Hanno Loewy

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Hanno Loewy (born February 17, 1961 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German literary and media scholar, journalist and director of the Jewish Museum Hohenems .

Life

Hanno Loewy studied literature, theater, film and television studies as well as cultural anthropology in Frankfurt am Main and was awarded a dissertation at the University of Konstanz with a dissertation on the “film theorist Béla Balázs and the history of ideas in film in the context of the aesthetic, philosophical and political utopias of the early twentieth Century "PhD. He had been working as a publicist and exhibition organizer since 1982. He worked on parts of the permanent exhibition for the Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main and the Jewish Museum Berlin . From 1990 to 2000 he set up the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt am Main (from 1995 as founding director) and, after joining the University of Frankfurt am Main, was head of the department for culture of remembrance and reception research in the same building until 2003. Since 2000, Hanno Loewy has been a lecturer at the University of Konstanz in the field of literary studies / media studies. Since 2004 he has been head of the Jewish Museum Hohenems in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg . Since 2011 he has been President of the Association of European Jewish Museums .

Attacks by the FPÖ

In August 2009 Loewy criticized a slogan of the FPÖ for the state elections in Vorarlberg 2009 , “Parental allowance for local families” . The Vorarlberg FPÖ boss Dieter Egger referred to Loewy as "Exile Jews from America in his highly subsidized museum", which Austrian domestic politics has nothing to do with Loewy himself and parts of the Vorarlberg and Austrian public ( Michael Köhlmeier , Ariel Muzicant , Laura Rudas ) as anti-Semitic abuse a. was judged. As a consequence of this and Egger's refusal to apologize, Vorarlberg Governor Herbert Sausgruber announced that he would terminate the 35-year coalition with the FPÖ after the state elections.

Others

Hanno Loewy is a son of the librarian, exile researcher and publicist Ernst Loewy (1920–2002) and the brother of the film historian Ronny Loewy (1946–2012) and the photographer Peter Loewy (* 1951).

Fonts

  • as editor with Walter Zadek: No Utopia. Arabs, Jews and English in Palestine . Nishen, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-88940-608-4 (= Das Foto-Taschenbuch 8 ).
  • with Thomas Kreuder (Ed.): Conservatism in the structural crisis . Suhrkamp, ​​1987, ISBN 3-518-11330-5 .
  • with Gerhard Schoenberner (Ed.): “Our only way is work.” The Ghetto in Lodz 1940–1944 . Löcker, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-85409-169-9 .
  • as editor: Holocaust: The Limits of Understanding. A debate about the cast of the story . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-499-19367-1 .
  • with Thomas Hofmann, Harry Stein (eds.): Pogrom Night and Holocaust: Frankfurt, Weimar, Buchenwald - The difficult memory of the stations of extermination . Böhlau, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-412-03293-X
  • with Bernhard Moltmann: experience, memory, meaning. Authentic and constructed memory . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1996
  • as editor with Bettina Winter: Nazi "euthanasia" in court , 1996, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt
  • with Margrit Frölich, Heinz Steinert (eds.): Laughing about Hitler - Auschwitz laughter? Film comedy, satire and the Holocaust . edition text + kritik, Munich 2001
  • with Kersten Brandt, Krystyna Oleksy (eds.): Before They Perished: Photographs Found in Auschwitz . Panstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau, 2001
  • with Cilly Kugelmann (Ed.): It was that simple: Jewish childhood and youth in Germany since 1945 . DuMont, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-8321-7818-X (= contemporary testimonies from the Jewish Museum Berlin ).
  • Hanno Loewy: Taxi to Auschwitz. Feature sections . Berlin: Philo, 2002
  • Hanno Loewy: Béla Balázs: fairy tales, ritual and film . Berlin: Vorwerk 8, 2003
  • Hanno Loewy: It was that simple. Jewish childhoods and youth in Austria, Switzerland and Germany , Hohenems 2004
  • Hanno Loewy (ed.): Rumors about the Jews. Anti-Semitism, Philosemitism and Current Conspiracy Theories . Essen: Klartext, 2005
  • Hanno Loewy, Michael Wuliger : Shlock Shop: The wonderful world of Jewish kitsch. Mosse Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-935097-05-0 .
  • Hanno Loewy: Home Diaspora. The Jewish Museum Hohenems , Bucher, Hohenems 2008 (English edition: At Home: Diaspora. The Jewish Museum Hohenems , Bucher, Hohenems 2008)
  • with Gerhard Milchram (Ed.): Have you seen my Alps? A Jewish relationship history , Bucher, Hohenems 2009, ISBN 978-3-902679-41-3 .
  • with Hannes Sulzenbacher (Ed.): Come in! Step out! Why people change their religion , Parthas, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86964-067-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of the organization
  2. ↑ report on orf.at
  3. ↑ The end of black and blue. Report in the Wiener Zeitung of August 24, 2009
  4. ↑ Report in NEWS
personal data
SURNAME Loewy, Hanno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary and media scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main