Edith Hessenberger

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Edith Hessenberger (* 1980 ) is an Austrian cultural scientist and European ethnologist . She has headed the Ötztal museums since 2018 .

Life

Edith Hessenberger grew up in Untertauern (Salzburg) and then studied ethnology and social and cultural anthropology at the University of Vienna and European ethnology and geography at the University of Innsbruck . In 2012 she did her doctorate in Innsbruck with the dissertation "Telling about life in the 20th century. Memory practice and storytelling traditions in life-history interviews using the example of the Montafon / Vorarlberg region" for Dr. phil.

She has been working as a freelance cultural scientist since 2004. From 2013 to 2018 she worked as a diversity coordinator and integration officer for the market town of Telfs . In 2018 she took over the management of the Ötztal museums ( Ötztaler Heimat- und Freilichtmuseum , Turmmuseum Ötz , Gedächtnisspeicher Ötztal ) and has been managing director of the newly founded Ötztaler Museen GmbH since January 1st, 2019.

Her main research interests are biography research, narrative research, oral history, the history of alpinism and tourism, the history of alpine mountain agriculture, migration research and diversity.

Prices

  • Montafon Science Prize 2015

Publications

  • Peak time. Vorarlberg memories on the embroidery export to Nigeria, Bregenz 2016.
  • Old New Telferin. Migration stories and biographical memories, Innsbruck 2016.
  • Telling of life in the 20th century. Memory practice and narrative traditions in biographical interviews using the example of the Montafon / Vorarlberg region, Innsbruck 2013.
  • School abroad. Differentiated aspects of the situation of refugee children at Tyrolean elementary schools, Saarbrücken 2008.

Web links

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  1. ↑ New integration officer for Telfs. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  2. ^ Paschinger Alexander: Ötztal museums now official. December 27, 2018, accessed July 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Montafon Science Prize awarded - Stand Montafon. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hessenberger, Edith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cultural scientist and European ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1980