Lisa Rettl

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Lisa Rettl (* 1972 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee ) is an Austrian contemporary historian , biographer and exhibition curator .

Life

Lisa Rettl studied English and history at the Universities of Klagenfurt and Graz . In 2003 she did her doctorate with a thesis on anti-fascist culture of remembrance in Carinthia . As a contemporary historian, she researches and publishes on the topics of Austrian culture of remembrance, Nazi perpetrator research, resistance and minority politics .

In 2005, together with Werner Koroschitz, Rettl was responsible for the conception and scientific management of the exhibition “hotly contested, wildly controversial ...” about Austrian historical myths in the museum of the city of Villach . In 2008 she was co-curator of the bilingual exhibition “na / proti - together / collision - fragments of memory from a border region” in Bad Eisenkappel .

The Personnel Committee Justice for the Victims of Nazi Military Justice wanted to adapt the content of the exhibition “What Was Right Back then ... Soldiers and Civilians Before Courts of the Wehrmacht” , which was opened by the Foundation Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe in 2007. For this purpose, Rettl was appointed to the team of curators, the exhibition was shown in 2009 at the Nestroyhof Hamakom theater in Vienna .

In 2010 the biographical film “Wilde Mint”, produced by Lisa Rettl and Jenny Gand, was released, about the life story of Helga Peskoller and her relationship with the communist mother who was sentenced to death by the People's Court .

Lisa Rettl was the head of an FWF project that ran from 2014 to 2017 to research the history of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna at the time of National Socialism .

Lisa Rettl held teaching positions at the University of Klagenfurt. She lives and works as a freelance historian and exhibition curator in Vienna.

Publications (selection)

  • The Vienna University of Veterinary Medicine and National Socialism. Wallstein, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8353-3459-5 .
  • Jewish students and graduates of the Vienna University of Veterinary Medicine 1930–1947. Wallstein, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3285-0 .
  • together with Magnus Koch: "I spoke as a deserter." Richard Wadani - A political biography. Milena, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-902950-413 .
  • as editor, together with Gudrun Blohberger, the Association of Carinthian Partisans and the Peršman Association: Peršman. Wallstein, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8353-1588-4 .
  • together with Peter Pirker : “I was there with pleasure.” The concentration camp doctor Sigbert Ramsauer. Milena, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85286-200-2 .
  • together with Dieter J. Hecht and Eleonore Lappin: 1938. Prelude to the Shoah in Austria. Places - pictures - memories. Milena, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85286-165-4 .
  • Partisan memorials. Antifascist culture of remembrance in Carinthia. StudienVerlag, Innsbruck 2006, ISBN 978-3-7065-1977-9 .

Awards

  • 2000: Prize of the University of Klagenfurt
  • 2002: Theodor Körner Prize for Science, Art and Culture
  • 2008: Theodor Körner Prize for curatorial work
  • 2012: Sponsorship award for the humanities and social sciences from the State of Carinthia
  • 2015: Hans Maršalek Prize for her work on the Peršmanhof

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c Lisa Rettl - book / interview / research / production. In: wildeminze.at . June 25, 2010, accessed on September 19, 2019 (PDF; 3.96 MB).
  2. ↑ a b Lisa Rettl. In: milena-verlag.at . Retrieved September 19, 2019.
  3. ↑ shecando.com Website of Lisa Rettl. Retrieved September 19, 2019.
  4. ↑ Gerald Heidegger: Touching search for the mother. In: orf.at . November 6, 2010, accessed September 19, 2019.
  5. ^ FWF project: The University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna under National Socialism. In: vetmeduni.ac.at . November 19, 2014, accessed on September 19, 2019 (PDF; 189 kB).
  6. ↑ First award of the Hans Maršálek Prize. In: mkoe.at . June 16, 2015, accessed September 19, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Rettl, Lisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian contemporary historian, biographer and exhibition curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt am Wörthersee