Ingo Zechner

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Ingo Zechner (first from left) at the press conference on the establishment of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) in June 2006

Ingo Zechner (born December 24, 1972 in Klagenfurt , Austria ) is a philosopher and historian . Since 2015 he has been the director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society in Vienna.

His main research interests include time and memory , aesthetics (especially image science ), film , digital media and Holocaust sudies. Further research focuses on the concept of modernity in the areas of cultural philosophy , cultural studies , post-structuralism ( Michel Foucault , Gilles Deleuze , Jacques Derrida ).

Life

From 1991 to 1997 he studied history and philosophy at the University of Vienna ; from 1997 to 2001 followed a PhD in philosophy at the University of Vienna with Hans-Dieter Bahr .

From 2000 to 2008 Zechner worked as a historian for the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien . As part of the contact point of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Vienna for Jewish victims of Nazi persecution in and from Austria, which he headed from 2003 to 2008, he dealt with Nazi asset deprivation and restitution. The main focus of work was art restitution and in rem restitution of properties, research into the property of Austrian Jewish organizations, the restoration of the archives of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien and the conception of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI). 2002–2008 Zechner was a member of the Commission for Provenance Research , 2003–2008 a member of the Vienna Restitution Commission. From January to the beginning of November 2009 he was managing director of the Wiener Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI).

From 2010 to 2011 Zechner worked as a researcher at the Association for the History of the Labor Movement (VGA) in Vienna, and since 2011 he has been a research assistant at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society (LBIGG) in Vienna. From 2013 to 2016 he was Deputy Director and Science Coordinator of the IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna.

Various teaching activities, 1997–2000 at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Vienna (together with Hans-Dieter Bahr ), 2003–2004 at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna .

In 2004 Zechner was BTWH / IFK-Visiting Scholar at the German Department of the University of California, Berkeley , 2013 Raab Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies ( United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ) in Washington, DC

Collaboration in and management of numerous research projects. Lecturing in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Sweden, Iceland, Poland, Russia, Israel, Canada and the USA.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs
Anthologies
  • The light and the dark side of modernity . Festschrift for Siegfried Mattl on his 60th birthday. Vienna: Turia + Kant 2014 (together with Werner Michael Schwarz). ISBN 978-3-85132-751-9
  • Everyday adventure . On the archeology of amateur films. Vienna: Synema 2015 (together with Siegfried Mattl, Carina Lesky and Vrääth Öhner). ISBN 978-3-901644-63-4
Exhibition catalogs

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Wiener Wiesenthal Institute: Ingo Zechner"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Ingo Zechner on the resignation of the board and management of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) , guest commentary in the magazine profil on December 8, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.vwi.ac.at  
personal data
SURNAME Zechner, Ingo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian philosopher and historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt