Hannes Sulzenbacher

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Hannes Sulzenbacher (right) with Andreas Brunner and Barbara Staudinger at the opening of an exhibition in the Munich NS Documentation Center , 2019

Hannes Sulzenbacher (born 1968 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian theater scholar, curator , exhibition organizer and writer.

Life

Sulzenbacher graduated in 1994 with a degree in theater studies . From 1990 to 1992 he worked as a theater critic and editor for the Vienna city newspaper “ Falter ”. In 1994 he worked as a research assistant and from 1995 to 1998 as exhibition curator at the Jewish Museum in Vienna . Afterwards he started to work as a freelance exhibition maker and festival organizer. a. since 1998 in the direction of the annual festival "Wien ist andersrum" - 2002 to 2004 as its director - and repeatedly as curator of exhibitions on the one hand on the history (and persecution) of gays and lesbians in Vienna in the 20th century ( Aus dem Leben , secret matter: life ), on the other hand to Jewish (persecution) history, for example at the Jewish Museum Hohenems . In the 2011/2012 academic year he was a university lecturer at the Institute for Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna . Together with the historian Andreas Brunner , he founded and heads the QWIEN - Center for Gay / Lesbian Culture and History, which has had its own premises since 2011 . In 2014, together with Albert Lichtblau , he won the tendered contract to redesign the Austrian exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum , which is to open in 2017.

Sulzenbacher has written numerous articles on both Jewish and gay topics; he is also u. a. became known as co-author of a gay city guide for Vienna and as the author of two crime novels about the gay, wheelchair-driving amateur detective David Lenz .

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Individual evidence

  1. Biography  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( Microsoft Word ; 29 kB) at the Jewish Museum Hohenems@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.jm-hohenems.at  
  2. ^ "Removal. Austria in Auschwitz". Press release. In: nationalfonds.org. National Fund of the Republic of Austria, April 30, 2014, accessed on January 22, 2015 .
  3. Auschwitz was taboo in Austria for a long time. In: science.orf.at. January 22, 2015, accessed January 22, 2015 .
  4. ^ Viennese poison. Book presentation with section: Author / Bibliography. In: argument.de. Argument Verlag - Pink Plot, 2000, archived from the original on September 10, 2007 ; accessed on January 22, 2015 .