Vienna 2013. ISBN 978-3850028257
  • Vienna's Shooting Girls. Jewish photographers from Vienna. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Vienna 2012. ISBN 978-3993000899
  • BIGGER THAN LIFE . 100 years of Hollywood. A Jewish experience. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Vienna 2011. ISBN 978-3865052100

Web links

Commons : Danielle Spera  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Courier: Table Conversations: This time with Danielle Spera . Article dated December 8, 2011, accessed June 7, 2018.
  2. My great passion (PDF; 397 kB) in the Salzburger Nachrichten of July 11, 2009
  3. Catalog list Austrian National Library
  4. ↑ Re- election of the ORF editors' council on January 29, 2010, accessed on April 25, 2012.
  5. a b NU authors. Retrieved January 19, 2018 .
  6. ^ Archive of the events of the Walfischgasse City Theater , accessed on April 25, 2010
  7. ^ Spera becomes director of the Jewish Museum in Vienna , Der Standard of November 29, 2009
  8. ^ Jewish Vienna in the Middle Ages , Der Standard, November 29, 2010, accessed April 25, 2012
  9. Successful Liberation , Der Standard, November 27, 2011, accessed December 20, 2012
  10. Paul Vécsei: erasers. Wiener Journal (weekly supplement of the Wiener Zeitung ), March 19, 2007 (accessed on March 10, 2009)
  11. i-med.ac.at
  12. ^ Bettina Leidl new President of ICOM Austria. December 9, 2019, accessed December 10, 2019 .
  13. Danielle Spera new President of ICOM Austria wien.gv.at, accessed on January 19, 2014
  14. ARTE organization chart. (PDF) Retrieved January 19, 2018 .
  15. Seven new members of the ORF III Culture Council - der.ORF.at . In: der.ORF.at . ( orf.at [accessed January 19, 2018]).
  16. ^ VWI Board of Directors. Retrieved January 19, 2018 .
  17. Cross of Honor for Spera: "Current events the face lent" . Article dated December 18, 2017, accessed December 18, 2017.
  18. Home and History: About Arriving and Staying. Retrieved February 13, 2018 .